MUENCHEN, Germany, Sept. 13, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- IRT (Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik, Muenchen), EBU (European Broadcasting Union), and Carrier1 (Neuer Market:CJN) (Nasdaq:CONE) team up at media trade show, IBC 2001, to demonstrate the benefits of a fiber-optic media contribution network, connecting sites in Amsterdam and Munich.
During the IBC show, September14-18, Carrier1's new switched "ProStream" media network will host real-time, streaming applications tailored for the professional media industry. Among the services demonstrated, visitors will be able to experience the transfer of live SDI 270 Mbps video signals in a networked production environment. The ProStream network is using technology from Net Insight, and IRT is using MPEG equipment from TANDBERG Television for compressed applications.
On site in Amsterdam, live uncompressed, SDI TV camera feeds in the EBU Village and the IRT booth will be connected to IRT's main studio in Munich. At the EBU village and the IRT booth, visitors will be able to experience the resulting real-time SDI TV pictures produced in Munich. The demonstration can also be viewed in the Carrier1/ProStream booth.
Demonstrating Different Qualities of Real-Time Video
Live transmission will include uncompressed studio-quality SDI 270 Mbps, professional quality compressed video (MPEG-2 4:2:2 profile@ML), DVB/ASI over IP, and PC-based IP-streaming with 300Kbps up to 2 Mbps. The demonstration will clearly illustrate the differences in quality and delay.
Alongside the streaming applications, ordinary data transmission, including fast file transfer, will be done via Internet and extranet connections, all in Carrier1's multi-media network.
The networked production, live streaming and other services set up and operated by IRT, will use the ProStream Video Network Services run over Carrier1's optical network, connecting 13 countries and the major cities of Europe. Carrier1's ProStream network is using a multi-service platform from Net Insight, based on the newly standardized networking transmission technology, DTM (Dynamic synchronous Transfer Mode), carrying video, data and telephony in undisturbed channels, long-distance in real-time.
TANDBERG Television will supply MPEG equipment to distribute high quality, compressed video in real-time.
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About IRT (Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik)
IRT, the Broadcast Technology Institute, was founded as a private company in 1956 as the central research and development establishment for the public broadcasting organizations in Germany (ARD, joined by the ZDF in 1964, and DLR in 1993), in Austria (ORF, 1990 ), and in Switzerland (SRG/SSR, 1989).
The main focus of IRT's work is the improvement of existing and the development of new -particularly digital- systems and their standardization. IRT works mainly for its associates and increasingly also for third parties through the business areas "Collaborative Research" and "R&D Services".
Meet IRT at IBC: Hall 10, Stand 411
About Carrier1
Carrier1 International S.A. is one of Europe's top providers of large system solutions for end-to-end Internet, broadband, voice, data-center and dialup access communications to large users of telecommunications services with a network that spans 14,000 contracted route kilometers in 13 countries, and links 35 European cities. Carrier1 provides its clients with carrier-grade transport and network solutions as well as end-user-ready, value-added services that customers then brand and market to their respective users.
Meet Carrer1 at IBC: Hall 4, Stand 340
About EBU
The European Broadcasting Union unites and serves 70 national broadcasters in 50 countries from headquarters in Geneva. Activities include operation of the Eurovision and Euroradio networks; exchange of news, sport and cultural programming; the coordination of technical research and harmonization; the organization of co-productions; and the defense of public service values.
Meet EBU as host of the EBU Village at IBC: Hall 10, Stand 411
About TANDBERG
TANDBERG Television (Oslo, Norway, Stock Exchange: TAT) is a market leader in the provision of open solutions for the digital broadcasting of audio, data and video across various networks including cable, satellite, terrestrial, IP and telecom. The company is an innovator in digital broadcasting and its broad offering includes professional receivers, MPEG encoders, modulators, multiplexers, a range of solutions for transport stream processing, easy to use control and monitoring solutions, as well as market leading digital Satellite News Gathering and digital ENG.
Meet TANDBERG Television at IBC: Hall 1, Stand 421
About Net Insight
Net Insight develops and markets network switches for fiber-optic broadband networks. Using Net Insight solutions, operators can offer everything from new advanced real-time services to studio-quality video, and Internet communication to traditional telephony and data. The services can be supplied across one and the same infrastructure simply and cost-effectively. Net Insight has around 140 employees in Sweden and the USA. The company is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. For more information, please see www.netinsight.net
Meet Net Insight at IBC: Hall 4, Stand 340