BT Sport produces World's first all-IP 4K broadcast with Arena Television
powered by a suite of technology from Grass Valley
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BT Sport - a well-known sports broadcast network, with exclusive live rights to top flight football and rugby in the UK teamed with Arena Television, one of the UK's leading mobile broadcast service providers, to provide simulcast UHD and HD signals on an IP network for the historic BT Sport broadcast of the Liverpool vs. Leicester City Premier League match on September 10. utilizing Arena's new OBX mobile production unit, the first of three new units planned.
Arena Television chose a solution powered almost exclusively by solutions from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, consisting of a resilient, scalable IP core and broadcast-centric edge devices designed to provide the flexibility, responsiveness and reliability required for live broadcast. Grass Valley solutions powering the completed OBX include 28 LDX 86N Series cameras, four GV Node Real-Time IP Processing and Edge Routing Platforms with 54 KMX-4911 multiviewer cards, 180 Densité IPG-3901 Gateways and a Kayenne K-Frame Production Switcher, all working together to provide a powerful glass-to-glass IP workflow. The Cisco Nexus 9000 series switch and Lawo Virtual Studio Manager round out the integrated package.
By offering direct IP interfaces on all of these products, Grass Valley makes it easier to move the data across the network and realize the inherent benefits of IP while delivering on the demands of live production. The LDX 86N camera, from a family of cameras with a reputation for unmatched quality, offers the ability to capture native 4K and native 3G/HD on the same device, utilizing TICO compression to deliver a signal across a single wire and reduce the physical cabling requirements. OBX is completely signal-agnostic, offering the ability to switch easily between UHD 2160p50, 3G 1080p50 and HD 1080i50, while using less cable for a total weight that is lower than an equivalent SDI installation.
The broadcast was extremely successful. More all-IP and 4K/UHD projects are on the immediate horizon for this truck, and two more trucks are in construction with the same design.
For complete Grass Valley press release follow this link.
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