NW, OBS, and Partners Shortlisted for IBC Award for Paris 2024 Olympics Broadcast

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and various partners — including Neutral Wireless — have been shortlisted for an IBC Innovation Award ahead of the IBC 2024 conference in Amsterdam!

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and various partners — including Neutral Wireless — have been shortlisted for an IBC Innovation Award ahead of the IBC 2024 conference in Amsterdam for their use of smartphone video feeds captured using Private 5G during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games!

During the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 games, Over 200 Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphones were deployed across the 85 athlete boats used for the ceremony. Live smartphone feeds captured via Haivision’s MoJoPro app supported the broadcast production, with a Private 5G Standalone network deployed along the Seine.

Using Private 5G, 250 Samsung S24 Ultra devices captured live footage from the 85 athlete boats used in the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

Similarly, Samsung handsets were used to capture live on-board footage from the sailing events at Marseille Marina — bringing the viewers as close to the action as possible as the athletes battled the elements. In this case, a mobile three-cell Private 5G network was deployed across three catamarans out on the Mediterranean Sea, covering the fields of play and providing connectivity to the Samsung handsets.

A 3-cell Private 5G network was deployed on boats off Marseille Marina, to provide live on-board footage from the Olympic sailing events.

Private 5G networks were also deployed in other venues, such as in Bercy Arena, the Stade de France, and the Paris La Défense Arena. With high-speed wireless uploads enabling fully-remote editing workflows, photographers from agencies such as Getty could move from apparatus to apparatus, focusing entirely on capturing iconic shots of athletes such as Simeone Biles.

Neutral Wireless, Orange and Cisco provided the Private 5G network using Intel-powered solutions. Neutral Wireless has significant experience in providing Private 5G connectivity for live broadcasts, with our ultra-configurable networks easily optimised for the demanding (uplink) throughput and low-latency requirements of broadcast use cases.

Other partners involved in the project include CyanView, who enabled remote camera control, and AMP VISUAL TV who managed the remote production. The project has been shortlisted as a 2024 IBC Innovation Award finalist in the Content Creation category.

The award winners will be announced in a ceremony taking place in the Auditorium Complex at the RAI conference centre on Sunday, 15 September at 18.00 CET.

See what other partners had to say on the project, including Intel and representatives from Orange Events, Haivision, and Cisco.

Neutral Wireless will be at IBC 2024!

Neutral Wireless will be attending IBC 2024 in Amsterdam from 13th – 16th September 2024.

We will have a presence on the IBC Accelerator stand (3.A23) in Hall 3, as part of our work in this years IBC accelerator project — Connecting Live Performances of the Future with ULL-AVLM (Ultra-Low Latency Audio, video, light and media data) — which seeks to enable low latency and synchronised live performances across multiple venues.

Neutral Wireless will also have a presence on the Haivision stand (2.B32) in Hall 5, on the LiveU stand (7.C19) in Hall 7, and will be supporting Sony (13.A10 & 13.D201) with a live low-latency video demonstration.

To arrange a meeting with us at IBC 2024, please reach out to us at events@neutralwireless.com.

To enquire about acquiring a Neutral Wireless private network, please feel free to get in touch with our sales team at info@neutralwireless.com.