ABonAir Leads the Way with a Single Digit Latency of Seven Milliseconds at IBC 2016

Netherlands: The 2016 International Broadcasting Conference held in Rai Amsterdam from 8-12 September, brought media and non-media delegates from across the globe to embrace, celebrate and find solutions to the various challenges facing the media as a unit.

With ‘Transformation in the Digital Era’ set as this year’s theme, as well as overlapping the aim to making and shaping the future of International broadcasting, there is more room for improvement, in the face of digital and technological innovations in future broadcasting, as observed at the conference.

From various media presentations to the multi-faceted broadcasting equipment exhibited, one can arguably tell, that the focus and directions of broadcasting in the future, will be internet based, with latency as its prime target.

Speaking to an excited Eran Igler, the President and C.E .O of ABonAir a Wireless Video company that has already taken the lead in latency proximity “We specialise in wireless video links for broadcasting news and live events, within a range of zero up to three kilometres.”

In explaining their new discovery, he said: “We just announced a new system or a new family of system which is called the AB -500, this wireless video system is a ground-breaking technology that enables the customer to transmit video from a camera to a control room or Outside Broadcast Van wirelessly with a latency of seven millisecond, when I say seven millisecond that includes encoding wireless and decoding.

“All done in the highest quality ABonAir is known for. Our picture quality is unmatched in any of the product that you will find in the wireless link market. And the latency is ground-breaking.”

The renowned worldwide company IBM was also at hand to stake their claim in the technological media advancement.

David Kulczar, Product Manager of IBM Video Cloud, talking through the system as to how it works, he said: “We have multiple solutions in the IBM Cloud Video Framework, it really kind of acts, sort of as on the one side, it’s kind of Netflix model for corporations and on the other side it’s more of a YouTube live streaming kind of model.”

Explaining the Netflix model further “Say you have a content that you are creating that you want to monetise and get out to your subscriber base.

“So that becomes a subscription video on demand, which is similar to what Netflix does when you subscribe their service and get your content up and login with your subscription ID.

“So like I mentioned, in IBM Cloud Video, our multiple solutions ultimately allow multi-screen streaming where we have some few products within our system, one is the Logistics Manager: this allows videos to cut into the system which brings in all the data, the packaging content, put it into a single package to prepare it for delivery.

“And then it moves into our catalogue and Subscriber Management Product, where we can do visualisation services to allow the user to see the content in a logical way. So they can make choices on what they want to view.

“For instance when you log into Netflix, you see certain types of videos, these are by genre or by titles, say action movies, horror movies and comedies.

“And then the Subscriber Management System allows Content Providers to hook into their own internal billing systems. So when a subscriber comes in and signs up to their services, we get paid.”

Seeming to take over as far as their Subscriber Management System is concerned, and as to whether there are other IBM service provisions available to potential clients and subscribers, Mr David explains that, their Cloud Video Foundation is driven by IBM “We have a full foundation of services including all of the process in transcoding of the content, Live and On-Demand service of the media, distribution services and then our own devices in a player framework.”

Another company making their presence felt while trendsetting is Mobile View Point, delivering the solution for the boom in technology for sending video over IP and wireless 3G and 4G with its 8 modems and bandwidth KA and KU connections through the medium of satellite.

Mini Caster, as a media outlet makes their grand entrance with their TWINSAT installation mounted onto their Mercedes G- Wagon 4-Wheeled automobile as a mobile transmission technology.

According to their technological mechanisms, One plus One is equal to Four thousand (1+1=4k) meaning four thousand ultra-high definition grades.

In their exhibition, they showcased their 20 Mbits for four thousand (HEVC) which has a hundred percent Rain-fade mechanism as the first redundant K.A-Band System.

Every year, apart from bringing the global electronic media and entertainment industry together to challenge, direct and set the industry’s agenda, the IBC also engages visitors to reach new prospects and network with the most influential people in the industry.

The IBC also serves as the major and global annual media event that seeks to bring international media practitioners and executives together, in presenting, debating and sharing innovative and technological ideas by way of discussion and forward thinking.

Rai Amsterdam still remains the place to be as far as the International Broadcasting Conference is concerned.

With next year’s conference and exhibition slated for 14-19 September 2017, more is to be seen and experienced in terms of what the future holds for international broadcasters.