BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES 2008 CHINA 02/01/2008

Services: 1200 AEQ DCS-10 commentary units.
EBU’s Switching Center in Beijing includes AEQ’s Impact, Course, and BC 2000 D equipment. RNE’s engineer Javier Ferreras is operating the equipment.
It is a well known in the broadcast industry that AEQ has been, and continues to be, a key player in the world’s Olympic Games. Once again, AEQ played a significant
role as the supplier of commentator audio equipment to this year’s Olympic games.
Since the Nagano Games in 1998, commentators at the various competitive venues have used AEQ’s DCS 10 Digital Commentator consoles, giving them the ability to
accommodate three reporters plus a guest.
Since the Sidney Games in 2000, AEQ’s Ranger Multiplexers were used to broadcast program and coordination information (and the returns) to the International
Broadcasting Center.

frames, patch panels, audio distribution amplifiers, intercoms, line identifiers, monitors, audio quality monitors, just to mention a few.
Some of the Olympic broadcasters who used AEQ equipment were: TV AZTECA and TELEVISA (Mexico); Radio Caracol (Colombia); ENTV (Algeria); RTRRA (Russia),
ROR (Romania), SABC (South Africa), RTVE (Spain), France 2; Globo (Brazil) and NHK (Japan).

17 ALFACAM OB Vans were used at the multiple venues and the Olympic Stadium to produce HD video had AEQ equipment installed as part of their equipment suites.
The most frequently used equipment items were: DA-26, EAGLE, SWING, MPAC-02, Mar4Win, TLE 02, Ranger, and the ACD 5001.
Special mention goes out to the European Broadcasting Union, EBU (EUROVISION), and the primary broadcasters association. For many years the EBU has used AEQ’s
Impact Digital Switching Center and Course Codecs to deliver audio from the Games to Europe. For the Beijing Games, AEQ updated EBU’s switching capability with the
BC 2000 D Router Matrix, and for transport our new multiplexing modules were integrated into the BC 2000 D Router. So at Beijing 2008, the EBU inaugurated the
new AEQ BC 2000 D