AVIWEST Bonded Cellular Solution Enabled Flawless Live Streaming From a Race Car at 185 km/h
SAINT-GRÉGOIRE, France — March 14, 2022 — AVIWEST, a leading provider of live video contribution solutions, today announced that ADTEL, the company’s distributor for the Latin American region, deployed AVIWEST’s flagship PRO3 and AIR320 bonded cellular transmitters for a live broadcast of the 2022 national car racing championship (Campeonato Nacional de Automovilismo (CNA) in Bogota, Colombia. Coverage included both the race and qualifying sessions.
The AVIWEST PRO3 unit was installed inside race driver Daniel Fernandez’s car during the qualifying and racing laps, offering an immersive live experience for fans on his Facebook and YouTube pages. To track Fernandez’s location, monitor the car’s status, and communicate with him in real time, the racing team in the pit received a low-latency HD video return thanks to AVIWEST’s AIR320 encoder paired with an external QUAD CellLink active 4G/3G multi-antenna.
“The AVIWEST solution enabled us to flawlessly broadcast live over 4G/3G networks at 185 km per hour. Moreover, it allowed us to dramatically streamline our technical setup,” said Andrés Rojas, broadcast account manager at ADTEL LATAM. “With AVIWEST, there was no need to install numerous HF antennas and deploy multiple cables all around the circuit, which makes things much easier and is far less costly.”
ADTEL used six of the eight internal modems embedded in the AVIWEST PRO3 Series to stream live directly to social media platforms over cellular networks at 4.5 Mbps with 800 ms latency. With the AIR320, they had two internal modems — combined with the additional four QUAD CellLink modems — for the video return function. Leveraging AVIWEST’s two-time Emmy® Award-winning Safe Stream Transport (SST) technology, both field units could aggregate multiple IP network connections and dynamically adapt video bit rates according to network bandwidth fluctuations. With SST, broadcasters can effectively protect streaming content and support the retransmission of lost data to offer the best video quality for their audience.
“For sports broadcasters, AVIWEST field units offer greater mobility and efficiency thanks to their compact size and light weight. They can move around freely and cover sporting performances at the highest quality, including HD and 4K/UHD, with less equipment required,” said Italo Marinello, sales manager at AVIWEST LATAM.
More information on AVIWEST and its products is available at www.aviwest.com.
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About AVIWEST (www.aviwest.com)
AVIWEST is a world-leading provider of IP-based contribution systems. Powered by proprietary, patented, and two-time Emmy® Award-winning intelligent IP bonding technology, the company’s reliable solutions have been adopted by 1,000-plus broadcasters, online media, news agencies, social media companies, and first responders in more than 100 countries to cover breaking news and live events.
AVIWEST’s history of innovation includes the world’s first portable cellular video transmitter, the world’s first live video transmission over a 4G network implementing QoS, and the world’s first live 4K video transmission over a 5G network. Using the 5G versions of AVIWEST’s powerful and lightweight bonded cellular transmitters, video professionals can deliver live news, multicamera sports, and events coverage with greater efficiency, higher quality, and cost-effectiveness from any part of the world.
Headquartered in Saint-Grégoire, France, AVIWEST offers professional worldwide support for its products and cloud services through local and international sales offices and distribution networks across more than 160 countries.
About ADTEL LATAM (www.adtel.com.co)
ADTEL LATAM is an engineering company dedicated to the development and integration of audiovisual and multimedia solutions and products in Colombia.
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Photo Caption: AVIWEST solutions enable delivery of flawless live streaming from race car at the 2022 Campeonato Nacional de Automovilismo (CNA) in Bogota, Colombia.
