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NBA Digital
Broadcast
Operations Center
Winner of post & network
production facilities
Submitted by
The Systems Group
The National Basketball Association (NBA) consolidated
two existing facilities into one more modern
space to enhance productivity through the use of
file -based capture and storage processes.
The new facility in Secaucus, NJ, built with the help of The
Systems Group (TSG), in Hoboken, NJ, is responsible for ingest
and archiving, as well as redistribution of games around the world.
The project - which included a major renovation of a single large floor -
now features operations including 16 edit rooms, four game rooms, a broadcast
operations center, a technical operations center and digital media management.
The 24- position logging area works in tandem with a custom SGI ingest and
archive system. Currently, two game rooms (that rebrand live games for international
feeds) are fully operational, with access to a third when required. The
fourth room handles all master -control activities (server playout and channel
branding), as well as live -game operations for the NBA International Channel.
The new floor houses all of the NBA's ingest and archiving activities, whereby
every game (historical and new) is logged, and appropriate metadata is attached.
Thousands of hours of game footage dating back to the late 1940s will
continue to be archived - the NBA digitizing it from a variety of tape formats,
while also incorporating newer audio and video clips.
Additionally, TSG worked with the NBA on its implementation of the NBA
High -Speed Arena Network (HSAN), which includes Harris NetVX encoders
and decoders. Storage of all the games is accomplished with dual StorageTek
SL8500 libraries that provide 300PB of offline storage.
In each NBA arena, Harris video servers directly tied (via HSAN) to
Secaucus record every camera view.
The games are encoded as ASI signals to conserve transmission capacity, and
then decoded in Secaucus to turn them back to baseband video for editing.
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40 broadcast engineering.com March 2013