Ka -band reduces equipment costs to about 15% of Ku-band
presidential elections and the UK Diamond Jubilee, and now has three NewsSpotter Fly-Away systems. In Paris, the system “made a huge difference to what location we could broadcast from and the speed of connection back to studios in Denmark,” explained Morten Brandstrup, TV2’s head of news technology. “We would normally need a fibre connection which can be difficult to find, expensive to run and limits locations. NewsSpotter increased our options, enabling us to focus on getting the best pictures to tell the story, rather than being tied to a location connected to fibre.” He believes it will “change the
way news is gathered and broadcast across Europe.” It is “small, mobile, very cost effective to operate and easy to use. Our news production crews are really happy using it.” Because it is IP-based, it “integrates directly
New media gateway
By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
NET INSIGHT, a provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has expanded its Nimbra 600 series of MSR’s with the introduction of the Nimbra 640, a cost efficient and scalable media access gateway for media transport over IP networks. The latest addition to its
Nimbra 600 platform offers unique mechanisms for Quality of Service (QoS) of bi-directional video and Ethernet transport. This coupled with integrated support for high quality, low-latency JPEG2000 video compression, makes it suitable for live event contribution and remote production. Per Lindgren, VP Business
Development and co-founder of Net Insight, said, “Introducing the Nimbra 640 to our range of Nimbra MSR’s is great news for operators and broadcasters that want to simplify live event contri - bution and remote production.” At IBC, Net Insight also
introduced its new smart form- factor pluggable transceiver- based (SFP) Video Access Module, integrated into Nimbra MSR, plus its new Time Transfer Over-IP (TToIP) solution. In other news, Net Insight teamed up with partner Miranda Technologies to display a live remote production and workflow demo at IBC2012. www.netinsight.net
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Ka-band “will change the way news is gathered and broadcast across Europe. Our news crews are very happy using it” Morten Brandstrup, TV2 Denmark
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