About Live Sports Production

This series is based on a set of interviews with six individuals who are senior system architects within three of the most respected organizations in broadcast: Broadcast Solutions, Diversified and NEP. We cannot thank these individuals enough for giving us their time and sharing their immense wisdom and experience in the delicate art of designing and deploying broadcast production infrastructure. These interviews spanned many aspects of live sports production and their comments will be serialized across this whole series.  

One of the most fascinating aspects of discussing where the industry is in its technological and workflow evolution is that there is no one single answer to most of the key talking points – each of the organizations supports a diverse portfolio of clients across a range of geographical locations – and the approach taken is always carefully tailored to specific rights holder and broadcaster requirements.  

As we get into our conversation, it is important to understand that we have three quite different businesses represented; Broadcast Solutions build OB Vehicles and do Systems Integration primarily in Europe and the Middle East, NEP are a global production Service Provider, Diversified Systems is a Systems Integrator with the  representative taking part here based in the USA.  

Bear in mind the obvious differences between designing and building individual systems for others to use and NEP’s capacity to build systems at scale for their own teams to use.

Live Sports Production will publish in four parts. Details of all four parts can be found HERE.

About Part 2 - Network Infrastructure

Part 2 is a free PDF download which contains five original articles:

Article 1 : Sports Production Network Infrastructure
A discussion of production network infrastructure and where the industry is in the evolutionary journey from SDI to IP.

Article 2 : VX - The Software Gateway To Compute Infrastructure
Why Appear’s new VX software is the vital next evolutionary step for remote contribution and content distribution in software first, private or public ‘cloud’ infrastructure.

Article 3 : Broadcast Controllers, Orchestration & Monitoring
As production infrastructure, processing resources and the underlying networks required become ever more complex, powerful tools are required to plan, deploy and monitor.

Article 4 : Everything In Its Place: How Scotiabank Arena Elevated Its Games With Riedel’s Mediornet
Discover how Riedel’s TDM-based mesh network delivers the benefits of a distributed IP architecture with the operational simplicity of SDI in this in-depth case study.

Article 5 : Backhaul In Live Sports Production
Getting content reliably and securely from venue to studio remains key to live sports production so here we discuss the technology and services required.