Promexar deployed arkona and manifold's EASY-IP solution, integrating BLADE//runner and manifold CLOUD, for Mexican broadcaster Televisa ahead of a major summer sports event. The system facilitates Televisa's transition from SDI to IP using ST 2110 standards while maintaining reliability for high-density live productions.
The EASY-IP deployment gives Televisa a production infrastructure that handles both SDI and ST 2110 simultaneously, avoiding the forced investment cliff that comes with full IP migration. This hybrid approach matters because it lets the broadcaster scale temporarily for massive live events without committing to permanent infrastructure that would sit underutilized afterward. For arkona and manifold — a relatively new partnership positioning EASY-IP as a turnkey, FPGA-accelerated alternative to incumbent routing and multiviewing platforms — a Tier-1 deployment at Televisa serves as a concrete proof point. Watch whether arkona announces additional EASY-IP deployments at other major broadcasters as the ST 2110 transition cycle accelerates.
arkona has been building a partner ecosystem around EASY-IP to accelerate its reach beyond European installations. The APAC launch followed the platform's initial unveiling at IBC 2024, where arkona and manifold first presented EASY-IP as a unified package combining BLADE//runner hardware with manifold CLOUD multiviewing, targeting Tier-1 broadcasters seeking a simplified path to IP infrastructure without forklift upgrades.
The Televisa deployment, confirmed by arkona in a LinkedIn post on June 27, 2026, describes the EASY-IP system as helping the broadcaster prepare for one of the world's biggest sporting events, with Promexar handling integration. The post emphasizes that the hybrid SDI/IP infrastructure allows Televisa to migrate to SMPTE ST 2110 at its own pace while maintaining the performance and reliability that live production at this scale demands. This positions the Televisa installation as arkona's highest-profile reference deployment in the Americas to date.
EASY-IP's technical architecture centers on the BLADE//runner AT300 FPGA acceleration card, which delivers 16x16 UHD-capable SDI I/O across dual 100GE network interfaces. According to arkona's product documentation, the platform includes a dedicated 16,000 x 12,000 mono audio router and supports manifold CLOUD multiviewing at up to 1.6 Tbps of processing in a single rack unit, with guaranteed sub-frame latency end-to-end. The distributed architecture scales linearly, allowing broadcasters to add I/O in any quantity, and every UHD source processed by the multiviewer generates a 1080p proxy available as a discrete ST 2110 source within the system.
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