1. Case study: PlazaMedia
Moving from OB production to IP production
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2. German content solution provider
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German content solution provider
One of the leading producers of sports TV in the German-speaking area
plazamedia.com
PLAZAMEDIA GmbH, is an established content solution provider for the entire spectrum of media platforms, as well as one of the leading producers of sports TV, both live
and non-live, in the German-speaking area.
In addition to public and commercial broadcasters, its clients include platform operators, international sports associations and reputable sports rights agencies, as well as numerous national and international enterprises
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3. ARCHITECTS OF VIRTUALIZED MEDIA PRODUCTION
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Objective
Migrate Germany’s famous football talk show
from traditional OB to IP-based remote production
ARCHITECTS OF VIRTUALIZED MEDIA PRODUCTION
PLAZAMEDIA approached Nevion and its German partner LOGIC media solutions with the challenge to migrate one of its productions, Germany’s famous football talk show “Der Volkswagen Doppelpass”, from traditional OB to remote production.  The two sites involved were the studio, located in the lobby of a luxury hotel, and PLAZAMEDIA’s main production facilities, located some 20km (12 miles) away.
IP technology was chosen as the most suitable solution due to the connectivity available between the production site and the broadcast facility and the significant amount of control requirements.
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4. Baseband  IP Ventura VS902
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The solution
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IP Switching
VikinX eMerge
Baseband  IP Ventura VS902
Management
VideoIPath
The solution deployed involved:
Nevion ViknX eMerge IP switches
Nevion Media Gateways Ventura (VS 902) for baseband to IP conversion (SMPTE ), J2K compression and MADI transport, as well as protection (SIPS/SMPTE )
Nevion’s VideoIPath to manage (and monitor) the whole set-up
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5. Solution – highly redundant network
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Solution – highly redundant network
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VideoIPath - Openflow
Video
SDI
10 G IP-WAN
MCR x6
Audio
2022-6
2022-6
SDI
J2K + SIPS
J2K + SIPS
10 G IP-WAN
MADI
MADI
MADI
Central production
Local Production
2022-6
J2K
+SIPS
12 miles
20 km
Location production
Central production
For this solution, PLAZAMEDIA chose a mix of JPEG2000 and uncompressed (SMPTE2022-6) for video and MADI for audio. Nevion eMerge Media Routers and Media Gateways form the backbone for all real-time production, control and management signals. The connection between the 2 sites was provided by two separate WANs, each with a main and back-up path. The VideoIPath management and orchestration system provides software defined network (SDN) connection management and service monitoring, ensuring a simplified set-up for the production crew. 
The transport, management and device control of this set-up have built-in redundancy, which makes the solution even more robust and scalable than traditional SDI solutions.
The solution when live in August 2016.
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This is a view of the network as presented by VideoIPath.
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7. Video and audio racks on site
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Video and audio racks on site
ARCHITECTS OF VIRTUALIZED MEDIA PRODUCTION
The set-up on-site is extremely compact, making it very easy to move when needed.
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8. Solution – production flows
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Solution – production flows
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Camera shading (data)
Location production
Central production facilities
Camera feeds
(SMPTE )
Camera shading V x6
Graphics A
Return feed (J2K)
EVS operator
Multiviewer
(SMPTE )
Sound engineer
Mixer panel
Audio (MADI)
Producer / Vision mixer operator
Vision mixer control (data)
Sound engineer
Mixer frame
20 km
12 miles
The most important and revolutionary aspect of the set-up is the production flow between the locations.
On location, there are only 2 (two) production staff: a sound engineer/mixer and the producer who also acts are the vision mixer operator. The rest of the production crew (sound engineers, playback operators, graphics operators, etc) are based in the central facilities.
The actual mixing takes place physically in the central production facilities, but crucially, is controlled remotely (over IP) by the producer/mixer. The feeds are transported from the (typically 6) cameras to the centralized location. A multiviewer view of those feeds, as well as the other feeds provided from the centralized location (e.g. clips) is transported back to the producer on location. Based on this, the producer can use the mixer console to send the mixing instructions back to the mainframe in the centralized location.
The camera shading is also controlled remotely, from the centralized facility.
And finally, return feeds are sent from the central location to the cameras (in compressed form J2K).
Overall, this set-up enables the production to take place with a very small crew on site.
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9. Benefits Upgraded facilities to an IP-based infrastructure
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Benefits
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Reduced logistics on location
Upgraded facilities to an IP-based infrastructure
Streamlined production workflow
Jürgen Konrad, IP solution designer at PLAZAMEDIA said: “One of the main project drivers was reducing the logistics on location and to streamline the production workflow, but we also wanted to upgrade our facilities as we see a lot of benefits in having an IP-based infrastructure. We went to air with the system for the first time in August [2016] and have broadcast the show successfully, without any issues since then.”
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10. Jürgen Konrad, IP solution designer at PLAZAMEDIA
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We can definitely say that we now have a very flexible, scalable, reliable and most efficient setup, that is the way forward for live TV production
Jürgen Konrad, IP solution designer at PLAZAMEDIA
PLAZAMEDIA seen this set-up as the way forward for live IP production.
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