NAB 2024: NEP Group Sheds Light on New Partnerships Using Connected Production Ecosystem
NEP Group is continuing the expansion of its connected production ecosystem through new partnerships with rights holders, sports leagues, broadcasters and OTT providers. In addition to existing partnerships around the globe, this expansion includes successful support for partners such as the PGA TOUR, NASCAR and MLS in the United States, Dyn Sport in Germany, WRC in Finland, TV4 and the Swedish Hockey League in Sweden, and the International Press Center – Résidence Palace in Brussels, Belgium.
The connected production solutions offered by NEP are continually evolving to meet client needs, market trends, and technological advancements. With over 20 production hubs, 100 control rooms, 200 mobile units, and 100 flypacks worldwide, NEP is focused on delivering quality, efficiency, and sustainability to its clients. By offering various production options and services tailored to individual needs, NEP aims to provide a comprehensive solution from content capture to distribution and everything in between, including commentary, language services, alternate feed production, asset management, vertical production, studios, playouts and more. Watch this video for a global view of NEP’s connected production ecosystem. The ecosystem, powered by the Total Facility Control (TFC) platform, enables seamless operation and collaboration across NEP’s global network of facilities and hubs.
The key expansions over the last year includes bringing nine new production hubs into North America, APAC and Europe, a new hub in Singapore, and expanding the Andrews Hubs in Australia and the VISTA Hub in South Florida. NEP created its global ecosystem to allow for any combination of traditional production deliveries, at one or multiple event venues, with remote capabilities managed off-site, sometimes hundreds or thousands of miles away.
“Our connected production solutions are complementary to NEP’s industry-leading fleet of mobile units and OBs, and our recent partnerships are great examples of this hybrid approach of serving our clients both onsite and remotely,” says Mike Werteen, President, NEP Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer. “From the new fleet of nine all-IP mobile units that debuted for the 2024 PGA TOUR season, to the connected production hubs established around the globe – we’re providing our clients with more production tools and flexibility to meet their needs, and we’re honored to collaborate with their amazing teams to build the best production solutions for today and the future.”
NEP’s proprietary broadcast control and networking platform, TFC, makes using IP 2110 infrastructure fast and intuitive; empowering production teams to focus on creating incredible content instead of integrating disparate technologies. TFC is used throughout NEP’s connected production facilities across the globe, giving production, video, audio, replay, graphics and engineering operators the ability to program show setups using a touchscreen, scale setups up and down, and share resources between any other facility within NEP’s connected production ecosystem, providing universal control, management and security.