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Lawo’s Remote IP Technology for Belgium’s 2ndFootball League

Proximus, SiA, Lawo, NEP Belgium and Videohouse launched the IP Remote Production technology for live broadcast of Proximus Football League in Belgium. SiA, the production company of the Proximus group, selected Lawo’s solution to deliver its IP Remote Production infrastructure. To realize the project, SiA, Proximus, Lawo, NEP Belgium and Videohouse established a joint ‘dream team’. With Proximus delivering the network, Lawo the IP Remote technology, SIA its TV facilities and NEP Belgium and Videohouse the expertise on the field. This is the first time the technology is deployed on such a scale for a football competition in Belgium.

With the use of Lawo’s Remote IP Technology, Belgium Telecom Provider Proximus starts broadcasting all games of the Proximus League, Belgium’s 2nd Football League. Started in August, all football matches are transmitted live using the Lawo infrastructure. The setup comprises three flight cases that travel around the country to connect all cameras, microphones and commentary boxes in the stadia with the Remote IP Production infrastructure in two MCRs in Brussels. They are capable of producing two matches simultaneously in two languages.

With the combination of several V-Remote4 that connect to the stadiums, Lawo Nova73 audio routers and the use of Lawo’s VSM Broadcast Control and Monitoring System, Proximus produces content with the IP Remote Production setup in Belgium. The two MCRs in Brussels and the flight cases located in the stadia interconnect via a network connection provided by Proximus. The control and the management of the complete IP-based production infrastructure is secured by the VSM System.

Each of the MCRs owns two V-Remote4 to interconnect to the football stadiums which totals 4 V-Remote4. Every MCR can be connected to any football stadium using VSM panels. VSM takes care of all the video and audio routing inside the MCR and setting up audio and video streams between Brussels and the stadia. The SDI signals from all V-Remote4 in Brussels are connected to the video router whereas the MADI signals from the V-Remote4 are connected to the Nova73 audio router, installed in Brussels. At the other end, the three flight cases consist of two V-Remote4, connected to a Cisco switch in the case and three A-Line Audio-to-IP interfaces.

The camera streams between the stage boxes and the MCR are sent using J2K. With each flight case, eight camera streams are sent to Brussels, two returns are received, 32 audio channels are sent to the MCR, and 16 audio channels are received from Brussels. Lawo’s VSM Broadcast Control and Monitoring System controls all devices both in Brussels and in the flight cases, among them: two Lawo mc256 audio consoles, a Miranda multiviewer system, Kahuna vision mixers and all V-Remote4 as well as A-Line boxes in the flight case.

In order to handle the amount of content, Proximus provides 1 GB network connections in every stadium with QoS. Locally in Brussels, these network connections are received with a main and backup 10 GB trunk between the “Stadium” network chain and the switches in the MCR.

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