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Centralised Production
of Live Events Using IP
Suitcase TV to demonstrate cutting-edge live broadcasting solution at NAB Show 2015...

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s broadcasters recognise the
value of targeting wider audiences
by utilising a broader range of streams,
it becomes apparent that some of those
streams generate signiﬁcantly lower
revenue than others. In order to open
up new streams for use on OTT and
other platforms, broadcasters need to
ﬁnd new ways of producing events at a
lower cost.
Suitcase TV's iphrame Vision can
run on standard IT hardware, right up
to dedicated rack-mounted hardware
with client/server architecture. Unlike
typical elaborate systems centred on

traditional broadcasting technology,
iphrame Vision reduces the hardware
and setup time required considerably,
and opens up new ways of working
that were not previously possible
with a traditional hardware-based
approach.
The processing architecture of
iphrame Vision has been designed with
CPU efﬁciency and low latency in mind.
As a result, iphrame Vision has been
used to successfully stream a number
of important events in the UK. Now,
with huge international events like the
2016 Olympic Games on the horizon,
Suitcase TV has been working
hard to ensure that iphrame
Vision is the go-to solution for
broadcasters seeking more
cost-effective delivery of
broadcast quality video across
IP networks.
At NAB Show, Suitcase
Suitcase TV's iphrame is a cutting-edge solution
TV will present iphrame

Remote, a groundbreaking solution
for the centralised production of live
broadcasts. Using iphrame Remote,
broadcasters can dramatically reduce
costs, by allowing key personnel to
operate the system from a range
of locations, virtually any location
where there is an Internet connection
available. Additional cost savings can
be made given that only the cameras
and associated technical teams need
to be deployed on-site.
The iphrame Remote server receives
multiple feeds over SDI, and or IP,
buffers them locally, and generates
frame-accurate low-bitrate proxy
streams. These are transmitted back
to a central location or via the cloud,
for remotely deployed workers. Since
all signals are accurately timestamped,
an operator can have a simultaneous
view of the proxy streams and make
instantaneous cut decisions from
them. The relative timing of the

switching and cut decisions are fed
back to the iphrame Remote server at
the outside broadcast location, where
the buffered full-resolution feeds can
be frame-accurately switched and
prepared for distribution at a high
bitrate, and/or written to ﬁle.
The IP communications between
the iphrame Remote server and the
remote user interfaces can utilise a
range of error correction technologies,
meaning a multi-camera production
with remote switching could be done
in HD, using an IP link of less than 100
Mb/s.
Offering a radical alternative to the
way outside broadcasts are planned
and implemented, iphrame Remote
will not only drastically reduce the cost
of broadcasting large international
events, but brings to the market
an inexpensive means of televising
smaller, less commercially viable
events, at the highest possible quality.
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