To transmit this live broadcast, T-Studios turned to Haivision’s
live video contribution solutions, the
Haivision Pro mobile video transmitters and
StreamHub receiver, to send high-quality ultra-low latency video over a 5G cellular network into their live production.
From the T-Mobile campus, John Saw, T-Mobile’s Chief Technology Officer, presented a demo of the company’s new satellite service through a series of text messages exchanged with an employee located outside and off-campus, utilizing devices locked to the satellite constellation, despite terrestrial service being available. To demonstrate the reliability and speed of their satellite service and prove that the text messaging was happening live, the cameras would need to capture the demo and transmit it to the presentation in real time.
Two camera-mounted Haivision Pro 5G video transmitters were used to capture the live demo. One camera was focused on the person sending the text message remotely, and the other camera filmed the phone receiving the texts in real time through the satellite connection.
The Pro field units provided ultra-reliable
low latency streaming over the T-Mobile’s 5G terrestrial network. For the first time, T-Studios used a 5G networking slice to carry live video for an internal event. 5G slicing allows operators to take public cellular network
bandwidth and logically divide it to create dedicated virtual networks within one infrastructure. These 5G slices can be committed to a single portion of a workflow, providing enhanced reliability, flexibility, performance, and security.
The video feeds from the Pro field units were transmitted into a StreamHub receiver, located in a production studio and into the webcast being streamed to employees.
Tim Wilkinson Chief Engineer Sr. Manager, T-Studios Engineering/Webcast at T-Mobile explained:
“To showcase the reliability and speed of the T-Satellite solution to T-Mobile employees, the demo had to be broadcast truly live, and all done in real time. We were able to lock our test devices on to T-Satellite, since the terrestrial network was still available and Haivision’s ultra-low latency mobile video technology combined with the dedicated 5G slice enabled us to execute this live production in a way we’ve never been able to do before – allowing us to do it with lower costs and more flexibility.” 
