Hero Broadcasting selects Nevion’s advanced JPEG 2000 compression solutions for cross-county video transport

Published 8th February 2010

Florida-based Hero Broadcasting has selected Nevion, (www.nevion.com), a leading video transport solution provider for broadcasters, telecommunications service providers and government entities worldwide, to meet their cross-country video transport needs.

In Hero Broadcasting’s implementation of Nevion JPEG 2000 compression, five signals are transported from Miami to Los Angeles and back using only two 270Mbps connections - with the highest quality, lowest latency and fewest re3sources. The technology also enabled the Miami-based monitoring of all four of Hero’s Los Angeles digital sub-channels off-the-air, as well as a production feed between editing rooms. Flexible modules that scale and, most importantly, provide unrivalled visual quality set Nevion apart from the competition.

For Charlie Trice, Hero Broadcasting’s director of engineering, it was a merger of economics and technology that proved a winning combination. “Nevion provided innovative products that clearly give an edge with superior image quality, the ability to get more from our existing network, and an extremely attractive, value-based solution. And, we were aware of Nevion’s reputation for premium products and service.”

Solutions from Nevion’s modular, carrier-class Ventura family of products were selected to provide the high-quality, cross-county transport. The VS901-TAED-27 provides infrastructure saving, visually-lossless compression and mapping onto DVB-ASI for contribution and primary distribution applications. This provides the ability to leverage existing lower cost 270Mbps infrastructure to support contribution quality HD content, or to use the same infrastructure to carry additional SD content.
Nevion’s VS9500-Ax solution was also chosen to multiplex up to four DVB-ASI inputs into one 270Mbps, with the cascading of modules enabling multiplexing of up to 16 transport streams over SDTI.

Nevion’s Ventura family of modular products provides highly flexible and scalable video transport solutions across all video protocols. Ventura products integrate key compression technologies, multiplexing, network mapping, protection at all network layers and monitoring to ensure SLA compliance. Ventura equipment is widely used by the United States National Football League and large telecommunications service providers for global events such as the upcoming winter games in Vancouver.

About Nevion
Nevion is a video transport solution provider for broadcasters, telecommunications service providers and government entities worldwide. With the most flexible and scalable video processing and transport over any network, Nevion puts power, reliability and quality behind global media transport solutions. Its Ventura, Flashlink and VikinX product lines deliver the full range of content transport, signal processing, and routing solutions, with comprehensive system management and control. With the lowest carbon footprint in the industry, Nevion products are the greenest of their kind, reducing customers’ operational expenses and benefiting the environment. Nevion maintains its world headquarters in Sandefjord, Norway and U.S. headquarters in Oxnard, CA, with global offices in Singapore, Dubai and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit www.nevion.com.

About Hero Broadcasting
Launched in 2007 by industry veteran Bob Behar, Hero Broadcasting owns and operates 2 full-power television stations - KBEH-DT 63 in the #1 Hispanic market, Los Angeles, and KMOH-DT 6 in the #8 Hispanic market, Phoenix – and one low-power station, KEJR 40, also serving Phoenix. The broadcast group is the leading, privately-held affiliate station group for Latino youth network, MTV TR3S. The company is committed to serving the entertainment needs of Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population.