CBS AND NEP rely for the first time on IP production for the broadcast of the Super Bowl

The 50th Super Bowl will go down in history as the first time that the most important sporting event of the year in the US takes place in an IP environment. Evertz technology played a key role.

The Super Bowl, which this year celebrates half a century of history as the most important sporting event of the year in the United States, has on this occasion featured an innovative element in its broadcast.

CBS Sports and NEP, with whom the broadcaster has contracted part of the broadcast, have relied on IP technology for the production of last Sunday's game in which the Denver Broncos won. The technology of Evertz and the determined commitment of an expert team of professionals who have worked hard in recent months have made it possible to work under IP technology as if it were traditional baseband.

The heart of the infrastructure is Evertz's new IP matrix and a communication system based on a DANTE network. This workflow made it possible to connect the mobile unit deployed in the vicinity of Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with other units and locations, thus working together.

NEP technical managers assure that the challenge was to work on IP with the same reliability and ease as if it were baseband.

The reliability of this workflow thus allowed, for example, to connect the Evertz IP matrix in the mobile unit with another located in the control room from where the images that fans could follow on the video scoreboards were managed.

NEP's new IP production unit, after the success in the Super Bowl, already has a new appointment, it will be at the NBA All-Star Game in Toronto.