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VICE Media’s production infrastructure is monitored through Imagine Communications’ EPIC™ MV multiviewer.
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Nexio+ AMP is UHD- and HDR-ready, and its comprehensive range of software-based codecs and formats can be seamlessly expanded through software upgrades, futureproofing VICE News against an aggressive technology curve. VICE Media selected Nexio+ ® AMP™ media servers, running on Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) hardware platforms, for some of its ingest and playout requirements. Imagine Communications’ Selenio™ MCP media processors, equipped with Uncompressed-over-IP (UCIP) modules that serve as on- and off-ramps to IP networks, were selected to move media in and out of the IP domain, encapsulating legacy SDI signals into the IP network based on the SMPTE 2022-6 and AES67 standards, coordinated via VSF TR-04. VICE Media selected the Imagine Communications Magellan™ SDN Orchestrator, the software-based control system that simultaneously supports hybrid and all-IP routing environments, to manage the end-to-end installation and ensure operational transparency. The multivendor nature of the deployment required a single control system capable of managing the IP signaling domain and integrating third-party devices into an IP-based routing system.
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The IP-based network equipment forms the core of the new infrastructure, transporting video, audio, and timing signals in a converged environment, with full 1+1 redundancy at the core switching level.Ĭonnecting to the IP transport core are audio mixing and processing equipment, video production switching and editing systems. All equipment in the VICE news production environment supports the technology roadmap of the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS), an industry association formed to promote IP-based technology and solutions. For starters, the facility is near capacity, and its inflexible layout required VICE to locate the various components of its production operations, including control room, audio suites, studios and machine room, in various locations across the campus.ĭesiring a best-of-breed, multivendor solution for its new IP-based production center, VICE required equipment suppliers to adhere to industry standards for the transport of video and audio over IP networks and to support commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IP switching and routing equipment. For VICE Media, which produces VICE News Tonight out of its New York City headquarters, located in an iconic 125-year-old former sugar factory on the Brooklyn waterfront, IP was a no brainer. The decision to go with SDI or IP, for most media companies, is still fraught with agita-inducing deliberation. VICE required a solution that would not only be relevant and supportive of its unique brand of journalism for the foreseeable feature, but one built on standards-based technology that could evolve and expand seamlessly and without disrupting the production of a daily news show.
The technologists at VICE Media didn’t disappoint, pulling together a state-of-the-art news production control room for its recently launched VICE News Tonight show that’s based on IP technology and built to keep the avant-garde media organization operating on the cutting-edge of video production for years to come.
One would expect “the definitive guide to enlightening information,” which is how VICE Media describes itself on its social media sites, to be an envelope pusher when it comes to building out a technology foundation to support its latest television enterprise.
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