News and events from the Broadcast and Media Industry
BMC TV and GCX continue close partnership
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Every second on the world stage counts.. 🏆⏱️
From the thrill of the #FIFA World Cup to the excitement of the #OlympicGames, #ParalympicGames, and even the #RoyalWedding, the world unites to celebrate unforgettable global events.
At GCX, we believe that these unforgettable moments should never be missed. That's why we work closely with BMC TV to ensure that every second of these sporting spectacles is streamed without interruption to audiences worldwide. 📺
With our extensive global network and BMC TV’s expertise in #broadcast #media #communications , we've created a winning partnership that delivers unmatched coverage and ensures that fans never miss a heartbeat. ⚽🎉
From the euphoria of victory to the tears of joy and the moments that leave us speechless, we're committed to bringing the world together through the power of live #sports and global events.
With GCX and BMC TV, you can count on staying connected, wherever you are, as we stream these #historic moments to your screens in real-time. 📡📲
Join us in celebrating the magic of sports and global unity - let's cheer on our teams and athletes together! 🙌🏅
Patrick Gibbon Tim Horsfield Lee Russell
#GCXWorld #BMCTV #DataMadeScalable
The Boat Race 2023
BMC TV Signs three year contract to deliver multi-site communications for the prestigious Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
SUNSET+VINE LMX Live
BMC TV has provided S&V with fully diverse 10 GB IP circuits onto our network LMX Connect. LMX Live expands on this by enabling S&V to send and receive uncompressed video and audio. In this particular case they have the capability to send and recieve 4 services in each direction spread across the two protected circuits. LMX Live enables S&V to move critical broadcast live event media and post production content 24/7 365 days a year.
About LMX Live
LMX Live enables broadcast rights holders to send multiple live High Definition (HD) video services in baseband or compressed formats, back to their broadcast centers around the globe.
Our media-grade network - ‘LMX Connect’, provides rights holders with media-grade data services. Optimized for the transit of broadcast Audio and Video, and combined with our strategic alliances with Global providers, LMX Connect can move your content wherever you need it.
About SUNSET+VINE
Sunset+Vine is one of the most successful global suppliers of sports programming, covering a huge range of large scale live sports events for audiences around the world. The company’s portfolio spans from international cricket and athletics to the English Premier League, rugby, motorsport and sailing, and Sunset+Vine has gained a reputation for excellence and spearheading innovation in sports coverage over the past 20 years. The team boasts an enviable number of award wins with ten Royal Television Society awards and six BAFTAs, including “Best Sport and Live Event” for its production of Channel 4’s ground-breaking coverage of The London 2012 Paralympic Games.
https://uk.linkedin.com/company/sunset-vine-app
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Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
Sunset and Vine choose BMC TV to provide total connectivity solution for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
Sunset and Vine choose BMC TV to provide a total connectivity solution for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
BMC TV has engineered and will deliver a fully diverse 100 GB IP backbone between Birmingham NEC and onto our live video contribution service LMX Live and LMX Connect. BMC TV is supporting Sunset and Vine’s critical broadcast live coverage of all 19 sports across the 11 days of the competition.
LMX Live enables broadcast rights holders to send multiple live High Definition (HD) video services in baseband or compressed formats, back to their broadcast centers around the globe.
Our media-grade network - ‘LMX Connect’, provides rights holders with media-grade data services. Optimized for the transit of broadcast Audio and Video, and combined with our strategic alliances with Global providers, LMX Connect can move your content wherever you need it.
To find out more about our range of solutions and services, click here, or get in touch with us to discuss your connectivity requirements today.
BMC Broadens its LMX Product suite with Define Tech
LMX Cloud software was born out of the London Media Exchange platform. Initially intended as a point to point network service for the Broadcast and Media Sector, LMX Cloud has evolved over time into a complete Cloud Software offering that helps Broadcast and Media customers transition (partially or completely) to a Cloud-Native infrastructure.
As Media Moving Experts, BMC has a proven history spanning years of video network experience for sports, news and broadcast special events. In an industry that is constantly evolving, we have always strived to build on our offerings so as to deliver bleeding edge solutions and services, that not only support the need for rich content in multiple formats to and from multiple locations, but also supports our customers evolving IT infrastructure requirements.
LMX Cloud software was born out of the London Media Exchange platform. Initially intended as a point to point network service for the Broadcast and Media Sector, LMX Cloud has evolved over time into a complete Cloud Software offering that helps Broadcast and Media customers transition (partially or completely) to a Cloud-Native infrastructure.
Traditionally, Broadcast and Media customers would use single-purpose, dedicated hardware for specific tasks for example one server to transcode, one server for rendering, one server for storage etc. With LMX Cloud, we enable these same customers to virtualise part or all of their infrastructure, which increases utilisation, efficiency and lowers costs.
This concept of gaining efficiency’s through virtualisation doesn’t just apply to Broadcast and Media workloads, which is why BMC has expanded its reach through partner company Define Tech Ltd.
The focus for Define Tech is on verticals outside of the Broadcast and Media sector. We are here to help customers develop their in-house AI strategies using our High Performance Computing solutions. In addition to Broadcast and Media, our team’s knowledge spans across multiple verticals, for example; Life Sciences, Academia, Scientific Research, Finance, Manufacturing and Engineering. We provide hardware, software and services.
The goal of BMC and Define Tech is to bring simplicity to the complex. We assist our customers in developing their cloud-native strategy; the key to simplified infrastructure management.
With LMX Cloud, whether your requirements are Broadcast-centric, or further afield in Life Sciences, Engineering or Finance – BMC and Define Tech have the solutions, services, and knowledge to support you.
BMC enables the finest quality BBC Wimbledon coverage ever
Each year BBC Sport has to work hard to bring an ever richer and more interactive viewing experience to it’s Wimbledon audience. Creative use of the latest technology helps achieve their desire to produce more and better services than ever before. At the same time, the BBC needs to maintain it’s brand leading quality and reliability.
THE CHALLENGE
Each year BBC Sport has to work hard to bring an ever richer and more interactive viewing experience to its Wimbledon audience. Creative use of the latest technology helps achieve their desire to produce more and better services than ever before. At the same time, the BBC needs to maintain its brand leading quality and reliability.
A key part of this challenge is their need to move the massive amount of content from Wimbledon to the BBC’s production centres.
THE STATUS QUO
The standard method to deliver so much live content from a sporting event such as Wimbledon, is to use high levels of compression. On one hand compression is great as it allows the content to be squeezed into a small, commonly available network pipe such as 1Gb. On the other hand;
It makes the solution more complex
Uses pricey equipment
Adds latency
Makes sound and picture quality worse
THE SOLUTION
For the Championships, Wimbledon 2019, BMC UK successfully transported the BBC content using an alternative approach. This year we chose to use little or no compression. Although using 50x more bandwidth than former suppliers, we achieved this within a very tight budget. We engineered a solution that took the latest, high bandwidth, fibre products and combined them with the latest studio techniques and standards. We transported uncompressed HD signals, and lightly compressed UHD signals, with maximum simplicity and premium reliability.
Working at Layer 1, we used our Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) know-how to deploy 10 x 10G services. This level of network connectivity enabled us to avoid complex, temporal, compression completely. All services benefitted from the lowest latency and highest quality possible.
In order to carry UHD signals we used mezzanine techniques, designed for studio working to best utilise our, cost effective 10G channels. Each UHD was reduced by a ratio of 4 to 1.
Our novel solution used 50x more bandwidth
than previous suppliers while sticking to a tight budget
We made use of the latest SMPTE standards. These standards enabled us to encapsulate the video and audio into IP, and provide the ultimate fault tolerance, using hitless protection for all services.
Download the Case study in full or contact BMC today to discuss your broadcast and media requirements.
We're Hiring: Business Development Manager
BMC is expanding, and we are currently looking to recruit a Business Development Manager who will introduce and promote new products and solutions in the Broadcast & Media sector.
BMC is expanding, and we are currently looking to recruit a Business Development Manager, based in our London office, who will introduce and promote new products and solutions in the Broadcast & Media sector.
The role will focus on lead generation for meetings and converting these leads into sales. Ensuring sales and GP are maximised through the channel whilst delivering the best service and customer satisfaction to allow BMC to be the leading Service provider to the Media and Broadcast Industry.
If you feel you are the right fit for this role, please get in touch today.
NAB Las Vegas 2017
Visiting NAB Las Vegas?
NAB Show brings together the entire digital ecosystem and is represented by professionals in advertising, app development, artificial intelligence, audio, augmented reality, broadcast, cable, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, digital video, digital signage, eLearning, esports, film, game development, government and military, houses of worship, in-vehicle entertainment, IOT, IT, live events, mixed reality, mobile, online video, podcasting, post-production, radio, retail, social media, sports, streaming, system integration, television, virtual reality, 5G and more will converge in Las Vegas for six days to further their careers, gain knowledge, experience cutting-edge training, get hands-on with the latest technology, and connect with industry trailblazers advancing the art, science and business of content.
Schedule a meeting with us...info@bmcuk.tv
We now offer a range of high end hosted Standards conversion
When On Net with us we can process your Live content via a number of high end standards convertor be it Linear of full motion compenation.
Not on Net with us? we also provide hosted S-A-M Alchemist XF real time file based solutions.
BMC UK to showcase Media Technology using IP, Cloud and virtualisation at IBC 2016.
September 6th 2016, Amsterdam: Broadcast Media Communications Limited (BMC UK), in partnership with MXF Server will demonstrate optimised broadcast-centric computing applications and services in the cloud at IBC 2016.
BMC UK can now offer media companies global access and workflow orchestration through its latest offering - Broadcast as a Service - BaaS. BaaS is BMC UK’s next generation media platform providing off premise linear and nonlinear media processing functions to broadcasters and media companies in a pay as you go or fully managed service package.
Combined with our secure media centric network enables customers to build workflows in a flexible and scalable environment. BaaS™ has the ability to scale out and integrate seamlessly to our private cloud environment which offers scalable transport, storage and compute resources.
Tim Horsfield, Co-Founder and CEO of BMC UK said “By leveraging BaaS we can now combine traditional broadcast functions with our secure private cloud environment to offer scalability and cost advantages, coupled with unrivalled access without the large investments normally associated with more traditional options.
BMC UK will demonstrate its cloud-based broadcast workflows in partnership with MXFServer at IBC 2016, specifically remote video editing in the cloud! MXFServer is a software only total solution for film, broadcast and (post-) production. Editors experience the freedom to open projects in different editing systems simultaneously. Media & ICT Managers can have the best and most secure performance with their storage of choice. Production-teams work (in-house, remote or on the set) more efficient with additional tools like our MediaBrowser, Remote Desktop Editing, Meta-Creator or the DIT-box.
Stop by booth 5.C45 at IBC2016 to a live demonstration of remote video editing in the cloud and to find out more about Broadcast as a Service.
About MXF Server
MXFserver has been in the market since 2004 offering a collaborative platform for editing applications on a central storage platform. Many companies today use a mix of software applications to get the best results for each specific production. With MXFserver they can mix these applications without the need for transcoding. MXFserver today supports a wide range of NLEs and video related products.
Global Cloud Xchange and Broadcast Media Communications Deliver Live International Football Match to Fans in England
London, November 20, 2015: Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM) today announced a partnership with Broadcast Media Communications (BMC UK). The announcement follows last week’s successful broadcast of Spain vs England match from Rico Perez Stadium in Alicante, Spain to ITV London studios.
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BMCUK provide Inter venue IP audio intercom for the Rugby World Cup 2015.
In support of both the Host and ITV domestic presentation, BMC provided expertise, equipment and support for the network of more than 100 4W services for production support between all venues, the International Broadcast Centre at IMG Stockley Park and ITV London Studios.
BMCUK Provide total communications solution BBC for 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil
BMCUK is proud to have been selected to provide BBC Sport a total communications solution for broadcast of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. Please Click Here for more information.
Worldcup 2014 - BMCUK Help BBC trail UHD options
BBC R&D approached us to help to broadcast the first ever UHD pictures from a sporting event in the UK. Please Click Here for more information.
BMCUK help BBC Sport production Wimbledon 2014
Whilst the FIFA World Cup continued BMCUK deployed it’s services in support of the BBC’s coverage of “The Championship” at Wimbledon. This year, a record number of live streams were required for the BBC’s Red button services. Please Click Here for more information.