25th September 2014

Sapec makes a very good track record of IBC 2014, the European appointment of broadcast. The overall visits and interesting projects have been higher than those recorded last year, mainly at the level of Europe’s East and Latin America, which have shown a growing interest in new equipment HEVC, as well as the GREDOS and ALTUM II families devices.

According to José Manuel López, director of marketing and sales of Sapec, “the fair has been very well, from the point of view of people who has been very well thanks to the agenda that we have carried out throughout the year. Indeed, We realised how enthusiastic were our clients in IBC 2014. We’ve seen more people than previous years in the hallways and booth. A different environment, no doubt.” This year the people came not just to visit, but to offer actually projects that we had not seen in previous appointments.

 

 

The conquest of Eastern Europe

Sapec has received concrete proposals to already go to Eastern Europe, and therefore will tip over in these markets. The market in Western Europe today is very complicated, but certain countries beyond Austria as Poland, Russia, Belarus and Slovenia, among others, have shown a progressive interest by teams of SAPEC, coming together to the Latin American countries.

 

Much interest in the HEVC 

Engineers in SAPEC are aware that any new technology needs time, and that therefore the HEVC is a market that will take awhile to get going (the standard was defined a little more than one year ago – in July of 2013-), but in any case the Madrilean company is ready and it has its incredible operational device already at 100%.

José Manuel López talks about HEVC technology, “I’m sure its first large development will not be for television or satellite, but OTT or IPTV, closed environments with control, streaming and so. There is a big interest, and it has left us great opportunities to do projects, at the moment all outside Spain, obviously, but there are very curious to know, what, how and when you are doing, and if the technology is really maturing. People of Eastern companies and our competitors have come to see all this. People are eager to know how to make each product. All our competition went through our stand, and that’s a categorical sign.”

SAPEC is aware of all this and therefore can boast that are among the pioneers of the HEVC, “what we can say is that we are the first that we have a real system running. I say this because many of the things that we have seen at IBC have been demos, files and things as well. Very few have a development like ours. We are above of the competition, including major brands. We are on the crest of the wave, already making all tests of quality, with guarantees of reliability, stability and is something that obviously is going to evolve. It’s a team that has been being tested by several customers in the U.S. and Europe, and from here to end of year we will have 3 or 4 real operation tests”, recalls SAPEC Sales Manager, who, if that stands out that leaders of the regional chain of Catalunya, TV3 have showed a great interest in the H.265.

 

 

Nevion and VideoFlow

Talking about partners, there was much interest in Nevion solutions and the integration of VideoFlow tools within the high-end equipments of SAPEC. Just a year ago, after more than one decade working together, SAPEC became the only partner of the Norwegian company Nevion in Spain, offering the complete range of professional solutions. In this short period, the Madrilean company has had great results, and therefore the 2014 IBC Amsterdam has been the perfect place to receive the award as “Best distributor of the year” by Nevion. The ability of SAPEC to position in the market all these product portfolio, with a significant growth over the previous year, has been key to obtaining this award.

These significant data have made that the Norwegian company has awarded to SAPEC this distinction “for selling the entire catalog of products of Nevion, for excellence and knowledge of the product and support, for the commitment and professionalism, and to share and communicate our presence in Spain” (see dedicated press release).

Finally, we highlight that he has caused sensation the emergence of VideoFlow technology on SAPEC’s high-end devices, with numerous visits of international IP contributions companies requiring advice at the level of content broadcast transmissions by public networks to save on service.

SAPEC, Spanish company specializes in professional solutions for the transmission of audio and video signals, bet decisively for its expansion in America. Therefore, for this year at NAB in Las Vegas, SAPEC is opting for a stand of larger dimensions (stand SU-11.410 with new decoration). SAPEC also announces the opening of our new office in Mexico City. This new office along with the expansion of our office in Columbia will  provide full coverage to all broadcasters and telcos in the Americas similar to the support that we have provided for many years in Europe.

 

New Encoder and Decoder HEVC

NAB thus becomes the ideal place for the presentation of cutting-edge solutions that go far beyond current technology. SAPEC technology has made it possible to take to Las Vegas their new Encoder and Decoder HEVC in real time, a device that becomes the first implementation of the ITU-H.265, and will be at 100% operating for demos the new SU-11.410 stand at this NAB 2014. Among the main features of this new real-time HEVC Encoder  Decoder, highlight video encoding is HEVC Main10@L4 of audio in MPEG/AAC/Dolby Digital/Dolby Digital Plus (8 stereo) and has support for HDTV. The outputs are DVB-ASI or 100/1000 Ethernet standard SMPTE 2022-2, and has a lower Bit-rate, but with the same quality of video.

 

It’s a team with chassis 1RU with redundant power supply of high level of engineering proposed and designed for large broadcasters and telcos worldwide, but not for this reason ceases to be an easy-to-integrate, configure, and use equipment.

 

New GREDOS

SAPEC also introduces a new range of products that  offer solutions for the transport of the signal via satellite with less consumption, less space and lower cost

 

The new Encoders and IRD’s for applications with satellite GREDOS.

What is ultimately this family Gredos? SAPEC combines  in the same case the video encoder and the satellite modulator. All coding algorithms have the same quality as the Altum II family, but additionally a DVB-S2 satellite modulator has been incorporated.

 

The main features of these machines include the Encoder over the modulator will fit in a single 1RU rack. It is of a modulator DVB-S/S2 advanced modulation with a Roll-off up to 0.05% to 32APSK. For his part, fourth-generation encoder supports HDTV (or SDTV) as well as MPEG2 or H.264, including 422 profiles, and has outputs simultaneous ASI and Ethernet and L band. Among the features of the Receptors – Decoders (complete IRD), we emphasize that you have inputs in band L, Ethernet and ASI, supporting MPEG2 or H.264, including 422 profiles, and allows management of redundancy between inputs, as well as forwarding signal by Ethernet or so.

 

New generation ALTUM II

SAPEC stands out well in Las Vegas with its fourth generation of the successful current codecs that exist in the market, the ALTUM,  that has evolved  now to be called ALTUM II and now  has  a lower consumption, more functionality, and lower cost.  Among the main features, the new equipment greatly improve compression algorithms (lower bit-rate, but same quality of image); they reduce the total latency video-to-video by 20%; they are committed to an environmental commitment to the improvement of the energy efficiency (reducing consumption by 30%); they have a redundancy n + 1 without external managers and with a by-pass of the signal received by the deco to another destination.

 

New offices in America

SAPEC has opened a new office in Mexico City,  and is proud to announce that Carmen Piña will be responsible as Coordinator  to offer full service to its customers both in North America,  the Caribbean and South America.

 

Miguel Cristóbal, General Manager SAPEC

“This year we intend to make a leap from very important image. We have doubled the space at NAB, we will have a specific decoration made for this event and really believe greatly in our presence at NAB. We have nine years coming, but this year we are going to make a qualitative leap from very important image.”

 

“We are still making a strong investment in the sales department. Open office in Mexico and the expansion of offices in Colombia are two clear examples of this qualitative constant bet.”

 

“The products presented at NAB include the new generation of encoders Altum II; the new range of GREDOS products that claim to provide solutions for the transport of the signal via satellite: and finally a technological demonstrator that will be at our booth, it’s a new coder with the new encoding standard that was published in the year 2013, the HDTV HEVC with H.265 encoder. It is our first implementation in this regard, but will already be operational at our booth and will enter production this year. A perfect solution that will greatly reduce the operating costs of the customer”.