Grenoble (July 2010) – Genesis Networks, a leading
international provider of globally managed fiber network
services to broadcasters and cable networks worldwide, recently teamed
up with digital audio solutions specialist, Digigram, to provide
broadcast services to French television channel Canal Plus for their
coverage of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the Wimbledon Tennis
Championships in the UK.
Genesis needed to transmit 10 broadcast quality duplex audio channels
(program channels, studio return audio, et. al.) between South Africa
and France, and similarly, 6 duplex channels between Wimbledon and
France. Digigram was able to provide a simple, elegant and
cost-effective solution based on the IQOYA*SERV/LINK multiple stereo /
multichannel IP audio distribution codec.
In this instance, Digigram provided six IQOYA*SERV/LINK devices for a
fully redundant contribution system; one “main”
unit and a second unit for redundancy purposes for each site
(Wimbledon, Paris, South Africa). The flexibility and scalability of
the IQOYA*SERV/LINK system meant that a single Paris-based unit was
able to simultaneously communicate with both London and Johannesburg,
thereby handling all 16 duplex channels at once.
Another feature of interest was the opportunity to independently select
an encoding format for each channel.
According to Abel Leite from Genesis Networks, the advantages of the
Digigram IQOYA*SERV/LINK solution are clear. “Once
the channel requirement had been met, the most important criterion for
us was reliability. Our World Cup and Wimbledon broadcasts are watched
by literally millions of people, so failure is not an option!
Clearly we had redundant solutions in place just in case, but the
reliability of the Digigram platform combined with the multiple
built-in fail-over options was very attractive. Set-up and
implementation of the system was straightforward, and the system has
proved both flexible and cost-effective. We’d certainly use
it again.”
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