OTTAWA—NBC Olympics has chosen FileCatalyst to transfer event footage at accelerated speeds and facilitate remote production workflows for its production of Winter Olympics from PyeongChang, South Korea. NBC Olympics’ use of FileCatalyst technology for the games builds on its use for coverage of the 2016 Rio Games, said a FileCatalyst press release.

FileCatalyst technology will move data over a 5 Gbps link between NBC Olympics’ headquarters in Stamford, Conn., and the NBC Olympics compound at the International Broadcast Center in PyeongChang. It also will help accelerate transfers between a number of interconnected Winter Games sites and event venues.

During peak periods, concurrent file transfers are expected to number in the hundreds, reaching a data volume of about 10 TB per day. The files will consist of both high- and low- resolution videos. Many will be transferred while events are still in progress and videos are still being encoded.

Timely content delivery is critical to the production workflow because it will enable remote logging and editing in near real time. Archived footage will also be moved from Stamford to PyeongChang as needed. The setup also includes FileCatalyst Central to monitor and administer the deployment, and FileCatalyst Direct server and client applications.

More information is available on the FileCatalyst website.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO—FileCatalyst is pulling its weight for NBC’s broadcast of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The company provided its digital file delivery software for production of the Games and according to FileCatalyst it is transferring an average of 10 TB a day during the event.

The FileCatalyst technology is moving data over a 5 Gbps link from NBC’s Stamford, Conn., headquarters and the International Broadcast Center in Rio, as well as other venues. The files consist of both high and low-res videos, many of which are being transferred live; archival footage is also being transported from Stamford as needed.

NBC Olympics is also utilizing the FileCatalyst Central web-based monitoring and administration tool. The system employs a real-time statistics engine and an updated interface with an intuitive global map view of interconnected FileCatalyst server and client applications. The FileCatalyst Delivery plug-in has also been deployed for Avid Interplay Delivery.

This is the second time that NBC has used FileCatalyst technology for an Olympics broadcast, previously doing so for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Read more about how broadcasters are covering the Rio Games at our Live@TheRioOlympics social media hub.