WATERLOO – Video and data transport provider Dejero announced today it is helping make history by facilitating an all-remote multi-sport production of the XII South American Games in Asunción, Paraguay.
The company is supporting Quality, an international production company and joint host broadcaster for the Games. This is “the first ever all-remote multi-sport production,” according to a press release.
The Games, which are running from Oct. 1-15, features 53 sports. Quality is deploying over 90 cameras to capture the action live.
“Using an all-remote workflow, we can produce up to fourteen simultaneous sports at the same time live with a single control,” said Pablo Reyes, chief production officer at Quality, in the release.
“We’re the first production company in television history, in partnership with our co-host broadcasters ABC and IMG, to produce a multi-sport production of this scale entirely remotely,” he said.
All of Quality’s cameras are connected to a Dejero EnGo LTE mobile transmitter using smart blending technology, which “dynamically and intelligently manages the fluctuating bandwidth, packet loss, and latency differences of individual connections in real-time to simultaneously combine multiple IP connections,” the release explains.
The transmitters are transporting feeds from the Games’ sport venues and roaming cameras to 23 Dejero WayPoint receivers at the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) in Asunción.
“Ten additional WayPoint receivers, located at Quality’s Buenos Aires hub, reconstruct and decode the video feeds which are entered into a matrix to be shared with the switcher and replay systems,” the press release says. “The packaged content is then uplinked via satellite for distribution to the Rights Holding Broadcasters (RHBs) and inserted into the ingest system for logging and clipping.”
“By using Dejero at all of the venues in Asunción, in the IBC… and in our Buenos Aires hub, we have created a remote production workflow that amounts to an NPV (Net Present Value) saving of approximately USD $2.5million,” Reyes said.
“If you think about our all-remote workflow compared to a traditional multi-OB (Outside Broadcast) truck setup for a large-scale sports production like this, we’ve curtailed the movement of around six tons of extra material and 40 people – not to mention the installation of hundreds of kilometers of cable that would usually be required. The time and cost saved on logistics, resources and time is monumental.”
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