TVU Networks today said several broadcasters utilized TVUPack solution during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
The IP video and mobile electronic newsgathering (ENG) solutions vendor said broadcasters from North America, Asia, Europe and Australia used TVUPack to transmit live video back to audiences in their home countries.
As part of its large event Global Rental Program, TVU delivered optimized TVUPack cellular uplink transmitters to broadcasters onsite in Sochi. Besides support engineers, TVU provided a number of hotspot locations around the area to provide dedicated bandwidth for customers in Sochi.
Jungnam Park, producer, SBS, South Korea, said: “We were able to easily do live video shots from multiple locations in the same day. TVU’s dedicated bandwidth and on-site support ensured that we were successfully transmitting crystal clear HD video, even in crowds. TVUPack was also very easy for our photographers to operate.”
During the Olympics, SBS was also able to find a creative way to implement TVUPack and the TVU Cloud service in order to augment their live interviews with South Korean athletes immediately following each event.
SBS photographers would be onsite in South Korea with the athlete’s family, and use TVUPack to transmit the live video of the family’s reaction to a live video stream hosted on the Web via TVU’s cloud service and a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Reporters in Sochi were able to access the video stream on their mobile phones and show the athletes their families’ reactions in real time.
TVUPack family of solutions has been used to deliver live HD footage of events including the World Cup, the London Summer Games, the Sochi Winter Games, U.S. presidential elections, Hurricane Sandy, and the 2013 Papal conclave.
