Doha: Ooredoo has implemented a new sports contribution network for beIN Sports, a global sports network, which will enhance the quality of high-definition video shared between Paris and Doha and broadcast across the station’s diverse range of channels.
The new infrastructure will significantly improve the quality of the viewing experience for sports fans around the world, improving signal continuity, providing higher resolution and ensuring loss-less transmission, so that viewers don’t miss a minute of their favourite matches.
“The launch of the sports contribution network has gone very smoothly with the full support of Ooredoo,” said Mohammad Al Subaie, Executive Director of Commercial Affairs, beIN Media Group. “Our new robust network solution will enable us to deliver the very best high-definition coverage of the most exciting European matches live and direct to our viewers’ homes.
“This world-class network implementation is another indication of our ambition to be the world’s leading sports broadcaster,” he said.
Using the robust new international network, beIN SPORTS will transmit high definition coverage of the major European leagues that it has the exclusive rights to direct from studios in Paris – including Spanish La Liga, the French Ligue 1 and the Italian Serie A. “Ooredoo continues to work with Qatar’s leading brands to enable them to enhance and extend their services for customers in Qatar and around the world,” said Mohammad Al Marri, Chief Sales and Service Officer, Ooredoo.
“This latest implementation, which has seen beIN SPORTSdeploy one of the world’s most advanced high-definition network links between Paris and Qatar, places the broadcaster at the top of the global premier league of sports coverage providers.”
Ooredoo partnered with the world-renowned European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world’s foremost alliance of public service media organisations, to integrate and deploy the contribution network.
“We made use of the Net Insight technology as it can guarantee loss-less routing and provides enhanced capabilities to control the quality of service,” said Graham Warren, Director of Network, European Broadcasting Union.
“In close cooperation with Ooredoo we provided a large bandwidth and highly resilient extension to the Eurovision fibre network into Doha that can support the very latest high definition standards,” he said.
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