While you may never have heard of Artear, it’s one of the biggest TV networks in Latin America—and that means the Artear newsroom needs its reporters to have as many resources as possible to ensure it covers the region’s biggest stories better than anyone else.
As part of that effort, the Artear newsroom now features an ATEN control system VK2100 paired with modular matrix solution VM1600 to power the video walls inside the always-buzzing space.
ATEN’s seamless switching and flexible centralized control solution provides support for the requirements of the 24/7 Artear newsroom to display real-time, high-resolution content streams from live channels, social media platforms and outside broadcasting vehicles. [related]
Artear, which is headquartered in Buenos Aires, is one of Argentina’s longest-running and most prolific television networks.
As an innovator in the broadcasting industry in Latin America, Artear decided to build a state-of-the-art newsroom to continue setting the pace for regional news broadcasting and creative content.
ATEN cooperated with its partner in Argentina, ProShow, to complete the project, which met Artear’s long-distance transmission and seamless switching requirements within the budget.
“We are delighted that Artear chose an ATEN control system solution, one that delivered easy management and control, as further proof that our solutions are perfectly suitable for any large-scale, high-end pro A/V environment,” says Kevin Chen, president of ATEN International.
Artear’s top priority for their new 5×5 and 10×6 video walls was flexibility. The challenges included:
- Customizable solution with minimal lag when switching. Artear was looking for a flexible solution that was able to be easily and quickly customized to support the fast-paced video display needs of a cutting-edge newsroom with fast switching between video sources in real-time.
- Easy video wall layout control. To switch among different video wall layouts and content sources easily and quickly.
- Reliable power redundancy. Power stability and redundancy that is critical for a 24-7 newsroom environment.
- Multiple video inputs and outputs control. To control a large 10×6 video wall and a smaller 5×5 video wall with 16 different SDI input sources.
- Long-distance transmission. To extend the 5×5 video wall content up to 70 meters to account for the design architecture of the newsroom.
ATEN provided six VM1600 units, incorporating with VM7404 3G-SDI input boards, VM8804 HDMI output boards and VM8514 HDBaseT output boards and sixteen VS146 splitters with two VK2100 control boxes, and twenty-five VE805R HDMI HDBaseT–Lite receivers to fulfill the requirements.
The solution bundle provides:
- Customized flexibility and video wall configuration options. ATEN’s modular matrix switches integrate different video input and output interfaces and encodes the various formats to deliver customized flexibility and video wall configuration options.
- Seamless switching and reliable, continuous video streams. ATEN’s Seamless Switch technology delivers stable and reliable continuous video streams and instant real-time source switching without delays.
- Centralized video wall control from multiple devices. The ATEN control system is a standard Ethernet-based management system that connects all the hardware devices in the news room to provide centralized control directly and effortlessly via a PC, notebook or any mobile device.
- Reliable power redundancy design. Two power slots on the VM1600 that can connect to two different power supplies provide the reliable power redundancy that is critical for the 24-7 operations of a newsroom.
- Long distance video transmission. The support for extended HDBaseT transmission over a single Cat 6/6a cable ensures that the solution is easily adaptable to the physical architecture of the newsroom while providing seamless switching and video wall functionality.
