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Red Bee Media selects Nevion’s Flashlink solutions for
Channel 4’s content transport
February 26, 2010
Source: Red Bee Media
Red Bee Media has selected
Nevion, formerly Network/VPG, a leading video transport solution
provider for broadcasters, telecommunications service providers
and government entities worldwide, to supply a range of scaleable
video transport and monitoring technology to enable transmission
of content for one of the UK’s leading broadcasters,
Channel 4.
Content from Red Bee Media facilities at Channel 4’s
Horseferry Road is being transported to its dedicated Broadcast
Centre in White City using dedicated diverse redundant optical
circuits made possible by extensive use of Nevion Flashlink
fibre transport modules. Carrying video and Ethernet traffic
over DWDM wavelengths, the circuits incorporate both SD and
3G HD capabilities and 10 Gigabit Ethernet in both directions.
“Red Bee Media passes on over 150 video signals to Channel
4’s coding and distribution suppliers, so this project
was always set to be complex and dynamic,” said Nick
Pywell, MD UK operations, Nevion. “A dense wavelength
division multiplexing (DWDM) dark fibre solution was the best
choice as it would provide cost savings as well as the requirements
for additional services, which can be accommodated with the
minimum of time and for minimal additional capital outlay.
Only the supply time and cost of the cards would then need
to be taken into account.”
To aid the migration from Channel 4’s transmission facilities
at Horseferry Road to the purpose built playout facilities
at Red Bee Media’s Broadcast Centre, the selected Flashlink
products also incorporated time division multiplex circuits
to position four SD-SDI video signals onto one HD-SDI carrier.
A browser-based graphical and SNMP monitoring system known
as Multicon-GYDA offers comprehensive monitoring with remote
firmware upgrades and customizable system overview for visual
monitoring. A spare card set is also included for the most
efficient main, secondary and third level backup.
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