Decommissioning TVC: Technological archaeology
Lynden Potter
Head of delivery, Major projects infrastructure
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Jonathan Clinkscales de-powering the TVC Central Communications Area 漏 Jonathan Haine
Last week, the last 主播大秀 links passing through Television Centre聽 were taken out, marking an end to not only 18 months of migration of technology services away from the building, but also 54 years of TVC being at the heart of the 主播大秀.聽
The last 主播大秀 productions in TVC were early in 2013, and since then, the job of untangling the 主播大秀's technology from TVC has been carefully carried out.聽 The original 1960 handbook for TVC said that a: "Central Apparatus Room on the third floor is the technical nerve-centre of the network, dealing with the origination, assembly and distribution of television programmes", and until this year, that was still very much the case.
主播大秀 Central Apparatus Room 1964
The TVC Closure project, run by a joint 主播大秀 and Atos team, has moved or closed down about 7,500 circuit connections, over 20 satellite dishes, 300 IT servers and also the main third floor Central Apparatus Area control room operation, that has been there since TVC opened.聽 All the work has had to be meticulously planned, as so much of what the 主播大秀 produces passes through the site, and it has been carefully carried out while keeping the 主播大秀 on air - with only a couple of exceptions, for example, there have been a couple of essential planned outages, including a few minutes when the main satellite uplink for the 主播大秀's television service over satellite was moved.
We're confident that there are no links remaining now, but as decommissioning TVC is really technological archaeology, there's still a remote chance of something ancient and undiscovered lurking in the depths鈥β� TVC was designed to be the 主播大秀's hub, and it is a testament to that design that it has served the 主播大秀 so well since 1960. Thank you TVC!
Lynden Potter is Head of delivery, Major projects infrastructure
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