by Karen Hogan Ketchum, SVG News
CP Communications once again covers the NYC Half Marathon, but embraces new transmission and communication systems to capture the race. CP Communications retooled and deployed the smart car from last year’s full marathon but with a significant jump in capability. Now almost exclusively utilizing bonded cellular technology provided by CP’s international partner, Mobile Viewpoint, to provide 4k video coverage from the smartcar and a fleet of UNITY cellular motorcycles to deliver excellent coverage of the race powered primarily with technology never pushed to this limit of complexity and demand before.
The technology landscape of this type of dynamic production is shifting from a primarily COFDM transmission method to a primarily bonded-cellular one.
“We built the Smart Car for [last year’s] full marathon [in New York City], and we did traditional bonded-cell and traditional COFDM off the car,” explains CP Communications CEO Kurt Heitmann. “This year, for the half marathon, we changed and went to 4K. We created a partnership with Mobile Viewpoint — they are part of the Triple Group in the Netherlands — and we came up with a 4K solution for both bonded-cellular and traditional COFDM coverage.
