"We do a number of file transfers between sites so this network does both our corporate traffic and media traffic live."

The converged network supports applications such as real-time on-air video, voice, video file transfers, telemetry and typical business applications.

"There had to be a hard cutover from three networks to the new one. On the day we moved our live video traffic over to the site that was a real test," he said.

He added that the WAN upgrade has increased the amount of standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) broadcasting traffic on the company's network.

"When we are doing carriage on it [the network] for events, we are carrying real-time video services anywhere between 20 and 120 megabits per second [Mbs]."