Chile. Vivaro Media selected Norwegian manufacturer Appear's technology to support its live contribution to the 2023 Pan American Games, which will be held in Santiago, Chile, between October 20 and November 5, 2023. Vivaro Media implemented Platform X to encode 10 live HD channels during the competition.
Appear's X Platform offers the most energy-efficient, space-efficient and operational solution on the market, and was chosen because Vivaro Media needed to deploy the Appear X10 with software-defined HEVC compression to provide 10 live HD channels during the Santiago Games, minimizing power consumption and significantly reducing shipping costs and power usage. without compromising quality or latency. The density and flexibility of the X Platform allows Vivaro Media to seamlessly encode its feeds, while quickly being sized to cater to a larger number of feeds for the camera.
"The Pan American Games are among the top international sporting events, so we needed a live contribution partner we could rely on to deal with encoding high-quality content at scale," said Carlos Jurado, Senior Director of Sales and Operations Engineering at Vivaro Media. "Our collaboration with Appaer does this and so much more. Its Platform X marks a before and after in terms of efficiency and quality. The density of Platform X allows us to reduce our shipping costs, optimize on-site production space, and ensure high-quality coverage," he added.
Appear CEO Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen says he is proud to be part of Vivaro Media's live coverage of the Pan American Games, helping to ensure that fans of the sports tournament throughout Latin America have the best viewing experience. "By relying on our X Platform, Vivaro Media ensures the most robust, flexible and secure live encoding solution on the market for the prestigious tournament. We look forward to continuing to work with Vivaro Media and support some of the world's most beloved sports tournaments."
The ease of configuration and operational resiliency of Platform X enables issuers and service providers worldwide to deliver live contributions, enabling workflows with remote production and next-generation distribution. It seamlessly combines industry standards such as HEVC/AVC, ST-2110, JPEG XS, Zixi, and SRT with an equally wide range of processing, NAT (Network Address Translation), and firewall.
The X Platform includes Appear's ECx110 modules for ultra-low latency HEVC encoding and decoding. This is the only compression solution on the market that offers ultra-low latency, HD and UHD compression with uncompressed ST-2110 and SDI I/O, at scale, and with 1RU or 2RU short-depth chassis options.
