MONTREAL – Canadian video supplier Aldea Solutions said Monday that it successfully concluded the live delivery of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games to media companies around the world, including major broadcasters in France, Brazil and Mexico.
Aldea was retained by various broadcasters present at the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Pyeongchang, South Korea to transmit the live feeds of the Games back to the main studios in their respective countries.
For these Olympics, latency was a major consideration due to the large distances between South Korea and broadcasters' home studios around the world. Aldea said that it was chosen for its expertise to deliver live sports content via its state-of-the-art encoding and fibre optic network infrastructure ensuring the highest quality, reliability, security and lowest possible latency.
The event was managed by a team of Aldea engineers on site in Pyeongchang, complemented by an operations team monitoring the event from Aldea's network management centre in Montreal.
“We are very proud of the vote of confidence that leading broadcasters continue to place on our company”, said CEO Lionel Bentolila, in the news release. “The Pyeongchang Games saw Aldea facilitate remote production for some its customers, allowing them to undertake production services from their home studios".
Aldea is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Marcatel Group.
