With the Super Bowl right behind us, a common question that might arise is how an event that big can be accessible through live streaming on TV, the Internet, and any device such as a tablet or smartphone, all across the world.
Well, thanks to KenCast’s (News - Alert) Vazzt Video-On-The-Move (VOTM), live streaming coverage for all those devices is possible. KenCast offers content delivery into comprehensive media solutions and is responsible for transmitting all major Hollywood studio films via satellite. It also recently launched free software to allow anyone to record, view, monetize and broadcast online events.
Its media solutions cover multiple areas, including entertainment and media, live streaming coverage, public safety and military, and retail (digital signage). KenCast provides software for moving large movie files over satellite to all receivers at once using multicasting technology, flawless and quick delivery for both video files and live stream in surveillance and for major incident coverage, and offers live coverage solutions with its Video-On-The-Move (VOTM) products.
The Vazzt VOTM Pro System is used widely by TV news professionals as well as corporations, public safety, military, homeland security, athletics, emergency event coverage, and by online independent TV producers.
The Vazzt VOTM Pro System IBIS Appliance attaches to a camera and contains a computer on a chip that takes a standard SDI feed from the camera. It uses 3G/4G aircards to create a bonded network path from the live camera feed to the Central Hub where the video is received into the EdgeSpan Applicance and processed by the IBIS Studio Software.
The EdgeSpan and IBIS software allows up to four cameras to produce SDI feed.
Vazzt offers other technology benefits besides live streaming coverage. It provides forward error correction to overcome lost/damaged parts of live video streams, bolsters network bonding aggregates bandwidth, enabling higher quality video and better coverage, and offers adaptive bitrate encoding to ensure continual smooth streaming for busy networks.
KenCast recently provided live coverage online of the Dan Finn Classic 2012 charity games in January. The event included six basketball games, including some of the best high school basketball teams in the U.S. The event was held in a building with no Internet access available, so KenCast employed technology that used wireless data services to carry the live feed directly from the video switcher to telecommunication facilities that enable delivery to viewers on the Internet.
Rachel Ramsey is a TMCnet editorial assistant, contributing news items and feature articles on a variety of communications and technology topics. Rachel has previously worked in PR and communications at The Wriglesworth Consultancy, an award-winning London PR firm. She has also contributed to the creative services department at CBS 3 and The CW Philly in Philadelphia. To read more of Rachel's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Carrie Schmelkin
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