Red Bee opens its Red Lab research center in the Netherlands

The company opens the center in the Netherlands after opening the first laboratory in London in February 2019. A third facility will be launched in Stockholm later this year.

Red Bee Media has inaugurated the Red Lab and Hilversum (Holland). Red Lab Hilversum will focus on product development, testing and demonstrations of IP based solutions and software for video acquisition, compression, contribution and distribution services.

Under the name Red Lab, Red Bee Media is formalizing its R&D efforts with multiple connected facilities around the world. The first laboratory opened in London in February 2019 and a third facility will be launched in Stockholm during the year.

Chris Langbridge, Head of Distribution Services at Red Bee Media, comments: "Red Lab Hilversum offers us a great opportunity to develop and test our IP-enabled capabilities, increasing the value we offer to our clients in live video and remote production services. We are committed to putting multi-tenant platform innovation at the heart of what we do as an agile managed services provider in the broadcast and media industry."

“With the combination of Red Lab London and Red Lab Hilversum, we will now be able to demonstrate end-to-end IP workflows across multiple countries and demonstrate how Red Bee Media is leading the industry in multi-user IP platform technology,” he said. David Travis, Chief Services Portfolio Officer de Red Bee Media.

With the launch of Red Lab Hilversum, Red Bee Media conducted a successful trial of IP contribution technologies. El ensayo consistió en probar la posibilidad de entregar vídeo sin comprimir a través de una conexión redundante de larga distancia (2 x 35 km) desde el Amsterdam Arena a la plataforma de pruebas MCR en Red Lab Hilversum. Con una conexión IP 100% estable, que proporciona una señal HLG HDR de 1080p, la prueba fue un éxito.

Henk den Bok, director of Strategic Product and Distribution Services at Red Bee Media, notes that "this test was a great achievement and validated our designs for time distribution protocols and stable package delivery. We were able to stretch and improve the capabilities of our current technology, adding cutting-edge components throughout its rhythms. As a result of this test, we now have a whole new list of exciting ideas to explore with our partners."