Al Jazeera Sports
Switching Al Jazeera to Digital
Projecting & Implementing a Tapeless Infrastructure
Project Description: The project’s main challenge was creating a customised HD capable and tapeless studio infrastructure that would cover all requirements of a 24/7 live operation. The whole infrastructure is configured with one single codec, making transcoding completely unnecessary. Today, the tapeless ingest, editing and playout infrastructure covers 19 channels of Al Jazeera Sports.
Saeed O. Bawazir, Technology Division Director at Al Jazeera: “To implement a fully functional and fail-proof system of this size presented us with a major challenge. We then carefully examined a similar solution implemented by Wellen+Nöthen for live broadcasting of the UEFA EURO 2008, and quickly discovered its enormous potential. The digital workflows along the entire production chain now speed up our processes significantly and guarantee extreme flexibility.”
- 8 EVS XT[2] units for multiformat ingest, editing and playout
- 1 EVS XT[2] for temporary highlight editing
- Grass Valley K2 Media Server mit 66 Kanälen
- 7 EVS [IP]Director workstations for logging, ingest scheduling, administration and playout
- 2 redundant database servers for [IP]Director installation
- EVS Multicam[LSM] for on-the-fly editing
- EVS XStore[2] with external storage as nearline archive
- Avid Interplay transfer engines
- 18 Avid Airspeed platforms
- Avid Unity ISIS system with 2,400 hours storage capacity
- Cisco Coreswitch as backbone
- 4 Avid Media Composer Mojo DX systems
- Avid iNews with 20 workstations
- 12 Avid Media Composer and News Cutter systems
- Virtual LSB Studio controller
- Various equipment from LYNX, Jünger Audio, Riedel, RTW and Yamaha
