Ideas on Video Communications [Video]

For broadcasters, sports organizations, and other rights holders, the hunt to find new sources of audience-building content - and the associated revenue streams they can provide - is an ongoing challenge. Recent technology advances in the areas of AI-driven systems, private 5G networks, and innovative remote production techniques have the potential to revolutionize the way content is captured, distributed and monetized. Vislink’s acquisition of Mobile Viewpoint has brought it an expanded stable of such innovations. Together with technology partner VidOvation, Vislink discusses how these solutions can deliver all-IP streamlined workflows, increased engagement, and higher returns on live event coverage than previously possible.

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Nathan Mumm:

Well, now that we got our whiskey out of the way, we're going to move to our main story of the day. Our main story is talking about how a company has come up with a way to use streaming technology at the consumer level to provide world-class streaming live video with bonded cellular technology while on a trip, through tunnels, in the mountains, or anywhere that you'd have seclusion that you wouldn't be able to necessarily get your Internet traffic. The company, VidOvation, excels in helping clients like you integrate custom video transmission streaming and contribution to distributed systems in existing infrastructure with the ability to satisfy almost all appliances, applications or budget.  VidOvation provides television production, broadcasting, wireless, distribution, and streaming systems that simplify your workflow and save costs. Expect at-home remote production (REMI) without the headaches. Create more Live Content while saving costs. Demand frame-accurate genlock & lip-sync across multiple untethered cameras

Nathan Mumm:

Mike is joining us. He is the Executive... Oh Mike, this is exciting-

Mike:

Jim is joining us. I'm Mike.

Nathan Mumm:

... as Jim is joining us. He's the Executive Vice President and CTO of VidOvation. So Jim Jachetta, thank you very much for joining the show today.

Speaker 1:

This is a segment we call Ask the Experts.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. As Jim comes on up, Jim, last time we talked, we geeked out on a few items, but today I want to talk about your technology solutions, streamlining in hard-to-reach places. People are always streaming for work, for pleasure, especially across the globe now with our remote work environment that we have. You need to have streaming services everywhere. If you're out in the middle of a mountain hike, you'd never know when you may have that Zoom call-

Mike:

Yeah, you need to pull on over and to pull off the trail and do a Zoom call.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right, okay, but what's really interesting is that Jim has some solutions that are out-of-the-box broadcast, professional-grade, and even to the high-end of major motion industrial. So Jim, welcome to the show.

Jim Jachetta:

Hey guys, how're you doing? Glad to be here.

Nathan Mumm:

Good, good, good.

Mike:

Hi Jim.

Nathan Mumm:

Jim, all right. Please explain to me first, some of the clients that you interact with your business. Let's give a rundown.

Jim Jachetta:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Who are your clients?

Jim Jachetta:

Yeah, our clients tend to be television stations, sports leagues. We're working with the PGA. We need to transmit live from golf courses in rural areas. We might do a bicycle race that goes out into the middle of a desert. We are doing quite a few, believe it or not, fishing tournaments.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Jim Jachetta:

Some of these fishing tournaments end up on ESPN live, so it's hard to broadcast live from the middle of a lake where there's no... satellite is just not an option.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, I can vouch for that.

Mike:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Can you vouch for that?

Mike:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

I can tell you the one thing about fishing is that when I go fishing I catch nothing, so forget Internet. I can't even catch the fish in the boat, so-

Mike:

Well, you're going for the wrong reason.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right, okay. All right. So Jim-

Jim Jachetta:

It's all about the drinking, right?

Nathan Mumm:

That's right. Well-

Mike:

That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

... if you have a nice whiskey out on the boat, then everything goes easier.

Mike:

You're catching something, it's just not a fish.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right. Okay Jim, explain what is your core business, okay. Your core business, what do you do? You're an AV company, but for the standard everyday listener that's listening to our show, what's your core business that you specialize in?

Jim Jachetta:

Well, our technology may touch the consumer, but we are really working more with a corporation or the enterprise, or from a consumer level maybe an executive wants to do a webinar from home or have a town hall meeting but wants a broadcast quality camera instead of a web camera. Then our technology would come into place, and fundamentally what we do is, the magic sauce or the magic bullet is we use cellular technology, and we don't just use one cellular connection, we'll use as many as eight cellular connections, and those eight connections, some of them might be on Verizon, some might be on AT&T, some on T-Mobile, or a mixture of all three, depending upon where you are.

Jim Jachetta:

We use the term bonded cellular. It's actually an IT term, bonding several connections together, and probably in the past you would bond several T1 connections together to make a DS3 connection, a bigger pipe, so we bond or take smaller cellular pipes and bond them into one big pipe so we can stream video reliably from these remote locations.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Explain that. Let's talk about that. Bonded cellular. So are you saying that you take a carrier with a 5G SIM card and you put it on top of another SIM card? Explain to me what your bonded cellular, or the Haivision IP is what you call it I think, is a area... Explain-

Jim Jachetta:

That's one of our partners, Haivision.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Okay, explain that to us.

Jim Jachetta:

Your audience is pretty technical. We take an encoder and we encode the video, relatively traditional methodology of encoding video. There's a lot of encoders, inexpensive high-end encoders, but the real magic is taking that stream of packets. We encode it into a bunch of IP packets, then you send those packets across the Internet, or in this case across the cellular network. The packets get all out of order. Some arrive early, some arrive late. Then we take those packets and we spread them across the eight connections, the eight cellular connection, so some packets go on modem number one, some go on two, some three, four, five, six, seven, and the real magic happens on the receiving side to take those eight streams, put them back together, and for video, the packets need to be in order.

Jim Jachetta:

Even this web session today, if the packets were out of sequence, you wouldn't be able to see or hear me right now. That's the real magic, breaking everything apart, sending it over these eight connections, and then putting it all back together on the receiving side, that's really magic.

Jim Jachetta:

We use forward error correction, automatic re-requests. There's a lot of... everything is dynamic and automatic. The bit rate will go up and down based on the quality of your connection. If we have a 10 megabit connection, we'll use it. If that suddenly drops, we adapt to it. The technology is very adaptable to Internet and cellular and network conditions.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so if I'm out in the middle of a boat, you talked about the fishing tournament, right, and so as I move further and further away from a cellular tower, probably the signal strength is going to be less and less and less, so does that mean the video quality is a little less high definition? Does it put those little filters in where you start seeing the bitmaps of everything that's going on? What happens when you're further away with that technology that's there?

Jim Jachetta:

Well, in television... I think we all learn this from satellite. Remember when CNN got a very low bit rate video feed from the rooftop in Baghdad, the first Gulf War? That proved that even a low resolution video is better than no video.

Jim Jachetta:

Some of our competitors take the approach where they do constant bit rate. They'll run at a high bit rate, but then it drops out. Then it freezes. We will scale the image. We will shrink the image and then scale it back up. Yes, you might lose some fidelity, but a little bit loss of fidelity or a little bit of the resolution, as we call, the picture gets a little bit soft. A little bit softness in the picture is better than no picture.

Jim Jachetta:

And of course we give priority to the audio. The human eye is more forgiving to a loss in visual fidelity or video fidelity than audio. Any kind of clicks or pops, the human ear doesn't forgive that. It's a delicate dance and it's all automatic, but you're right, Nathan, that if the bass fishing boat goes to a corner of the lake where there's not as much cellular connectivity, the unit may actually switch cellular carrier automatically. It was in the middle of the lake, maybe the modems were grabbing Verizon, then it moves to a corner of the lake, now it's out of the range of Verizon, our system will automatically grab T-Mobile or AT&T, and it will do everything it can to grab a signal.

Jim Jachetta:

There are areas where there is no signal, so we're not magicians. We can't fabricate a cellular signal where there isn't one, but there's techniques for that too, where we'll record the video while we're in that dead spot of the lake and then play it back when the boat comes back into range, so there are workflow ways around... Maybe the video will be a little bit delayed, but we'll still get the video out. We'll call that near-live, where the video's delayed a few minutes and then we still get it out. There's always a way to get-

Nathan Mumm:

Is that TiVo, is that what you said?

Mike:

Yeah, TiVo.

Nathan Mumm:

TiVo.

Jim Jachetta:

Yes.

Nathan Mumm:

TiVo, they buffer that a little bit, yep.

Mike:

It's my understanding that the system is trying to keep the co

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