Snell and Kahuna support Winter Games’ HD production

Reading — Snell has announced that Russia's ANO Sports Broadcasting (Panorama) production company is building the company's Sirius routers and Kahuna multiformat production switchers into the platform that will provide TV, radio, Internet, and photographic coverage of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

During the games, Snell systems that are installed across a fleet of OB vans, will support delivery of a national HD signal to millions of viewers across Russia. The system integrator for the ANO/Panorama project is CJSC "Sony Electronics," which is providing a turn-key solution comprising 12 OB vans (five 10-cam OBs, four 16-cam OBs, and three 24-cam OB vehicles).

"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.

Revin added, "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”.