Broadcasting & Broadcast Equipment

Pleora’s broadcast products provide a quick and easy solution for a common problem — lack of direct access to fiber-based backbones at remote locations — by delivering the data in an Asynchronous Serial Interface (ASI) or MPEG Transport Stream (TS) via Internet Protocol (IP).

This transport stream, which delivers either standard- or high-definition video channels, allows broadcasters to take advantage of low-cost wired or wireless IP transmission systems. In doing so, the need for transmission using a licensed RF band is reduced or eliminated. In addition, because video transmission over IP uses the real-time protocol (RTP) standard, transmissions from ASI-to-IP or TS-to-IP gateways can be received by off-the-shelf hardware and software solutions.

Why Internet Protocol (IP)?

Broadcasters choose Pleora’s ASI-to-IP and TS-to-IP gateways to broadcast from remote sites to central locations for the following reasons:

• Ease of use: Reliable, quick, and easy set-up at remote sites is critical and our products are field-tested and proven.
• Low-cost: With Pleora’s IP gateways, broadcasters can access low-cost wired or wireless IP transmission systems.

Broadcast over IP applications

Some of the many applications for Pleora’s broadcast and broadcast equipment products are:

• Special venue events at remote locations to central production facilities.
• Security hot spots to command and control centers.
• Weather-monitoring locales to central monitoring stations.

IP gateways in action

In the example broadcast application below, a central weather monitoring organization receives cost-effective, real-time IP video feeds from remote cameras placed strategically throughout its broad coverage area.

IP gateway delivering real-time Internet Protocol (IP) video feeds from remote cameras.

If you are interested in learning more about how to deliver data in an ASI or MPEG transport stream to Internet protocol (IP) packets for broadcast applications, we invite you to join our Support Center or simply give us a call at (613) 270-0625.