For this year’s Democratic and Republican national conventions, Reuters relied on IP-packet transport from Denver and St. Paul, MN, via Genesis Network’s fiber optic network.

While it’s tough to say whether or not this is the first time IP backhaul has been used at a political convention, its application at the events certainly among the first. In Amsterdam, Genesis Networks was exhibiting at the Cisco stand where it was trumpeting its involvement in this year’s political extravaganzas.

Company VP marketing and business development Brittany Neal discusses what the Genesis Networks delivered to Reuters at the conventions and the advantages of IP backhaul of contribution level video and audio in this podcast.