18 Friday 07.09.2012
theibcdaily 2012 Olympics: Successes and secrets revealed
NBC’s Darryl Jefferson is on tomorrow’s Sports panel
Conference Tomorrow By Chris Forrester
It is only every four years that IBC can take a look back at the most-watched TV event on the planet, and this year’s Olympic Games session delivers a chance to learn from some of the broadcasting experts directly involved how their plans worked out, and no doubt reveal a few ‘behind the scenes’ stories of how some of the breathtaking images came to screen. BBC Director of Sport Barbara Slater leads the panel, which also features NBC’s Darryl Jefferson (director/post production operations) and John Barton, director of sport
Best of the best
Once again IBC is collaborating with IET, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, to bring some of the most ground- breaking papers to a wider public. IET, one of the IBC partner bodies, is publishing a selection of technical contributions in a special edition of its journal. The Best of IBC and IET includes a number of IBC papers alongside selected articles from the IET’s flagship publication Electronic Letters. Taken
together, they represent the best of the current thinking on broadcasting and media technology. This anthology is now a regular publication from IBC and IET, and it is now recognised as an important source of reference information on the state of the art.
The IBC contributions which are included in The Best of IBC and IET are selected by the Technical Papers Committee which is responsible for the strict peer review process. The journal
Danes deploy Agama Agama
By Ian McMurray
Danish communications service providers TDC and YouSee are to deploy an Agama solution for headend and distribution monitoring in their Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform. According to Agama, the
includes the paper which has won this year’s Best Conference Paper Award, Fully Automatic Stereo-To- Multiview Conversion in Autostereoscopic Displays by Riechert, Zilly, Kauff, Güther and Schäfer of the Fraunhofer Institute. This award will be presented during the IBC Awards Ceremony on Sunday 9 September. You can find out more about the work of the IET, its importance as an IBC Partner, and buy copies of the publication at the IBC Partnership Village, stand 8.F51 in the Park Foyer outside Hall 8.
solution will support TDC and YouSee in assuring the quality of the nationwide IPTV service, enabling efficiency in processes such as problem discovery, impact analysis, data mining and SLA management. The roll-out includes video service quality assurance probes, Agama Analyzers, for monitoring in YouSee’s TV headend, as well as
in strategic locations across TDC’s distribution network. All service monitoring information is stored, managed and presented by the central Agama Enterprise Server EX with Performance Management capabilities, enabling and facilitating advanced diagnostics and alarming, detailed and tailored reporting and data mining, sophisticated quality and availability statistics and efficient SLA management. 4.A55
from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, Malaysia. The trio promise they’ll come armed with some spectacular highlight footage from the 24 HDTV feeds, although they are perhaps spoilt for choice given the thousands of transmitted hours (and 1000 hours more than Beijing). Both the BBC and NBC had huge teams working in the broadcasting centre, and no doubt will regale delegates with some of the challenges of slotting in 1001 unilaterals as well as capturing and mixing for more live feeds going out to viewers – and users – than ever before.
Having John Barton present on the panel is a most useful
addition given that there are still huge numbers of people with limited access to the multi- channel feeds. The Middle East’s ASBU, for example, this year supplied six video streams, a vast improvement on previous coverage. Besides recounting the highs and lows, challenges and triumphs of broadcasting the world’s biggest sports event. IBC audiences will be among the first people in the world to get a complete analysis of how it all went down behind the scenes, and perhaps to ask the experts ‘where do we go from here?’ and how might Rio’s 2016 event top London? 09:30-11:00, Forum
LUMO features significant connectivity and redundancy Fibre in, coax out
Miranda By Michael Burns
LUMO, Miranda’s highest density electrical-to-optical and optical-to-electrical converter, is being introduced at this year’s IBC. Packing 36 I/Os into a 1RU frame, its modular design enables each converter to be serviced while the unit remains in operation.
LUMO also includes dual
redundant power supplies and frame controller with dual redundant IP-
connections for comprehensive system monitoring and frame health alarm warnings.
The unit uses the same SMPTE-compliant fibre SFP modules that are found on all 3Gbps products in Miranda’s portfolio. The platform’s unique cable management approach addresses connectivity concerns by providing fibre connectivity on one side of the unit with coax on the other, providing for easy separation of heavy copper cable from lightweight fibre. 8.D41
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