CK OliveNetworks, an entertainment and media subsidiary of South Korea’s CJ Group, is now operating a full house of broadcast and digital services including managed broadcast transmission of 64 local and international channels.
To meet current growth and future expansion it required new flexible infrastructure that could support a combination of SDI, NDI, ST-2110 and transport streams, hosted on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware.
Supported by equipment and services provider Besco, CK OliveNetworks turned to Pebble’s automation, integrated channel and remote solutions to launch one of the most technically advanced multi-channel setups in APAC, which brought 11 fully redundant channels to air.
The solution now live at CJ OliveNetworks features Pebble automation controlling playout of 33 integrated channels in an 11+11+11 redundant configuration. Each on-air channel can be fed from any one of three integrated channels to provide extremely high availability.
All channels are of similar design with 2110 and SDI inputs and outputs plus NDI monitoring. Logical processors include loudness control, audio shuffling, DolbyD encoding, SCTE104 and closed subtitling.
The integration of Pebble Open API with CJ OliveNetworks’ in-house traffic and media Management system enables communication between the two platforms. With this integration, CJ OliveNetworks can now easily interact with Pebble’s live playlist and media metadata.
Choi Tae-Hyoung, General Manager at CJ OliveNetworks, said, “We wanted to build a future-proof flexible solution that could perform uncompressed IP, compressed IP and SDI in the same system and in the same server with a modern user interface.
“Pebble systems were the clear winner in enabling us to move forward for our clients. We are immensely satisfied with the whole process from inception to execution.”The project was honoured with an Excellence Award for Channel System last month at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting+ Awards 2023. The award highlighted Pebble’s commitment to delivering exceptional channel systems to the broadcast industry.