Vyvx Expands HD VenueNet, Carrying Fox Sports' 720p HDTV Feeds During NFL Season

28-Sep-04

Vyvx, a market leader in providing fiber-optic and satellite transmission solutions to the media and entertainment industry for 15 years, announced today that it has completed the second phase of deployment for its HD VenueNet service, which is now available in 28 sports venues across the United States. Fox Sports is using the Vyvx HD VenueNet service to carry live, 720p HDTV broadcast feeds from various stadiums across the country to the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles during the 2004 National Football League season. The industry's first end-to-end fiber-optic network solution for transporting live high-definition television over an MPLS infrastructure, HD VenueNet enables broadcasters to transmit live HDTV feeds at up to 270 Mbps. The solution won the Award for Innovation in Media in the Content Deliverycategory at the 2004 National Association of Broadcasters trade show in April. ""The HD VenueNet service was launched in February and carried the HDTV backhaul of the Super Bowl. Since then, we have been working with our broadcast customers to expand it to the venues with the greatest need for highly reliable HDTV backhaul service with the quality and customer service that Vyvx provides,"" said Derek Smith, vice president of Vyvx. ""In this case, we have expanded the service from our initial deployment of 14 football, basketball and baseball venues to include 14 new NFL venues in support of Fox Sports' plans for producing six NFL games in 720p HDTV each Sunday during the season."" ""It was 10 years ago that Vyvx deployed its then revolutionary SD VenueNetservice in support of Fox Sports' inaugural NFL season and we are thrilledthat Vyvx has shown a continuing commitment to its heritage by deploying HDVenueNet service at this time,"" said Andrew G. Setos, President Engineering ofthe Fox Group. HD VenueNet is now available from the following venues: Georgia Dome (Atlanta), Philips Arena (Atlanta), Turner Field (Atlanta), Bank of AmericaStadium (Charlotte), Soldier Field (Chicago), Texas Stadium (Dallas), FordField (Detroit), Pepsi Center (Denver), Coors Field (Denver), Giants Stadium(East Rutherford, N.J.), Reliant Stadium (Houston), Staples Center (LosAngeles), Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles), Metrodome (Minneapolis), Superdome(New Orleans), Madison Square Garden (New York), Shea Stadium (New York),Yankee Stadium (New York), Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia), Bank OneBallpark (Phoenix), Edward Jones Dome (St. Louis), Petco Park (San Diego), SBCPark (San Francisco), 3Com Park (San Francisco), Seahawks Stadium (Seattle),Raymond James Stadium (Tampa), Sun Devil Stadium (Tempe, Ariz.), FedEx Field(Washington, D.C.). For more information, please visit http://www.vyvx.com.

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