Today, The Switch announces it provided ground-breaking production and connectivity services to support the production of this year's Love Island USA. Working closely with ITV America and CBS Network, The Switch created a unique workflow to support 24/7 live production of the show, which was filmed in multiple remote locations in Hawaii and produced between Hawaii, Los Angeles and Burbank. 

Today, The Switch announces it has hired Peter Timmons as Senior Product Manager in a new role that will drive the continued growth of its Cloud Video Services platform, MIMiC. Timmons brings with him a wealth of experience from previous roles at Imagine Communications, Sony, Snell Advanced Media and Gates Air.

The Switch announces it was selected by the next-generation interactive streaming service Aura to power never-before-seen coverage of the 2021 Melbourne Cup. The Switch's Cloud Video Services platform, MIMiC, powered multiple live feeds from the Flemington Racecourse to the Aura app, where users were able to curate their own viewing experience via Aura's video-game-style platform. 

The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, showcased its ability to support unique social media sports coverage when it powered an entire schedule of Twitter Live pre-game programming for the National Hockey League (NHL) 2021 Stanley Cup tournament. The Switch deployed a comprehensive suite of live video production and delivery services to support a virtualized production of 21 pre-game Twitter shows.

The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, provided a full slate of services for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), supporting the broadcast of its seventh biennial roadblock telecast. The show, which aired simultaneously on more than 60 participating media platforms across the United States and Canada on Saturday, August 21 at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT relied on The Switch’s live production expertise and extensive video delivery network for the hour-long telecast. The Switch supported key aspects of the broadcast, providing a range of production services and facilities, as well as delivery to all of SU2C’s media partners.

The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, deployed groundbreaking connectivity to support live coverage of this year’s French Open. The state-of-the-art deployment in Paris’s Stade Roland Garros, home to the Grand Slam tournament, allowed the transport of uncompressed HD feeds via dedicated fiber paths to the main broadcast rightsholders. The Switch’s robust delivery network enabled Tennis Channel to reach its largest audience yet for the men’s singles semifinal between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal on June 11, reaching 511,000 viewers.

The Switch announces that Spark New Zealand, the country’s largest digital services provider will tap The Switch’s cloud-based production-as-a-service offering, MIMiC, as part of a multi-layered solution to deliver live sports feeds from Formula 1, English Premier League and New Zealand Cricket to Spark Sport subscribers. The deal marries The Switch’s IP infrastructure, its live sports expertise and its unique cloud-based production service offering.

Net Insight’s next-generation Nimbra platform has been selected by The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, for a significant expansion of its US network. The deal will create a new 100Gbit fiber network, bringing higher capacity connectivity to key media and sports hubs in the North American market.

The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, announces a major network expansion strategy to support more live content services and drive the industry’s transition to remote production. In Phase One of a broader network expansion project, The Switch is deploying 100Gbit connectivity to serve its customers in the northeast United States; further phases to extend capacity on the west coast and in other parts of the country will follow.

 The Switch, the platform for the production and global delivery of live video, has teamed up with Aruji, one of Japan’s leading transmission and production services providers, to extend the global reach of its combined transmission networks. The agreement allows The Switch and Aruji’s customers to leverage live feeds from more events and seamlessly distribute them via a reliable and robust international network.

The Switch, the platform for the production and global delivery of live video, has announced the relocation of Senior Vice President of Sales Nicholas Castaneda to the United Kingdom to drive its continued growth in international markets. Castaneda is now based in The Switch’s Central London office and will spearhead further expansion in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and other markets, where leading players in live broadcast and streaming are turning to The Switch for its remote production capabilities and global network reach.

The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, announces that it was recently chosen by NESN (New England Sports Network), one of the preeminent regional sports networks (RSNs) in the US, to deliver next-generation IP infrastructure and content delivery services. NESN tapped The Switch’s high-performance hybrid fiber/internet network to replace its existing satellite distribution platform.

The Switch, a leading provider of production services and global delivery of live video, announces that it has been chosen by J SPORTS, Japan’s largest sports broadcaster, to deliver live telecasts of major US sports directly from American stadiums and arenas to Japanese screens. The Switch, which is working with J SPORTS for the first time, has installed a permanent transmit path from its New York Network Operations Center (NOC) to the broadcaster’s Tokyo facility to bring all the anticipation and action of Major League Baseball, PGA golf and WWE wrestling to Japanese fans.

Densitron, the global leader in innovative Human Machine Interaction (HMI) and display technology, has announced a new long-term partnership with measurement and monitoring specialist Bridge Technologies. Together the two companies will offer broadcast customers advanced solutions for the display and analysis of standard-based IP video streams that combine the functionality of Densitron’s IDS (Intelligent Display System) platform with Bridge Technologies’ software and hardware systems for broadcast measurement and monitoring.

The Switch, the platform for the production and global delivery of live video, has been chosen by Brazilian pay-TV market leader Globo to deliver live coverage of the 2020 US Open to its growing audience of tennis fans across Brazil. Capitalizing on The Switch’s extensive video distribution network, Globo is able to ensure that uninterrupted, high-quality live feeds from the Grand Slam tennis tournament reach its 45 million subscribers while enjoying unprecedented flexibility and control over the delivery and production values.