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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 10 - Issue 5 | May 2020

InReply

BCE Systems Integration
BCE Marketing Manager Laurent Seve discusses some of the recent projects
undertaken by BCE and looks beyond the impact of the lockdown...
InB: Can you give us a brief
overview of what we can expect in
the next 6-12 months within your
sector?
Laurent Seve: While the world is
confined, the Covid-19 crisis has a
strong impact on all the markets,
including the media industry. Giving a
complete feedback of what will occur
during the next 6-12 months can be
quite tricky.
The only certainty we have is that
many projects that were postponed
due to the confinement will all trigger
back at the same time, putting all the
media actors in front of higher work
volumes and an obligation to deliver
their services within shorter time
frames.
At BCE, we are already thinking of
the next steps and we have organised
our company resources to be able to
cope with our customers' demands.
But the actual crisis does not really
impact our day to day operations.
For instance, on one hand many
public events were cancelled, but on
the other hand our customers asked
new type of productions with mobile
studios, remote production, streaming
live or replay... giving more work to
our production, IT, system integration,
broadcast and even post-production
areas.
These are exactly the type of
developments BCE has been working
on the latest months, namely:
Remote Production. The rise of IP
infrastructure geared with the perfect
mix of technology and flexibility
allowed our company to reconsider the
complete production workflow. We are
talking about a complete revolution,

numerous media companies do not
need to move immediately to this
new technology, we believe there is
approximatively a four to five years'
time stamp before seeing the global
media market switching to full IP
environments.

with remote production we can cover
major events without the need of big
production teams on site, nor the
presence of an outside broadcast
truck.

"Quantel Go", we can configure remote
access to editing stations. As a result,
the users can access the content and a
lighter version of their editing stations
from an HTML5 page.

InB: Can you explain the benefits
in regard to the latest product /
service announcements?
LS: The market mindset is evolving
and so does BCE's way of developing
solutions and launching services.
BCE was a pioneer in adopting a
full IP-based workflow. More than a
technology move, we were actively
looking for a way to make our services
evolve, thus gaining flexibility and
breaking the walls of the media
environment.

Luxembourg Parliament StudioTalk

New transmissions layers such as
5G, high speed internet over fibre
and of course IP highly contribute
to the development of these new
ways to centralise the workflows of
the companies but also allowing the
employees to work from virtually
anywhere, including their home during
the actual sanitary crisis.
During the pandemic, BCE has
installed a complete conference
and TV production platform for
the Luxembourg Parliament. After
planning the installation via video
calls and installing the platform on
site following the security and sanitary
measures, BCE was able to ensure the
production of the sessions as well as
the live streaming on the internet, and
the broadcast on TV and Radio.
While there is a clear development of
IP-based workflow, remote production
and 5G, there is still a high demand
for more traditional SDI projects. The
IP is a costly evolution, as a result

On the product side BCE has
launched many new products including
StudioTalk, a complete production
system,
allowing
production,
camera control, external feeds
integration, channel branding, content
management, live streaming and
broadcast; Itstored a cloud-based
storage solution with S3 integration;
BCE DRM, digital rights management
for your content and a Cloud playout
platform, build in BCE's Datacentre,
for any type of customer (24/7 linear
channel, temporary channel or even
for disaster recovery).
On the service side BCE has launched
BCE Streaming, which englobes
production, project management,
streaming and online video platform
content management; BCE sports a
set of media services for the sports
industry; BCE institutions, for the
corporate and institutional market and
is looking forward to launch

The production control room stays at
your premises while the event location
is equipped with remote cameras, and
a platform (such as BCE's StudioTalk)
to allow the control of the cameras,
the content, the channel branding
and the transmission of the feeds. In
addition, with technologies such as
BCE's StudioTalk at RTS

Luxembourg Parliament Coverage
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