Over the month of September, Neutral Wireless have built four networks in four countries — Kenya, Ireland, New Zealand, and of course Scotland — to support live video productions as part of the IBC media accelerator project “5G Remote Production… In the Middle of Nowhere”.
Video Timestamps
00:00 – IBC Media Accelerators Sponsors and Champions
00:23 – Welcome from the Chieftain
00:37 – 5G SA Workflow – Camera to Basestation – Kenny Barlee, NW
01:05 – Production in the Video Car, Decoders and Multiviewers
01:23 – Production Process Review from QTV – David Lowe, QTV
02:10 – IBC Welcome to the 5G Middle of Nowhere – Mark Smith, IBC
02:58 – Live to Pitlochry – Bob Stewart and Kenny Barlee, StrathSDR
03:41 – 5G SA, Starlink, Spectrum, UEs & Network Parameters
05:23 – Real time Spectrum Monitoring with the AMD/Xilinx RFSoC
05:54 – Software Defined everything – Tony Ighagbon, StrathSDR
06:20 – IBC Champions and Key Partners – Mark Smith, IBC
07:32 – Where is all started – Matt Stagg, BTSport
10:25 – Accelerator Engagement and Progress – Purminder Gandhu, BBC R&D
11:13 – The Workflow From Scotland via Starlink to Amsterdam – Malcolm Brew, NW
12:14 – the 5G ingredients – Cameron Speirs, NW
Along with our production partners QTV, we were able to broadcast HD footage from the Pitlochry Highland Games live to the innovation stage in Amsterdam for IBC 2022.
Our 5G UEs took the encoded SDI streams from the four on-site cameras, transferred them over our uplink-biased n77 5G SA private network (with a bonded Starlink backhaul) to our production car, where the IP data was decoded back into four SDI streams to be passed onto QTV for production and broadcast. With an additional data layer on top of the video streams, functionality such as talkback and tally could also be communicated.
Our Lomond Network-In-a-Box solution received praise for its ease of set-up, ease of integration, and low levels of latency. You can watch our engineers talk through a detailed step-by-step of our set-up in the video at the top of this page.
Neutral Wireless would like to thank all of our collaborators in the IBC 5G Remote Production… In the Middle of Nowhere project. This includes:
Our fellow champions — The BBC, BT Media & Broadcast, BT Sport, OBS, Paramount, RTÉ, The Scotland 5G Center, TV2, The University of Strathclyde, and Warner Bros Discovery.
Project Participants — AMD, AWS Media & Entertainment, Haivision, Microsoft, Netinsight, NuLink, Singular.Live, Vislink & Mobile Viewpoint, and Zixi.
Production Partners — Wakaata Māori, QTV, RTÉ, and What’s Good Media.
