LiveU has revealed details of its work to support 2024 US election coverage.
In the biggest-ever deployment of LiveU encoders for a single event, more than 4,000 of the company’s field units were in use over the 48-hour Election Day period, more than double the number used during the 2020 election. More than 40TB of data was transmitted by 935 customers from more than 56 countries, a figure that represents almost 40,000 hours of live coverage.
LiveU’s LU800 units were deployed across the United States in both remote and on-site locations, enabling transmission of live feeds to control rooms throughout the country as well as Latin America, the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific regions.
More than 23,000 hours of live feeds and 7,500 feeds via LiveU Matrix, the company’s cloud-native IP-video distribution solution. The platform enabled broadcasters to share low-latency live feeds, providing coverage from battleground states to campaign headquarters, said the company.
LiveU Ingest provided automatic recording and story metadata tagging, integrated with broadcasters’ MAM systems, in what the company said was a first at a major event. Around 6,500 live feed recordings and more than 4,000 content hours were recorded over the period. Customers could rapidly process video in the field while understanding everything was being recorded.
LiveU’s Mobile Data Service combined with LAN access at key sites, leveraging the LiveU Reliable Transport (LRT) protocol for optimal performance and resilience, said the company.
Brian Tully, senior VP sales, LiveU, said, “This election created an unprecedented amount of action, excitement and interest worldwide, with LiveU’s EcoSystem at the heart of the coverage. A vast amount of video traffic flowed through every stage – from the on-location encoders to the production control rooms. It was truly incredible to see all the election content created, produced and shared using our technology. Our teams were operating at full speed, ensuring the highest levels of reliability, video performance and customer support across the country, including Howard University, West Palm Beach, and the battleground states.”
