Mediatec Serves an Ace with Ro Video s Ultrix at the Australian Open Tennis Tournament

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 [Ottawa, Ontario, Canada] Mediatec Asia Pacific, Australia's premier AV solution provider for event and television productions, wrapped up the Australian Open Tennis Tournament this past January using Ross Video's powerful Ultrix routing switcher platform.

Mediatec used Ultrix to distribute live feeds across the eight control rooms used during the tournament for stadium production and patron screens. They needed the ability to route video together with the audio that was being processed in their audio console to these remote areas - as well as monitor these feeds from their Master Control Room.

With Ultrix, we were able to take video feeds, and separate audio sources from our mixing console, multiplex them together inside the router, and then send out a single video feed with new embedded audio. The integrated Ultriscape multi-viewer, allowed us to monitor these feeds., explained Steve Letch. All this was accomplished within the same Ultrix chassis. This saved a substantial amount of equipment, cabling and setup.

The Ultrix platform provided Mediatec with the flexibility required to successfully cover the Australian Open. Because Ultrix's features can be added via software, without requiring additional specialized hardware, Ultrix provides Mediatec the means to modify their frames as needed based on the applications they are being deployed into.

The flexible design of Ultrix, allows us to purchase base hardware, and then add features we need via software licenses at any time, continued Steve. Technically we are always looking to simplify our system design, in terms of how it's operated and maintained. Because Ultrix can support video and audio routing, embedding/deembedding, discrete audio and multiviewers all in 1 or 2RU chassis sizes, it brings down our complexity significantly. It's easy to operate, and our maintenance and engineering staff has a much simpler job wiring, configuring, and maintaining the system.

We are pleased that Mediatec chose to use Ultrix for their first time at such a high profile event. The power and flexibility of the system were on display, and really showcased the design goals of the platform, which are to allow customers simpler, more powerful, and more flexible productions, said Todd Riggs, Business Development Manager, Ross Video.

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Passionate about live production, Ross Video designs, manufactures and delivers dependable technology and services that power exceptional live video productions seen by billions of viewers around the world every day. Ross Video's goal is to make it easy for customers to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, legislative assemblies, entertainment shows and rock concerts, and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Relentlessly innovating, Ross Video delivers the world's widest range of products and services for augmented reality and virtual sets, mobile live-event solutions, real-time motion graphics, robotic camera systems, social-media management, production switchers, routers, infrastructure products, video servers, newsroom systems, terminal equipment and more.

Ross products and services are designed to offer best-in-class system integration and unmatched customer choice by both working together seamlessly and integrating tightly with third-party solutions.

Ross Video has offices around the world, and provides free-for-life telephone support staffed by technical experts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year-even for products bought on eBay. Recognizing the time-critical nature of the broadcast industry, all Ross employees are empowered to provide whatever it takes customer service, even down to renting helicopters when necessary to deliver needed parts and service.

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Vivian Yu

Marketing & Operations Manager, Asia Pacific

t. +65 9827 3531

f. +1 613-652-4425

e. vyu@rossvideo.com

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