FOX Sports has recently announced the acquisition of the MediaInfra Strada Routing and Control solution by EVS. This deal was made public by Kevin Callahan, VP Field Operations & Engineering on the EVS booth during the NAB Show.

The American network’s production team will use in order to perform critical routing and control operations at large-scale live events:

The MediaInfra Strada solution will be delivered to Qatar in October 2022 ahead the FIFA Men’s World Cup that will take place in November 2022. It will then make its way to the USA for the live production of Super Bowl LVII in Arizona in February 2023, to be later deployed across the globe for other prestigious competitions such as the Woman’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and the 17th edition of the UEFA Euro in Germany.

MediaInfra Strada is built on an IP backbone and leveraging EVS’ field-proven Cerebrum and Neuron product lines, the routing and control solution enables transition to full IP infrastructures, while continuing to offer SDI support. The difference between handling SDI sources or IP streams goes unnoticed since all the underlying complexities are completely abstracted by the solution’s graphical interfaces.

“We were impressed with the flexibility demonstrated by MediaInfra Strada. Our team is looking forward to working with a solution that can easily be reconfigured ahead of each event to properly address all our different workflow scenarios that await us” commented Kevin Callahan. “The over-arching control system, Cerebrum, also makes it an incredibly powerful and dynamic solution that we can customize in a way that works best for us.”