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Streaming Images

Gigawave engineers are great believers in 'technology transfer and live streaming is the perfect example of how disparate technologies have come together to create a new business opportunity for the Company.

The original idea stems from a suggestion to stream on-board camera material from motorsport events over the Internet. Gigawave has, for many years, been pre-eminent in supplying on-board camera technology for the live coverage of a number of important FIA/FIM world championships. As such, the Company was well placed in terms of acquisition but needed to develop the technology to deliver live images over the Internet.

Today, live material is encoded on site and sent via satellite to the Gigawave Media Centre (formerly the Gigawave Head Office building) before being fed into the Internet backbone. The advantage of routing material via the Gigawave Media Centre, which houses Gigawave's media production and live streaming facilities. With computer flooring and structured wiring, the Media Centre is ideally suited to its new role. The new facility also has a 100MB uncontended link to London Telehouse and its own satellite earth station.

Routing all the material through the Gigawave Media Centre allows Gigawave production staff to 'package' material for a particular region/country, market or niche market. For instance, during last year's FIA GT Championship, the international feed was broadcast on GT1Live.tv, whilst certain teams and sponsors had their own dedicated channel. These channels feature enhanced coverage of the team and its drivers and are branded to reflect the team' sponsors.

Streaming Images
Although Gigawave streaming technology was originally developed for motor racing and other sporting applications, the same technology can be used for security, surveillance and offshore applications. The following images illustrate typical 'Home' page graphics:

GT1Live.tv
A snapshot of a computer screen showing the the GT1Live.tv. 'Home' page. This website was used to stream live coverage of the FIA GT Championship throughout the 2009 season.

In addition to the main race feed, teams and sponsors were able to have their own dedicated stream (see below). The site also had links to GT3 European Championship and MST Live Timing information.

GTRLive.tv
A snapshot of a computer screen showing the the GTRLive.tv. 'Home' page. This website provided exclusive coverage of the FIA GT Championship for one of the teams and their main sponsor.

In addition to the international feed, the live stream contained additional on-board camera coverage plus exclusive interviews with team personnel and the drivers

BTLive.tv
A snapshot of a computer screen showing the the BTLive.tv. 'Home' page. This website was used to demonstrate how live streaming could be used to cover regattas and other forms of ocean racing