Media Links Sponsors Sports Video Group Europe Sports Production Summit

“This is the second year that Media Links has been involved in the sponsorship of SVG Europe’s flagship European event which provides insights, reflections and case studies from the summer’s major sports events,” confirms John Smith, managing director, Media Links EMEA.  “It has become a key event for us and the ideal  platform to meet with our contacts working in sports production environments, prior to IBC.

“The migration to IP infrastructures promises many benefits including greater flexibility and reduced costs long term.  One key advantage for broadcasters is the ability to transport more live content, ultimately attracting new audiences, sponsors and advertisers,” explains Smith.  “Therefore, at the Sports Production Summit this year, we will be showing a sneak pre-IBC preview of our new IP media gateway edge device, the MDP 3020, which is designed to enable remote production and IP content delivery.

“The MDP 3020 encoder/decoder uses standards including 2022-6/7 and TR-01 to process ever-increasing amounts of media information over IP networks, existing broadcast networks, as well as point-to-point fibre networks offering both a cost effective and convenient solution to applications such as remote production over IP,” continues Smith.  “It has been specifically developed for the broadcast media market where economical IP media conversion is required and it will be of particular interest for sports broadcasters.

“We have designed the MDP 3020 to be compact and portable,” confirms Smith.  “It is so small, it fits into a standard briefcase and can be carried in an overhead locker as hand luggage.  This means connectivity can be achieved economically over long distances without the associated shipping costs of heavier equipment.  Potentially, more live events can be covered, appealing to new audiences.” 
 
The MDP 3020 incorporates a high capacity - 1GbE or 10GbE - trunk interface and multi-format support, including 3G / HD / DVB-ASI / SD-SDI with both SDI and HDMI output interfaces.  The solution has upgradable functionality to ensure broadcasters’ investments are future-proofed  whenever changes in workflow are required during the transition to IP based infrastructures.

“At the Sports Production Summit, we will also present the latest updates to our network management system  NetGazer®,” confirms Smith.  “NetGazer® monitors and manages the entire network, providing status information at every step.   It is designed to provide graphically rich topology maps which intuitively display network elements across the LAN and WAN. Several NetGazer® editions are available that scale from single studio environments to large enterprise and global networks."

About Media Links
Founded in 1993 with its headquarters in Kawasaki, Japan, Media Global Links Co., Ltd. is a leading developer and manufacturer of broadcast network infrastructure and media transport solutions. Media Links is the umbrella brand name supported by Media Global Links in Japan, Media Links Inc. in Connecticut, USA, Media Links EMEA in the UK and ML AU Pty Ltd. in Australia. The Company’s mission is to offer broadcasters and network providers throughout the world leading edge technology, enabling them to economically transport the complete suite of content signals – 4K, HD/SD video, audio or data - onto their multi-service IP/Ethernet networks. Operating as a pioneer at the forefront of technological innovations and advancements, Media Links provides the only standards based product suite in the market that enables the adoption of media signal types to Telecom standards (IP, Ethernet, SDH, SONET). In 2014, Media Links was awarded a Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for Standardization and Productization of JPEG2000 (J2K) Interoperability.