30 TVBEurope London 2012 Countdown review An Olympic feat for NBC Sports By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
NBC OLYMPICS, a division of the NBC Sports Group, is working with an array of vendors and suppliers for its production of this summer’s London 2012 Olympics. Anton/Bauer will provide 24/7 access to products, repair, service and support for the games. The company will equip NBC Olympics with Dionic HC and Dionic HCX batteries, as well as having its biggest chargers readily available — the TM4 and Dual 2722. Avid will deploy the most
comprehensive Avid workflow in the history of NBC Olympics to support its coverage of the 2012 Olympics. Serving in conjunction with third party vendors, Sony and Harmonic, Avid’s Interplay MAM system will be used to create two simultaneous feeds for use in London and at NBC
BBC builds for Olympics with Harris, Dega Broadcast UK-based systems integrator Dega Broadcast Systems is building the BBC Production Centre for its coverage of the London Olympic games based on a Harris Corporation integrated broadcast solution. Harris will supply a range of technology for the BBC Production Centre onsite at the games, including the Selenio media convergence platform and the new Harris HView SX Pro multi-display management system. The BBC has brought
together an expert team of systems designers and integrators in which Dega Broadcast Systems is playing a leading role. In turn, Dega has designed a broadcast production workflow that incorporates system components from a single technology vendor, Harris, to simplify systems integration and product support.
Selenio will handle all video and audio processing requirements from a single, highly integrated platform that simplifies deployment and maximises ease of use. The new HView SX Pro multiviewer will live within a Harris Platinum integrated routing solution to enable signal monitoring with
London to New York using Harmonic’s MediaGrid and ProCast solutions. Ericsson will provide a range
Avid’s Interplay MAM system will be used to create two simultaneous feeds for use in London and at NBC Olympics’ headquarters in New York City
Olympics’ headquarters in New York City. All of the video content’s
metadata, including all athletic content, will be ingested directly from Sony’s XDCAM station into Avid’s Interplay MAM system and, once there, replicated from
top grade picture quality and control options. Harris 6800+ core processing and Videotek test and measurement products complete the solution.
www.dega.co.uk www.harris.com
Elemental powers delivery Elemental Technologies has announced that a number of international broadcasters with multiscreen delivery rights for the 2012 Olympic Games will use its products to deliver live and on-demand coverage to internet-connected devices.
of video processing solutions and support services to NBC Olympics. The Ericsson solution is helping to deliver NBC Olympics’ HD content across both contribution and distribution feeds by providing MPEG-4 AVC encoders, professional receivers, multiplexers and satellite modulators as well as a team of support engineers in both London and New York. Miranda Technologies will
provide NVision hybrid routing; Kaleido multiviewers; Densité infrastructure equipment, including signal conversion, fibre and media cards; and iControl signal and facility monitoring. MOG Technologies will
provide its centralised ingest solutions to NBC Olympics for its production of the Olympics.
The unnamed client broadcasters are distributing over-the-top video to viewers in the UK, Canada, Japan, and more than a dozen countries in Latin America. Elemental has also been selected to create transnational video streams for multiscreen delivery to viewers worldwide.
www.elementaltechnologies.com
GlobeCast goes 4.2.0 at Euro 2012
GlobeCast has selected Ateme Kyrion encoders to relay coverage of the European
The mxfSpeedRail F1000 ingest system will conform the captured clips from Sony XDCAM stations, re-encoding the whole sequence from MPEG-2 LongGOP 50Mbps into MXF OP1a, delivering the output to the multi-platform distribution servers. ScheduALL will again
provide comprehensive scheduling and operational management software systems to NBC Olympics. This will be the fifth straight Olympics for which NBC has called on the expertise of ScheduALL’s software and services team to orchestrate the logistics of people, equipment, locations and transmission feeds.
www.antonbauer.com www.avid.com www.ericsson.com www.harmonicinc.com www.miranda.com www.mog-solutions.com www.scheduall.com www.sony-europe.com
Football championships and then the Olympics for cable operators in Asia. Video will be transmitted to GlobeCast’s distribution hub in Hong Kong over optical fibre to serve the cable company’s Asian subscribers. Ateme said that the France Telecom/Orange subsidiary evaluated a number of encoding vendors, and chose Ateme partly because of its strong presence and support on the ground over the period of the Games in London and partly because of the quality
of Ateme’s HD encoding.
www.ateme.com www.globecast.com
Net Insight scoops SEK 6m in orders for London event Net Insight will deliver the Nimbra MSR platform to handle video transport for several media service providers between broadcasters and the media centre for a major sports event in London this summer. The Nimbra platform will be used in remote production set-ups. The requirements of the broadcasters vary to a large extent, something that Net Insight easily meets with its flexible platform for all the different media and IP formats as well as different link capabilities, including fibre, SDH and IP capacity. The Nimbra MSR platform’s inherent ‘service awareness’ is important for guaranteeing full quality video and other mission-critical traffic for this important event.
www.netinsight.net
EBU scores with NS3 The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has selected NovelSat’s NS3 satellite modulation technology to distribute news and sports content within its global network. The EBU is using NovelSat’s NS3-powered NS1000 and NS2000 satellite modulators and demodulators to improve bandwidth efficiency and drive down costs. It will be used in the transmission of live pictures of several major 2012 sporting events, including broadcast feeds covering Formula 1, the London Olympics and the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship.
www.novelsat.com
ASBU chooses Newtec for first HD Olympics By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
THE ARAB States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) has selected Newtec to upgrade its members’ infrastructure to bring the first fully HD Olympic Games to the Middle East and North Africa. The infrastructure upgrades will allow the ASBU members to receive the live Olympic multilateral feeds and news channels in HD and will also turnaround the HD signals to provide SD simultaneous broadcast (simulcast).
The Olympic content will be injected into the central archive of the ASBU Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS), allowing members to access the content at a later time and eliminating the need for each member to individually archive all feeds. This will result in significant cost reductions and operational streamlining. “The HD upgrades for the
Olympics will benefit the ASBU MENOS users way
beyond the games themselves,” said Serge Van Herck, CEO of Newtec. “The improvements in satellite efficiency and video compression allow the ASBU and its members to benefit from higher quality HD services without any need for additional satellite bandwidth, keeping the operational costs under control.”
www.newtec.eu/menos
Serge Van Herck: “The HD upgrades for the Olympics will benefit the ASBU MENOS users way beyond the games”
www.tvbeurope.com May 2012
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