Belden Speeds Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s Upgrade to HD
NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is a government-owned, non-commercial, independent public broadcaster that offers a variety of content via three national TV channels, 13 national radio channels and a website. Over the past decade, NRK has strived to increase attractive content for young people and respond to the demand for HD content. Beginning in 2009 and officially launched with their first HD broadcast from the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, NRK now offers an HD version of its popular NRK1 channel and has been steadily increasing HD content ever since.
As part of the initiative, NRK set out to upgrade its camera systems from standard definition (SD) to HD at NRK’s 12 regional studios, including three large production centres in Tromsø, Trondheim and Bergen. They standardized on a Sony HDTV camera system that provides digital transmission using SMPTE fibre optic cable and LEMO 3K.93C series connectors. To complete the upgrade faster and more cost-effectively while ensuring optimum reliability and performance, NRK selected Belden’s ultra-robust SMPTE311 Pre-terminated Hybrid Optical Fibre Cable Assemblies in customized lengths and pre-terminated with LEMO 3K.93C series plugs and receptacles. Designed to meet the SMPTE311M standard for HD television cameras, the Belden cable assemblies were selected due to the integrity of the factory termination and guaranteed performance. The multiple varieties, jacket materials and connector types available for the assemblies also made it extremely easy to configure each assembly with the correct connector for each connection, allowing NRK to create a complete end-to-end HD camera system.
Belden Helps St. Francis Hospital Enhance Patient Care
St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Georgia recently selected Belden fiber and copper cabling and connectivity to support state-of-the-art hospital systems in two new towers consisting of a dedicated cardiovascular surgical unit and cardiac and women’s centers.
From the data center to each of the 12 new telecommunications rooms, the backbone cabling consisted of a combination of 12 strands of Belden FiberExpress OM3 multimode bend-insensitive fiber and 6 strands of FiberExpress OS2 singlemode fiber. The fiber was terminated at Belden FX UHD Patch Panels via Belden FiberExpress pigtails using fusion splice-on LC connectors that provide factory-polished performance with field-termination convenience. With sliding and tilting drawers, the feature-rich FX UHD Patch Panel offers St. Francis with better accessibility and easier identification of the fiber ports.
Top 5 Reasons to Choose Pre-Term Fiber
Let’s face it. Consumer demand for information, increased bandwidth and new applications is continuing to grow at a rapid pace. In response, data centers need to turn up networking services as quickly as possible while supporting higher speeds and cutting costs. Today’s data centers are also looking to provide a seamless migration path from current 10 gigabit speeds to future 40 and 100 gigabit speeds, both of which utilize parallel optics transmission with multi-fiber push on (MPO) connectors as the standards-defined interface. Insertion loss is also a critical parameter that determines the maximum distance of an optical fiber channel for a given transmission rate, and the channel loss for 40 and 100 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) applications is much more stringent than it was with 10 GbE.
When looking at the big picture and all of these factors combined, pre-terminated fiber assemblies for switch-to-switch fiber connections in the backbone and storage area network make more sense than ever. There are five main reasons to choose pre-term fiber over traditional field termination – faster deployment, reduced cost, improved performance, better scalability and less risk.
Featured Blog: Movie, Motion Picture, Flickers…which is it?
Blogger Steve Lampen has a real problem with the terms “movie, flick and motion picture” as they sound like something from the 1900s when frame rates were really low. While much of the world simply refers to it as “cinema,” developments in 4K are bringing movie making and TV broadcasting closer together in format than ever before, which makes Belden’s video cables truly “cinema” cables. Belden already makes quad link and dual link 4K video cables and is well on its way to offering single link 4K video cables, not to mention fiber cables that can easily handle whatever resolution movies, motion picture, flickers and cinema demand – regardless of which term you prefer.
When you read the case studies and blogs in this issue, it’s easy to see how the role of fiber in broadcasting and networking is becoming more important than ever. When it comes to providing the bandwidth needed to deliver today’s and tomorrow’s HD content and support ever-increasing amounts of data, fiber is truly the most future proof cabling technology. Again and again, Belden’s fiber cable and connectivity solutions are being chosen to meet today’s applications challenges, while preparing our customers for the ongoing growth of HD digital content and faster speeds. While our copper solutions will continue to have their place in the industry for many years to come, every day our world is getting faster and faster. Please join us in the exciting migration to high-performance fiber infrastructures that will allow you and your customers to keep up. In the meantime, happy reading!
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NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is a government-owned, non-commercial, independent public broadcaster that offers a variety of content via three national TV channels, 13 national radio channels and a website. Over the past decade, NRK has strived to increase attractive content for young people and respond to the demand for HD content. Beginning in 2009 and officially launched with their first HD broadcast from the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, NRK now offers an HD version of its popular NRK1 channel and has been steadily increasing HD content ever since.
St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Georgia recently selected Belden fiber and copper cabling and connectivity to support state-of-the-art hospital systems in two new towers consisting of a dedicated cardiovascular surgical unit and cardiac and women’s centers.
Let’s face it. Consumer demand for information, increased bandwidth and new applications is continuing to grow at a rapid pace. In response, data centers need to turn up networking services as quickly as possible while supporting higher speeds and cutting costs. Today’s data centers are also looking to provide a seamless migration path from current 10 gigabit speeds to future 40 and 100 gigabit speeds, both of which utilize parallel optics transmission with multi-fiber push on (MPO) connectors as the standards-defined interface. Insertion loss is also a critical parameter that determines the maximum distance of an optical fiber channel for a given transmission rate, and the channel loss for 40 and 100 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) applications is much more stringent than it was with 10 GbE.
