TeliaSonera International Carrier selected Net Insight as the main vendor for their Media Contribution network, an international fiber-based media network designed for broadcast, high-quality video contribution and distribution. In every major network-connected city there are two media nodes, each comprising a fully redundant Net Insight Nimbra multi-service core switching platform.
The Media Contribution network also utilizes Nimbra media access switches at secondary nodes and at customer premises.Net Insight provides TeliaSonera International Carrier a high-quality service aware media network enabling real-time TV production over long distances and across international borders.
TeliaSonera International Carrier’s Media Contribution network provides a mix of real-time and contribution quality video services, on both a dedicated and occasional use basis. The network ensures 100 percent quality of service even when operating at full capacity on any particular link/node. It also provides the security and reliability demanded by customers in the professional media community.
The Results
By using Net Insight’s Nimbra platform solutions, TeliaSonera International Carrier has been able to increase bandwidth without degrading video quality. Flexibility and dedicated bandwidth are essential to the success of their global networks and ensure that they can transport compressed, uncompressed, standard, high-definition and ultra high-definition video services and data services throughout its media network.
TeliaSonera International Carrier completed its global broadcast network in 2006 and since 2009 Net Insight’s Nimbra platform has transported live sports broadcast from 16 arenas in Sweden’s premier football league, Allsvenskan, to a central production and editing facility. TeliaSonera International Carrier has later expanded their media contribution network with 10 Gbps capacity links to transport HD video from more sports and events arenas throughout Sweden.
TeliaSonera International Carrier and Net Insight’s collaboration has resulted in
several industry first and award recognitions. Now pioneering within the remote production and workflow area, TeliaSonera International Carrier and the rental/production company Twentyfourseven recently launched their Cross Border Remote Production Solution to transport media traffic from live sports and event arenas. This new type of workflow requires the support of high quality real-time network to avoid quality degradation of live feeds to enable production crews to remotely control the event site equipment, such as cameras, sound and speaker equipment from a centralized control room.
In order to make remote production possible, TeliaSonera International Carrier has partnered with Twentyfourseven who provides their inhouse developed Distance OB technology and production staff to create a seamless end-to-end solution.
Telia Sonera International Carrier’s new solution was showcased together with Net Insight and Twentyfourseven at IBC 2011 and the demo was awarded TVBEurope’s Best of IBC 2011 Editors’ Awards.