Streambox' Avenir portable encoder
Fisher is also the first U.S. customer to deploy the new Streambox Avenir™ compact mobile encoder. The Avenir joins a number of other Streambox IP-based streaming and video transport solutions deployed by Fisher to enhance the remote newsgathering capabilities of its news teams. Fisher implemented the newly launched Avenir as a valuable alternative to deploying more-costly and less-flexible SNG/ENG vehicles for field newsgathering. A mobile device that can be carried as a side pack, the Avenir employs Streambox's award-winning ACT-L3™ codec to enable high-quality, low-latency, and low-bandwidth IP transport of HD and SD video for broadcast and web streaming. With the Avenir, Fisher's local news teams will be able to transport full-resolution HD and SD for live and file-based video with a system that can be deployed in minutes using up to eight bonded 3G/4G wireless network modems. The Avenir's intuitive touch screen interface lets users connect quickly and easily via their choice of network connections — ranging from dual Ethernet to Wi-Fi platforms — including bonded 3G/4G mobile broadband devices (via browser-capable smartphones) and low-bandwidth portable satellite devices such as BGAN.
Through its partnership with Streambox, Fisher will continue to expand its use of the Streambox Live™ broadband video contribution service, which the company has been using for more than two months. With the Streambox Live software installed on their laptops and iPhones®, members of Fisher's remote news teams can record, encode, and uplink live or file-based video to the cloud-based Streambox Live service over low-bandwidth IP and mobile networks, where it can be browsed, downloaded, and decoded for broadcast. Because the entire station group subscribes to the many-to-many Streambox Live service, news occurring in one market can be shared for broadcast by any other station in the Fisher group, and video can easily be streamed to local stations' websites, as well.