"We are very proud to have contributed to the success of another Olympic Games," says Scott Gilman of RTS, "and to have helped our broadcast partners achieve greater levels of communications performance and flexibility than ever before for an event of this size. RTS systems of all varieties and sizes deployed at every level at every site, from the smallest venues all the way up to the main broadcast centre.
"Our proven IP trunking platform proved itself invaluable once again, considering venues like Whistler are about a two-hour drive from the main CTV studios, for example, and with many more venues scattered around Vancouver. Some of the adjacent towns like Richmond even set up their own Cronus (DSP matrix intercom) strings to coordinate the large amount of broadcast activity in that locality, all tied together with trunking, with all the cameras, intercom, audio and video centrally controlled back in Vancouver."
A combination of fibre and IP technologies ensures seamless operations between these sites, all centrally controlled via the large RTS matrices installed at the main studio locations. "Fibre and IP technologies are becoming more and more prevalent for transferring video, audio and intercom signals," Gilman says, "and the large RTS frames at IBC (International Broadcast Centre), for example, served as a common switch point. A broadcaster doesn't necessarily have to have trucks at every single location, which can save a lot of time and money. They deploy their cameras to the location and connect them to fibre, which comes back to the main center where it's all switched live."
(Jim Evans)
