Axon's Cerebrum plays a key role in the broadcasts of this summer's major sporting events

Axon's Cerebrum monitoring and control capabilities significantly simplified the production workflow on BBC Sport's UHD HDR coverage of the World Cup in Russia.

The platform of Cerebrum control and monitoring of Axon has proven once again to be an ally of broadcasters in the broadcasts of major sporting events.

Cerebrum has enabled radio, television, mobile and service companies to eliminate engineering bottlenecks and create efficient unified workflows, offering complete control of third-party devices and helping to deliver innovative IP productions and UHD HDR coverage.

With an easy-to-use graphical user interface, Cerebrum provides a Powerful multi-device control and simplifies complexity to protect operators from ever-changing technologies so they can focus on action.

John Cleaver, responsible for part of Dega Broadcast Systems of service in the IBC of Russia World Cup for BBC Sport, acknowledges that "we chose Cerebrum as the best way to gain full control of production and simplify workflow. With Cerebrum, several operators were able to get up and running and quickly customize settings to help them work the way they wanted."

BBC Sport's extensive IBC facility in Moscow, which was also designed and built by Dega, deployed the Cerebrum platform to control and monitor Grass Valley routing, processing, MADI audio routing and tally management all across twelve customizable hardware and eleven software panels.

Cerebrum was also at the heart of the operations of BBC Live Studio en Red Square on Timeline's 4K HDR UHD2 IP mobile unit. As well as providing match coverage in HD and UHD HDR, Timeline provided a simultaneous UHD Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) output for the BBC iPlayer platform.

Control and monitoring within the mobile triple unit allowed the team of operators and editors to share tally and UMD information over the network between BBC Sport's IBC operation and easily navigate around the many sources coming in from the IBC and Host Broadcast Services.

Quinn Cowper, Head of Vision at Timeline, highlights that "Cerebrum was able to handle the mixing of HD and UHD formats with ease. It offers robust control and supports a flexible and seamless creative workflow."

Other sports events

In recent weeks, Cerebrum has also been deployed by NEP UK for his acclaimed all-IP production of the AELTC Wimbledon Championships, where he seamlessly controlled and managed a complex IP workflow with Grass Valley, Arista, EVS, Phabrix, Calrec and Evertz. Following the Jakarta Open and Asian Games, the next stop will be the Ryder Cup, where CTV will once again use Cerebrum as a production nerve center uniting all major broadcast equipment from numerous manufacturers, to deliver a highly efficient workflow including routing control, counting, UMD, multiviewers, remote color balance and camera control.

Visitors to next month's IBC will be able to see Cerebrum in action at Axon's booth 10.A21 and experience its wide range of features and multi-device control that make it perfectly suited for complex production environments, from mobile, remote production, news and live studio production to master control.