Jesus Celebration Centre (JCC) is an International Pentecostal Ministry with centers in Kenya, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America that was founded in 1991 under the leadership of their senior Pastor Wilfred Lai.
Its main headquarter is located in Bamburi-Mombasa, notably one of the biggest glass-built sanctuary in East Africa which is estimated to hold a capacity of up to ten thousand people. JCC is the fastest-growing worship center spreading the gospel to thousands of people across the globe.
JCC commissioned Jamiro Broadcast to upgrade the entire MCR by connecting the production studio, News studio, Newsroom, and finally Signal contribution to SIGNET (DVB-T Head-End). The design consideration option was paramount for this project for the move to all-IP infrastructure.
CINEGY made this possible by providing their new “Air Pro Ver. 21.9” which includes the software modules for Playout, Graphics, and Encoding. All the Software Modules from CINEGY were built using our own highly customized, assembled hardware server with the ability to convert SD or HD SDI streams into broadcast-quality, SMPTE-compliant RTP/UDP streams, or vice versa.
The main deliverable included:
- 24 TB Integrated Storageconfigured in RAID-5 for Asset sharing across the Network
- Full HD Video Encoding using Quadro P2000 GPU for SRT Streams creation and Contribution to Head-end
- Base-Band SD/HD-SDI Output for local monitoring and distribution with the older system
- Cinegy Air Pro front-end, with unparalleled flexibility by playing mixed format and mixed resolution content, as well as UN-rendered edit sequences straight to air.
- Cinegy Titler Character Generation with an addition of multiple layers of automation-controlled, template-based titles, logos, and animated graphics.
- Cinegy Encodefor production content from the studios on multicast IP which allowed broadcast-quality real-time feedback streams for instantaneous review of what is being received.
- JB VID-DEC01: An SDI HD decoder, which supports H.265/H.264 audio and video decode, its IP input supports IP( RTMP/RTMPS/ RTSP/ RTP/ HTTP/ HLS/ UDP/SRT), MPEG2, MPEG4) and has an SDI, a USB, and RS485 output.
SRT Stream, created from CINEGY Playout was used for Program feed contribution to SIGNET DTT Platform in Nairobi using the Public Internet. Originally developed and pioneered by Haivision, SRT stands for Secure Reliable Transport. An open-source video transport protocol and technology stack that optimizes video streaming performance across unpredictable networks. The upgrade was delivered in 10 days including user training and commissioning the installation.
In addition to playout and automation requirements, Jamiro Broadcast offers an MCRPack; An integrated, Innovative solution for Playout, Encoding, Graphics, Transcoding, LIVE Multiviewer, and Live Video production.
Our MCRPack is capable of Capturing two hundred or more streams, managed and routed simultaneously. Individual streams can be accessed from any point in the network, without generation loss. By Virtualization, we substantially reduce the individual hardware components in the MCR by running multiple instances of your broadcasting tools inside virtual machines, eliminating the worry (and expense) of redundant systems once and for all.
“MCRPack is the first all-IP Virtualized MCR solution innovated by Jamiro Broadcast, and as such it represents the successful realization of an ambitious vision encompassing SDI-IP migration,” says Benson Nyaga, Technical Director- Jamiro Broadcast Ltd.
