The Switch IP Video Transport

From Grand Slams to World Cups, to international events that happen every 4 years, major events and tours showcase the world's best athletes competing for personal and team achievement along with the love of the sporting fans.

To deliver a top tier major event, a company must have the right blend of resources that are global, flexible, customisable, readily available, and reliable.

Telstra Broadcast Services' Major Events and Tours managed service offering delivers end to end broadcast media and carriage operation customised with telecommunications, Live OTT, Broadcast and Media services to ensure a timely and premium experience that is sure to be a home run!

Features and Benefits

• 100GBps Media backbone
  
  
  
  • Bandwidths up to 100Gbps can simultaneously deliver up to 8 uncompressed ultra-high definition (UHD) 4k video feeds (12Gbps average)
  
  
  
  


• Customisable network with reach
  
  
  
  • Telstra owns and has vested interest in one of the largest subsea fibre networks - 400,000 kms - throughout the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans
  
  
  
  


• True convergent expertise and solutions
  
  
  
  • Build on Telstra's telco broadcast and internet capabilities to craft viable and economic solutions, including true remote production
  
  
  
  


• Global Field and Broadcast Operations
  
  
  
  • Broadcast experts on the ground, in Master Control Rooms and Broadcast Operation Centres across the globe to manage and monitor delivery to meet SLAs
  
  
  
  


• Access into China and throughout Asia
  
  
  
  • Telstra is the first foreign company licensed to provide connectivity and network services onto mainland China with POPs for media delivery
  
  
  
  

Solutions

• Hybrid Media
  
  
  
  • Allow our experts to curate a solution accessing Telstra's full media network suite, including fibre, satellite, IP, and cloud connectivity
  
  
  
  


• International Remote Production
  
  
  
  • Produce multiple global events simultaneously by delivering content up to 100GBps from source via a high-speed network to centralised locations
  
  
  
  


• Satellite Only
  
  
  
  • Choose a satellite network with strategically placed teleports in Asia Pacific and partnership that can access the entire earth surface
  
  
  
  


• Telecommunications Network
  
  
  
  • Seamlessly integrate between a full range of telecommunication, video, internet and data services bundled together
  
  
  
  

The Magellan™ SDN Orchestrator (SDNO) is a proven software control solution deployed in multiple installations worldwide. It delivers full support for SMPTE ST 2110 and ST 2022-6, plus the most comprehensive list of third-party IP endpoints via native APIs and open protocols, making it ideal to orchestrate complete live production and playout operations.

Magellan Live Manager is an integrated management environment across various Imagine products. Operating hand in hand with Magellan SDNO, LM consists of "LM-Apps" including PathView and AlarmView, which provide high-value user interaction and information

Vena, our smart broadcast network, is set to transform your business by intelligently connecting your media supply chain. From contribution to distribution, Vena gives you control and visibility. Any-time changes, real-time tracking, unrivalled availability, and 24/7 access, all making it quicker and easier to deliver your content.

More versatile

You can select, configure and book temporary on-demand and permanent services quickly. Adding and removing services as you need them for greater control.

More efficient

Enjoy complete, end-to-end control at your fingertips, automate your workflows, and create role-based rules.

More in control

You can see your network usage and capacity across real-world maps in order to schedule bookings and make business decisions in real-time.

Whether for real-time or on-demand consumption, streaming your live events to consumer video platforms requires failsafe connectivity and broadcast quality. From major sports fixtures and esports tournaments to red carpet interviews and corporate press events, The Switch is always there to turn on your coverage.

In a multiscreen, internet-enabled entertainment world, video feeds must deliver the same reliability and quality for online streaming and social platforms as they do for traditional linear broadcast. In transporting your produced feed – or multiple feeds from an array of venues – via fiber or satellite, we take the same best-in-class approach that we do with the world’s biggest TV broadcasters. You get the established professionalism and back-up you need to ensure that, whatever the complexities involved in livestreaming an event, you have The Switch’s knowledgeable engineers on hand. Plus, we have you covered on all IP transport formats, whether that’s HLS, DASH, RTMP or an alternative. We also support livestreaming via Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and other CDNs.

Taking your feed from venue to viewer is made easier and safer than ever when you trust The Switch to support your live video streaming. You can depend on The Switch’s longstanding reputation for rock-solid reliability as we work hand-in-hand with you to ensure your streaming concepts become a reality. That’s why we are the delivery partner of choice for many of the world’s leading content platforms.

Deploy and manage complex video with Caton Relay Server

Caton Relay Server is a TS streams management platform that manages your input streams and relays them seamlessly to multiple locations and devices, while monitoring the status of the stream transport.

Caton Transport Protocol (CTP) multipathing is an enhanced feature for the Caton Relay Server. The CRS can now set up 8 x 8 network connections with up to 64 paths for a single transmission. The intelligence of CTP multipathing with traffic shaping capabilities improves the resilience of the transmission over the public internet, even in the most challenging network conditions. In addition, the CRS customises and prioritises the network for different streams based on business needs like priority of service and costing. The newly introduced auto-failover feature within the CRS automatically switches from the primary CRS to the backup CRS in the event of a breakdown. Thus eliminating the need for physical intervention by the network engineer, resulting in a reduced downtime and support resources.

Supporting major industry standards protocols (including CTP and SRT) and with native support for CatonNet Video Platform (CVP), the Caton Relay Server is designed to handle complicated video routing, real-time status, built-in TS analyzers, and stream-level monitoring alert that provides constant information about bandwidth, jitter, up-time and connection status for network operators.

• High quality up to 4K 60p 4:2:2


• Switchable between encoder and decoder function


• Reliable & Secure IP transmission with CTP


• Easy management and monitoring

Using Internet Protocols to transport video from stadium to studio is one of the most efficient and cost-effective means of connectivity today. And with The Switch’s global footprint, and quality-first approach, the delivery of your content won’t be compromised.

For the acquisition and contribution of IP video feeds to your production facility, we draw on our first-mile experience and best-in-class IP innovations to give you access no matter what. Our experienced engineers make sure that regardless of where your event takes place, your feed is seamless and surefire. We support all major IP Transport protocols, including SRT, BRT, ZIXI, RTP w/FEC, and others.

Using internet connections and leading IP video protocols, we send high-quality signals from difficult-to-connect venues or remote sites to your control room or cloud destination. We provide the on and off ramps to and from the cloud, from The Switch’s first-in-class closed DTM network – transporting live feeds to broadcasters, streaming services and the cloud from areas with a low fiber footprint.

In an increasingly complex media marketplace, The Switch makes it simple. We enable you to deliver your live content, whether for a TV network, online video platform, social media platform, website, cloud service – or all of the above – offering the know-how, world-class equipment, safe hands, scalability, back-up and great service you need. From the broadcast giant to the online disruptor, we ensure you can switch on your content from anywhere.

We get your live content to distribution outlets around the world. Our three 24/7 Network Operation Centers (NOCs) in New York, Los Angeles and London are equipped with network management, video monitoring and powerful conversion capability.

Wherever you need to be, The Switch can be there. Our network can be accessed from anywhere in the world using a broadband connection. Configurable ports adapt to customer requirements and are monitored and managed from NOCs, whether full-time or for non-recurring and special event applications.

The Switch gives you the reach. Our video circuits are located across 45 US states, The District of Columbia and Canada. Globally, our network also spans Europe and Asia Pacific, including the UK, France, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand – with partners around the world extending our reach in other key markets, such as Germany, Italy, Turkey, China and Japan.

At the core of The Switch network is our local and long-haul fiber transport service. We provide high-availability, high-capacity first mile connectivity to every professional sports venue, and many special event venues, across the United States and more than 50 points of presence across the globe.  Our unparalleled reliability and high network redundancy combine with virtually unlimited bandwidth at the venues and metro markets for outstanding connectivity. Cost predictability is built in with:

• unlimited local switching for a flat fee


• low per-minute transmission rates based on actual usage


• no minimum transmission times


• on-demand and scheduled transmission


• no cancellation penalties

The Switch keeps you connected. Our high quality, low latency Ethernet circuits are accessible from any event location. We also deliver a full complement of services, from FTP to voice to internet access, freeing customers from relying on the venue for access to the web.

Caton Media XStream™ stands at the forefront of innovation as a cloud-native service, harnessing the power of AI-based intelligent routing, auto recovery and real-time sensing to ensure crystal-clear IP transmissions with extreme reliability over the public internet.

Anchored by the robust Caton Cloud network, this trailblazing content delivery service guarantees an unparalleled eXperience Level Agreement (XLA) for real-time streaming, expertly mitigating any risks of failure during IP broadcast streams over the public internet.

Perfectly tailored for live sporting events, captivating live performances, and immersive interactive experiences in the metaverse, Media XStream™ is the ultimate solution for broadcasters and content providers seeking a seamless, cutting-edge streaming experience that transcends expectations.

Available for CPU or GPU, implementing the newJPEG-XS standardand many more features, the intoPIX FastTICO-XS SDKs provide the highest quality, lowest latency, visually lossless codec for the optimization of your application. FastTICO-XS SDKs are perfect for all professionals looking to deploy ultra-low latency, lossless encoding over their whole infrastructure and workflows.

Quality & latency

• Best-in-class visually lossless video codec , compliant with JPEG XS


• Adjustable compression ratio (on frame by frame) with constant bitrate throughput (CBR)


• From Lossless down to near-lossless / visually lossless


• Ultra-low latency capability (down to only few lines in CPU) with an optimal API


• Optimized for real-time operations

Processors (CPU / GPU)

• Highly parallelized processing in encode/decode


• x86-64 Intel / AMD CPU   (SSE 4.1, AVX2 or newer) in CPU


• Nvidia GPU (CUDA)

Image formats & frame rates

• Supports monochrome (4:0:0, Alpha) up to 16bit,


• Support 4:2:2  and 4:4:4 8/10/12 bit


• Validated up 8K UHDTV-1 (8192)


• Frame rate depends on CPU/GPU performance & SDK packages

Compression

• Compliant with JPEG XS standard & profiles


• Additional advanced features by intoPIX improving performances & quality.

Rate control

• Adjustable compression rate


• Constant (predictable) bitrate (CBR)

• Windows & Linux (32-bit/64-bit) + macOS (64 bit)

Add-ons

• Embedded Downscaler Add-On: Proxy x1 & x2 decoding (ie. decode directly HD resolution or 4K resolution from  8K XS-compressed video stream)  and reduce your CPU or GPU load. 


• FFmpeg Add-On : connect directly the intoPIX SDK to FFmpeg


• Insertion/Extraction of Color Specification box / Video Support box from JPEG-XS part 3


• SDI Mapping Add-On: enables users to map 4K/8K effciently over existing 3G/HD-SDI cables. This unique feature reformats the XS codestream to fully map the SDI active area avoiding the forbidden EAV/SAV codes, offering a 20% gain of compression/quality performances.

• Performance


• Reduce latency & jitter by up to 40% during peak periods (vs. public Internet)


• Zero packet loss


• High availability

• Quickly build hybrid-or multi-cloud environments to meet business needs


• Directly connect to public clouds and SaaS

• Scale up or down depending on demand


• Choose from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps

• 1 x balanced microphone input on XLR socket with latch lock.


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Single turn pot setting fine mic gain (0dB – 36dB).


• Coarse mic gain switch (+20db/+50dB).


• High pass filter on/off switch.


• Phantom power on/off switch.


• Phantom power LED indicator.


• Level LED indicator.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range A/D conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

• 2 x balanced XLR analogue outputs.


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range D/A conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

• 12 x terminal block connections (balanced stereo inputs and outputs).


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES 67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range D/A and A/D conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

• 2 x balanced XLR analogue inputs.


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range A/D conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

EdgeFunctions simplifies development and reduces time to production for streaming video and content delivery use cases.

Limelight EdgeFunctions is a serverless compute platform that automatically makes your code available to many edge locations around the world, executes at the network edge close to your users to ensure the lowest latency, and scales to meet demand. EdgeFunctions is ideal for customers needing to implement streaming video and content delivery use cases such as personalized streaming, access control, dynamic ad insertion, A/B testing, image manipulation, and more. It is tightly integrated with one of the world’s highest-performing video and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). EdgeFunctions gives developers tools to boost performance, customize workflows, and scale rapidly while only paying for resources used.

With EdgeFunctions, developers are able to run their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, simplifying development, and reducing time to production. It enables developers to concentrate on what they are good at: coding!

• 1/4-inch and 3.5mm jack analogue headphone outputs.


• Headphones volume control.


• Limiter on/off, threshold control and LED indicator.


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES 67 compatible.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range D/A conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

• 2 x analogue phono-type inputs.


• 2 x analogue phono-type outputs.


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range D/A and A/D conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

• 6 x terminal block connections (balanced stereo inputs and outputs).


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

• 1 x stereo AES-3id BNC input.


• 1 x stereo AES-3id BNC output.


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).

• 1 x stereo AES3 XLR input.


• 1 x stereo AES3 XLR output.


• Neutrik EtherCon® Ethernet connection.


• Fully Dante compliant device.


• AES67 compatible.


• Dante Domain Manager compliant.


• Ultra-high quality, wide dynamic range conversion.


• Powered via PoE (Power over Ethernet).