AVIWEST Webinar
AVIWEST NAB Updates – New RACK Field Encoders & 5G Cellular Transmitters
 
 
Our foremost experts in broadcast, sports, and news production are going to walk through exciting portfolio enhancements initially planned to be showcased at NAB by AVIWEST.
It will include an update on our 5G transmitters, the new rack-mount encoder RACK200 and RACK300, and much more.
Jim Jachetta (00:00:02):
Good morning everyone. I’m Jim Jachetta, CTO and founder of VidOvation. Today, I have my good friend, Florian Kolmer, who’s Sale Director for the US at AVIWEST. Florian is more than your typical sales person. He’s a network engineer. He knows the AVIWEST product line inside and out. He knows IP networking, IP transport inside and out, and he’s going to tell us today about some new things that would’ve been announced at NAB this year, So this is… I’m really looking forward to your presentation today, Florian.
Florian Kolmer (00:00:39):
Thank you, Jim. I hope you’re all doing well and staying safe during this particular time.
Jim Jachetta (00:00:45):
Yes.
Florian Kolmer (00:00:47):
Today, we’re in part of our season of new webinars. We have been deciding to make a virtual NAB webinar to replace what we were looking to announce and showcase during the show. So if you have been missing some of the previous webinars, you can watch them online.
Florian Kolmer (00:01:08):
Some of them have been dedicated to remote production, some of them are dedicated to AVIWEST products, and there will be more coming. Another one coming next week will be about 5G technologies. We’ll speak about 5G today, but not as much in details as the next webinar is planned to.
Jim Jachetta (00:01:30):
Right.
Florian Kolmer (00:01:30):
So this one is more about the specific new products we are launching now, new technologies and how they will change workflows for broadcast production. [crosstalk 00:01:44]
Jim Jachetta (00:01:45):
Thank you, Florian, and you mentioned other webinars. VidOvation has been doing a webinar every Wednesday. There’s a series of four webinars from AVIWEST from Florian. This is the second in the series so please sign up for those. Florian and I would like to know where you folks are at in your bonded cellular usage.
Jim Jachetta (00:02:15):
Do you folks use bonded cellular right now? Is it something you’re considering? Is it already in your workflow? Is it planned for your workflow? Or you really don’t know? Or no one has a plan for it yet? Or you don’t have any future plans? So if you guys could take a quick second to let us know where you guys are at, that’d be great.
Jim Jachetta (00:02:44):
I could see now the votes are coming in and then I’ll close it, and then let me see. I’ll share it. So it seems like more than two thirds of you are using bonded already. So good for you. You’ve been using this technology for a while.
Jim Jachetta (00:03:06):
A third of you are not using have a plan to, and I guess everyone has some plan or is currently using bonded. So no one has eliminated bonded cellular as an option in their transmission and contribution and distribution plans. So let me hide this. You have control Florian.
Florian Kolmer (00:03:34):
Yes, I do have.
Jim Jachetta (00:03:35):
Great.
Florian Kolmer (00:03:37):
[crosstalk 00:03:37] Thank you, Jim. And again thank you all of you to join today. So let’s start with this virtual NAB. So as you have been answering, most of you are already using bonded cellular technologies, some of you are planning to do so in the future. So I’m sure all of know already what’s bonded cellular is, so I won’t make an introduction to this well-known technology ...