Pleora Fabchannel Test Live Transmission SD-SDI Concert Footage Over Ethernet

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  • Performance at famed Paradiso music hall streamed in real time over Ethernet to another Amsterdam locale using Pleora’s EtherCast™ Video IP Engines™

 OTTAWA, CANADA, April 13, 2006: Pleora Technologies and Fabchannel.com of Amsterdam, Netherlands, today announced the successful completion of the first stage an ambitious technical trial to stream live SD-SDI (Standard Definition – Serial Digital Interface) video and audio across Amsterdam over a standard Ethernet network.

In early April, Fabchannel used Pleora’s PL1453A EtherCast Video IP Engine to transmit an uncompressed video/audio feed from an SD camera at Amsterdam’s famed Paradiso music hall to another city location. The SD feed was streamed in real time over a standard, fiber-based Gigabit Ethernet link. Stage two of the trial, scheduled for May, will simultaneously multicast live SD footage from the Paradiso to several Amsterdam destinations across a multi-hop Gigabit Ethernet LAN (local-area network).

“We film most of the performances at the Paradiso and we want to send live feeds of the events to other venues in Amsterdam. We also have an immense archive of high-quality video that we would like to distribute to digital broadcasters. By bridging video and the Internet, Pleora’s EtherCast engines deliver a unique and cost-effective solution to our problem,” says Bauke Freiburg, Fabchannel’s Head of Product Development.

 “The trial with Fabchannel further validates the ability of our EtherCast IP Transport solution to transform standard Ethernet LANs and WANs into lossless, high-performance video conduits,” says George Chamberlain, President, Pleora Technologies. “By leveraging the widely deployed Ethernet platform, our EtherCast  products are giving leading-edge production companies like Fabchannel a new-generation solution to video distribution that costs less and is easier to implement than satellite links.”  

During the Fabchannel trial, one of Pleora’s PL1453A EtherCast Video IP Engines was deployed at the Paradiso and another at Fabchannel’s production facility several hundred meters away. The engine at the Paradiso efficiently converted the video/audio output from an SD camera to IP and sent it over the GigE link to the second engine. The receiving engine returned the feed to its original SD-SDI format for real-time display on a high-quality plasma screen. The video quality was excellent and the transfer was lossless. 

About Pleora

Pleora Technologies is a leading global supplier of Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) video connectivity solutions. Pleora’s iPORT™ and EtherCast products send imaging and/or video data over lowcost GigE connections with very high performance, while giving systems long-distance reach, scaleable processing, flexible networking, and unmatched ease of use. Pleora is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. iPORT, EtherCast, and Video IP Engine are trademarks of Pleora.

About Fabchannel

Fabchannel.com is a free online concert channel that delivers high-quality video streams, live and on-demand, of performances at the Paradiso and Melkweg, two of Europe’s premier pop venues. Fabchannel broadcasts several concerts live on the Internet each week, which are watched by viewers from around the world. Afterward, the recordings are added to an extensive online video archive. With over 550 recordings, this archive is one of the biggest on-line concert repositories in the world. With top facilities in the venues and an experienced crew, Fabchannel also offers high-quality productions such as DVDs and digital video content to third parties. Fabchannel was just nominated for two Webby Awards, an annual event to honor leading international websites presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.

For more information, contact:

Julie Harrison
Corporate Communications
Pleora Technologies Inc.
Tel: +1-613-270-0625, ext 164
Email: julie.harrison@pleora.com
Web: www.pleora.com

Bauke Freiberg
Head of Product Development
Fabchannel.com
Tel: +31 (0)20 – 796 00 73
Fax: +31 (0)20 – 796 00 76
Cell: +31 (0)6 – 18 052 340
bauke @fabchannel.com
www.fabchannel.com