Le Bourget, France - July 25, 2024

Cloud technologies will replace satellite as the main broadcast distribution channel for the upcoming Paris Olympics for the first time in history, the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) said on Thursday.

OBS and Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China's internet giant Alibaba, on Thursday announced the launch of OBS Cloud 3.0 for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The application of cloud technologies will greatly reduce broadcasting costs compared to satellite, which had been in use since the 1964 Tokyo Games.

This year, OBS expects to produce more than 11,000 hours of content around the Games.

In addition, OBS has installed multi-camera replay systems in 14 venues to provide frame-freeze slow-motion replays for sports like rugby, table tennis, athletics, skateboarding, and other events.

Shotlist:
Le Bourget, Ile-de-France, France - July 25, 2024:
1. Various of building, sign of International Broadcast Center;
2. Various of interior of International Broadcast Center;
3. Sign of OBS Tech;
4. Various of media staff at work;
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sotiris Salamouris, chief technology officer, Olympic Broadcasting Services:
"Cloud is extremely important for a major event like the Olympics. Cloud is all about scalability, how you can grow an infrastructure in a very easy and efficient manner. And this is certainly something that is required for a broadcast event like covering the Olympic Games, where it's really all about size. We have so much broadcast to do and there is so much time available and resources available in a short period of time, that cloud really give us the option to use this kind of infrastructure, establish it in a very, very small period of time, make it used only while it is used, so essentially for the two weeks of the Games, and then take it down after the Games are over. So it's a service that fits very well in the profile of technology use during the Olympic Games.";
6. Screens displaying Olympic channel;
7. Viewers in front of TV.

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