Barix Audio over IP Solutions Support Live Global Broadcasts for the 2010 Commonwealth Games

By Barix Ag, PRNE
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

ZURICH, October 21, 2010 - Barix AG, a pioneer in IP-based audio, intercom, control, and monitoring,
announces that more than 1000 Barix Audio over IP devices were used for
contribution, distribution and monitoring of live broadcast audio for the
2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

The games, held from October 3-14, were considered the largest
multi-sport event staged in India. More than 6,000 athletes from 71
Commonwealth nations and dependencies competed. Host broadcaster Prasat
Bharathi, India's largest public broadcaster, produced the official live
broadcast signal from 12 competition venues.

Mahanahar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), a telecom service provider and
the largest provider of broadband services in Delhi, installed and operated a
redundant fiber network to transport IP audio over MPLS from the venues to
the International Broadcast Center (IBC). The IBC managed and delivered more
than 40 contribution and 250 coordination feeds to and from the venues, and
served as the origination point for broadcast signals delivered globally to
rights holders.

Barix Exstreamer 1000 professional IP encoding/decoding devices were the
core audio transport solutions, with special firmware from Barix to deliver
very low-latency audio (between 20-30 milliseconds of delay). Redundant pairs
of Exstreamer 1000 devices contributed live sports commentary and
broadcast-quality event audio from each venue to the IBC.

Many broadcast facilities receiving live feeds from the IBC used Barix
Exstreamer devices to receive and decode the program audio. Barix IP devices
additionally provided SNMP traps that allowed MTNL personnel to monitor the
links from the company's operational headquarters.

Mr. Jidendra Garg, Deputy General Manager of MTNL, recognized the success
of the IP network, noting high channel availability, reliable bilateral audio
feeds, and superior quality of the coordination circuits.

"We are appreciative of the professional support provided by Barix and
our systems integration partners HCL Infosystems and BNA Technology
Consulting," said Mr. Garg.

Johannes G. Rietschel, CEO of Barix AG, expressed gratitude at the
opportunity to deploy more than 1000 Barix Audio over IP devices, which
proved the reliability of Barix devices for live broadcast events and network
monitoring.

"We are proud to have delivered 'incident-free' performance for the
12-day event at an affordable cost, working in a fully-redundant link model
in cooperation with the region's leading broadcast, production, telecom and
integration companies," said Rietschel.

Please visit www.barix.com or www.ip-audio.info for more
information.

Brian Galante, +1-570-425-2315, brian at dimensionpronline.com, for Barix AG

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