Sports Contribution

Sports broadcasts are one of the main drivers in television, affecting viewer numbers and ratings, revenue and not least technology development. More sports events are televised today than ever before. Sports broadcasts continue to draw a huge total audience, but the audience is more fragmented – split up across the many viewing choices available. One of the main challenges for content owners and broadcasters is to deploy cost-effective solutions for sports contribution, especially when there is the requirement to transport video from a large number of arenas and venues e.g. soccer, football, rugby, ice hockey etc.

T-VIPS offers Video Gateway solutions for live sports contribution based on JPEG2000 compression technology. Thess cost-effective solutions provides high video quality, especially for content featuring fast action and camera movement. JPEG2000 delivers very low latency, with a lag of less than 100 ms for encoding, IP transport and decoding. Such low latency is important for sports in order to ensure that all media deliver content at the same time.

By enabling broadcasters to deploy IP based solutions, our Vdeo Gteways offer great flexibility, both in terms of the bit-rates available and the services that can be transmitted over the network. In addition, IP networks are easy to operate and IP competence is readily available.

Our T-VIPS Connect management application is ideal for the configuration of sport contribution networks. This application makes it much easier to set up and tear down links in addition to monitoring both connections and equipment.

Operators building sports networks know that even if today’s requirement is for SD or HD contribution, our future proofed solutions offers a smooth upgrade path from SD to HD to 3G to 3D.