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LiveU Cellular
Uplinks Bring
New Era To RTÉ
I

rish national broadcaster RTÉ
has chosen cellular uplinking
technology from LiveU to play a central
newsgathering role.
RTÉ News has already deployed
LiveU's LU500 portable uplink solution
and has ordered a LU200 for use with
its Ka-band ﬂyaway kit.
In addition, RTÉ is using LU-Smart
smartphone app licenses. Piotr
Kaszynski, Technology Manager with
RTÉ, said: "We began testing systems
with the arrival of 4G, which in turn
has improved 3G availability. That
led us to choose LiveU for several
reasons, speciﬁcally for its superior
performance and the range of
products. We wanted a small, very
portable solution that could ﬁt on the
back of a camera.
"The LU500 does exactly this and
overcomes the issue of cameramen
having to carry a heavy backpack. The
LU-Smart app also attracted us. We
can see varied applications for this
and we are training all our journalists
to be ﬂexible in what they use and
how they can take advantage of LiveU
technology."
Kaszynski described the project
management and support by LiveU's
Ireland partner, Tyrell, as "crucial".
The broadcaster is training staff
beyond traditional reporters to use
LU-Smart technology. Kaszynski said:
"We are training staff so that when
there is a breaking story we have the
ﬂexibility to cover it from as many

LU200 mini
newsgathering unit
with GUI

angles as possible. The rise of news
on the internet and its immediacy has
changed the way that we have to work.
It is not always possible to use Satellite
trucks in some locations and they take
more time and money to deploy -
though of course they have their place
- compared to this technology."
RTÉ has covered a wide range of
stories using LiveU's technology,
the vast majority live, including: a
two-hour Morning Ireland outside
broadcast for RTÉ News Now from the
tenth Anniversary of the Workplace
Smoking Ban in Ireland; St Patrick's
Parade Dublin city centre and Dublin
Castle; President Michael D. Higgins'
State Visit to the United Kingdom; and
the Electric Picnic Music Festival.
According to Kaszynski, the biggest
success was the coverage of the
Labour Party Leader's resignation.
Notiﬁcation
about
the
press
conference came to RTÉ half-anhour before the event started and
in this short time an LU500 bonded
unit was deployed and setup for live
coverage. RTÉ provided the only live
video coverage from the Labour Party
press conference and the live feed was
picked up by BBC and Sky News.
LiveU owns the patent for cellular
bonding for remote news gathering in
the US and other countries. All LiveU
products are based on this fourthgeneration patented technology.

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