ASIA-PACIFIC BROADCASTING

Snell said that Russia's ANO Sports Broadcasting (Panorama) production company is building its Sirius routers

and Kahuna multi-format production switchers into the platform that will provide TV, radio, Internet and still photographic coverage of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

During the Games and other high-profile sporting events in the host city, Snell systems will be installed across a fleet of OB vans to support delivery of a national HD signal to millions of viewers across Russia.

The systems integrator for the ANO (Panorama) project is CJSC Sony Electronics, which is providing a turnkey solution comprising 12 OB vans (five 10-camera OBs, four 16-camera OBs and three 24-camera OBs).

"Our most important supplier prerequisites were that the equipment be the state-of-the-art and capable of staying abreast of the very latest developments in broadcast technology," said Sergey Revin, deputy CTO at Panorama. "Both the Sirius and Kahuna product families meet these requirements, and we expect that the systems will also provide the reliability and flexibility critical for large-scale high-visibility events such as the 2014 Winter Games. Furthermore, the Snell systems' versatility and continued refinement will assure the ongoing value and utility of our investment."

Snell has been selected by ANO (Panorama), an auto-nomous non-profit organ-isa-tion founded by OJSC Channel One, FGUP VGTRK, OJSC NTV-Plus and the Ria Novosti news agency, to provide Siri-us routers and Kahuna 360 production switchers on all OB vans tendered for the Games.

The seven Sirius 840 routers installed in 16- and 24-camera OB vans offer a wide range of powerful features in a compact footprint (a 576x576 frame in a 26RU format) ideal for mobile production applications, while the Kahuna 360 production switchers depart from the model of fixed 
M/Es, resources and formats to support multiple simultaneous productions.

Together, these Snell systems will enable Pano-rama to deliver high-quality HD broadcasts to audiences in Russia and worldwide.

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