The Broadcast Bridge sat down with Chris Brown, executive vice president and managing director, NAB Global Connections and Events to discuss this year’s gathering April 13-17 (show floor open April 14-17) and how the industry looks to the show each year for the latest in technology and business models.
Standards bodies and mobile technology developers are putting the finishing touches to 5G Multicast and Broadcast. These include enabling seamless switching between unicast and multicast, and equally transparent roaming for users as they move between mobile cells. There is also the challenge of ensuring that digital terrestrial and cellular infrastructure
This is the second part of our discussion of one of the biggest challenges for national Public Service Broadcasters; how to maintain their obligation for universal service in a future landscape where audiences have migrated to streaming as their primary method of media access.
The main focus of this series is on the potential impact of 5G Broadcast on content delivery, here we take a look at how this might combine with 5G contribution to form a 5G transport ecosystem.