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16/06/2009

Digital Rapids Powers Live Streaming Events For World Sport Group

A leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences Digital Rapids, has announced that World Sport Group, Asia's leading sports marketing, event management and media company, has selected its encoding and management systems to enable live streaming of hundreds of high-profile sporting events each year.
World Sport Group produces almost 600 days of sports events and more than 1,000 hours of live sports programming annually, across more than 30 countries.
Headquartered in Singapore, World Sport Group holds the digital rights for the continent's leading club and national team football competitions and sought a robust streaming solution that could be easily managed to handle their high volume of live events.
Working with partner sport and entertainment specialist Perform Group and reseller Mediamatic Systems International Pte Ltd., World Sport Group selected Digital Rapids' StreamZ encoding systems and the Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager multi-encoder management software for their streaming operations.
Eight StreamZ systems encode source satellite feeds into web-viewable output formats, which are streamed live to content delivery network Akamai for live distribution to viewers.
At the same time, highlight clips of these matches are produced in World Sport Group's post production facility, with StreamZ automatically transcoding the finished clips to web formats and delivering them via FTP. Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager provides centralised management and control of the StreamZ systems.
James Leow, Head of Digital Media at World Sport Group, said: "Given the unforgiving nature of live coverage, it is essential for us that all the equipment is robust and reliable and the Digital Rapids solutions have delivered on all counts.
"With more than 300 football matches available annually via satellite, easy management of the streaming is also important and Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager has provided exactly that."
Nick Fitzgerald, Vice President for Asia Pacific for Digital Rapids, said: "Consumers are increasingly choosing Internet TV as a primary platform for their sports viewing, with many sporting events unavailable through traditional media such as broadcast.
"The sheer number of these events makes easy management of streaming operations essential.
"The combination of StreamZ and Broadcast Manager delivers exceptional visual quality, reliability and streamlined management that make them perfect for multi-channel live streaming applications and we're excited that World Sport Group has chosen our solutions to power their expansive streaming projects."
Digital Rapids' StreamZ encoding systems combine powerful hardware for video and audio capture and pre-processing with the intuitive and robust Stream software, delivering reliable, high-quality, multi-format media encoding and streaming for professional applications such as high-end Internet TV and IPTV. The Digital Rapids Broadcast Manager software provides enterprise-class management, control, monitoring and fault tolerance for multiple live streaming encoders with features including scheduling, automated failover and alert notifications.
Further information is available at: www.digital-rapids.com.
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