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THESE FORM FACTORS WILL COME DOWN. WHAT WE HAD AS HALF A RACK OF EQUIPMENT WILL LITERALLY BE THE SIZE OF A CELLPHONE
HOLE IN ONE Sheehan is eagerly looking ahead to when the 2018 US Open’s loaded golf cart will be an anachronism. 5G chipsets from Intel and Qualcomm are expected later this year. “These form factors will come down. What we had as half a rack of equipment will literally be the size of a cellphone.” These new, small 5G phase array antennas will allow cameras and other gear to be easily fitted with 5G connectivity, via accessories or internally. Any type of gear you can think of can then easily be part of a 5G network – the Internet Of Things will come to the world of production. Next up for the Ericsson team will be implementing the 5G network in a more fixed installation. “This trial was ‘Is it going to work?’, and it did,” says Sheehan. “Next we’re going to pick a venue and put more of a permanent solution in there so that the equipment can be used over and over again. We’re working with our partners in figuring out where that market is going to be and hopefully we’ll make that announcement soon.” The wide commercial roll-out of 5G is expected in 2020 and it would behove media businesses to start sketching out their plans now. The technology will create challenges in areas that don’t even exist today, but will create a whole new array of opportunities for content production, distribution and audience interaction.
think about it when you’re at home, but out there on the course, you wonder if it will stand up to it. And it did. We saw our test results replicated at the event.” The team used a covered golf cart set up with a 12U flyaway case containing the Mobile Test Platform (MTP) prototype modem from Intel, MediaKind’s AVP 2000 Contribution Encoder, the Multidyne SilverBack fibre/power interface for the camera, and a power supply. The Sony HDC-4300 ultra-HD high dynamic range camera was connected by fibre through the SilverBack to the AVP 2000 encoder, which compressed the 12 gigabit per second 4K HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) HDR video signal to a high- quality mezzanine-level HEVC signal at 80 megabits per second. The MTP modulated the HEVC signal to 5G at 28GHz and transmitted it over spectrum provided by AT&T. The 5G signal was received by the Phase Array Antenna Module (PAMM) within MediaKind’s 5G Base Station, which was mounted on an existing camera tower within the golf course. The 5G core network then connected to Fox’s on-site production centre, where the HEVC in IP over Ethernet signal was converted back to the 4K HLG baseband signal by the MediaFirst Content Processing (MFCP) receiver-decoder from MediaKind. The baseband signal was then input into the Fox production workflow.
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