Aviwest Rack180 H.264/AVC 

On the road, on air

The Aviwest RACK1 Series is a range of advanced hybrid contribution video encoders designed for installation in newsgathering vehicles or remote live video production facilities. Housed in a compact 1RU chassis, it embeds 1 x Wi-Fi modem and up to 8 x 3G/4G modems with SMA antenna ports on its rear panel.

The SMA antenna ports connect with two AVIWEST QUAD Antenna wideband external cellular antenna arrays that can be easily mounted on the roof of any vehicle. The AVIWEST QUAD Antenna are designed to strengthen signal delivery in critical environments such as live reporting from crowded areas.

Thanks to AVIWEST’s SafeStreams Technology and its intelligent bonding stack, the RACK1 Series expands the capabilities of newsgathering vehicles by taking advantage of both satellite and cellular networks in various scenarios:

Uses cases

Live and Files Forward over Satellite & Cellular Networks

The Aviwest RACK1 Series can stream over Ka band and use cellular links as back-up or complementary connection. It enables streaming a live over cellular connection while driving to a location, before switching to Ka band once the satellite dish is pointed. This bonding mode also ensures the transmission reliability when the performance of the Ka band decreases, particularly due to bad weather conditions or of drop in bandwidth cause by a congested network.

Live and Files Forward over Satellite

The Aviwest RACK1 Series is compatible with major portable satellite uplink solutions such as Inmarsat BGAN, GX or Ka band satellite modems. It can also feed any kind of satellite modulator thanks to its MPEG-2 TS ASI output.

Live and Files Forward over Bonded Cellular Networks

Combined with two QUAD Antenna wideband cellular antenna arrays, the Aviwest RACK1 Series can stream live footage over bonded cellular networks even in critical conditions such as from crowded areas.

SIMPLE

The RACK1 Series has been designed with ease-of-use in mind, the user-friendly intuitive interface allows broadcasting live videos in 2 touch screen taps.

HIGH QUALITY

By implementing the state-of-the art H.264/AVC hardware encoder, the RACK1 Series provides seamless high quality news and event coverage.

BONDED NETWORKS

Leveraging AVIWEST’s SafeStreams Technology, the RACK1 Series ensures the delivery of live video by bonding all together Ka satellite and cellular network connections.

Always be “news-ready”

When on the go to cover any kind of live event, you need video delivery solutions that are compact and portable, ensuring you can quickly get to where you need to be and instantly broadcast live with the best possible video quality.

This extended products ecosystem is the perfect flexible and agile solution to quickly cover breaking news, conduct interviews and efficiently produce professional live videos.

The advanced live IP video solution enables you to flawlessly capture and broadcast live 4K, HD and SD videos from any location around the world leveraging available Ethernet, 3G/4G, Wi-Fi and satellite networks while reducing your costs and lowering complexity by bringing less equipment into the field.

RACK180 Specifications

• 8 internal regional cellular modems
• 8 external antennas connectors
• 5 extension links

MAIN FUNCTIONS

• Live & auto-record
• Forward
• Progressive Store & Forward

ADVANCED FEATURES

• AVIWEST SafeStreams Technology
• IFB / Intercom
• Geolocation
• Sub second glass-to-glass latency (down to 1 sec)
• IP Bridge
• Tally light

VIDEO

• Standards
  • HD: 1080p50/59.94/60,
    1080i50/59.94/60,
    720p50/59.94/60
  • SD: PAL, NTSC
• Encoding
  • H.264/AVC Main/High profile level 4
  • Dynamic resolution adjustment
• Bitrates
  • 100 Kbps to 20 Mbps
  • Constant Bitrate (CBR)
  • Variable Bitrate (VBR) & capped VBR
• Inputs
  • SDI, HDMI

AUDIO

• Encoding
  • AAC-LC/HE-AAC
  • MPEG-1 Layer II
• Bitrates
  • 32 Kbps to 384 Kbps
• Mode
  • Dual Mono or Stereo
• Density
  • Up to 8 channels
• Inputs
  • Embedded (SDI, HDMI), Analog (L/R)

NETWORK CONNECTIONS

• 8 x 3G/4G-LTE modems with
  • internal high efficiency custom antennas
  • external high efficiency antennas (QUAD Series)
• Gigabit Ethernet port
  • LAN, WAN
    – portable satellite (BGAN, GX, Ka Band)
• Dual band Wi-Fi modem
  • Client & Hot Spot modes
  • High-efficiency antenna