Designing, building, and running professional audio and video operations end-to-end

BCE is a European media technology and services partner that designs, builds, and runs professional audio and video operations end-to-end. With over 25 years of experience, BCE combines system integration, managed services, products, and Media-as-a-Service to deliver reliable, observable, and scalable media workflows for broadcasters, platforms, content owners, brands, and institutions.

About BCE

BCE (Broadcasting Center Europe) is a media technology and services partner focused on making professional audio and video operations work in the real world. They bring together media engineering, software development, IT, and operations under one roof. The teams combine decades of experience keeping services on air with the skills needed to run modern IP and cloud-based media environments, across datacenters, networks, and hybrid infrastructures.

BCE focuses on interoperability between equipment, systems, and cloud services, and on European data sovereignty and reversibility so that customers can evolve their stacks without losing control.

Why BCE?

Hundreds of media engineers and operators focused on audio and video workflows
Relationships with a large ecosystem of more than 350 technology vendors
Media-grade infrastructure in European datacenters, with low-latency connectivity to operators, platforms, and cloud providers
24/7 operations teams in Europe looking after channels, streams, and platforms every day
Flexible hosting & managed services options for each project with a strong focus on data sovereignty and interoperability

Business

BCE works with organizations for whom audio and video are central to their business and operations.

They create value through four main pillars:

Architecture and integration: system integration: BCE designs and documents end-to-end media architectures, selects and integrates the right hardware, software and cloud components, and takes ownership of the glue, automations, and interfaces that make complex audio and video chains interoperable.
Operations and accountability: managed services: BCE runs audio and video operations 24/7 on a defined scope, with operators, engineers, clear runbooks, SLAs, and a single point of accountability. They work alongside customer teams to operate channels, live services, contribution, distribution, and media operations.
Ready-made building blocks: products and solutions: BCE offers products and platforms such as Holovox, NxP, Freecaster, and others as media-grade components, designed to integrate cleanly into customer environments and BCE's System Integration and Managed Services activities, rather than as isolated tools.
Operated layer: Media-as-a-Service: Media-as-a-Service is BCE’s operated framework around its services and products. It provides shared foundations for observability, ticketing, SLAs, runbooks, and reporting across projects and offers, so that customers have a consistent way to consume BCE services, on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid models.

Across all of this, media-grade infrastructure in BCE and customer datacenters, connectivity, storage, and backup are the common thread.

Key domains of expertise:

Infrastructure, networks, and datacenters: Design, deployment, and operation of media-grade compute, storage, backup, and connectivity, on-premises and in BCE datacenters, sized and secured for audio and video workloads.
Live production and events: Studios, control rooms, remote production and commentary, live encoding and contribution, with tested workflows, backup paths and coordination with operators and platforms.
Linear playout and broadcast operations: TV, radio, and FAST channels, integration with scheduling, graphics, and compliance, with continuity and disaster recovery that actually work in practice.
Contribution, distribution, and delivery: Satellite, fiber, managed IP, and internet contribution; teleport services; and distribution to operators, OTT platforms, social networks, and B2B partners, with clear hand-off points and responsibilities.
Media management, storage, and archive: Ingest, cataloguing, MAM, online and archive storage, and reuse and reversioning strategies, so that catalogues and archives can be searched, reused, and monetised.

Business partners

BCE works with a broad ecosystem of technology partners across the media and telecom industry, including vendors for contribution and distribution, playout and automation, storage, networking, cloud, and security.

Partnership with Skyline Communications

BCE has more than 17 years of experience in umbrella monitoring and observability across broadcast and telecom infrastructures.

As a Gold DataMiner partner, BCE combines its system integration, consultancy, and engineering capabilities with Skyline’s platform to design, deploy, and operate service-centric monitoring for complex multi-vendor environments.

We integrate DataMiner into our key domains of expertise, in particular contribution and distribution, linear playout and broadcast operations, and 24/7 media operations.

BCE acts as integrator, consultant, and reseller for DataMiner-based solutions. We design monitoring architectures, implement dashboards and workflows, and operate them within our NOC and MOC as managed services, or in hybrid models together with customer teams.

Projects & references

BCE has implemented DataMiner for more than 17 years in multiple customer projects, including:

A major French broadcaster: umbrella monitoring for TV and radio services, contribution and distribution chains, with 24/7 supervision and incident management operated by BCE.
A large European broadcast group: DataMiner-based monitoring for multi-channel broadcast platforms and contribution networks.
A major French broadcaster: monitoring of contribution and distribution services as part of broader broadcast projects delivered by BCE.

These projects combine BCE’s system integration and managed services with DataMiner’s capabilities for dashboards, service-oriented views, automation, and workflow supervision.