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NEW PRODUCT ALERT: LIVEU SOLO HDMI



NEW! LIVEU SOLO HDMI Encoder

Live Streaming Solution with Cellular Bondling for Less than $1,000!  

LiveU Solo is a professional-grade wireless video encoder offering one-touch streaming to Facebook Live and YouTube, as well as other popular social media networks and online channels. The light and compact Solo is perfectly suited for any type of mobile use allowing you to stream live video from anywhere.

LRT virtual cloud server sold separately. Users must purchase cellular modems for unit through cellular carriers. Click here for supported USB modems.

Broadfield offers one year warranty and 3-Hour LiveU Internal battery as add-on.

SAVE $50 OFF FIRST YEAR OF LRT CLOUD SERVICE!
Bundle the LiveU Solo HDMI with the first year of the LRT cloud service for only $1,395 MSRP! That’s a $50 savings! 


Best-in-class Live Streaming Solution for HDMI Cameras!

BDI: LUSOLOHDMI
$995.00 MSRP

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BDI: LUSOLOHDMIBUN
$1,395 Promo Bundle
with first year of LRT

Just connect LiveU Solo to your camera, log into the web-based Solo portal to select your streaming destination and go live!

RELIABLE – GO LIVE FROM ANYWHERE
Solo combines up to four connections (2 cellular modems, Wi-Fi and LAN) and leverages a unique video transmission method – LRT™. This allows you to deliver rock-solid content in practically every scenario – on the move and in remote or crowded locations.

VERSATILE – ENRICH YOUR LIVE CONTENT
With the upcoming Solo Studio, you’ll have a variety of options to enhance your live feeds: this includes advanced graphics as well as simultaneous streaming to multiple online destinations. Solo can be connected to any professional camera with both SDI and HDMI options, allowing you to live stream video in full HD, going beyond smartphone quality.

LRT™ CLOUD SERVICE
LiveU’s unique Reliable Transport protocol (LRT) is at the heart of LiveU products to deliver optimized video performance. LRT enables reliable, low delay live video streaming over non-guaranteed IP networks and ensures reliable transport over the most unreliable of networks, including cellular networks – allowing you to acquire exciting live content in even the most remote locations.

  • PACKET ORDERING
    LRT uses numbered packets so that the packets can be re-ordered when they arrive out of order. Packet Ordering is an absolute requirement with connection bonding, where data usually arrives in a different order than intended.
  • DYNAMIC FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION
    Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds some overhead to the stream to recover lost data faster.  LRT automatically varies the FEC parameters based on monitored network conditions.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE AND RESEND
    LRT can acknowledge large groups of packets if they all arrived. If some did not arrive, it can inform the streaming engine to resend needed data. By acknowledging large groups of packets at a time, LRT uses less overhead and latency. Unlike UDP, LRT gives complete feedback loop so the user knows that the data is arriving correctly.
  • ADAPTIVE BIT RATE ENCODING
    As the bandwidth condition changes, LRT automatically recognizes this and informs the video encoder to allow it to adapt the bit rate of video it is delivering and keep the best possible stream within the available bandwidth at any given moment.

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800-634-5178 to order today

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Editor of TVTechnology, Bob Kovacs writes from his own experiences and gives insight to how cellular bonding has changed the broadcast industry. 

Ten years ago, I worked for Sprint Nextel as an engineer on the 2 GHz relocation project (aka the “BAS Relocation”). At that time, broadcasters didn’t have much choice to get signals from remote feeds back to the studio: It was either ENG microwave or satellite trucks.

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Editor of TVTechnology, Bob Kovacs writes from his own experiences and gives insight to how cellular bonding has changed the broadcast industry. 

Ten years ago, I worked for Sprint Nextel as an engineer on the 2 GHz relocation project (aka the “BAS Relocation”). At that time, broadcasters didn’t have much choice to get signals from remote feeds back to the studio: It was either ENG microwave or satellite trucks.

I stayed with the project until 2010, and although a couple of alternatives were percolating in the background, it wasn’t until a year or two later that they exploded into the minds of broadcasters. It first hit the streets in the form of backpack cellular radios that used multiple 3G cell phone connections to transport signals back to the studio.

As telcos such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile acquired more spectrum and implemented 4G technology, digital bandwidth that could be used for broadcast-quality video increased rapidly. With two 4G connections paired at the camera, it’s perfectly reasonable to get a transmission channel of 20 Mbps or greater—easily enough for a high-quality link, especially when using H.264 encoding.

Compared to microwave trucks (virtually all of which had been upgraded to digital as a result of the 2 GHz relocation project), bonded cellular has a big advantage: It has high-bandwidth return capability for cuing and IFB built into the system. The big disadvantage of bonded cellular is that the digital link can vary widely from lousy to great—you might be sure you’ll get 20 Mbps, but find out that it won’t go higher than 3 Mbps. As telcos continue to improve their systems and build additional 4G sites, getting higher speeds in the future is almost certain.

Although current 4G technology would seem perfect for occasional broadcast remotes, a 5G standard is in development. It promises to have more efficient spectrum usage and to serve more users with faster data speeds from each cell site.

“We’re really excited to see the rollout of the fifth generation wireless technologies because we’ve been closely involved since the days of 2G and it is amazing to see the bandwidth and technology advancements,” said Avi Cohen, COO and cofounder of Hackensack, N.J.-based LiveU. “But it’s important to remember that these are built for consumers and we are optimizing these networks for professional video applications. We’ve heard this same story through the years—that 3G is going to be fast enough, LTE is going to give us plenty of speed for video, and so on. But as cellular networks get better, the demand for more bandwidth and reliability continues to grow because we keep filling the capacity.”

Read the full article here. 

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