Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: Wilfredo Rodríguez

[Via Satellite 08-17-2016] Globosat, one of the largest pay TV providers in Latin America, has partnered with Tektronix, a video quality monitoring solutions provider, to support live IP media production of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This represents the first use of IP for live production on this scale in Latin America, according to Tektronix.

Globosat, which produced the worldwide content for the 2016 Olympics, deployed 16 linear channels by satellite, and more than 56 by internet amounting to 16 produced channels and 40 channels of audio ambience, for the Games. At the center of this network infrastructure are two Tektronix SPG8000A master sync and PTP grandmaster clock generators that offer support for both traditional SDI-based and IP-based media infrastructures. Alongside these instruments are two Prism IP/SDI media analyzers that offer the ability to diagnose and correlate both SDI and IP signal types.

“The move to an all IP-based infrastructure will continue beyond the Olympic Games. However, we also wanted to take full advantage of IP networking technology for this very important event,” said Lourenço Carvano, engineering director of Globosat.

The broadcast industry is at the beginning of migrating to an all-IP infrastructure. However, huge investments in existing technology and workflows mean that this transition will take place in phases, creating a need for test and monitoring solutions such as Prism and the SPG8000A that can support hybrid SDI/IP environments, according to Tektronix.