LiveU Deployed 190 Units to Broadcasters at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics
By Jim Bask
Company is seeing a shift to using its packs not only for ENG use, but for primary transmission of events
…Many of those broadcasters are in need of a simple and portable way to get their content back home and, for many, that means utilizing the services of a transmission partner like LiveU.
A whopping 190 LiveU units were deployed last month by various broadcast entities across PyeongChang with those units churned out 7,100 live sessions broadcast out to approximately 40 different countries. That totaled up to about 6 terabytes of live transmissions.
These PyeongChang Games also marked the first time that LiveU offered a 4K-ready solution that relied primarily on HEVC (high-efficiency video coding) for compression….[continue reading]