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.
Other products from this company:
MIMiC
The Switch IP Video Transport
The Switch Live Video Streaming
The Switch Mobile Production
The Switch Remote Production
The Switch Satellite
The Switch Studios
The Switch Transmission
MIMiC
Whether it’s a slate of games for a major sports league, a regional athletic meet, an international esports competition, a targeted enterprise announcement, or any other live or virtual event, The Switch has production services to suit every organization’s needs. Our cloud-based platform, MIMiC, is an on-demand, production-as-a-service offering that includes remote IP-video contribution, production and clipping tools, and distribution. It empowers you to cost-effectively ensure broadcast quality production to and from anywhere in the world.
MIMiC handles all aspects of the production workflow in the cloud, from editing and graphics creation to comms and talk-back. It gives content producers the choice of using their own production crew or relying on The Switch to provide a full complement of experienced operators who know how to deliver award-winning programming. For a mainstream TV sporting event, for instance, rights holders can tap our full remote production service to produce the main game, while leveraging MIMiC to produce the shoulder programming, social media streams and individualized “player-cam” feeds. Plus, it offers the perfect set-up to produce esports tournaments, either stadium-based or virtual.
MIMiC is also ideal for both live and virtual enterprise events. It offers a flexible and scalable way to run everything from customer conferences and product launches to all-hands meetings and press briefings. MIMiC allows you to produce content in any time zone, localize the feed and address specific segments individually.
In enabling true cloud-based production, MIMiC gives producers of events of every size and type unmatched agility. It enables you to streamline workflows to get the most out of each production and better engage audiences. MIMiC complements the existing remote production services The Switch helped pioneer, letting rights holders, enterprises and other content producers choose the level of service they need.
The Switch IP Video Transport
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.
The Switch Live Video Streaming
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.
The Switch Mobile Production
The Switch has vast experience of getting live sports and entertainment content from any location to viewers around the world. We have first-mile connectivity in every major stadium, soundstage and venue in North America and are connected to leading international sports and entertainment venues around the globe.
We know how to keep live feeds running smoothly from stadium to screen – even from locations without a full-time fiber connection. Our experience handling the world’s leading sports and live events means we have the best contacts in the business, who know how to get the job done.
From connectivity and OB trucks to providing highly trained technical crew, directors and operators, The Switch can handle any aspect of your mobile production to provide high production values from start to finish.
We ensure that, once produced, your content reaches viewers without delay. The Switch sets the industry benchmark for high-quality video transport, backed by the technical know-how you need to support events of all sizes, regardless of location.
The Switch Remote Production
Live TV events, especially sports, generate unrivalled buzz and excitement among viewers the world over, but live event production is no small undertaking. Remote production offers a smart, flexible model for success in the globalized world of live content, where surging audiences for niche sports, esports and unique entertainment are driving even more demand. The Switch’s remote production services enable broadcasters and other rights holders to continue meeting consumers’ seemingly insatiable thirst for high quality live content while maximizing resources.
The Switch has pioneered remote production for three decades and our Emmy Award-winning team has played a leading role in bringing premier sports to life for major networks and leagues. We know how to put together top-caliber productions and determine what our customers need so they can deliver the best content to viewers around the world.
With The Switch, producing content more efficiently and cost effectively – without compromising quality – is simple. Our end-to-end event production and packaging capabilities scale to meet the needs of a single event or multiple productions. As a home away from home, we support dynamic live sports, news, entertainment and event production in locations across the globe, removing the need for large amounts of equipment and big production crews on site.
With links to every major sports stadium in North America and connections to the leading international sports and entertainment venues around the world, The Switch has you covered from stadium to studio to any screen. Many of the biggest names in sports and entertainment rely on our production services and facilities to create and deliver the world’s major live events.
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The Switch Satellite
Global audiences today demand access to everything from corporate events to esports tournaments, so getting content to any location without delay or compromise to quality is critical. We are trusted by the biggest names in the enterprise and media world to ensure their stakeholders receive first-class content every time.
Whether for regular daily or weekly feeds or ad-hoc events, The Switch can aggregate content from satellite feeds with unlimited downlinks to our network from satellites with footprints covering Los Angeles, London and Singapore.
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The Switch Studios
Our operations are located in the world’s foremost media centers – Los Angeles, Burbank, New York and London – ensuring you tap into the best pool of directors, creatives and technical crew anywhere.
The Switch has everything you need to create and deliver high quality content from locations across the globe. Our nine full-service broadcast studios and our soundstages can be connected to any location for media tours, product staging, VO, demos, live inserts and multiple language versioning.
Available as a wet or dry hire, each studio comes complete with cameras, audio capability, lighting, teleprompters, backgrounds and green screen
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The Switch Transmission
NOCS AND SERVICE LOCATIONS
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.
ACCESS AND CONTROL
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.
CIRCUITS
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.
FIBER
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
ETHERNET
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.
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INTRAPLEX® IPCONNECT
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Note: Depending on the nature of your PoE supply, it may be necessary to earth the unit using the rear panel earth tag to maximise audio performance.
All Sonifex DIO interfaces provide a simple, convenient, and elegant plug and play method of connecting legacy analogue and digital audio equipment to the Dante AoIP audio network.
The A/D and D/A circuitry offers 114dB(*) of dynamic range - ten times better than similar competing products. All DIO products use Dante Controller for configuration and are powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet). They use rugged aluminium boxes with side slots for screw-mounting and contain superior audio circuitry for optimal audio performance. All feature rugged Neutrik EtherCon® connectors and Neutrik lockable audio connectors for ultra-reliable connectivity.
* Note: Because the inputs & outputs of this device are unbalanced, performance is 6dB lower than for balanced AVN-DIO products.
- 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).
AVN-DIO02 Analogue XLR Stereo Input to Dante®
All Sonifex DIO interfaces provide a simple, convenient, and elegant plug and play method of connecting legacy analogue and digital audio equipment to the Dante AoIP audio network.
The A/D and D/A circuitry offers 120dB of dynamic range - ten times better than similar competing products. All DIO products use Dante Controller for configuration and are powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet). They use rugged aluminium boxes with side slots for screw-mounting and contain superior audio circuitry for optimal audio performance. All feature rugged Neutrik EtherCon® connectors and Neutrik lockable audio connectors for ultra-reliable connectivity.
- 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).
OpsNGN
OpsNGN is the natural evolution of Dimetis BOSS LINK Manager™ (end-to-end hardware-agnostic configuration system) and fully integrates with existing OSS/BSS systems and other orchestrators. OpsNGN provides a 3-layer orchestration approach:
1. Application Orchestration — Coupling between legacy OSS environments and Dimetis OpsNGN to federate all network and service data required for composing network and service configurations without a lengthy and expensive systems integration approach. 2. Service Orchestration — Delivers a seamless end-to-end configuration of services over multi-layer, multi-domain, heterogeneous network infrastructures.
3. Network Orchestration — Allows for highly scalable, parallel network configuration transaction operations for maintaining the network.
Dynamic Inventory Inventory integrity is at the very core of a successful migration to virtualized networks. Using Dimetis’s year’s of experience in inventory discovery technology, OpsNGN has been developed to provide real-time and stateful resource management to reconcile the “as-built” with the “as-designed” network and service inventory.
ETSI Management and Orchestration (MANO) Reference Model OpsNGN has incorporated the ETSI MANO model into the next gen OSS platform to manage NFV Orchestrator, VNF Manager(s), EMS functionality and integration to exposed VNFs. • Service aware across VIM and PIM domains • Automated context-aware scripting for faster service delivery • Supports for vCPE, SD-WAN, EVPN, dynamic service assurance and analytics
AVN-DIO09 Microphone Input to Dante®
All Sonifex DIO interfaces provide a simple, convenient, and elegant plug and play method of connecting legacy analogue and digital audio equipment to the Dante AoIP audio network.
All DIO products use Dante Controller for configuration and are powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet). They use rugged aluminium boxes with side slots for screw-mounting and contain superior audio circuitry for optimal audio performance. All feature rugged Neutrik EtherCon® connectors and Neutrik lockable audio connectors for ultra-reliable connectivity.
The AVN-DIO09 has coarse and fine mic gain with the coarse gain set using a toggle switch, providing 20dB/50dB of gain, and the fine gain set using a trimmer adjustment tool, or small flat blade screwdriver, adding between 0dB and 36dB of additional gain. An on/off toggle switch turns the high pass filter on or off and when enabled, it acts on frequencies below 125Hz at a rolloff of 6dB/octave.
Phantom power is enabled/disabled via a toggle switch on the front panel and when enabled, a 48V DC supply is provided to power an appropriate microphone. A red LED illuminates to show when phantom is enabled.
A front panel audio level LED helps to set the gain and shows the audio level being sent to the Dante network.
Note: If using a phantom powered microphone, it may be necessary to earth the unit using the rear panel earth tag to eliminate mains hum, depending on the nature of your PoE supply.
- 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).
Limelight Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Our content delivery network features one of the highest cache hit ratios in the industry, solid-state drive (SSD) storage, hundreds of Points of Presence strategically enabled around the world. We provide 80+ Tbps capacity and a 100GbE private fiber backbone that is connected to more than 1,000 ISP and last-mile networks, ensuring a better experience for your customers.
Limelight Content Delivery Services
By positioning website content in edge caches, leveraging last mile acceleration, customizing requests and responses, and ensuring appropriate and secure access, Limelight ensures content can be quickly delivered, anywhere, anytime, with the quality of experience your audience expects.
AVN-DIO03 Dante to Headphone Outputs (1/4” & 3.5mm Jacks) With Volume Control & Limiter
The front panel potentiometer adjusts headphone volume from mute (fully anticlockwise) to +6dB of gain when fully clockwise. This is useful if the Dante stream level is low and requires boosting.
A simple headphone limiter is included to prevent hearing damage by limiting the audio level sent to the headphones. The limit level can be set using a trimmer adjustment tool, or small flat blade screwdriver, between approximately -12dBu (fully anticlockwise) and 0dBu (fully clockwise).
When limiting, the blue limit LED illuminates. This should prompt you to turn the headphone volume down until the blue LED extinguishes, as audio quality will be reduced whilst the limiter is active.
All Sonifex DIO interfaces provide a simple, convenient, and elegant plug and play method of connecting legacy analogue and digital audio equipment to the Dante AoIP audio network.
The A/D and D/A circuitry offers 120dB of dynamic range - ten times better than similar competing products. All DIO products use Dante Controller for configuration and are powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet). They use rugged aluminium boxes with side slots for screw-mounting and contain superior audio circuitry for optimal audio performance. All feature rugged Neutrik EtherCon® connectors and Neutrik lockable audio connectors for ultra-reliable connectivity.
* Note: Because the headphone output of this device is unbalanced, performance is 6dB lower than for balanced AVN-DIO products.
- 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).
The Switch IP Video Transport
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.
The Switch Live Video Streaming
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.
The Switch Transmission
NOCS AND SERVICE LOCATIONS
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.
ACCESS AND CONTROL
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.
CIRCUITS
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.
FIBER
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
ETHERNET
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.
AVN-DIO01 Dante to Analogue XLR Stereo Output
All Sonifex DIO interfaces provide a simple, convenient, and elegant plug and play method of connecting legacy analogue and digital audio equipment to the Dante AoIP audio network.
The A/D and D/A circuitry offers 120dB of dynamic range - ten times better than similar competing products. All DIO products use Dante Controller for configuration and are powered by PoE (Power over Ethernet). They use rugged aluminium boxes with side slots for screw-mounting and contain superior audio circuitry for optimal audio performance. All feature rugged Neutrik EtherCon® connectors and Neutrik lockable audio connectors for ultra-reliable connectivity.
- 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).
ANEMAN Enterprise
Merging Technologies can offer network and integration design, custom developments for specific widgets and workflows and custom development of ANEMAN to include additional devices, company personalisation and discovery protocols. The company is very open to suggestions and specific user requests.
IP Transit (IPT)
Global Media Network
Media Connect, Video Connect, Internet, Ethernet, Private Links
Global Tier 1 Transit
Cloud Networking
- Performance
- Reduce latency & jitter by up to 40% during peak periods (vs. public Internet)
- Zero packet loss
- High availability
Connectivity
- Quickly build hybrid-or multi-cloud environments to meet business needs
- Directly connect to public clouds and SaaS
Elasticity
- Scale up or down depending on demand
- Choose from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps
Telstra Global Media Network
The Telstra Global Media Network is a purpose-built video contribution and distribution network integrating underlying media fibre networks, satellite capabilities, and partnerships, connecting 2500+ OnNet endpoint, including 1000+ customer sites and more than 1500 venues and stadiums. The addition of a new secure cloud gateway to and from the network will allow high-quality video transport to and from markets with little to no infrastructure, as well as incident prone areas.
Digital Video Network
Next Generation Linear Distribution
Platforms
- Customise hybrid networks to meet future possibilities
- Telstra Global Media Network
- Confidently deliver content point-to-point and point-to-multipoint up to 2500+ on-net global endpoints via owned and partnered networks, 1000+ customer sites and 1500+ venues and stadiums across the globe
- GMN Express
- Access content on a secure gateway from on-net media rights holders to off-net media buyers by transporting high-quality linear video using cloud infrastructure in a via contented networks with varied levels of content management and quality assurance
- Media Satellite Networks
- Transport content anywhere in the world through satellite partnerships and Telstra owned and operated teleports strategically positioned to access geostationary satellites (35,000 kms above earth) that reach the entire earth's surface
- Telecommunications Network
- Deliver convergent operations smoothly with proven resiliency and true end-to-end network diversity with no single point of failure via self-healing long-haul fibre networks ensuring fast protection in case of emergencies.
- Telstra Global Media Network
Features and Benefits
- Design a network with the best features to meet business needs
- Tiered SLA
- Scale up and down service assurance and management to meet media buyer's Service Level Agreements
- Advancing networks
- Our network technology continuously advances and new partners join the Telstra Global Media Network Partner Alliance to extend reach
- Premium support
- Around the clock, Level 1 support from broadcast engineers in global Master Control Rooms and Broadcast Operations Centres
- Minimised vendors
- End-to-end service from quote, through provisions to billing
- Co-location
- Host your content in our secure data centres to cross-connect with other hosted providers
- Tiered SLA
International Remote Production
High speed transport for high density remote production
- Scalable bandwidth at speed
- Ability to scale our network to cater for increasing service bandwidth and line requirements with services ranging from 10Mbps to 100 Mbps, 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps, and 10 Gbps to 200 Gbps
- High quality network delivery
- We have confidence in our network to deliver content with low delay, low jitter, and low render
- Simplification and aggregation of multiple tech
- Technologies such as Ethernet, SDH, Fibre Channel, and formats such as DVB ASI and HDSDI can be transported over the same wavelength whilst retaining their inherent technology characteristics
- Compression options
- Capable of both compressed and mezzanine style compression using light or low compression to meet business requirements, such as Tiny COdec (TICO), Uncompressed, and VC-2 Compression
Solutions
- Reduced business and the environmental impacts
- Deliver multiple outputs for same cost
- Access to all camera in production hub multiple channels or feeds can be delivered without further infrastructure
- Capex reduction
- Removes cost for onsite production facilities and increases productivity by enabling personnel to work on multiple events in a centralised location
- Reduced environmental impact
- Reduction of fossil fuels by minimising travel of staff and equipment to event sites.
- Deliver multiple outputs for same cost
Occasional Use
When news and sport need to reach audiences across the world, trust a 24/7 occasional use service to deliver your content on time. Telstra Broadcast Services' Occasional Use has dedicated teams of broadcast specialists who work closely with you to schedule, scope, manage and ensure delivery of your occasional use content, all with 24/7 support. Delivering over 20,000 ad hoc event booking annually, media companies trust out network blend for delivery.
Ideal for producers, broadcasters, and operational teams who book directly with the 24/7 Telstra Broadcast Services Bookings Team and know exactly what they want and when they want. The process is simple to use and very flexible in dealing with last minute needs.
Features
- 24/7 Broadcast Operations
- Occasional Use bookings are managed in Telstra's own and trusted partners' Broadcast Operations Centres and Master Control Rooms in Asia Pacific, Americas and Europe
- Dedicated Bookings Team
- Ensuring your content is delivered cost effectively from the source to destination using industry standard booking systems
- Quickest delivery path
- Deliver content using the best path to meet timely demands
Major Events and Tours
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
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