CCMA (Spain) – moving from SDI to IP in the facilities
Solution is based on Sony and Nevion’s Networked Live offering
How to increases live production efficiency
The challenge
Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (Catalonian Corporation of Audiovisual Media), known as CCMA, is the public radio and television corporation for the autonomous Calalonian region of Spain. It was founded in 1983, and has its HQ in the city of Sant Joan Despí near Barcelona. It offers 7 TV channels and 4 radio channels in the Catalonian language.
CCMA was looking to upgrade their production facilities from SDI to IP – incrementally. The initial project focused on the 324 news channel, i.e. one studio and one control room. This project is however just the start of the move to an eventual all-IP infrastructure.
The Solution
The solution is based on Sony and Nevion’s Networked Live offering, and included Sony products, Nevion products and 3rd party products.
This project was a partnership between the customer, CCMA, Sony subsidiary Nevion and local partner Unitecnic.
Network & Resource Orchestration
- Nevion VideoIPath media orchestration provides the SDN control of the IP network, and controls the equipment via NMOS.
- The existing broadcast control was kept to maintain the familiar surfaces for the production staff.
Media Transport
- The IP network is built on Arista 7050 switches in a spine-leaf architecture.
- The camera SDI/IP (ST2110) adaption is handled by the Sony HDCE-TX30 IP camera extension adaptor for remote live production.
- Other 3rd party gateways are also used to provide the SDI/IP adaption for other SDI equipment.
Hybrid Processing
- A wide variety of SDI and IP equipment, including vision and audio mixers. They are controlled by VideoIPath.
Services
As part of the project, a variety of services were provided, including IP media network solution design, remote configuration of VideoIPath SDN orchestration software, remote integration with Arista switches and NMOS broadcast devices, and 2nd line support.
The Outcome
CCMA now has a modern infrastructure that can evolve more readily to support new broadcast technology. They also have a better integration with their audio infrastructure and their NDI network.
Importantly, the change to the underlying infrastructure is transparent for the production staff avoiding disruption to production and expensive retraining. In particular, they kept the same control surfaces.