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AUDINATE audinate.com/dante-av operations. In one of the largest Cerebrum projects to date, the new system will enable Canal+ to UPGRADING A MEDIA IP INFRASTRUCTURE French broadcaster Canal+ has done a major overhaul of its in-house master control and transmission playout workflows. Vivendi-owned Canal+ is one of the first customers to implement an infrastructure solution by live video tech provider EVS since it acquired media network infrastructure specialist Axon in May. Canal+ will use EVS’s Cerebrum broadcast control and monitoring system to centralise and streamline its broadcast IMPLEMENTING DANTE AV Another business update comes from Audinate, developers of the Dante AV networking solution. It has announced a new authorised implementer programme for manufacturers who are looking to fast-track the development of new Dante AV products. The programme is ideal for manufacturers seeking to add Dante AV-based products as quickly and efficiently as possible. It gives manufacturers access to turnkey ODM products such as full-featured PTZ cameras and receive/transmit AV-over-IP video endpoints that can be ‘white-labelled’ with their brand. Manufacturers will also get expertise in developing new video products,
upgrade its legacy technology and improve its production workflows. The French broadcaster realised there was a need to upgrade and automate its existing operations with a centralised and unified broadcast control system. The new solution will automate and simplify workflows enabling a cost reduction while also improving the quality and reliability of operations. With Cerebrum, Canal+ will have the flexibility to control both legacy SDI products and modern IP equipment. For this project, EVS also developed a new licence option for Cerebrum called CRBM Scheduler, which provides Canal+ with a bespoke timeline for its scheduled events.
IMAGINE COMMUNICATIONS imaginecommunications.com
BIG PLAYOUT SCALING DOWN UNDER
Imagine Communications recently completed the second stage of an extensive, phased update of Australia’s National Playout Centre (NPC).
When Nine Network established the National Playout Centre in Sydney in 2012, the facility served 18 regional channels across the country. The venture between Nine and Seven (NPC Media) kicked off a scale-up of the playout centre, with the ultimate goal of transforming the single-station facility into an IP-based, multi-tenanted managed media services provider. NPC Media implemented an end-to-end broadcast playout chain – from a common ingest platform to software-based channel origination – based on Imagine’s Versio modular playout product suite. The first phase incorporated Seven’s key broadcast operations into the NPC. The second expanded the centre to provide playout services for Southern Cross Austereo (SCA), which broadcasts 106 television signals. The SCA channels went live from the NPC in April 2020. Today, the NPC supports more than 211 live terrestrial TV channels, and another 392 pass-through multiplexed channels. Watch Imagine experts share best practices for scaling playout operations here: myimagine.tech/ PlayoutTales
such as hardware design, software design development, supply chain management and regulatory compliance. For ODMs, the program provides access to the resources of the Dante product design suite, enabling them to build products on behalf of OEMs. Audinate have announced Patton Electronics and Bolin Technology as the first
authorised implementers for manufacturers looking to utilise Dante AV when creating products.
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