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LiveU
from Pro 2022
Moving to the cloud
LiveU is shaping the future of live video, powering video production workflows and cloud services for news, sports and other verticals. Building on its global market leadership and innovation, LiveU offers the highest quality, reliable and cost-effective, end-to-end solutions for all types of live productions – producing more for less. With over 5,000 customers in 150 countries, LiveU’s technology is the solution of choice for global broadcasters, sports and other organisations (including government, education, public safety, enterprise and production houses), streaming live video to TV, mobile, online and social media.
As the industry moves to the cloud, LiveU is leading the way with endto-end cloud-based, on-prem and hybrid end-to-end solutions – from live contribution and management to orchestration and distribution – delivering increased efficiency, viewer engagement and revenue growth.
15 Years of Innovation
LiveU changed newsgathering forever with the invention of cellular bonding technology, bringing a previously unimaginable level of speed of deployment and mobility to live news coverage, at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. The company’s IP-transmission technologies have had the same disruptive effect in the sports industry, bringing viewers far closer to the action quicker with high-quality, reliable video.
LiveU solutions are used for a wide range of other vertical sectors, including production houses, entertainment, enterprise, education, telemedicine, public safety and government.
End-to-end Live Video Solutions
The adoption of REMI production accelerated over the last two years, makes it the standard workflow for many production crews. Powered by the LiveU Cloud Video Platform,
LiveU offers a full range of live streaming and remote production (REMI) solutions, enabling new levels of quality, flexibility and cost savings. Solutions include: Industry-leading multi-camera and other 5G-enabled field units with a gateway to the cloud (LU800 and LU300S). This hardware, combined with the company’s cloud-based solutions and services, provide a cost-effective solution to power REMI production workflows LiveU Air Control – a broadcast orchestration cloud solution, enabling seamless control of human elements associated with producing live shots with remote guests/talent LiveU Matrix – cloud IP video management and distribution solution with Dynamic Share service, enabling users to exchange live content with 3,000+ participating TV networks, stations, producers, sports organisations and online channels around the world, part of the LiveU Global Directory Rich production tools, including IP Pipe, Video Return, Audio Connect and Tally Light LiveU Ingest – the new automatic recording and story metadata tagging solution for live video. It allows you to process video faster and increase efficiency while significantly cutting production costs
In addition, LiveU helps to enrich remote production cloud workflows with pre-integrated solutions, collaborating with other leading providers such as Avid, Grass Valley, Blackbird, Grabyo and Vizrt.
Global and Regional Projects
LiveU solutions are used for the world’s leading news, sport and entertainment events and the company is now getting ready for the Games in Qatar.
At the Tokyo Summer Games – using NTT DOCOMO’s 5G network – LiveU’s LU800 units delivered exceptional results with its multi-camera capabilities providing dynamic coverage from multiple angles. The increase in LiveU deployment (400% increase since Rio 2016) reflected the growing trust and reliance on the reliability of LiveU solutions. The company also ran more than 30 channels of distribution to almost 100 stations across the world using its Matrix platform.
In the Middle East, LiveU solutions are used for a wide range of projects. Examples include: ABS Network (ABSN) selected LiveU’s live video solutions for live newsgathering across the Middle East and from its Washington DC news bureau At the Expo 2020 in Dubai, LiveU provided a range of broadcast rental equipment for high-quality live coverage
Contact
LiveU Inc. 2 University Plaza Drive Suite 505 Hackensack
NJ 07601, USA Tel: +1-(201)-742-5229 Website: www.liveu.tv
Bruno Schmetz Sales Director, Middle East & Africa Email: brunos@liveu.tv
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