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N° and issue date : 120401 - 01/04/2012 Circulation : 6999 Page : 32 Frequency : Bimonthly Size : 100 % CABLESATELLII_120401_32_306.pdf1269 cm2 Web Site: http://www.csimagazine.comThefuture of SNG is MNG Satellitenews gathering turning intomobile news is LiveU cellularroaming s deliver live gathering discoversAdrianPennington solution to broadcast from the disaster , area . It was also used to cover hurricane Irene. ithbudgets the which almost impossible do. agreed NewcastersontheUS eastcoast hitby Irene " " in to is , ( ) squeezed Purveyors mobile technologies would of weren able t to use to usesatellite because of the and the contend thatthe growingconnectivity wind and line sight issues TheonlytechnologyVII of of . demand for terrestrial cellularnetworks 3G 4G LTE 4G that couldassistlive quality shotswas ours " , , , , ( pictures WiMAX and Wi-Fi provide anincreasingly, ) claimsArtman. unrelenting , resilient alternative to streaming even IIDvideo It would be disingenuous to suggest thatthis is / the oversatellite and fibre. always the case SIS Live Shadbolt says that . s in atechnology forgathering news is evolving at pace. warzone tornado aftermath thechances the or ofTheemergence of solutionswhich take advantage Rise of thenewbreed terrestrial networkbeing down arehigh Where . "of mobileandinternet networks offer potential a Among the pioneers Israelheadquartered is newscasters are operating outside their homethreat satelliteincumbents butthesatellite news to LiveU which countsCNN ABC CBS Fox News , , , , territory Syriaforexample they aremore , in ,gathering SNG sectorhasresponded with new ( ) andGermany ZDFamongcustomers s of its likely take BGAN than bonded 3G 4G to a a /technology which likely seenewscasters and is to LU60 mobile uplink kit which fitsinto a backpack system since they are notsure whatthe terrestrial service providers offer range weighing 5kg seepicture infrastructure going be like he says. "managed a of ( ). is to ,complementary pipes deliver thenews. to Artman responds thatfeedbackfrom its clients themore developed andmetropolitan areas has been thatthe firstinfrastructure be " In to the traditionalSNGdeployments maybe Often anypicture re-instated cellulardue ease "some of is deployment. is to of ,replaced by mobile technology believes Tomas Setting up satellite van theseareas " " better thannone but in in or a , Petru CEO and multi-screen platform , of SI badweather notalways simple matterand is aprovider Visual Unity However whileSNG " any case LiveU easily connected dual newsproviders still . to in is , ,outputmayremainthe same thesheer number , of BGAN terminals aswas the case Haiti during inchannels digital online demands be wantHDforthe the earthquake. " to , ) (addressed by newsolutionsformobilecontent There are increasing uses images gathered ofacquisition using mobile networks. from smartphones iPads mainly butnot " archiveeven they IP or or , According Simon Farnsworth Globecast to at if exclusively asusergenerated content UGC ( ).UK thetraditional SNGvehicle with 1.5 two MTVFinland for example enablesinstant news don transmit to " , , ,metre antennaand dedicated SNGengineer gathering This hugely important business " t it. a is : is a , aimedmore thesports market particularly development forus explainsJukka Vehkaoja " at at , ( payTV operators where picture quality key. ) is MTVFinland which hasinvested Aspera in s Thecriteria fornews are speed deployment LiveU technology bondsmultiple3G 4G MobileClient Application speedvideo its " of s to to , andcost notesFarnsworth Often lower quality LTE 4G WiMAX andWi-Fimodems bureaufrom AndroidandiOSapps Thefact " " " . . to , , , picturesare justified asan editorial look. aggregatebandwidth over multiple carriers that reporters couldn upload content from " t The public appetite for breakingnewsstory viaan in-built RFantenna provides enough certain mobile phoneswas significant hole " s a . It a in suchthatthey willacceptsub-standard is throughput transmit1080iHDsignals using to the system especially withthe increasing , pictures agrees Mark Shadbolt salesdirector H.264 encoding Average conditionsare the importance citizen journalism. " " at . in of , , SIS Live notunusual seemobile phone . " It s to 1-2Mbpsrange butthe technology , is claimed to Shadbolt certainly notdismissive the is of footageonmainstream programmes Often any . , transmit effectivelyeven at 500kbps depending , abilities of cellular but adamantthatthe is picture is better thannonebutnews providersstill on the selected resolution andsettings. technology unlikely is to erode the viability of awant HDforthe archiveeven they don Our technologycantransmiteffectivelyfrom fleet SNGtrucks. " if t oftransmit many dead spots andareas where specific "Anewscastercouldequip every one its " it. a of Visual Unity Petru agrees For broadcast carrier maynothave adequatecoverage reporters with bonded 3Gterminal relatively " s : a at quality live transmission quality , of service is including in tunnels crowdedpublic spaces , low cost and getsomepictures back but would - it QoS available onsatellite and may needed andunderground metro stations says be complementary the fleet hesays we " " " . is it to . If , , ,be available on differentmobile networks if Ronen Artman LiveU , s VP of marketing. could giveourcustomersthe same level ofagreed withthe specificoperator butthe trick , is Duringthe Japan tsunami Fox news used , service costandconvenience byhaving bonded , a 1/3 Copyright (CSI Cable and Satellite International) No reproduction without authorisation Eutelsat

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N° and issue date : 120401 - 01/04/2012 Circulation : 6999 Page : 34 Frequency : Bimonthly Size : 100 % CABLESATELLII_120401_32_306.pdf1269 cm2 Web Site: http://www.csimagazine.com point satellite transmission Alternativelyan operatorcould field van a , capability lower service servicing two clients simultaneously from two Thefactthat a , " cost , anduplink technology stand-uppositions Eachfeed could be routed . to that will allow television an IP address at the destination broadcaster in reporterscouldn outfit SNG stations to different territories. vans for fraction the Thenewsgathering production environment t " is of uploadcontentfrom a comparable Ku already perfectly integrated into workflows " cost of a or IP , C-bandrig. addsBenzi File-based technologies have " . certainmobile phones Anoperator revolutionised newsgathering from camcorder " or broadcaster could recording offlineediting over laptops the , to in was significant hole a commission fleet vans with a a minimal of SNG field contribution byKA-SAT provides the missing piece theworkflow. . IP in " thesystem in , satellitefootprint instead usingmuchlarger , Inmarsat building $1.2 billionnetworkfor globalcoverage theKAband including three is a especiallywiththe in of trucks saysBenzi. , " newsatellites Planned 2013 Global . to launch in , Download speeds of up Xpress willoffer downlinks up 50Mbpsand to increasingimportance 5Mbps upfrom compact terminals Each the to 50Mbps withup 20 to . of Mbps uplink returncan be new Inmarsat-5 satellites willcarry89 Ka-band of citizenjournalism. " reached " ampleforSNG. We provide committed , beams whichcan be configured focuson hotspots any part theworld Thecompany , in of to . information-rate saysthat global coverage already availablefrom isusing the wrong satellite says Coleman who bidirectional existing Inmarsat L-bandservices butGlobal " , IP is , ,alsoexecutive director the group connectivity either between terminals from Xpress will cost-effectively offer up 100 times " to or a is of . It , auto-deployComms OnThe Move terminal site connected thebackbone thebandwidth onthedownlink. "fundamental to to a to ,( COTM systems which byits nature ) is says Benzi . " Videocontributions via canbe IP There is also NovelSat new NS3 3D-Sat sunmanned and prone inaccuracies. to " easilyintegrated intotoday workflowsand s IP modulationscheme which effectivelyallows the ThesIRGplans to findways introduce to offer exceptional valueforSNGwork. squeezing bandwidth giving of morebits of satellite IDaswellaswork towards , a standard for " Forexample yourSNGvan contained four , if satellites new lease life Themechanism a of . auto-deploy systems Theaim significantly . is to camerachannels youcouldencodeall those , enablesthe handling fullwidetransponders of ,reduce interference duringdeployment camerafeedsand stream them parallel your such as72MHzas singlecarrier dramatically " a , in to In . addition hoped form new groupearly , it is to a in broadcast HQ forediting ratherthanperform , expanding satellite capacity states the company. , look the future on-board satellite that function on-site and contribute just the final Youmayevenfindthat using such new " 2012 to at of technology withthe inclusion satellite ID feed hesays. modulation technologymakes cheaper than " " it of , , reveals Coleman. fibre thelongrun which not the case the in , is at moment notesFarnsworth. " , Ka-bandas saviour. a It may bethatcellular technology outpaces Satelliteremainsthe cornerstone and it is eventhis Ongoing investments . in R&D into investments technologies tapthe KA band in to transmission algorithms and intelligentencoding whichgivesFarnsworth reason suggest SNG to willcontinue take advantage the rapid to of has a " massive future , " KA band promises twice advances mobilenetworkrollout notably4G in , / the frequency of KU using smaller antenna. LTE which widelyavailable now the US. is in licensing issue the UK Although there We already takeadvantage LTE networks " " of in is a andother European countries forKAbandfixed andwereable transmit using LTEfromthe to mobile uplinks anticipate that fiveyears KA Superbowl andGrammies February says " in , in I availability willbecomesuchthatSNGoperators LiveU Artman opens new horizons forus " s . It willhave builtKA band fleets Farnsworth states. , " butwearealso focussed onproviding resilient a Indeed Globecast has invested its firsttruck , in , HD quality video evenwhen hundreds of Italy where beingtested operating thousands people are oneplace. " out of , it is of in Eutelsat KA-SATNewSpotter service. s It is alreadydated be referring satellite to to " NewsSpotter complementstraditional satellite news gathering whenthefield hasalreadyshifted uplinking saysCristianoBenzi head video , " , of to mobile news gathering wherethatimplies mix a valueaddedservices Eutelsat new SNG at . " It is a of flexiblesmall vehicle or portable systemwhich worksover IP networks. " communications over IP , mobile networks Among the pluses are its IP-based point-to Liv-ULU4Oi with GUI andsatellite . psi 3/3 Copyright (CSI Cable and Satellite International) No reproduction without authorisation Eutelsat

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