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The central routing of the entire installation was managed by a V__matrix unit, the Routing and Processing Platform of the IP nucleus defined by Lawo software.

Celebrated simultaneously in Yakarta and Palembang for the first time in their history, the 18th Asian Games ended in September with a closing ceremony in the capital of the Indonesian state of Yakarta, where the opening ceremony had been held 15 days before.

Los 18th Jakarta-Opalembang 2018 Asian Games, popularly called "The Olympic Games of Asia" include disciplines practiced only in Asia. In addition to the well -known Olympic sports, the dragons and the Chinese martial art of Wushu were among the sports included in this event.

The games were broadcast throughout Asia and beyond with an audience of about 112 million viewers by commissioning the Organizing Committee of the Indonesian Asian Games (Inasgoc) a International Games Broadcast Services (IGBS) The tasks of Host Broadcaster.

Joint company between IMG (London) and HBS (Switzerland), IGBS was responsible for the production and distribution of live games.

Yakarta's International Broadcast Center (IBC) welcomed several international broadcasters, including NHK and TBS (Japan), KBS, MBC and SBS (Korea), CCTV (China), TV5 (Philippines), Astro (Malaysia), SCTV (Indonesia) and Bein and Alkass (Qatar).

Central routing

During live production, Lawo equipment was used for signal processing and distribution, as well as for central control. He central routing of the entire installation was managed by a unit V__matrix, the routing and processing platform of the IP nucleus defined by Lawo software.

Units V__remote4 provided PTP synchronization, and a system VSM (Virtual Studio Manager) provided general control. For live broadcasts, the 27 main stages that participated in the event were continuously connected to the IBC, while transmissions for sports coverage in the “smaller” places were recorded by ENG cameras and the material fed to the IBC.

The transmission installation included production kits in the stadiums with commentators units, as well as equipment permanently installed in the IBC for the preparation of multilateral reports. The signals produced at the headquarters were transmitted to the IBC, where they were distributed to the broadcasting organisms after technical and content control.

Great volume of signals

The event calendar also determined the volume of the signal since in addition to the live images of the 27 stadiums and the ENG material, signals from six beauty cameras distributed throughout Indonesia were recorded and distributed to obtain scenic and cultural impressions. With daily information from the press center and the most outstanding moments of the events of the day it was necessary to have a system capable of agilely managing all signal flow.

To do this, HBS chose V__matrix, the platform of processing and routing with IP nucleus defined by software Lawo, also with views of the future production of IP -based emissions.

Configured with 400 tickets and 400 outputs, the matrix-64 C-100 cards in eight paintings-offers 21 Multiviewer ports, controlled by the Virtual Studio Manager of Lawo that works in two servidores VSM. The VSM system was operated through 16 Soft VSM panels on six 23 -inch screens available in the CDT (contribution, distribution and transmission room), as well as on tablets used in other rooms.

The Chief of Engineering, Harry Petry, acknowledges that “we chose the V__Matrix for this task in order to establish a decentralized IP infrastructure for our future projects. With its product portfolio, Lawo offers the most modern IP -based technology and, with the V__matrix, is the market leader”.

"Due to the proximity of the Asian games to the World Cup in Russia, there was no time for us to configure and try the entire system as usual, but our cooperation with Lawo in many of the main sporting events of recent years gave us so much confidence that, however, we decided in favor of this solution. So we put the system in operation in early August, and despite the pressure of the time, everything came out.

The V__matrix matrix provides a fully virtualized real -time production infrastructure that admits many nuclei connected to a powerful standard switch with redundant connectivity of 10ge and 40GE. This allows to build an IP routing and processing matrix distributed with clean and precise switching as with traditional base -band routers.

Commentator positions

When dark fiber connections were available, the Lawo commentator systems To receive the signals of the comments from the Cover Pool, the main stadium and the three headquarters of the IBC building.

The LCU (Lawo Commentary Unit) was developed in close collaboration with Host Broadcast Services (HBS); The system uses IP transmission infrastructures and allows direct connection to Lawo MC² audio consoles and nova routers for autonomous operation. The extensive development work invested by Lawo's R&D team has resulted in a fully digital comment system based on Ravenna real-time audio data transmission through IP (Audio-Over-IP). This makes it possible to connect both the facilities and the equipment through standard IP networks, reducing the wiring and increasing the flexibility of the system.