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Public Broadcasting
Service
PBS is a consistent leader in television's most
prestigious competitions. For the seventh consecutive year, PBS won more
Daytime Emmys for children's programming than
all broadcast and cable networks in 2004.
PBS also continued to dominate the News &
Documentary Emmys (2003) for a third year in a
row with seven awards.
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| PBS, headquartered in Alexandria,
Virginia, is a private, non-profit media enterprise
owned and operated by the nation's 349 public television
stations. A trusted community resource, PBS uses
the power of noncommercial television, the Internet
and other media to enrich the lives of all Americans
through quality programs and education services
that inform, inspire and delight. Available to 99
percent of American homes with televisions and to
an increasing number of digital multimedia households,
PBS serves nearly 100 million people each week.
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Since 1997, Networking Concepts has provided LAN
& WAN solutions design implementation and support
for PBS and its affiliates. NCI has provided state of
the art network switching and routing solutions to support
the incredible bandwidth and traffic management required
to deliver high volumes of data and video in a highly
reliable environment. NCI designed and deployed a multi-homed
OC3 internet web farm providing highly available bandwidth
from multiple ISP’s consuming an average of 170mbps.
Additionally, NCI supported the necessary design and
configuration of layer controls over PBS’s IP
infrastructure to support on-demand bandwidth shaping
and control necessary to provides crystal clear video
pipes between affiliate station feeds as well as return
management information and program coordination controls.
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