{"id":51200,"date":"2017-11-07T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liveu.onpressidium.com\/?post_type=press_release&p=51200"},"modified":"2021-08-01T02:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T02:29:53","slug":"team-talented-deploys-liveu-for-live-streaming-of-ironman-europe-competitions","status":"publish","type":"press_release","link":"https:\/\/www.liveutv.net\/en\/company\/press-releases\/team-talented-deploys-liveu-for-live-streaming-of-ironman-europe-competitions","title":{"rendered":"Team Talented Deploys LiveU for Live Streaming of IRONMAN Europe Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Team Talented captures the relentless physical and mental challenges of IRONMAN competitions and the after-event parties using LiveU<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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IRONMAN competitions have grown to be incredibly popular over almost 40 years, despite the massive physical and mental challenges involved in competing. Team Talented, which has been closely involved with the organisers for many years, has recently turned to LiveU to significantly enhance and extend its coverage from European events. These include IRONMAN Klagenfurt-Austria, IRONMAN 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun, IRONMAN Maastricht-Limburg and IRONMAN 70.3 Cascais-Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\n

IRONMAN events, one of the most popular endurance sports, are in essence extended triathlons, involving swimming, cycling and running: 3.8 km swim, 180 km ride and a marathon 42.2 km. Athletes are pushed to their limits and given the nature of the events and the terrains involved, providing coverage has always proved very challenging, either in terms of sheer cost or having to use equipment that\u2019s not really suitable for the task at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using unbonded solutions over 3G\/4G networks proved too unreliable. Claudio Sch\u00fctz, Head of Team Talented, said, \u201cWhile on the running courses, often in town centres, this was okay but on the bike course, due to high-speed handover between cellular cells and the overall poor coverage, it wasn\u2019t good. Traditional broadcast technology and infrastructure was far too expensive for us. Because of my work with Austrian national public broadcaster ORF, I became aware of LiveU, which is really the industry standard for cellular bonding. ETAS, LiveU\u2019s partner in the country, worked with us to meet our needs during the events.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as providing coverage of the races themselves using LiveU\u2019s technology and three\/four camera operators, Team Talented also integrate user-generated content with their streaming footage and work with the organisers to create and cover post-race parties. Additionally, they provide the live commentary, announcers onsite, live streaming from press conferences and social media clips to create a complete 360-degree view of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe logistics are of course very complicated and challenging so our experience is vital,\u201d said Sch\u00fctz, adding, \u201cFor the race alone we have to fully understand the layout of the course, how we can follow the cycling when riders can be doing 55 km\/h along very narrow roads! LiveU Central management platform is essential. It means that I can manage the units remotely while our camera operators are braving wind, rain and sun from the back of a motorbike. It\u2019s impossible for them to operate the units so I use LiveU Central to change the delay time, restart modems if needed and switch between live and \u2018store and forward\u2019 modes. LiveU technology provides great performance, is easy to use all while still being affordable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ronen Artman, VP of Marketing with LiveU, said, \u201cIt is fascinating to see how the world of sports coverage is changing and growing as people come to understand the power and flexibility of our technology. There are many companies and sports organisations for whom traditional broadcast technologies are far too expensive and cumbersome, while low-end technologies that don\u2019t use cellular bonding are simply not good enough. It\u2019s exciting to see the effect that our technology is helping to enable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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