Jim Jachetta:                      Great. Okay, we’ll get started. Good morning, everyone. This is Jim Jachetta. I’m the CTO and co-founder of VidOvation Corporation. VidOvation, we’re the master distributor in the US for a company out of Rennes, France called Aviwest.
Jim Jachetta:                      I’m sure we’ve talked to many of you about the Aviwest technology. We’ve deployed Aviwest with Turner Sports, CNN. Aviwest technology has helped make shows like Live PD possible, and today we have a very special guest. Some of you guys and gals might be tired of hearing from me on webinars, so we’re very happy today to have Samuel Fleischhacker.
Jim Jachetta:                      Samuel has been with Aviwest as a senior product manager for almost two years now. Samuel is a 20 year veteran in the broadcast television space, in coding video transport over IP. He’s worked for brands such as Phillips, Talos, Thompson, and Harmonic, and we’re really happy today to have Samuel tell us more about the special … we get asked every day, “What is the one thing that makes Aviwest different? What is the big differentiator?”
Jim Jachetta:                      It’s a lot of different things. There’s a lot of uniqueness to their technology, to their software, to their antennas, to their modems, and their protocol, et cetera, but I think if we were to start with one thing, it’s the Safe Streams Transport technology, and Samuel is going to tell us more about that today, so thank you, Samuel.
Jim Jachetta:                      How are you?
Samuel F.:                           I’m fine, thank you, Jim, and welcome, everybody. I’m very pleased to present this first webinar session, which is part of a larger set of sessions organized by VidOvation and Aviwest. In the next session, we will focus probably on the product more especially, or on some use cases, but today we will, as you mentioned, talk a lot about our technology which helps us to perform [inaudible 00:03:06] role and assists the transport of video over, and manage IP networks.
Samuel F.:                           This Emmy-awarded technology is named SST, which stands for Safe Stream Transport Protocol, and on Aviwest, which is a French company created 11 years ago, we are today on the third generation of SST, so the SST V3, which is implemented in our latest generation of products.
Samuel F.:                           What is SST? SST is a technology, a patented technology, which will help you to transport videos, audios, and data wherever you are in the world, in the field, even if you are moving with your camera or with your stem, and to deliver these to your control rooms.
Samuel F.:                           The important point is that we are totally network agnostic, and that is a trend of our solutions, meaning that you can transport the videos over wifi, over traditional IP networks, LAN or WAN, as well as any type of satellite, so KA satellite, KU satellite, BGAN satellites, which have the benefit of having a different contractor, different usage.
Samuel F.:                           And finally, also, and this is the most use case we have: on cellular networks, 3G, 4G, as well as 5G networks, so we are totally agnostic. You can use any of these networks, as a standalone network, or as combined networks, as we will see later. We do not compromise on quality.
Samuel F.:                           With the standard technology, if you are transmitting video, you can see some issues like blurriness, blockiness, jerkiness, and with the safe stream technology, the promise is that the quality will be there, whatever occurs in the field. Even if you have a lack of connections, we will find a solution thanks to this technology to provide the picture to your control room, as demonstrated there.
Samuel F.