IMG’s production of the 154th Open returned 124 camera feeds from Royal Birkdale to its Stockley Park facility, making the event one of the largest single remote productions yet run in the building. The plan began at 112 sources before the final requirement expanded.
Connectivity provider Cingularity used two 10Gbps optical circuits from the course, giving 20Gbps of redundant capacity and 40Gbps aggregate bandwidth. The routes landed at separate London points of presence before entering IMG over diverse 100Gbps fibres. End-to-end latency, including far-end synchronisation, was measured at about six frames, or roughly 240 milliseconds.
The feeds were divided between low-latency HEVC and JPEG 2000 because assembling enough hardware for one codec was impractical. Galleries received changing groups of cameras through routing salvos as play moved around the course. A complete spare gallery was held for disaster recovery, while internet and cellular paths could carry a limited on-site cut if primary fibre failed.
Audio was centralised through four MADI streams carrying 256 discrete channels, with the wider operation handling more than 500 audio paths. The report provides unusually concrete architecture figures, but it does not publish codec bitrates, packet-loss data, failover timings or measured quality differences between paths. Those details would be needed to reproduce the design precisely.
