Nevion big in Japan with Virtuoso 4K/UHD contribution win
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| 11 December 2018

Virtualised media production solutions provider Nevion has announced that a leading Japan-based global video transmission company has chosen its Virtuoso software-defined media node for 4K/Ultra HD broadcast contribution with TICO encoding.

Japan introduced new 4K satellite services on 1 December 2018 and as a result, the video transmission company, which cannot be named for commercial reasons, needed a solution to transmit 4K/UHD signals from sports and entertainment venues across the country to broadcasters’ central facilities.

The company had started investigating possible media nodes over a year earlier with the objective of finding a cost-effective, flexible and offered high-end video quality, low latency and standards-based interoperability.

After the evaluation process, the video transmission company picked Nevion’s Virtuoso with TICO encoding. TICO is claimed to be a visually lossless, line-based and ultra-low latency compression, specifically designed to be used instead of uncompressed video in many applications. With a compression ratio of approximately 4:1, TICO is designed for 4K transport, as it allows signals to be transported on the same infrastructure as HD signals.

The video transmission company will use Virtuoso initially to transport signals over legacy dark fibre, with a migration to IP expected in the future. Virtuoso will allow it to migrate from its current SDI over fibre set-up to an IP transport when it is ready. It is also using Virtuoso’s SMPTE ST 2022-7 based protection, Seamless IP Protection Switching (SIPS), which allows signals to be transported across two separate paths simultaneously to ensure signals are not disrupted if problems occur along one of the paths.

“It’s no secret that Japan is one of the leading countries in the world in terms of pushing the boundaries of ultra-high definition broadcast,” said Patrick Ang, VP sales for APAC at Nevion. “We are therefore delighted that our software-defined media node Virtuoso has been selected to play a part in the delivery of the 4K/UHD experience to Japanese audiences.”