Brazil. Rock In Rio 2022, one of the largest music festivals in the world that summoned thousands of people to its boxes in the city of Rock, in Rio de Janeiro, was broadcast by Globo within the framework of a multiplatform project that integrated the Group's free-to-air TV, cable channels and streaming. Demanding from MediaTech a delivery of excellence, with high audio and video quality and low latency.
In addition to the solutions developed internally by the group to offer the consumer who accompanied the festival through the various screens, Globo tested Appear's video gateway solution during the Rock in Rio 2022 event. There were two Platform X contribution teams connected to two microwave links, with four HD AVC signals for each of the links. The equipment was used as backups of the fiber links [optics] that were, in turn, connecting all the outputs of the TV center, mounted especially for the event, delivering the signal to the station for the completion of the transmissions made by TV Globo, Multishow and BIS, the latter two, Pay-TV signals of the Group.
"The Appear solution exceeded transmission and quality expectations due to its flexibility and density, since it allows to have in just one chassis several functionalities of reception and distribution of signals, encoding, modulation, transcoding and delivery of two signals ready for terrestrial distribution and for digital platforms," said Bruno Targino, Regional Sales Manager of Appear in Brazil.
For his part, Fernando Wiktor, Telecom Solution Manager of Globo, said that the company "approved the Appear solution for being versatile and flexible, which allowed us several configurations in the same box".
Appear Platform X
It is a high-density video gateway solution with built-in video firewall, supporting different interface and encapsulation options such as SMPTE-2110, SMPTE-2022 or TS, at speeds up to 40 Gbps. It has support for the most widely used encoders in remote production markets, low latency contribution in SRT/ZiXi and JPEG-XS, as well as content distribution in MEG-2/AVC/HEVC.
This is part of the company's Ground-to-Cloud vision that allows Appear's X Platform to be used to send signals from cameras and data present at the event venue to a cloud production platform that can be public or private, without the need to send a mobile unit, and with that the entire production team. This is achieved with a solution that delivers the highest density and highest energy efficiency in the industry: just one X20 can accommodate up to 96 HEVC, low-latency, Full HD encoders or up to 24 UHD HEVC encoders.
