SBS London
Playout Centre for SBS in London
Projecting, Implementing & 24/7 Service
Project Description: For SBS Broadcasting Network in London we set up a new playout centre with central ingest. Starting in 2004 with seven full programme and six niche channels, today more than 20 transmission chains are processed by the multiformat capable (SD/HD) infrastructure for the broadcasting in 7 countries across Europe.
Within a 24/7 service agreement our AV & IT specialists take care of the maintenance and the further development of the playout infrastructure. The 1st level support is carried out on-site as well as remote from our headquarters in Cologne, Germany.
Ricki Berg, Head of Projects at SBS in London: ”From the beginning, the challenging technical realisation as well as the ongoing expansion of our Playout Centre have been handled by our system integration partner Wellen+Nöthen. This underlines the significance of our successful long-term partnership.”
- Central Trinix router, 512 x 416 I/Os (SD/HD)
- Trinix NXT router 64 x 64 I/Os (SD/HD), upgradeable to 512 x 512 I/Os
- 11 Grass Valley 32 x 32 Concerto routers for channel routing
- Redundant Harris NEXIO AMP HD server pool for playout
- Independent & redundant Grass Valley K2 servers for playout & ingest
- Central video content management system VPMS from S4M
- Aveco Automation with 1 backoffice server & 4 Orbiter automation server
- MediaGenix Whats‘On programme planning software
- Rhozet Carbon Coder Server Farm für LowRes-encoding
- 200 TB Data Direct Network nearline archive
- 2 Quantum Scalar i2000 tape libraries, 1,200 TB storage
- Cavena subtitling
- Evertz MVP3000 multiviewer system
- Network structure with 2 Cisco core switches
