The SATIS Awards, organised by Génération Numérique at the SATIS 2021, recognizes innovations in the audiovisual sector. The seventh edition has been reinvented to match the major issues for the industry. The journalists of two magazines, Sonovision and MediaKwest, selected BCE and Orange Business Services for the project of Radio France migrating its workflows to IP. With this new infrastructure, Radio France will be able to support its studio renovation projects and setting up new production methods.

“In these times of convergence between audiovisual and IP, the creativity and innovations of media companies are everywhere. It was therefore not easy to select the award-winning companies from a list where start-ups and leading companies rubbed shoulders,” announces Stephan Faudeux, Director of the SATIS and Founder of Génération Numérique.

Looking forward to replacing its audio and video distribution infrastructures, it was important for Radio France to work with experts in digital transition as well as IP platforms. Following a call for tenders, the Orange/BCE consortium was selected.

The technological evolution is based on a redundant core network. Each studio is securely connected by integrating network controllers allowing audio and video streams through Media gateways. BCE oversees the media part. For Radio France the network architecture is based on the ST 2110 standard and built around a redundant IP multimedia system, connected to all the devices: directly via IP or via a gateway when the device is not IP native.  A broadcast control system manages all audio and video equipment as well as operations and a monitoring platform oversees the infrastructure to measure its effectiveness and provide diagnostics that can be used by the support team.