BT, a multinational telecommunications company, built the Vena orchestration system to manage their broadcasting infrastructure. The existing network was straining and needed to be replaced quickly within a tight budget. BT leveraged advances in Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology to automate site provisioning, service ordering, and service assurance monitoring and reporting. They chose to build the software system from scratch using open source components, allowing for full ownership of the software stack and flexibility to accommodate unanticipated features. The Vena platform carries services for all major broadcasters in the UK and is built on top of Apache Kafka, providing real-time data processing, scalability, event-driven architectures, efficiency, availability, and reliability. Confluent Platform clusters deployed with Terraform enable automated deployment, near-real-time geo-replication, and high resilience. The system also uses Confluent Control Center for detailed monitoring and security features such as encryption and fine-grained access control. Vena has successfully implemented two vital use cases that demonstrate its ability to handle various types of data and integrate disparate sources in real-time.