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Streambox has launched Avenir, the newest member of the company's family of portable video transport solutions. Designed for field newsgathering, sports broadcasting, and other mobile live and file- based video applications, Avenir is Streambox's first hardware-based encoder to offer both 3G/4G wireless network bonding for high-quality HD or SD in a fully portable form factor, enabling live or file-based video acquisition over a variety of low-data-rate networks.
The Avenir harnesses Streambox's award-winning ACT-L3 codec to capture and encode high-quality HD content in 1080i or 720p format, at data rates up to 20Mbps, and SD content in NTSC or PAL from 64Kbps to 8Mbps. This makes the system ideal for mobile newsgathering as well as a wide variety of other field video acquisition applications, such as emergency response, law enforcement, or military mobile command centers. The Avenir's compact, lightweight, and rugged chassis can be deployed in minutes with a range of power options, including AC and DC connectors as well as a Li-Poly battery system. With the Avenir's intuitive touch-screen interface, non-technical users can connect quickly and easily via their choice of network connections, ranging from dual Ethernet to Wi-Fi platforms including bonded 3G/4G mobile broadband devices (via browser-capable smartphones), and low-bandwidth portable satellite devices such as BGAN. The Avenir also features a wireless user interface for browser-capable PDAs such as the iPhone®, iPod touch®, and BlackBerry® devices, which enables users to control the encoder from a separate location.
Fully integrated with the Streambox Store, Forward Server, and the Streambox Live™ Server for centralized management of field-generated video, the Avenir is designed to shorten and streamline workflows for both live and file-based acquisition.