 My name is Rowan Humphrey. I'm the Program Coordinator for the Certificate for in Screen and Media Television Production at RMIT. We're standing in our Studio B control room in the media precinct on Swanson Street in the main city campus. By 2013 we could see that, you know, not that far away a fully IP world would be the case, but it wasn't there at that time. So in building into the the new academic street and the media precinct project we wanted to embed fibre rather than copper. We already had retail products as a solution for an outside broadcast environment which we wanted a fixed studio facility to still be able to operate for students as a hybrid of outside broadcast, hence the media street. So the media precinct at RMIT has a fibre backbone that is the equivalent of about 30,000 homes connected to the NBN. There's 18 cameras across four studios and all of the potential for sharing resources, return feeds, comms, audio, vision. The retail solution is a decentralized routing solution. It's distributed in terms of its modular and therefore expandable. It's both spoke and hub as well as point-to-point as well as, you know, all the way around the circle and all of those varieties. So the communications demands for the media precinct are firstly as complex as four separate studios and four reconfigurable control rooms can be and therefore things like Bolero and other configurable aspects of the retail comm system come rapidly into play. A good example of just how complex we can get is the recent drama series that was produced out of our Studio A with our studio drama mentor being caught in New Zealand. So students were presented with a real world complex scenario that required expert day-to-day engineering to make it work and of course the retail system was well up to that challenge. I grew up in the analogue era of comms headsets that sounded terrible, that had, you know, a two-way conversation with point-to-point. But the Bolero belt pack elevates that entire experience from, you know, poor to excellent audio quality, a completely configurable belt pack that enables you to communicate with a range of people into a range of party lines or group calls, have interruptible fold back and the pack, rather than being a piece of hardware, is a mobile piece of software. We can have all of the facilities in the world but the proof of the pudding is when a student who's been out of here for only a couple of years can come back from a major media player and bring that knowledge and experience back to the current set of students and be working in an environment that's exactly the same, whether that be the comms environment using artists and Bolero or the distributed routing environments as well.