SUCCES STORY Vietnam’S Regional Radios Available Worldwide

SUCCES STORY Vietnam’s regional radios available worldwide

Daily radio broadcasts and on-demand content from Vietnam available to listeners worldwide. Digigram | Case Study - Voice of Vietnam DAILY RADIO BROACASTS AND ON-DEMAND CONTENT FROM VIETNAM AVAILABLE TOD LISTENERSigigram WORLDWIDE | Case Study - Voice of Vietnam DAILY RADIO BROACASTS AND ON-DEMAND CONTENT FROM VIETNAM AVAILABLE TO LISTENERS WORLDWIDE

Introduction

Over the past 75 years, VOV has been a pioneer in innovation. It built the ﬁrst model of multimedia plat- form in Vietnam, comprising radio, TV, print, and online newspaper. On September 7, 1945, the Voice of Vietnam broadcasted its ﬁrst program and became the national radio station.

Today VOV has expanded to cover all of Vietnam and international audiences via 8 radio channels, 16 TV channels, one printed newspaper, and 2 online newspapers at vov.vn and vtc.vn. VOV’s coverage reaches 91.6% of the land area and 97.43% of the population.

Radio channels focus on targeted audiences with the slogan “Fast, reliable, interesting.” Radio, TV, and print programs have gone online. VOV is now moving to digital radio and TV and has developed mobile apps for accessing its programs. For example, audiences can use apps VOV Media and VTC Now to have access to all VOV’s programs.

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Challenge for Voice of Vietnam

Vietnam’s national broadcaster, Voice of Vietnam, sought to make the programs of all the country’s regional radio stations available live online via the website. To address this challenge, the broadcaster needed a way to encode programs within the studios of regional radios stations, so that audio could be streamed over IP to a central webstreaming server for further broadcasting through the Voice of Vietnam website.

“ The PYKO-IN was an obvious choice for us because it is a cost-e�ective solution that provides professional broadcast quality with balanced audio inputs and robust streaming technology in a compact form factor ”

said Perry Leong, senior manager at GBS Alliance.

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Solution offered by Digigram

Voice of Vietnam uses 70 PYKO-IN and PYKO-OUT terminals to convert compress audio inputs from 8 region’s studio and others branch directly under Voice of Vietnam from various provinces and cities, Voice of Vietnam national channels, to a CDN for Internet-based delivery on the broadcaster’s website (vov.vn). Supplied by GBS Alliance Pte Ltd, Digigram enables Voice of Vietnam to make daily radio and on-demand content from Vietnam to any listener worldwide. PYKO-IN and SERV/LINK are used for the webstreaming project of vov.vn. The whole project has been carried out in various stages since its start.

Key points of the solution

• Broadcast audio quality • High reliability (24/7/365 operations) • Compact form factor • Cost-effective robust solution • Low TCO

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Cost effective yet professional live webstreaming of radio programs

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Benefits of the solution

Thanks to the PYKO-IN, the audio sources are sent from all the di�erent regions of Vietnam to the SERV/LINK in the audio center of Hanoi. This device, with his high audio channels density in a 1U, is a perfect choice to manage the transport and delivery of a high number of channels. The audio program is processed in the audio center and delivered thanks to the SERV/LINK to a CDN for Internet-based access on the VOV’s website vov.vn. Audiences can also use apps VOV Media and VTC Now to simply get VOV’s programs from the Internet.

About Voice of Vietnam

Radio The Voice of Vietnam is the o�cial national radio station of the country which is under monitoring of the Ministry of Information and Communication in terms of broadcasting, frequencies and transmis- sion. This is the biggest as well as the most popular radio station in Vietnam with a broadcasting range covering the entire territories of Vietnam, having millions of daily listeners including Vietnamese living oversea. Indeed, the broadcasting range of VOV extends itself outside the borders of Vetnam to South East Asia, Africa, Europe and America. Further information on Voice of Vietnam is available on the website https://vov.vn

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