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GOING THE DIREKT ROUTE FOR NEWS AND SPORTS Intinor
BY ANNE MORRIS
Sweden’s Intinor is celebrating its 20th anniversary at IBC2023 with a showcase of new products, including a Direkt link for backpacks for news and sports. The Intinor Direkt router series
provides high-density encoding and decoding. For IBC2023, the company is introducing the compact Direkt link, suitable for use in a backpack and designed for single camera sports or news work which relies on agile crews. Daniel Lundstedt, Regional Sales Manager/Marketing at Intinor,
said: “Our high-quality, simple- to-manage and fast-to-establish links are making a huge impact in broadcast. But the technology is also very valuable in many other areas, whether that is esports or houses of worship, or any other application that needs a simple way to move signals. We continue to build on our core technologies, driven by the demands and expectations of our users, and we look forward to more exciting engagement with them at IBC.” Intinor also supports open standards including SRT, RIST and NDI. It further highlights its proprietary Bifrost transport protocol which incorporates forward
MOBILE MEDIA OPERATIONS Xytech Systems BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON
IBC attendees are the fi rst to see a mobile solution that enables media operations, production and scheduling staff to manage end-to-end content creation. The mobile-native interface for Xytech’s Media Operations platform allows production crews and creatives to remotely manage people, resources and assets. It offers users on-the-go functionalities
Intinor’s Direkt link is suitable for use in a backpack
error correction and retransmission algorithms and is designed to provide reliable content delivery,
coupled with ultra-low latency of less than half a second. 5.F55
and remote access to contacts, schedule and time cards. Keith Buckley, CEO, Xytech Systems, said: “I’m excited that we’re the fi rst company in the media operations space to pave the way towards mobile- native workfl ows. It’s clear that distributed remote productions continue to prevail as the leading workfl ow requirement for crews and creatives, making our Mobile Operations offering crucial for succeeding in today’s production landscape.”
The user experience is built on an open-source JavaScript Runtime environment. The app implements face ID login for quick launch into the dashboard, and real-time notifi cations alerting users to the changes in their workfl ows.
The mobile interface being demoed for the fi rst time at IBC David White, Chief Product
Offi cer, Xytech, added: “Being able to decentralise operations with the touch of a button, regardless of location, is something our customers have continually asked for.” 1.C50
AI-CONTROLLED CONTRIBUTION DELIVERS ENHANCED RELIABILITY
Caton Technology BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON
The Caton Media XStream service can carry content at high quality from any location, via the Caton Cloud. Thanks to its use of AI to continually reroute signals across multiple paths, Media XStream is claimed to consistently deliver reliability exceeding 99.9999%, breaking the barriers of standard IP contribution services.
IBC demonstrations focus on three key applications. For broadcast networks, Caton shows how a
Caton is showcasing high-reliability, high-effi ciency global links for sports
Far East broadcaster with an international link between its studios and distribution centre has been running for more than a year with zero errors.
The same AI managed, dynamically controlled transmission makes Caton Media XStream
applicable to live sports broadcasting, transforming delivery and integrating with existing infrastructure. Transparent real- time monitoring and analytics for both the transport layer and the broadcast stream provide confi dence for engineers and
producers, says the company. The third application is the delivery of live events to cinemas, providing high quality at each venue with minimal engineering demands, and an elevated consumer experience. Paul Weiser, SVP, Caton
Technology, said: “In today’s world, there are so many applications which need very reliable, high- quality transmission circuits, often between continents. Caton has a proven solution, already in wide use, that delivers on every level. We invite IBC visitors to come and see all this in action.” 1.F36
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