Bexel, EVS and Incited Media Help Create Biggest Webcast on the Planet for "Live Earth" Burbank-based Bexel Broadcast Services and EVS provided an integral part of creating the webcast for the Live Earth concert, providing ingest, delayed feeds, and video-on-demand footage for the event, which set records for attracting viewers via the web. Online hits topped 30 million streams the day of the event - the highest volume for any online event in the history of the worldwide web...

Bexel Broadcast Services partnered with Incited Media to provide the design, integration, and support for the EVS portion of the event. Having experience with both Incited and EVS, Bexel was ready with the perfect team of engineers and equipment to handle the process. "This is a very exciting project for us to be involved with - the guys have worked very hard on this one," stated Director of Bexel Broadcast Services, Craig Schiller.

There were six 6-Channel SD XT[2] servers controlled by 7 IP Directors, along with 3 XFiles with MediaXchange, used to ingest the 2 feeds from each location, as well as a world feed. Throughout the event, the system was used to record on average 24 feeds with 12 playback channels. "Many aspects of this job required some very complicated solutions, operating concurrently, to seamlessly integrate well together. IP Director and the new features available working in the Version 4 suite of EVS tools not only met the challenges, they made the processes simple to learn and use," says Greg Blanton of Bexel.