From our Who’s Buying What page: Lawo has completed a video infrastructure upgrade for the University of Nebraska’s HuskerVision with the deployment of a SMPTE ST 2110-based system.
The software-based production environment brings its athletic venues into a media network capable of handling shows from multiple control rooms.
The network connects facilities that include Memorial Stadium, Hawks Championship Center, the Devaney Center, Pinnacle Bank Arena, Haymarket Park and the Dillon tennis and Hibner soccer complexes.
The IP backbone feeds three co-located control rooms inside Memorial Stadium.
HuskerVision led the project as the second phase of a multi-year modernization effort, following an audio-first IP transformation in 2023, according to a release.
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The university worked with BeckTV, who designed and integrated the SMPTE ST 2110 implementation, to evaluate its goals that included scalability with less bandwidth overhead.
Garrett Hill, director of technology for HuskerVision, spoke of the ease of routing video or audio independently.
“We can bring in signals from any venue — whether five cameras from volleyball or a football package — and everything just shows up in the fabric,” Hill said.
At the core of the new infrastructure is Lawo’s .edge platform, which acts as both a high-density gateway and an IP processing node. The .edge frames provide 3G-SDI and 12G-SDI ingest, while native ST 2110 connectivity and quad-25GbE interfaces feed the production network.
Recently retired Chief Engineer Scott Guthrie said the Memorial Stadium’s truck dock has especially reaped the benefits of the upgrades. HuskerVision can exchange 24×24 bidirectional signals with national broadcast trucks, supporting 12G-SDI, HDR, SDR and ST 2110 feeds.
The project also uses Lawo’s HOME Apps running on COTS servers. It includes the HOME Multiviewer for monitoring setups and the HOME UDX app.
Brock Raum, BeckTV senior engineer and Nebraska alumnus, said the flexibility of the HOME App system was the highlight of the solution, allowing its operators to adjust specific tools up or down depending on the sport or season.
HuskerVision said that the upgrades have allowed its team to manage events while providing student operators with hands-on training.
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