MONTREAL – Canadian video supplier Aldea Solutions said Monday that it successfully delivered live transmissions of the 2018 FIFA World Cup to 14 customers around the world.
By the time the final was played on Sunday, July 15, Aldea’s customers in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Uruguay had distributed all 64 games in HD and UHD (Ultra High Definition)/4K to their respective subscribers.
Aldea said that it secured the most robust fibre routes from Russia with the necessary redundancy and diversity guaranteeing high reliability, security and minimal latency, plus deployed the most advanced video encoding technologies available in the market.
The company added that it implemented over 100 video and data services in four different continents using its network and temporary provisioned fibre infrastructure. Over 5,600 hours of live video content were transmitted to its different customers throughout the event.
“It is a real honour to once again work with numerous customers for such an important global sporting event; we are delighted of the continued trust in Aldea for their mission critical transmissions”, said CEO Lionel Bentolila, in the news release. “This time around, several of our clients made Ultra HD an integral part of their event coverage. As usual with Aldea solutions and services, special emphasis was devoted to reliability and diversity, video quality and signal latency. For this application, we deployed best-in-breed HEVC video compression technologies, following thorough tests in our labs; and adapted our network and operational workflows for UHD/4K transport.”
Aldea is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Marcatel Group.
