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InMedia
NBC Olympics Selects Grass Valley
N
GV to support IP Processing, Control and Monitoring
of remote and studio-based feeds during coverage
of the Tokyo Olympics...
BC Olympics, a division of the NBC
Sports Group, has selected Grass
Valley to provide its IP Media audio
and video routing solutions alongside
control and monitoring systems for its
production of the Games of the XXXII
Olympiad, which take place in Tokyo,
Japan, from July 23 - August 8. The
announcement was made recently
by Todd Donovan, Vice President of
Engineering Technology, NBC Olympics,
and Tim Shoulders, CEO and President
of Grass Valley.
Grass Valley has been supplying
infrastructure solutions to NBC
Olympics since the 2006 Torino
Olympics and has delivered a range of
open standards-based IP systems for
the Tokyo Olympics, aimed at driving
efficiency within NBC Olympics' studios
inside the International Broadcast
Center (IBC) in Tokyo. Grass Valley IP
infrastructure will support seamless
processing of live video and audio
feeds - both from studios and remote
event venues - ready for delivery
to the broadcaster's production
and editing control rooms ahead of
live
broadcasts. NBC Olympics
will
deploy Grass Valley's IP Media
infrastructure at the Tokyo IBC,
leveraging control of a Cisco
Spine and Leaf switching topology
through the GV Orbit NMOS compliant
router control and configuration
system.
The IP Media solution is SMPTE-2110,
AMWA NMOS IS-04/05, SMPTE-2059,
UHD, and HDR compliant, leveraging
the full interoperability of industry
standards. The system comprises over
70 IQUCP modular gateways using
both the 25GbE and 50GbE product
versions, 170 Densitè+ XIP-3901
IP audio/video, SDR/HDR, IS-04/
IS-05 processing modules and 16 MV821-IP
multiviewers, underpinning
a robust, reliable and future-proof
infrastructure. System management
is enabled via the GV Orbit dynamic
orchestration
system,
allowing
production teams to leverage the
power of IP using familiar SDI
workflows. Thanks to GV Orbit,
production staff can ensure a seamless
production process, speeding up
operations while cutting down error
risks.
" Given our long-term
relationship and trust in
Grass Valley and as we
wanted to upgrade to a 2110
IP
core
processing
the
at
and
routing
International
Broadcast Center in Tokyo, it
quickly became apparent that
Grass Valley was the right partner for
this important upgrade in our critical
infrastructure due to their experience
and product breadth and maturity, "
said Donovan. " Grass Valley partnered
with
us
on
the
designing
solutions
enabling our sophisticated venue and
IBC facility workflows as we work to
present
largest Olympic Games
presentation ever. They have been
deeply invested at all levels of their
organization to the continued success
of NBC Olympics in Tokyo and beyond. "
" Today's sports fans want more
in-depth coverage of live sporting
events; they want to feel that they
are getting an experience that is as
good as being there, " said
Shoulders pictured. " The
Olympic Games take this
expectation to even greater
heights. The move to IPbased
infrastructures deliver
the scalability and flexibility
needed to deliver new and
exciting services and handle the sheer
volume of signals coming in from
multiple locations during the Games,
smoothly and efficiently.
" We are proud to reinforce our
close partnership with NBC Olympics
cultivated over the past two decades.
As well as delivering space and cost
savings, the infrastructure will meet
the needs for Tokyo and easily scale
and adapt to support future Olympic
Games events. "
As part of the wider IP infrastructure,
Grass Valley has also provided MADI
audio gateway products, and the Audio
Live multi-stream audio processing
solution.
Grass Valley's Kaleido-IP Video Multiviewer
Helps TV 2 Norway Amplify its IP Capability
G
rass Valley has announced that
Norway's biggest commercial
broadcaster, TV 2 Norway, has chosen
the Kaleido-IP Video Multiviewer as
part of its migration to open standardsbased
IP workflows. TV 2 provides
a
of programming including
news, sports, entertainment, children's
programming, TV series, movies, and
magazine shows. It is extending a
longstanding partnership with Grass
Valley so that it can handle more
high quality content across multiple
platforms to meet growing demand
from its audience.
range
" IP solutions that enable effortless
remote productions are essential
to our company and that's why
we've relied on Grass Valley's
multiviewers for years. The KaleidoIP
fits seamlessly into our SMPTE
ST2110-based infrastructure and can
handle a wide variety of
content requirements from
4K UHD and HD to SD, "
said Svein Henning Skaga,
Solutions Architect at TV 2
Norway. " We rely on flexible
workflows to enable easy
customization for each
production type, including
news, sports and other master control
room operations, and the Kaleido IP is
the perfect solution for this. "
Kaleido-IP provides TV 2 with an
easy transition from its current SMPTE
ST2022-6 to the latest
SMPTE ST2110 IP capability.
The new deployment will
give the broadcaster access
to high density inputs,
simultaneous
video
and
audio program decodes and
ultra-low latency processing.
future-proof
to
meet
solutions
their
immediate
requirements and longerterm
goals. "
With its user-friendly
layout creation and editor,
Kaleido IP supports a wide
range of codecs, as well as
uncompressed video and
" As our customers increasingly
deliver content across a diverse
range of platforms and devices, they
need the ability to handle more high
bandwidth video in multiple formats
and resolutions, " said Tim
Banks, Vice President Sales,
EMEA, Grass Valley pictured.
" This latest IP breakthrough
extends our longstanding
partnership with TV 2 and we
look forward to continuing
to work closely to align our
audio for monitoring any IP source.
All video streams can be displayed
through this solution, multiple times,
at different resolutions and sizes up to
full screen on the multiviewer outputs,
creating reliable and high-quality MCR
operations.
The project is due to go live by Q4
2021 and the sale was via GV's regional
channel partner, Mediability.
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