Teracue Broadcasts Alpari Racing Tour

Teracue's encoder and decoder technology has been used to broadcast offshore live images for the Alpari World Matching Racing Tour international sailing world championship series in Langenargen.
The broadband initiative II founded by the Baden-Württemberg government demonstrated the use of the mobile communication standard Long Term Evolution (LTE, 4G) in combination with glass fibre networks during Match Race Germany at Lake Constance from 15th to 20th May.
Various technology partners, including Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, TDT and Teledata, developed and installed an infrastructure on location, which allows for live images of the regatta to be broadcast from the water, the air and the shore, using the new mobile communication standard LTE – 4G.
The IPTV specialist Teracue was also onboard. For the broadcasting of live images from the boats and an ultra-light plane, the camera signals were converted into IP signals using a Teracue ENC-300-HDSDI encoder, sent to an LTE router and transmitted from there before being received on land.
On land, the IP streams were converted back into SDI signals by Teracue decoders (DEC-30-HDSDI) and sent to the event direction and video mixer. From there, the live images are played and distributed to the spectators using fibre glass.
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