Systems and methods for electronic news gathering

摘要

A system comprising: at least one network modem configured to communicate wirelessly with at least one base station; and a subsystem configured to provide data packets to the at least one network modem to be transmitted wirelessly to the at least one base station, the subsystem comprising at least one video encoder configured to receive at least one input video signal and provide at least some of the data packets based on the at least one input video signal, wherein the at least one network modem is further configured to: engage in an authentication protocol with the subsystem; and process the data packets received from the subsystem based at least in part on whether the subsystem successfully completes the authentication protocol.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
first electronic news gathering (ENG) equipment configured to share bandwidth in an ENG network, the ENG network comprising the first ENG equipment, second ENG equipment, and at least one base station, the first ENG equipment comprising:
at least one network modem configured to communicate wirelessly with the at least one base station using a Broadcast Auxiliary Service (BAS) frequency band; anda subsystem configured to provide data packets to the at least one network modem to be transmitted wirelessly to the at least one base station, the subsystem comprising at least one video encoder configured to receive at least one input video signal and provide at least some of the data packets based on the at least one input video signal,wherein the at least one network modem is further configured to:
engage in an authentication protocol with the subsystem comprising the at least one video encoder;in response to the subsystem successfully completing the authentication protocol, transmit, at a first service level, the data packets received from the subsystem of the first ENG equipment to the at least one base station; andin response to the subsystem failing to complete the authentication protocol, discard the data packets received from the subsystem of the first ENG equipment, or transmit, at a second service level lower than the first service level, the data packets received from the subsystem of the first ENG equipment to the at least one base station.