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This is what I know of the drains, Simon might want to correct and/or add more info here.
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Despite the availability of content online it remains a valuable means of raising the society's profile on campus and generating interest in our output, the [[Current Broadcast Network|status now]] is basically the 1998 layout minus sections lost to new building works, with some new links installed and a few of the TVs relocated. | Despite the availability of content online it remains a valuable means of raising the society's profile on campus and generating interest in our output, the [[Current Broadcast Network|status now]] is basically the 1998 layout minus sections lost to new building works, with some new links installed and a few of the TVs relocated. | ||
== IP-Based Distribution == | |||
As time went on, and the network slowly degraded, repairs became difficult, and in many cases impossible because most of the routes the cables take have been declared off limits due to asbestos. As a result of this, [[Simon Harris]], the network engineer who didn't have much of a network to be engineer of, proposed making use of the actively maintained campus data network. Seeing as we already had a webstream by this point, it was a simple task to set up a second, higher quality stream specifically for on-campus use by these laptops. The name of the laptops? [[Drains]] which, as Simon will explain, is because they are at the end of a stream. As of September 2009, the system has already been used to get YSTV's content to The Courtyard, YUSU's own bar. | |||