Valencia, world capital of the transition to IP with Evertz

Coinciding with the recent signing with BTESA of the representation agreement for the Spanish market, the latest technical conferences of Evertz land in Valencia, bringing together more than a hundred professionals from all over Europe to learn about the latest developments in concepts such as IP, live production, UHD, playout, direct-to-consumer or remote production.

Actively participating in the "evolution of broadcasting" with a presence in global events such as Euro 2024, the Super Bowl or the Paris Olympic Games, Evertz continues to point to a European market on the verge of a 20th Anniversary which will take place in 2027. With more than 1700 employees, 700 of which are dedicated to R+D work, the company seeks to adapt to the new needs of television and content providers, accompanying transitions in concepts such as IP, 12G-SDI, or UHD, among many other areas.

Within the adaptation to the market, its growth strategy also involves increasing the product catalog with the acquisition of companies with a long tradition and renown in the sector, as has been the case of Studer for audio consoles and Quintech for satellite and RF over IP solutions. Both products are already fully integrated into the catalog and with new convergent developments to work directly on Native IP.

The company, whose projects are part of agents as relevant as ABC, Disney, NBA, Mediaset Italia, Dorna Sports or LaLiga, has recently begun a new stage in Spanish territory with the help of BTESA. The value-added systems integrator has reached an agreement with the Canadian company for the distribution of its solutions in Spain, thus providing cutting-edge solutions to an industry that seeks to operate in Hybrid environments with an eye on an IP horizon.

"We are proud to accompany Evertz on its new trajectory in Spanish territory, offering broadcasters and content producers well-proven tools to support them in their next challenges," he said Francisco Menchén, video & audio sales manager by BTESA who confirms that they are already actively working to offer tools such as Nexx, Magnum-OS, VUE or Dreamcatcher to the market.

The bet of Evertz by Spain reaches a greater dimension with the decision to celebrate their Annual Technology Days in Valence. More than 100 professionals from all over Europe, including integrators, distributors and broadcasters, have been able to share knowledge, discover the company's vision regarding the evolution of broadcast and prepare to face the future challenges of a landscape that seeks cost-effective, resilient and easily operable tools.

A transition to hybrid IP with SDI as a reference

One of the pillars of Evertz's technical conferences in the city of Turia was the transition to the IP Environments, one of the biggest concerns of global broadcasters in the face of the industry's momentum, the consolidation of tools and the saving of time (and costs) in the configuration of each production. In this regard, the Canadian firm has been working on solutions prepared for this environment since 2015, recently completing projects for companies such as ABC, Disney, Dorna, RTL Germany or Warner Bros. Discovery.

To address this terrain, Evertz takes its control system as a basis Magnum-OS, which, although it began its journey in the SDI world, evolves day after day to manage orchestration, control, monitoring and analysis of the IP world. This system, capable of controlling third-party solutions, understands the ecosystem of each broadcaster as a whole, allowing you to unify SDI and IP environments, among many other functions.

For Evertz, the SDI and IP Convergence will mark the near future of the Audiovisual panorama. The transition in the form of islands, to consolidate existing infrastructures and facilitate the training of professionals, is a reality inescapable that he seeks to address with a series of Converged Solutions and valid for both environments.

For Evertz, the SDI and IP Convergence will mark the nearest future of the audiovisual panorama. The transition in the form of islands, to consolidate existing infrastructures and facilitate the training of professionals, is a reality inescapable which it seeks to address with a series of convergent and valid solutions for both environments, either with a physical update or by unlocking a license.

With this guideline, and leveraging the benefits of the custom interfaces enabled by the VUE tool, Evertz has Led Major Projects at NBC, which benefits from touch interfaces to reconfigure its studios and reduce its configuration times by up to 50%, or in the Russian Channel 1, which unifies the management of your infrastructure to quickly deploy customized environments tailored to each project. Both examples are part of the list of more than 600 IP infrastructures who have trusted in the company's developments to enter a new technical phase that will accompany them for the next decade.

A convergent catalogue that addresses broadcast globally

The technical conferences of Evertz in Valencia, apart from having different Workshops in which the technical managers were able to go into detail in use cases and technologies in a collaborative way, offered an approach to the latest developments of all the company's solutions; tools that continue to evolve under the same line: Multiplying the power of solutions, while reducing their Size and impact in the operations of each television.

In this way, Evertz addressed all its Devices Edge, with the platform Scorpion as a bulwark and tools such as the ev670-x30-HW-V2, which provides FPGA-based processing cores on which different types of applications (APPs) can be configured as multiviewers, Gateways and video, audio, and ancillary data processing functions. There was also time to dwell on solutions 12G-SDI how Nexx, a processing and routing platform that provides avenues to explore the transition to SMPTE ST 2110, or the EQX, a routing and distribution solution designed for high availability.

Apart from having Different Workshops in which those responsible for Technical They were able to go into detail in Use cases and Technologies in a collaborative way, the Evertz in Valence offered an approach to the Latest news of all the company's solutions.

Throughout in-depth lectures, offered by the company's leadership team and experts, areas such as the Multiview, exemplified by the EV670 or the system cloud sVIP; the transport of Remote and cloud content, for which Evertz makes available to the industry from the Scorpion platform to the XPS encoding and decoding platform; The environments of RF over Fiber, represented in teams such as the XRF4, which offers the "highest density" in the market; the Content production, with production suites such as Bravo Studio or DreamCatcher, or the Distribution and monetizationwith Mediator-X, Overture or evertz.io.

The important thing is not "Build the devices" of Evertz, but all the Infrastructure, Control & Solutions that surround them.

The audio console solution also played a prominent role Studer, acquired by Evertz, and which it has equipped with new technology convergent, as its new, more modern and robust processing core (we could say that it is already Native IP, along with its famous operating philosophy, with different consoles and inputs and outputs in all formats. The system can also be integrated with the automation and remote control system. On the other hand, he realized a very complete range of equipment and solutions for RF and satellites. Among other equipment, RF-IP solutions in the range were highlighted Quintech, a prestigious brand also acquired by Evertz some time ago, a leader in RF solutions for both cable and cable. satellites, broadcast or military environments.

And, of course, Evertz AV, solutions for the fast-growing audiovisual or corporate world that offers AV over IP for all types of environments: auditoriums, multipurpose rooms, command rooms, emergency rooms, remote education (classes and/or laboratories), events, eSports, security centers, Meeting rooms, digital signage... All with an infrastructure Simplified Or so large and complex as required.

Solutions End-to-end for cross-cutting challenges

Apart from news and solutions, some of which may be discovered for the first time in the next edition of NAB (April 6-9, Las Vegas), Evertz conveyed to the attendees a Conceptual principle that crosses all its solutions. And, for the company, the important thing is not "Build the devices", but all the Infrastructure, Control & Solutions that surround them to shape Integrations End-to-end that address each of the challenges of the sector: "Technology is important, but it is key to have a contextual representation of what is happening at a service level. To do this, it is important to focus on Magnum-OS, but also on VUE and all the possibilities they offer."

In addition to continuing to be involved in top-level projects around the world, Evertz fixes his gaze on the FIFA World Cup 2026, which will be held from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, September 19 in the United States, Mexico and Canada. For this event, the firm is already working with all kinds of partners to address Signal Transport and Management, among other processes. But that's another story that will be told in the future.