SAN JOSE, CA.—Globosat, Latin America's largest content and program creator, is using Harmonic’s ViBE contribution platform for live UHD broadcasts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Harmonic's ViBE CP9000 contribution platform preserves video quality at the front of the broadcast chain, processing uncompressed UHD signals with maximum bandwidth efficiency, according to Harmonic.

"Harmonic video delivery solutions have been a cornerstone of our infrastructure for years, providing high reliability and excellent video quality," said Roberto Primo, CTO at Globosat. "For the broadcast of this premiere sports event, watched by billions of television viewers around the world, we needed a solution that provides the lowest latency and best video quality. With the Harmonic contribution platform on the ground in Russia, we will be able to dazzle viewers with the best video quality that UHD has to offer."

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—After first using Harmonic technology for its 24-hour UHD channel covering the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Latin America’s Globosat has expanded its Harmonic infrastructure for playout and offline content management in the IP domain. To do so, Globosat has deployed Harmonic’s Spectrum X advanced media server system and its MediaGrid shared storage system for a hybrid IP infrastructure.

Spectrum X

The Spectrum X system helps ease Globosat’s transition to IP broadcast workflows by integrating SDI and IP I/O—with SMPTE 2022-6 support—in the same chassis. This allows Globosat to shift away from its existing SDI infrastructure toward and all-IP one.

According to Globosat, the installation of the Harmonic systems allowed for them to have one of the first all-IP infrastructures used for broadcast production of a major sporting event.

BEAVERTON, ORE.—Globosat has turned to Tektronix to support its live IP media production of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Prism

To do so, Tektronix is supplying the Brazilian-broadcaster with two of its SPG8000A master sync and PTP grandmaster clock generators that support both SDI-based and IP-based media infrastructures. Globosat is also utilizing a pair of Prism IP/SDI media analyzers for diagnosing and correlating SDI and IP signal types.

Globosat is producing 16 linear channels and 40 channels of audio ambience for the Games. Tektronix previously worked with Globosat on the 2014 FIFA World Cup as well.

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

PORTLAND, ORE.—Software-defined video systems provider Elemental is serving as a key player in the 2016 Summer Olympics currently underway, helping stream content to a trio of South American broadcasters. The Portland, Ore.-based company has announced that it has provided its video processing technology to Brazilian-based Globosat and Net Brazil, as well as Uruguay’s Antel.

Globosat is utilizing the Elemental technology to stream live and video-on-demand coverage of the Games, including catch-up TV functionality. The broadcaster will also have Elemental gear to support the future deployment of SMPTE 2022-6 for transporting media signals over IP. Elemental Live software is used to encode the content for live OTT delivery, including programming in 4K.

Globosat is also providing 40 raw channels over IP to Net Brazil, which will then in turn use its own suite of Elemental encoding and packaging systems to transcode the signals to multi-bitrate services. After encryption, the channels are ready for distribution over the Net content delivery network to hybrid set-top boxes and multiscreen devices. Elemental Live is also being used to incorporate the SporTV application logo into signals for multiscreen delivery and Elemental Delta video delivery platform is being used for packaging functionality.

For Antel, the broadcaster is using Elemental video processing to power its Tier III Datacenter. The Elemental technology encodes feeds for the Games from a broadcast center in Rio de Janeiro for delivery via Antel’s VeraTV OTT service. The headend for VeraTV utilizes Elemental Live, Elemental Server video processing and delivery platform, Elemental Conductor to manage workflows, and Elemental Delta for CDN origination and OTT services.

The 2016 Summer Olympics are currently underway in Rio de Janeiro and will run through Aug. 21.

Here is a link to the Globosat, NET and Elemental press event that took place on Aug. 17 in Rio.

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

WEYBRIDGE, ENGLAND & BROOMFIELD, COLO.—With the Olympics taking place in its home country, Brazilian broadcaster Globosat aimed for its largest coverage of the Games. Automation content management and integrated channel specialist Pebble Beach Systems has announced that it contributed to this effort with its Marina automation system for expanded playout capacity.

Eight new 24-hour linear channels, which consist of eight main and eight backup, are controlled with Marina, as well as OTT feeds of the same channels. On demand content is also available. Globosat says that it is expecting to have coverage of 92 percent of live Olympic TV coverage and 100 percent for OTT.

Globosat uses the Marina system for automated control of ingest and playout as well as content handling workflow management. The system handles the sequencing and control of the eight channels from a Harmonic ChannelPort server. In addition, Globosat is utilizing Pebble Beach’s Dolphin integrated playout system to generate signals from the Rio Fun Fest stage OB truck.

The 2016 Summer Olympics are currently underway in Rio de Janeiro, and will continue until Aug. 21.