MONTREAL — When all the action from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is broadcast to viewers’ TVs around the globe, Montreal-based Aldea Solutions will be delivering the live feeds that many of the world’s major broadcasters rely on to cover the 17-day sports event.
For its various broadcaster clients present in the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Rio de Janeiro, Aldea will transmit live sports content from the Olympics back to the main studios in the broadcasters’ respective countries. Those countries include Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Aldea’s past experience with delivering live content from major sports events includes the two previous Summer Olympic Games in Beijing (2008) and London (2012), along with the three previous FIFA World Cup championships in Germany (2006), South Africa (2010) and Brazil (2014).
Live sports content from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be transmitted via Aldea’s state-of-the-art encoding and fibre optic network infrastructure, ensuring the highest quality, reliability, security and lowest possible latency, Aldea said in a news release. The Olympic Games transmissions will be managed by a technical team on site in Rio de Janeiro, complemented by a dedicated operations team monitoring the event from Aldea’s 24×7 network management centre in Montreal, the company said.
“We are very proud of the tremendous vote of confidence that the broadcast industry continues to place on our company,” Lionel Bentolila, CEO of Aldea, said in the news release. “Using Aldea’s services, our customers can benefit from the inherent capabilities of fibre transmission such as minimal latency, superior quality and flexibility to adapt to different production workflows. For this event, Aldea is providing an extensive portfolio of turn-key services that includes TV transmissions, data connectivity for file transfer and intercom and live web streaming for second screen interactive applications.”
Bentolila added: “Aldea’s deep-rooted expertise in real-time video and data services, our engineering know-how coupled with our end-to-end management capabilities and our success in delivering past global event coverage were all key factors in being selected for this mission critical application.”
Aldea Solutions provides high-quality video services and solutions for the television and media industries. The company provides end-to-end worldwide transmission and content distribution services and operates an extensive fibre-based network with points of service in major cities throughout the Americas and international extensions in Europe.
