18/10/2007 - The Royal Navy has enhanced the fleet with new Livewire Digital broadcast systems. The material will be used for both internal purposes - such as training - and for interaction with the broadcast news channels. 

Six Royal Navy ships have now been equipped with Livewire’s M-Link Voyager systems; the rest of the fleet have been equipped with Livewire’s IP-Reporter. The Livewire Digital technology enables video footage to be delivered to the Navy’s Fleet HQ efficiently via satellite, from mid ocean. The footage can then be distributed to news channels and used for internal purposes such as training.

The Livewire equipment has been used on HMS Ocean recently following several successful drug busts by the Royal Navy and its partners. Video footage from the drug bust in June, when cocaine with an estimated street value of £29m was seized, was edited, compressed and transmitted back to base using M-Link’s efficient protocols.

Livewire Digital’s IP-Reporter software is simple to use on local PCs or laptops, turning them into news desks with a video reporting capability. The integrated top-and-tail Non-Linear Editing (NLE) allows the users to quick-edit the footage before filing them to the M-Link servers.

Where communication links are intermittent or unreliable, such as in mid ocean environments, M-Link’s protocols make efficient use of the available bandwidth, reducing costs and transmission times. M-Link is a highly mobile, reliable and compact system, which can be deployed and operated by a single person in remote and hostile locations. This highly cost effective software solution delivers news and documentary footage directly from the bureau or field, empowering a wide range of staff with the tools to be on the spot News Reporters.   

Tristan Wood, Managing Director of Livewire Digital, said “M-Link is an easy to use system for broadcast capture and transfer, and really comes into its own when it’s essential to make the most efficient use of available bandwidth especially in mid ocean. The M-Link broadcast system is therefore ideally suited for use aboard Royal Navy Vessels.”

For images of Livewire equipment please contact:

Lukas Port – email:lukas.port@livewirepr.com 
T: 020 8339 7440  F: 020 8339 7440 
Livewire Public Relations, 32 Ewell Road, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 6HX. 
Website: www.livewirepr.com

For Royal Navy images please contact:
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk

Company contact:
Tristan Wood, Managing Director, Livewire Digital
Email: enquiry@livewire.co.uk