Media Broadcast, service provider for the German broadcast industry, will present a 5G enabled live demo showcase for TV production and the broadcasting of events at Medientage München 2019 on October 23 and 25. The demo set-up comprises a dedicated mobile test network simulating a 5G campus network for media production companies and broadcasters. As soon as the respective frequencies for 5G campus networks become available in the 3.7-3.8 GHz frequency range, Media Broadcast will complement the existing services portfolio with respective 5G solutions.

TV signals of up to four different cameras, from professional TV-cameras to smartphones, will be transmitted for the live demonstration by a commercial 4G/5G base station via a mobile network to the production facility of the company’s SNG. Munich based Media Broadcast partner Smart Mobile Labs enriches the real-time contribution of TV signals with related meta data e.g. object position, object speed. The solution is fully 5G-enabled, however for the showcase all signal transmissions are realized with 4G (LTE) on a 20 MHz carrier in the 2.3 GHz spectrum. This is because the new 5G campus frequencies in the 3.7 to 3.8 GHz spectrum are currently not commercially available.

“With the soon to be expected availability of the respective frequencies for 5G campus networks, we expect a growing interest of broadcasters and media companies for upgrading their existing campus networks and for adding more flexibility to their remote production and event broadcasting capabilities. We invite our customers to this showcase to discuss industry expectations and future demand. The new technology provides a lot of opportunities e.g. for the usage of wireless equipment such as wireless TV cameras and for the mobile contribution of TV signals from the field to a production unit”, said Arnold Stender, Managing Director of Media Broadcast.