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Royal Navy Fleet Upgrades Broadcast Systems
October 18, 2007
Source: Livewire Digital
The Royal
Navy has enhanced the fleet with new Livewire Digital broadcast
systems. The material will be used for both internal purposes
- such as training - and for interaction with the broadcast
news channels.
Six Royal Navy ships have now been equipped
with Livewire’s M-Link Voyager systems; the rest of the
fleet have been equipped with Livewire’s IP-Reporter.
The Livewire Digital technology enables video footage to be
delivered to the Navy’s Fleet HQ efficiently via satellite,
from mid ocean. The footage can then be distributed to news
channels and used for internal purposes such as training.
The Livewire equipment has been used on
HMS Ocean recently following several successful drug busts
by the Royal Navy and its partners. Video footage from the
drug bust in June, when cocaine with an estimated street value
of £29m was seized, was edited, compressed and transmitted
back to base using M-Link’s efficient protocols.
Livewire Digital’s IP-Reporter software
is simple to use on local PCs or laptops, turning them into
news desks with a video reporting capability. The integrated
top-and-tail Non-Linear Editing (NLE) allows the users to
quick-edit the footage before filing them to the M-Link servers.
Where communication links are intermittent
or unreliable, such as in mid ocean environments, M-Link’s
protocols make efficient use of the available bandwidth, reducing
costs and transmission times. M-Link is a highly mobile, reliable
and compact system, which can be deployed and operated by
a single person in remote and hostile locations. This highly
cost effective software solution delivers news and documentary
footage directly from the bureau or field, empowering a wide
range of staff with the tools to be on the spot News Reporters.
Tristan Wood, Managing Director of Livewire
Digital, said “M-Link is an easy to use system for broadcast
capture and transfer, and really comes into its own when it’s
essential to make the most efficient use of available bandwidth
especially in mid ocean. The M-Link broadcast system is therefore
ideally suited for use aboard Royal Navy Vessels.”
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