SPORTSCASTER SEPTEMBER 2015

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Pro Cycling Enjoys Global TV Coverage New TV Production Partners for Tour of Alberta

Olympics Honoured for Media Preservation Canada Helps Save Library of Sports History

New Realities for Sports Video Immersive 360 Degree VR Transforms TV

CCSA CONNECT 2015

Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Annual Conference Program Agenda and Event Information

Sports Tech

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Immersive Virtual Graphics for Football Audio Stays Centred for FIFA Wowow 4K Tennis ‘Raging Success’ for Red Bull, Riedel Barnfind Media Platforms in Canada, L.A.

The cover image shows climber and VR videographer Tony Brown as he captures the final pitch of ‘The Nose’ on El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park for project360, a new immersive VR project supported by Mammut Sports Group. (Photopress/Mammut)

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Pro Cycling Enjoys Global TV Coverage, Data Analytics in the Cloud

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...new opportunities are taking shape as big data analytics, digital platform delivery and sports broadcasting come together...

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Who knew riding a bike could be so complicated?

If you’re one of nearly 200 top athletes competing in the Tour de France, you know it’s a more than just a bike ride – it’s a gruelling 21 days, more 3,360 kilometres and the attention of a global audience is riding with you.

This year, for the first time, that attention included not only comprehensive TV coverage, but also real-time data analytics shared on the Web. Fans checking in to a live beta website could track each individual rider in real-time over the course of the multi-stage race, with speed read-outs, race positions, proximity to other cyclists and other information.

Highly accurate data from each rider was transmitted by small tracking units mounted under the saddle of each rider’s bike. Global IT firm Dimension Data collected, processed and analyzed the live data in the cloud, and then made it available to commen-

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From the Grand Départ in Utrecht to the final iconic sprint on the Champs Élysées, Globecast was among the leading companies providing national, international and unilateral feeds from the Tour de France; it used eight HD SNG trucks, one mobile master control room, two microwave trucks and a 50m crane. Photos from Globecast

tators, broadcasters and the media on the ground, as well as cycling fans round the world, who could follow all 198 riders and 22 teams on the Web. Following the race across three countries (it’s not all in France) was a large Dimension Data analytics team, its data truck and ancillary vehicles; among them Adam Foster, a communications Group executive with the company – and a cyclist, mountain bike racer and former tri-athlete.

With the sounds of the race and its roadside spectators in the background, he enthusiastically described the initial reaction to the new pro cycling website during a phone conversation with Sportscaster Magazine. “[It’s] not just the fans,” he explained of the enthusiastic response to the digital service. “The pros are interested in it themselves. Teams have ‘skinned’ the beta website on their own websites” and are sharing the data directly with their own supporters and fans that way. (The company released stats after the race noting that some

PRODUCTION Highly accurate data from each race competitor is transmitted by small tracking units mounted under the saddle of each

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rider’s bike. Photos courtesy EuroMedia.

The raw speed data of all the riders on the Tour de France while on their descent from Col du Mont Bel-Air. Chart from Dimension Data.

660,000 visitors checked on the site over the three weeks, calling it a very satisfactory result for a the first time beta site.)

Back on the course, almost yelling into his phone to be heard over the fans nearby, Foster described how the race analytics in the cloud’s main data facility in Amsterdam had been replicated across the company’s entire multi-site cloud platform (Dimension Data has operations in five continents and several countries, including Canada, and over 28,000 staff worldwide with several on the ground following the race) to handle “cleansing, analysis and archiving” of all the data.

The riders generate more than 42,000 geo-spatial points and 75 million GPS readings, and Dimension Data’s analytics team reported processing between 1.5 million and 2.5 million records per stage.

The data was also re-packaged into an interactive user interface for delivery on the Web: the live tracking website was built to support 17 million viewers and 2,000 page requests per second.

It starts with a signal sent from under the bike seat to nearby motorbikes and trailing cars, which act as mobile relay stations with their on-board receivers/ transmitters. Data is uploaded to overhead helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft, again equipped with the necessary gear to receive and transmit to nearly travelling control rooms, part of a fleet of media vehicles that stops at various points along the race.

There’s a lot of wireless signals bouncing around, and a lot of valuable data being transmitted, and Foster knows exactly where the next question is leading: “You’re talking about Froome,” he said plainly.

Yes, eventual 2015 Tour de France winner and leader-at-the-time Chris Froome actually released some of his own data during the race in a bid to squash the inevitable speculation about doping.

There were even allegations and speculation about data hacking during the Tour, with valuable race and racer information the supposed target.

But while race teams do collect physiological data, Foster said the data analyzed by Dimension Data is physical location GPS data, from which other data

points can be calculated: “The sensor’s on the bike, not the rider, and yes, the delivery is secure.”

As the worlds of big data analytics, digital platform delivery and sports broadcasting continue to merge it’s as easy as riding a bike to see: the television viewing experience is changing, and new opportunities for program sponsorship and multi-screen revenue generation are taking shape.

So even before the race had ended, it was confirmed that, from 2016 and for the next four years, the same data team will work to develop and extend the platform to include new features and end-user experiences in future races. ■

New TV Production Partners for Tour of Alberta Organizers of Canada’s largest pro cycling race have a new television production partner to provide Canadian and international TV coverage of the multistage event.

Despite sometimes overlapping schedules with more established international events, this year the 2015 Tour of Alberta presented by ATB Financial is drawing top cycling teams from around the world Duane Vienneau and attracting a growing domestic and global is CEO of the Duane Vienneau is CEO ofnumbering in the tens of millions. 2015 Tour of viewing audience Alberta presented the 2015 Tour of Alberta As it has previously for the Tour of Alberta, IMG

by ATB Financial, Canada’s largest Media (a division of IMG Worldwide, the global pro cycling race. sports, fashion and media company) arranged TV Photo from ToA. distribution and program delivery agreements with a number of broadcast and carriage partners around the globe, bringing hundreds of millions of viewing households into the mix.

New this year: mobile teleproduction services company NEP Broadcasting (which has set up operations in Canada), along with PSSI Global TV, the mobile satellite transmission, production and streaming services provider, will head up the host broadcast production consortium in partnership with the Tour.

“We have our own production team that produces the show, and because of the international nature of the program, we’re acting as the host broadcaster,” described Tour CEO Duane Vienneau of the broadcast arrangements. “With us, it’s almost like the Olympics,” he laughed, explaining that its television consortium team will produce the host broadcast programming feed for distribution to domestic and international TV partners, in this case Rogers Sportsnet and IMG. (More information about the Tour is included in the feature story, Canada’s Largest Pro Cycling Race Tours Alberta with New TV Production Partners, at http://www.sportscastermagazine.ca.)

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IOC image conservation – Technicians examine transparencies from the photographic archive prior to conservation © CIO/Jean-Louis Strangis

Olympics Honoured for Media Preservation; Canada Helps Save Library of Sports History

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... within just a few years, half the 33,000 hours of video would be unplayable...

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Facing the fact that half of its historic collection would soon be unusable, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) set out on a major effort to protect and preserve its sports media archive, working with TV and film production houses around the world – including Canada.

Dating back to 1896, the first Olympic Games in modern times, more than 2,000 hours of film, 33,000 hours of video, and 8,500 hours of audio (as well as some 525,000 photographs, documents and other Olympic Museum artefacts).

The IOC will be honoured at the 2015 International Broadcast Conference for its proactive approach to media conservation, and for making the archives available to broadcasters, researchers and other professionals.

“This project is very important for two reasons,” explained Michael Lumley, chair of the IBC Awards panel. First, it ensures that more than a century of Olympic history is preserved for the future. But perhaps even more important it draws the industry’s focus on a subject which it is all too easy to ignore.

Broadcasters, production companies and anyone with an audio/visual archive can look to the IOC project to see a model of conservation and access.”

At the start of the project, IOC’s archivists could see that, within just a few years, half the videos would be unplayable, nearly a quarter of the faded photographs would be unusable, and there would be no audio players available for much of the collection.

Many of the films were facing the “vinegar syndrome” chemical deterioration that causes complete destruction.

A team of some 40 media technicians, asset managers, webmasters and project managers was recruited from around the world to restore and digitize the assets, and to develop a new digital asset management system.

The project took seven years all told, nearly 100,000 hours of cataloguing, indexing, technical operations and IP rights clearance. Every day, 40 to 125 photos and 15 to 20 hours of recordings were processed, with each one scanned, digitally cleaned, repaired and colour corrected as necessary.

The most valuable films – a quarter of the collection – were restored, digitized and written to new film by Protek in the U.S., with the rest of the films cleaned and reconditioned by Reto Kromer in Switzerland.

Where the IOC still had video players, it digitized its recordings itself, with older formats sent to media production services company Vision Globale, based in Montreal, and Sony in France.

(Québecor Media and its French-language TVA Group sudsidiary announced a multimillion dollar takeover of Vision Globale late last year. Vision Globale uses its own patented software, GeneSys, for media restoration and conversion.)

Several other international digital media firms contributed to the success of the project, which remains very much a work in progress. Every Summer Games, for example, some 3,500 hours of video and 40,000 photos are added.

Now, the business-to-business website for the IOC archives, The Olympic Multimedia Library, is used by 1,200 professionals each month, as well as by in-house IOC staff. n

SPORTS MARKETING & BRANDING

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Not Just a Killer Batting Average

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... 2.5 million VR devices will be sold this year, 24 million unit sales worth $1.2 B by 2018 – CCS Insight’s Augmented and Virtual Reality Device Forecast, 2015-2019...

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High-end VR shooting rigs were used to live stream NASCAR coverage from the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA.

F 3D and VR shooting rigs provide support for multiple cameras, so that their combined output can be easily stitched together in software; Next VR rig shown with six 6K RED DRAGONs.

rom the mountaintop to the ocean floor, from the soccer pitch to the race pits, 360 degree immersive video is transforming the shape of sports media coverage.

Augmented and virtual reality product and services are set to become a $4 billionplus business within three years, say industry analysts, and much of it will be programming, as television producers and online content providers look to deliver extra-dimensional live sports and outdoor adventure experiences.

A great new example combines both: project360 opens up the world of Alpine mountaineering to smartphone, tablet and PC users, letting them virtually trek to the top of the world’s most challenging mountains by interacting with 360-degree video, as captured by professional climbers carrying a multiple video cameras, mounted in a specially configured VR video rig (such platforms can integrate two, six, 16 or more cameras in a synchronized array) with fixed-lens GoPro consumer cameras or full pro digital cinematography set-ups with RED DRAGONs on-board, depending on the requirements).

This year, FOX Sports and leading VR production and technology company Next VR

went to the races with high-end rigs to deliver live 360-degree VR video streaming of its NASCAR coverage to goggle-wearing guests at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. NextVR has a portfolio of patented technology to both capture and deliver live, long-form virtual reality content in stereoscopic broadcast quality. The firm has worked with the NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, U.S. Open, and it was on the pitch for the first-ever live VR broadcast from a major soccer tournament, the sold-out International Champions Cup match between Manchester United and FC Barcelona.

The match was shot for VR purposes from five premium vantage points on the field and live-streamed to fans, press and VIPs in attendance, along with select locations worldwide.

(At press time, highlights from the match were to be posted to NextVR’s website, for online viewing with any virtual reality device, including those from Oculus Rift, Sony Morpheus, Samsung GearVR, and HTC Vive. con’t September 2015

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For more about VR in professional sports coverage and feature documentary-making, please see stories posted online at Sportscastermagazine.ca, and published in Sportscaster’s sister publication, Broadcaster Magazine: NextVR Technology Delivers Live Virtual Reality Video Streaming http://www.sportscastermagazine.ca/?p=1003407232 FOX Sports and VR Off to the Races http://www.sportscastermagazine.ca/?p=1003406844 Reality Takes on New Shape with 360 Video Tools, Techniques http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/issues/ de.aspx?id=18143

Final check of the equipment before ‘video-athletes’ Caro North (D), Whit Magro (US) and Tony Brown (US) climbed El Capitan with multi-cam backpacks weighing 8 kg each.

(Photopress/Mammut)

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An international soccer match was shot for VR video from five pitchside vantage points, and live-streamed to headset wearing fans, press and VIPs in attendance and online.

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CCSA CONNECT

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FAIRMONT TREMBLANT, QUEBEC SEPT 20 - SEPT 22

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SATURDAY, September 19th 8:30 am − 4:00 pm

Board Meeting (CCSA Board Members) .................................................................................... Walbano

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Board Dinner (CCSA Board Members) .......................................................................................... Offsite

SUNDAY, September 20th 10:00 am − 5:00 pm

Registration ....................................................................................................................... Entrance Foyer

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Shareholders Meeting (CCSA Shareholders) .................................................Kamichat/Sasseville/Joseph

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Light Lunch (CCSA Members) ....................................................................Kamichat/Sasseville/Joseph

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Interactive Workshops and Sponsor Promos (CCSA Members) A Case Study: Packaging Strategies Interpretation of Talk TV Best Practices: Learning From Each Other The Connected Home

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Board Meeting (CCSA Board Members)............................................................................................. Walbano

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The Social (All Delegates) .................................................................................................................... La Forge Bar & Grill

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Board of Directors’ Hosted Dinner .............................................................................................Mali 3 & 4 Tuned In Canada Awards Ron James, Comedian

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RON JAMES Consistently hailed by critics from coast to coast, ...‘explosively funny’/Chronicle Herald)...‘the funniest man in Canada’/Victoria Times Colonist), award-winning comedian RON JAMES has been selling out theatres from ‘The Rock’ to ‘Lotus Land’ for 15 years, with his marathon, side-splitting, kinetically-charged performances.

Marshalling a comedian’s eye for satire and a writer’s ear for language, Ron takes his audience on a two hour, non-stop roller coaster ride, cutting a wide swath through contemporary culture with a razor sharp wit, uncompromising standards and a unique, poetically honed delivery. He has written and starred in six one hour comedy specials, (‘Up and Down in Shaky Town’, ‘The Road Between My Ears’/ ‘Quest for the West’/ ‘West Coast Wild’/ ‘Back Home’/ ‘Manitoba Bound’), several of which garnered nearly one million viewers on CBC in a coveted New Year’s Eve 9 p.m. time slot, receiving stellar critical acclaim in the process: ‘a comedic a tour de force’...(Globe & Mail/John Doyle).

After five seasons starring in the aptly named ‘THE RON JAMES SHOW’, for which he received a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award for ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Series,’ he filmed his seventh television comedy special, ‘The Big Picture’, before a sold out crowd at 1700 seat Fallsview Casino.

Unlike regional themes that dominated past specials, his latest projects moves full tilt cross a wider world of issues covering everything from social media, family, corporate spin, ISIS and beyond. Ron is currently in production on his eighth comedy special which will air on CBC December 31st, 2015.

Ron has won a Gemini Award writing for ‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes’; created and starred for two seasons in the TV series ‘BLACKFLY’; been voted ‘Comedian of the Year’ and received the ‘Dave Broadfoot Comedic Genius Award’ from the CCA’s for his impressive & inspiring body of work. Ron also received an honorary ‘Doctorate in Humanities’ from his Alma Mater, Acadia University earlier this year.

FRANCES X. FREI Frances Frei is the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Planning and Recruiting and UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Professor Frei focuses her research and teaching on helping leaders to compete on excellence by designing, managing, and scaling exceptional service organizations. She is the co-author of the bestselling book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press).

Professor Frei has also published countless articles on leadership, strategy and service design in Harvard Business Review, Management Science, and other top-tier business journals, including the classic article, The Four Things a Service Business Must Get Right (HBR, 2008) and the groundbreaking article, Stop Holding Yourself Back (HBR, 2011). In addition, she has published dozens of case studies across a variety of industries, including financial services, government, retail, software, telecommunications, and travel & leisure.

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Sportscasts and athlete training sessions are turned into immersive video experiences with graphic overlay and image manipulation programs from ChyronHego; its Coach Paint (in use at the Pac-12 Network) and Virtual 1st platforms both incorporate advanced telestration features.

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Virtual first down technology and “down and distance” broadcast graphics solutions designed specifically for football are well known TV production tools used to enhance live football game coverage.

They certainly allow presenters to quickly analyze game-play, but by harnessing the advanced telestration effects we’ve all seen on major sports broadcasts, the technology is also being used to bring a new dimension to athletic training.

ChyronHego’s Virtual 1st package combines video graphic overlays and sensorless camera technology so that virtual lines of scrimmage, first-down lines, and animated graphics to highlight down and distance can be inserted into live sports productions.

With its new immersive teaching tool called Coach Paint, those old drawing board X’s and O’s can be brought to life and used for training and practice in many different sports.

Users can create their own video clips and telestration effects to liven up cut-ups, show players important nuances of their on-field performance, and review game and practice footage using the system.

One of the early adopters of the new system is the Westlake Football Academy where the video telestration tool will help launch this fall’s inaugural tackle football season. WFA is a non-profit athletic training institute for youth, high school, and collegiate athletes, offering professionally coached programs for specific sports and general athletic development.

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...With the UPM-1, I can use the divergence control to either allow content to be steered to the center channel completely, or to take it out and move it to left, right, left surround and right surround channels...

Multi-Emmy Award winner for television sports audio Fred Aldous, Fox Sports Lead Sound Supervisor.

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First deployed by FOX Sports during its coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 tournament held across Canada this summer, TSL Products’ audio production gear is also being used to enhance its golf and NFL broadcasts.

The companies report that a TSL SoundField X-1 Upmix/Downmix Processor and a Soundfield UPM-1 Stereo to 5.1 Upmixer are now part of the audio production process at FOX Sports and have been installed on the GCV Encore OB Van. The FOX audio edict is that all dialog must stay in the centre channel only, described FOX Sports’ Emmy Award-winning audio mixer Fred Aldous.

But with many conventional upmixers, he described, a lot of content ends up going there, which results in a diluted dialog/announcer channel. “With the UPM-1, I can use the divergence control to either allow content to be steered to the center channel completely, or to take it out and move it to left, right, left surround and right surround channels,” Aldous noted.

Sound in sports programming includes studio and location dialog, added commentary, music, and crowd atmospherics, all of which can come in a wide variety of mono, stereo and 5.1 sources, and the sound supervisor’s job is to create an immersive, surround sound atmosphere while making sure the dialog is a clear and consistent part of the mix.

Aldous has been doing so as a top broadcast audio consultant and mixer for over 30 years, working on FOX Sports’ Super Bowls, NASCAR’s Daytona 500’s as well as several Olympics and the Women’s World Cup (working in Vancouver).

The UPM-1’s unique algorithms perform detailed real-time analysis of the stereo source material, identifying and separating the ambience from the direct sound. Mono sources are extracted from the stereo signal and fed to the centre channel and a good frontal stereo image is maintained by keeping the direct sound sources at the front. The UPM-1 then feeds the extracted natural ambience to the rear surround channels.

The X-1 is a 1U rackmount upmix and downmix processor in a box able to separate the dispersed stereo or dual mono crowd sounds using adjustable parameters to position the diffused sound into 5.1 image as desired.

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Freestyle Motocross Coverage a ‘Raging Success’ for Red Bull X-Fighters, Riedel With some 23,000 in the stands of Madrid’s Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas and many more watching on TV around the world, top professional freestylers on the Red Bull X-Fighters’ World Tour impressed fans with their high-flying motocross tricks.

Fans unable to attend the competition in Las Ventas were able to watch the event live on TV stations around the world, online at Red Bull TV, or on giant LED screens set up in the heart of Madrid.

TV production and event coverage was provided by German OB provider TVN, and real-time signal distribution and management platforms used in the global distribution efforts came from Riedel Communications and MediorNet, along with digital matrix intercom systems.

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TV coverage of high-energy Red Bull motocross cycling events are supported by real-time signal distribution and media management platforms from Riedel Communications and MediorNet, along with digital matrix intercom systems for crew and officials.

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during the recent competition in Toronto: “[We are] quite involved with the Games coverage here, and we are providing a lot of equipment and technology to ensure clear and versatile communications.”)

The MediorNet fibre net deployed in Spain by Riedel was used not only for transport of outbound video signals, but also to receive video from a CableCam that flew over the track and a Steadicam shooting at field level.

The fibre-based Riedel Artist digital intercom system let the Red Bull X-Fighters’ production team establish intercom connections and maintain complete live audio coverage with distances of up to 500 metres between two nodes. It ensured that the entire production staff, as well as security, medical, and technical operations, were in constant contact via 80 Motorola DP4400 radios. Riedel’s Performer Digital Partyline system was also used to deliver high-quality and secure communications for the judges and scorers.

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Thousands of fans show up at events like the Legends Championships in Los Angeles to cheer their favourite gaming teams to victory; millions more watch online, driving growth in gaming, eSports and telecom data consumption.

Barnfind Media Platforms Rep’ped in Canada; Playing Games in L.A. Multi-functional media transport platforms from Barnfind Technologies are being supported from the company’s new North American offices in the U.S., and represented by broadcast equipment dealers and integrators like Toronto’s Applied Technologies.

Its BarnOne transport platform is used in broadcast applications and corporate environments, but the company is also now playing in the expanding new world of eSports gaming.

In fact, BarnOne was selected as the fibre optic transport platform for a new 250,000 square foot gaming and media production facility, where the system has been put to use delivering activities from the Los Angeles Battle Arena to millions of viewers worldwide.

Multiplayer online gaming programs such as this have

drawn more than 65 million international players per month, and some five million players are online at any given moment.

Games are streamed live, so the new system had to provide transport for 24 channels of various digital coax signals, including ASI, SDI, AES, and MADI in any combination, and four channels of analog coax signals, including video, time code and word clock in any combination, point-to-point over 28 single mode fibres.

The expandable system currently consists of four 1RU rack mount frames; one set of BarnOne BTF1-02 and BTF1-06 models are located in a central equipment room, while a mirror image configuration is in a secondary room.

The BTF1-02 units features 16 BNC connectors, 16 open SFP ports with an internal 32x32 signal agnostic multi-rate reclocking router. Each BTF1-02 frame is populated with 16 Fibre Optic Transceiver SFP+ modules. The BTF1-06 frames comprise 8 BNC connectors, 24 open SFP ports with an internal 32x32 signal agnostic multi-rate reclocking router. Each BTF1-06 frame is populated with 4 analog coax SFP+ modules and 12 Fibre Optic Transceiver SFP+ modules.

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