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Powering Remote Possibilities
It also makes it easy to adopt new
technologies in a way that doesn't
mean throwing out existing technology
investments.
Today's
production
workflows
need to be easily scaled up and down
depending on demand. This helps
to reduce cost and enables greater
efficiencies for team collaboration.
Increasingly, broadcasters and media
organisations also want to leverage
the best talent in the industry, from
technical directors to on-screen
talent, wherever in the world they
are. Distributed workflows, whether in
the cloud or over media IP networks
underpin this type of flexible approach,
allowing production staff to be located
in multiple locations - even their own
homes - accessing live feeds and clips
from anywhere.
The migration of live workflows to
public clouds offers huge benefits,
allowing broadcasters and content
producers to focus on creating great
content - instead of devoting resources
to managing infrastructure. However,
it doesn't come without its challenges.
The key hurdle is getting live media to
the cloud environments reliably and

securely, but also cost-efficiently. All
while retaining quality and keeping
complexity to a minimum.
Our Nimbra platform is the industry
benchmark for reliability and quality
and is now cloud-enabled, allowing
customers to transition to distributed
IP and cloud workflows in an easy and
cost-effective way - while retaining
their existing investments and
keeping existing benefits for their core
business.

Driving further
efficiencies with 5G
Looking ahead, 5G will also help
simplify remote production workflows
by eliminating the need for dedicated
satellite, fibre, or IP networks while
offering greater bandwidth, lower
latency, and a defined quality of
service at low cost.
Mobile media acquisition from
anywhere in the world becomes
possible, with real benefits
to events that run over some
distance, such as marathons, golf,
cycling, etc. Venue connectivity
will also be another driver for
remote
production
growth.

InTech
cont'd...

With the right end-to-end solution,
broadcasters can eliminate bottlenecks
and squeeze the costs out of resourceintensive live production workflows.
As 5G matures and penetrates the
market it promises to dramatically
change the media landscape. For
example, camera operators can be
more flexible and mobile as they can
leverage 5G to connect cameras to
production facilities without cables.
Production teams can arrange 'pop-up'
production capabilities that use the 5G
network to deliver multiple camera
signals back to a central hub. Staff
can mix video captured by traditional
cameras with those on 5G-enabled
smartphones creating multi-camera
experiences and new angles that were
not possible before.

France Télévisions Renews
Its UHD OB Vans With BCE
As part of its technological development, France Télévisions entrusts BCE
with the renewal of two ultra-high definition (UHD) mobile control units...

F

rance Télévisions has entrusted the
French subsidiary of Broadcasting
Center Europe (BCE France) with the
renewal of its OB vans to support the
modernisation of its tools for producing
and broadcasting TV programmes.
To meet the expectations of an ever
more demanding audience, France
Télévisions is now equipping itself with
the latest technologies to produce all
its creations (fiction, documentary,
animation, live show, ...).
BCE won the public contract to
supply two semi-trailers equipped
with mobile broadcast units for 25 and
15 cameras. These vans will produce
ultra-high definition content (UHD/4K)
and the broadcast units, based on
hybrid IP technology, will increase
the flexibility of France Télévisions'
productions while facilitating the
communication of the OB vans with the
group's facilities.

© France tv

" These pandemic months underline
the importance of continuing to
provide quality content to the public.
IP-integrated technologies allow the
multiplication of production locations
while meeting the COVID safety
distances. Beyond the pandemic,
this flexibility will allow the group to
increase its content and thus meet
the growing market demand. Explains

Laurent Seve, Marketing Manager of
BCE.
BCE (Broadcasting Center Europe)
and its subsidiary BCE France will
carry out the systems studies, the
integration, the complete project
management, and the training of
France Télévisions teams to their
new production tools. BCE France
and The Toutenkamion Group, BCE's

Net Insight's Nimbra solution
portfolio is designed for nextgeneration media processing and
delivery workflows that are 5G-ready.
Built on open standards, broadcasters
can ingest and distribute any live
media stream, in any format, securely
to multiple destinations across any
IP network, with 5G dramatically
increasing network capacity to make
this process faster and more reliable.

Powering towards
future growth
Even for niche events, audiences are
increasingly global and broadcasters,
service
providers,
production
companies and enterprises all need to
produce and deliver rich, compelling
content experiences to consumers
around the world - often tailoring
this content for different platforms
and territories. As the demand
for content continues to increase
and as viewing habits continue to
evolve, having flexible, reliable and
agile solutions for contribution,
ingestion and live production
delivery are vital to long-term
success. Open, cloud-ready media
delivery platforms provide many of
the answers.

coachbuilder partner, worked hand in
hand on the design of the OB vans.
" BCE's
multiple
expertise
in
production, operations, integration,
IT expertise as well as the
implementation of its own IP radio and
television centre enable major projects
for the media industry to be carried
out. IP pioneer and expert, we support
many companies in this technological
transition. BCE is proud to have
received the confidence of France
Télévisions for this major project "
concludes Philippe Mauduit, President
of BCE France.
Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE) is
a European leader in media services,
system integration and software
development in the areas of television,
radio, production and postproduction,
telecommunication, and IT. With its
extensive experience on the media
market, BCE provides high-quality
services and will always find the
solution that matches your project
and budget. With more than 200
highly qualified and motivated people,
BCE serves about 400 clients in
various sectors, such as TV channels,
radio stations, film distributors,
producers, advertising companies,
telecommunications operators, and
public services.
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