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Montreal’s Aldea wraps up delivery of 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

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...