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Founded in 1989 in
Ireland, we started
operations in Asia as a
broadcast and media
solution architect and
integrator in 1991
IDEAL Group is an industry leading facilities and mobile OB trucks, audio visual generation solutions to future projects.
broadcast, audio visual, and media design consultancy, cloud services, software On top of industry leading knowledge,
systems integrator design and live event production services. more than 30 years of delivery enterprise
solutions in Asia coupled with our broad
We provide innovative technology solutions Founded in 1989 with headquarters in Hong experience gives us the ability to adapt to
to the broadcast, telecommunications, Kong, we now operate in countries with more changing conditions and requirements on a
enterprise, banking & finance, hospitality, than13 offices in countries of the Asia-Pacific client-by-client basis, giving true flexibility.
F&B, retail, government, education and live region. In an ever-evolving industry,
production sectors. Aside from providing with differing levels of development in It’s our mission to optimize hardware and
superior systems integration services, regions, IDEAL manages to stay at the software solutions reducing your TCO and
our other service offerings include design forefront in ground-breaking technological increasing your revenues. We create the
consultancy of broadcast production advancements that are used by us as next IDEAL system for you.
IDEAL began in Ireland over IDEAL has led the introduction soon working with the region’s
and development of cutting edge leading post-production houses and
30 years ago initially building
technological solutions since the multi-national satellite companies.
recording studios for famous 1980’s. Originally founded in Dublin,
bands like U2 and the Rolling Ireland, its reputation grew from Today, IDEAL continue to make leaps IDEAL Systems
Stones, and has gradually building recording studios for the and bounds in providing quality
expanded to build up an
likes of U2, The Rolling Stones, systems design and integration
continue to make
and Europe’s first all digital to client specifics; Our roster of
expansive network supporting post-production facility, The Mill clients includes some of the most
clients across Asia. (London). From there, Hong Kong established names in broadcasting. leaps and bounds
was chosen as a main export target
and subsequently became the first We continue to build the trust of our in providing
office in Asia-Pacific to be opened in customers by providing cost effective,
1991 after a successful spell within best-in-class and best-in-breed systems design
the region. solutions which is supported by
our large engineering and support
In the 90’s, Asian broadcasters teams. With this successful formula
and integration
and post-production houses of providing the best systems with
were quick to move ahead from the best support we are growing
analogue to digital technologies as our customer base across Asia while
the new digital satellite channels maintaining long-term relationship
were beginning their extensive with our existing customers.
expansion programs. IDEAL were
BEIJING 1 2 3
(CHINA)
2011 To be a technology To provide the Maintain the
SINGAPORE leader, not best and most highest standard
a follower cost-effective of delivery and
2004 solutions support
CHINA
2000
INDIA 4 5 6
1997 Ensure our workforce To be passionate To put our staff
TAIWAN have the skills and about innovation and customer first
1995 on-going training to
THAILAND deliver and support
enterprise solutions
1991
HONG KONG
1989
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IRELAND
IDEAL has 2 core divisions
expertise to encompass
all sectors of this fast
paced media.
END-TO-END SERVICE
Broadcasting services
Live Broadcasting
Interior design
AV services
Cloud services
IDEAL cloud will compliment can help customers realize an efficient when applied to a data set. Manual
solution free of bias. tasks such as compliance, subtitling
and support IDEAL’s regional
and dubbing transcription can now
offices offering specialized Secure Storage: Traditional be automated with minimal input
consultancy, systems removable media archives and bulk required to verify and improve the
archive libraries have presented operation of the ML algorithms.
architecture and software
a number of ongoing issues; the IDEAL can help our customers apply
integration services to refreshing of old media, library ML to optimize their work flows and
enable IDEAL’s customers scaling and support costs being a content preparation process and
to execute an efficient path major concern for large archives. realize the competitive advantage
IDEAL offer a number of managed ML offers.
into the Cloud. cloud storage solutions that provide
encrypted, accelerated archive Managed Services: For many
Solution Architecture: IDEAL storage in the cloud that help address dealing with the complexities of
understand the future of broadcast these concerns and provide a higher public cloud providers and handling
is tied to the cloud and unlike many availability at a lower cost than the day to day support of cloud
‘cloud’ integrators we have a unique traditional cloud archive solutions. based infrastructure can be a
understanding of how to apply cloud burden, requiring expensive and
design patterns to enterprise media Machine Learning: Machine often underutilized specialist staff.
systems. In many cases a hybrid or learning (ML) can be characterized IDEAL can provide managed services
staggered approach to cloud adoption as training an algorithm to at competitive rates to handle as
is required. Agnostic to cloud service select results based on iterative much, or as little, of this as required.
providers and vendor products IDEAL improvements on the algorithm
AUDIO VISUAL
The race is part of the UCI global cycling event’s calendar, with
over 130 cyclists taking part from all over the world. Set across 4
different stages, it required a different set-up each day for start
and finish positions, covering a distance of approximately 400km.
Eleven Sports selected IDEAL for live sports production of the 2017 Merlion Cup
international basketball tournament which will be held in Singapore’s OCBC Arena from
September 20th to 24th.
IDEAL has conducted extensive field trials for its new Hybrid-IP live sports production
system in Singapore. The field trials included producing live match coverage of the
recent soccer friendly between Singapore and Hong Kong and Singapore’s Asian
Cup qualifier against Turkmenistan for Eleven Sports Singapore. Both matches were
streamed live to Eleven Sports Singapore’s Facebook page and have amassed over
170,000 views.
The Merlion Cup, sees basketball teams from China, Korea, the Philippines, Chinese
Taipei and Indonesia battling it out over five days. Live coverage will be streamed direct
to the SportsSG YouTube Channel and broadcast on Live TV both nationally in Singapore
and internationally.
IDEAL will be deploying its latest JVC HD IP cameras and new Hybrid IP production
system which incorporates graphics, timers, slow motion replay, and commentary
all in IT based solution. The production system from IDEAL also includes the Dejero
encoder that can stream via the Dejero Cloud direct to YouTube and to the Dejero
Broadcast Server at the Eleven Sports Singapore studio for distribution to national and
international TV networks.
YAHOO
Taiwan Studio Facility
PERFORM PJ
New Digital Live Sports Production Centre
TATA SKY
Direct to Home Facility
The show is the first of this scale to be developed primarily for digital
broadcasting. Covers an impressive 1.5 hectares with 120 remotely
controlled HD cameras, 24 wireless and 56 shotgun microphones, and
additional wireless and lighting equipment for extended coverage.
IDEAL designed and built the main studio which goes live
every morning, and a second studio which is used for
interviews. Both studios were SD digital video.
INFOSYS
Communication Centre New Digital
Live Sports Production Centre
IDEAL was tasked with designing, supplying and building the new
HD studios, broadcast consoles, MCR, PCR and Customised Acoustic
Panelling in Singapore.
IT cabling for the entire facility, and an internal IPTV system. Key
systems within the production suites include Snell’s Kahuna 360
Compact vision mixer,
BANGKOK UNIVERSITY
Art Production, Post-production
The Central Equipment Room (CER) was the first room completed
in the Xanadu Project as it would serve as the “Heart” of the
operation. This included a 12ch HD/SDI Omneon Video Server
Recording System, ProBel HD/SDI and Audio Routers, Extron
Fibre and RGB Routers,, all controlled by the centralized Crestron
Control System.
IDEAL built a State of the art HD News facility for Phoenix TV,
the leading Chinese language international broadcaster in
China. Breaking away from the norm, IDEAL not only did the
system integration for the project, but also the set design with
our internal interior design department, studio design and
defined the aesthetic look of the whole facility. It was also the
first HD ready system to be installed in Hong Kong.
GLOBECAST ASIA
Broadcast Facility
The Mega Pod is a new 300 Channel Master Control Room that
enables Encompass to improve its response time with an automated
switch-over feature to back-up content, IDEAL was responsible for
the build out of the new Automation System for the channels and
migrating them from older systems.
NEXT MEDIA HD
TAPELESS STUDIO Studios, PCR, Newsroom, editing & Play-out Systems
IDEAL was responsible for Studios, PCR, Newsroom, editing and playout
systems. Technologies include Thomson, Miranda, ENPS,
Evertz and Vinten.
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