Millions watched Denmark beat Sweden via GigaContent
12. October, 2009
Millions of football fans in Denmark and Sweden watched
Saturday's historic football match that qualified Denmark to the
FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa next year. GigaContent
supplied the sharp live video images for a sports broadcast that
proceeded flawlessly from the Parken stadium in Østerbro in
Copenhagen.
- Our success during last Saturday's game shows that we are able
to deliver perfect quality and extremely high reliability for live
broadcast, also when it really matters to millions of people. We
are really happy abput the results and about our good working
relationships with both TV2 and SBSTV, says Jan de Blanck, VP of
sales and marketing at GigaContent.
GigaContent trasmitted live video images from the important game
to viewers in both Denmark and Sweden: From the Parken stadium in
Copenhagen GigaContent transmitted eleven hours of live
video-content to TV2's main facility in Odense, while the Swedes
had their content delivered via GigaContents connection to SBSTV's
node in Mileparken in Skovlunde, west of Copenhagen.
According to TV2 Analysis, 1.488 million Danes watched the match
on TV2 on Saturday evening. This is the highest audience for a
football game in more than 5 years, says TV2 Analysis.
Technically perfect transmission
According to GigaContent's technical director Brian Slott, the
transmission from the Parken stadium proceeded perfectly.
GigaContent continuously monitors the quality of the connections,
and in addition the happy Danish viewing audience was presented
with the live video images a half a second faster than ever
before!
- All of GigaContent's connections from the Parken stadium
proceeded without uninterruption or errors on the lines during the
entire transmission. We can confirm that from the monitoring data.
But this does not come as a surprise. We almost always maintain an
extremely high level of quality no matter what, says Brian
Slott.
GigaContents solutions use a nationwide network of optical fibre
to transmit HD and SD content to and from broadcasters, media and
companies across the country.
About GigaContent:
Giga Content is Denmark's leading provider of professional,
network-based solutions for the media industry. Via GigaContent's
network, production companies, enterprises, and broadcasters
quickly and safely connect to each other and to more than 70 of the
most attractive point-of-events in Denmark in full digital
HD quality. GigaContent is owned by the fibre networking companies
GlobalConnect & Energy Fyn.