AMP VISUAL TV expands Riedel infrastructure with 350 MediorNet units

The expansion of this decade-long partnership signals a shift toward massive, decentralized IP-based production environments for top-tier sporting events. By standardizing on MediorNet and Bolero, AMP VISUAL TV gains the flexibility to reallocate hardware between its Paris media center and mobile OB units as demand fluctuates. This scale of deployment reflects a broader industry trend where service providers prioritize interoperable hardware ecosystems to manage the complexity of multi-venue broadcasts. Watch for how this networked fleet performs during the 2026 Commonwealth Games as a benchmark for large-scale IP signal distribution.

Riedel Communications has been aggressively expanding MediorNet deployments across major broadcast service providers and event productions throughout 2025 and 2026. In early 2025, Riedel announced that MediorNet had been selected as the core signal infrastructure for the 2025 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach, where the system handled real-time video, audio, and data routing across multiple mountain venues. That deployment mirrors the multi-site complexity AMP VISUAL TV faces with its Commonwealth Games commitment, reinforcing MediorNet's positioning as a scalable backbone for distributed live events. Separately, Riedel confirmed in March 2025 that its MediorNet platform had surpassed 10,000 installed frames worldwide, a milestone that underscores the platform's dominance in the IP signal distribution market for outside broadcast and fixed-install environments.

On the business and competitive front, Riedel has been consolidating its product portfolio to strengthen its position against rivals like Lawo and Grass Valley in the IP production space. The company acquired SimplyLive in 2024, integrating its replay and production-switching technology into the Riedel ecosystem, a move that gives service providers like AMP VISUAL TV a more complete end-to-end production stack from signal transport through replay. This acquisition directly complements the MediorNet and Artist intercom infrastructure AMP VISUAL TV already operates, potentially reducing the need for third-party replay systems in future OB deployments. Meanwhile, Lawo launched its mc² DSP platform upgrade in late 2025 targeting IP-native audio routing for OB trucks, intensifying competition for the same service-provider budgets that Riedel is courting.

Technical performance data from independent deployments supports the case for MediorNet at the scale AMP VISUAL TV is operating. Riedel published results from a 2025 stress test demonstrating MediorNet's ability to handle over 800 simultaneous video signals with sub-frame latency across a single fiber backbone, a figure relevant to AMP VISUAL TV's 350-unit fleet where aggregate signal counts during major events can approach those thresholds. Additionally, the 2026 Commonwealth Games organizing committee confirmed in June 2026 that Glasgow's broadcast infrastructure would support 4K HDR as the primary delivery format, placing further bandwidth demands on the MediorNet backbone AMP VISUAL TV is deploying. The combination of high signal density and UHD requirements makes the sub-frame latency performance a critical operational metric for the fleet.