Satlynx, a GE company that provides satellite telecommunications, says it’s introducing a transportable media streaming solution.

 

The solution features equipment that can be installed into any vehicle. Satlynx Media Streaming focuses on the growing online market of event owners, content providers, radio stations and media companies that want to capture audio or video at events and to stream the content to a production facility for publication online or further distribution.

 

Equipped with a transportable antenna system, the new IP-based service leverages the latest technology to achieve quality video within the lowest possible bandwidths. The equipment, including an H.264 MPEG-4 AVC compliant codec, satellite modem and antenna, can either be vehicle mounted or transported in flight cases.

 

Using a 96-centimeter antenna as standard and one-button push technology, Satlynx Media Streaming becomes operational within five minutes. Dedicated uplink channels of 128kbps for audio and 2Mbps for video are complemented with a 512kbps contended outbound channel for production applications such as e-mail, Web browsing and VoIP, giving the remote-site crew flexibility beyond the core application of streaming media.

 

From the Satlynx teleport, the streamed media and other application data streams can then be routed anywhere in the world via its highly resilient European Internet backbone connectivity, via its global VPN infrastructure or a dedicated circuit if required.

 

The Satlynx offers innovative steps to reduce the cost of streaming media and open the market away from traditional Occasional Use to direct presentation on the Web. Satlynx’s Media Streaming is designed for audio or video encoded as AAC or MPEG-4 over IP where the demand for bandwidth is much less and the cost of operation is significantly reduced.

 

The company hopes that Satlynx Media Streaming will have a wider appeal beyond the news gathering media sector into the corporate and public sectors where the applications of business continuity, surveillance and defence are as relevant.

 

“There will always be a strong demand for higher bandwidths capable of supporting HD TV and beyond despite ongoing improvements in codec performance. The opportunity now is for content providers and the owners and organizers of live events in niche interests to distribute their content to a wider audience via the Internet,” said Ronny Svang, president and chief executive officer of Satlynx. “Previously, the cost of hiring an OU truck and associated airtime would have been prohibitive for this group. Now with Satlynx Media Streaming, costs are an order of magnitude less.”