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The Edge network scales with the audience. The more people that stream concurrently, or the higher the average bitrate requested by a consistently sized audience, the more capacity the Edge network needs. Achieving best possible efficiency at the Edge requires intelligently managing content and performance monitoring, tuning the infrastructure specifically for video, and correctly locating the video delivery capacity.
_operating_on_Court_18_460_207_70.jpeg "Leanne Lewis operating an NEP/Sony UHD camera on Court 18 at this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament.")
This year’s coverage of the 2023 Wimbledon tennis tournament is the biggest and most comprehensive production ever for the event, starting with the hundreds of technical crew working on it.
NEP Group continues to expand its global production services with the opening of a new broadcast production facility in the northeast of Singapore that will help the company’s Singapore business unit meet demand for connected broadcast production solutions in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Recognizing that a 53-foot expanding mobile unit is often out of reach financially for many tier 2 sporting events - e.g., women’s college volleyball or professional pickleball - production companies that offer such high-end resources are expanding their horizons with lower cost, highly portable and as-needed options that fit the bill.
In the Spring of 2019, Jean Vanbraekel, Head of Operations and Distribution for RTBF, was tasked with helping to move the French-speaking public broadcaster into the IP age and he was nervous. Not because he thought it couldn’t be done, but because the required production equipment was not fully tested (or didn’t exist at all). Most devices, like production switchers and replay servers, were available only in SDI at that time.
Many NAB Shows visitors don’t realize that some of the most valuable technical information released at NAB Shows emanates from BEITC sessions. The job titles of all but one speaker in the conference are all related to engineering, technology, development and research.
Virtual production studios are popping up across the globe as the latest solution for safe and cost/time-effective TV and movie production. This method replaces on location shooting and, by utilizing all-encompassing LED walls (often called “volumes”), is fundamentally changing the way motion pictures are produced.
As we approach the 2023 NAB Show in the NAB centenary year, we celebrate the unique insight and influence of the Broadcast Engineering & IT Conference that happens alongside the show each year.