PSSI and Appear have announced a new phase in their collaboration, with PSSI deploying Appear’s X Platform with the intention of upgrading its mobile fleet and PSSI International Teleport ahead of a major global soccer event taking place in the Americas this summer. PSSI selected Appear’s solutions due to their density, functionality and security, as the company has claimed in a statement.

“Upgrading the PSSI trucks and our teleport in Pittsburgh with Appear’s X Platform puts us in a strong position for an extremely demanding summer of live sports”, shares Derek Blount, CEO of PSSI. “The combination of Appear’s high-density deployment and our own operations and engineering expertise enables us to exceed our customers’ requirements in premium live events. As an early adopter of this platform, PSSI has years of experience proving the reliability of both the Appear technology and the support team behind it”.

Appear is providing PSSI with X20 chassis and a range of integrated functionality including encoding, decoding, satellite modulation and demodulation, ASI and Secure Reliable Transport (SRT). The deployment looks forward to providing PSSI with a more flexible and secure integrated platform for media contribution workflows.

As part of this project, Appear has enabled PSSI to upgrade its video transport security to BISS-2, leveraging AES-128 encryption, dynamic key rotation and real-time receiver control.

“PSSI operates in some of the most challenging live production and transmission environments in the broadcast market, with its customers demanding flawless performance, strong security and total operational reliability”, concludes Ed McGivern, President & General Manager, Appear US. “This deployment helps ensure that PSSI delivers for its customers with greater efficiency, more flexibility and the confidence that premium live sports feeds are protected at every stage”.