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TED IS A FREESPEAK ICON Clear-Com BY DAVID FOX
TED talks are demanding, combining theatre, streaming and recording. Given that “TED is always on the cutting edge of technology – the T in TED,” as Mina Sabet, TED’s Head of Production, said, when its “existing communications system wasn’t working as intuitively as I had hoped,” it turned to Clear-Com. “We needed a tool that would
streamline our communications, and Clear-Com has gone above and beyond. We can communicate very clearly and effi ciently with everybody on the teams throughout the
production. We’ve never had an issue. It’s been completely seamless,” she said. Bob Boster, Clear-Com
President, added: “TED’s permanent facility in New York is based on our Arcadia platform, and they have FreeSpeak 2 beltpacks for wireless, connecting over IP around the facility. They are also using HelixNet panels, and the system connects to our cloud intercom, Gen-IC, for people who need a system on their phone or their tablet.”
TED also uses Clear-Com for its
fl agship conference, recently held in Vancouver, where it utilised the Eclipse Delta Frame, FreeSpeak wireless systems and Dante audio distribution, all networked
HUMMINGBIRD TAKES FLIGHT TSL
BY KIRSTY HAZLEWOOD
Launched at IBC, Hummingbird from TSL is a unifi ed, interoperable ecosystem of control and monitoring applications and interfaces, designed to drive effi ciency and reduce complexity across advanced broadcast and AV environments. Hummingbird has been launched with 15 modular applications that can be deployed independently, as enhancements to existing infrastructure, bought as pre- built toolkits, or combined to build complete control and orchestration workfl ows. The ecosystem will develop
progressively, with ongoing additions of new protocols, applications and integrations, as well as soft and hard panel interface options. This will ensure it remains open, futureproof and responsive to emerging standards and evolving customer needs. At its core, Hummingbird prioritises interoperability, delivering intuitive control, monitoring and IP routing
(L-R): Mina Sabet and Bob Boster
over high-performance Netgear switches. “We are partnering with Clear-Com again to do our newest series of conferences, TED Next, in Atlanta,” added Sabet. “TED Next will use a wireless system based around our new
FreeSpeak Icon beltpack, and that’ll be attached to IP-based transceivers around the facility, which will use the Arcadia platform as the brain for the system,” explained Boster. 10.D29
orchestration across multi-vendor environments.
Matthew Quade, CEO, TSL, said: “We’re very pleased with the number of people who have come to see us having heard about the Hummingbird launch. With some visitors not previously aware of TSL’s control capabilities, it’s defi nitely provoked
conversations with a wider range of users than we’ve been able to access before.” 7.B12
MANAGED CONTAINERS GIVE SPORTS THE EDGE
Akamai BY DAVID FOX
Akamai completed its fi rst production customer event this week with its latest technology, Managed Container Service (MCS), which will be available next year.
The company has so far carried out beta tests mainly with US sports, but the latest event delivered more than 20TB of traffi c, all on the customer’s own proprietary streaming technology, which is not a typical CDN use case.
Quade: [IBC launch] ‘has provoked conversations with a wide range of users’
Akamai sees this customer choice as a key advantage of MCS. If users can containerise a workload in an OCI-compliant container, Akamai can run it on its edge platform in 700 cities. It gives users the benefi t of Akamai’s CDN footprint, with access to its mapping technology, intelligent routing that follows the lowest latency path, and the self-healing capabilities that can
Alexander: MCS offers ‘the
coverage, the scale, the capacity of the full edge footprint’
dynamically move traffi c when anything gets overloaded. Jon Alexander, SVP, Product Management, Akamai, said: “For a broadcaster or a video streaming company or media workfl ow company, it means you’ve now got access to the network capacity, you’ve got super low-latency connectivity to users, or, if you’re looking at an ingest, to the point of creation. And it has the coverage, the scale, the capacity of the full edge footprint.” 13.D301
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