AIS Comunicaciones deploys its HD transport technology via satellite for surgical transmissions in TEAM 2014

AIS Communications, Specialized in audiovisual communication in the medical-hospital and pharmaceutical sector, has carried out the supply and implementation of its technology in transmission of digital signals in HD for surgical broadcast, that has exceeded the expectations of an event as technical and complex as the International Theoretical-Practical Course of Endovascular Therapy & Myocardial (TEAM 2014), recently held in Madrid.

The XII edition of TEAM, which has become the most important reference meeting in Europe specialized in coronary therapies, has focused on this occasion in the staging of a score of live interventions from the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid, and two more cases from the University Hospital Bonn (Germany), in connection with the auditorium of the Meliá Castilla hotel in Madrid thanks to the technology of transmission of digital signals in HD for surgical broadcast of AIS Communications.

The organizing committee of TEAM, formed by specialists in cardiology headed by Dr. Eulogio García, Director of Structural Heart Disease and Cardiology consultant at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid, together with Jordi Medrano, responsible for the management of TEAM at Grupo Pacífico, raised with AIS the need to show attendees the same visual quality, in high resolution, typically provided by current operating room equipment monitors.

HD satellite transport

As Jordi Medrano explains, The complexity of editing 2014 of TEAM was double, "Since I had to contemplate, on the one hand, the deployment of a transmission solution similar to the one already applied in the year 2013, Although at present all signals had to be digital, converge on a centralized control platform and be treated in high definition from the monitor located in the operating room to the screen of the hotel auditorium. and, on the other, the switching and transport units had to support the HD requirement".

For reliable HD transmission without broadcast errors, as José María Grau points out, General Manager of AIS Communications, "The key to success has been the extraordinary engineering work done by the AIS team of specialists., and also in the choice of satellite transport in HD format, using a bandwidth of 18 Mbps".

previously, Both the AIS team and Grupo Pacífico have carried out a complex technological deployment to make connections in Spanish locations: the San Carlos Clinical Hospital and the hotel auditorium, to transmit in high definition and ensure that the images of the surgical interventions perceived by the congressmen were of equivalent qualities and resolutions, and that they could visualize all their follow-up in detail on the 11 meters diagonal.

The format of theoretical-practical cases that are broadcast live through the TEAM congresses usually consists of transmissions from three operating rooms located in the Hemodynamics Section of the San Carlos Clinical Hospital, who take turns in the issuance of each case for an uninterrupted period of three days.

In the first editions of the congress, The number of signals with which we worked was in analog format and low resolution. nevertheless, from last year's edition, The course dramatically increased the number of signs to be treated (eight per operating room), as well as the resolution of emissions, which forced to incorporate fully digital technology in the switching and transport of the more than 32 High-resolution signals or sources that are currently being managed simultaneously.

In TEAM 2014, in addition to carrying the signal through satellite with HD capacity and a bandwidth of 18 mbps, for switching, HD digital matrices and total connection through optical fiber have been chosen.

The final result has not left anyone indifferent and the objective proposed by the organization has been achieved.: Transfer the level of visual quality of the operating room monitors to the participants of the congress, no errors in broadcasting and HD quality, "A technological challenge that has been far overcome by both Grupo Pacífico and AIS experts", Underline.

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