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KenCast, Inc., with Trinity Workplace Learning, and PanAmSat, will demonstrate use of WiMAX for Mission-Critical Delivery of Live Video Streams to Handheld Devices for Full Broadband Mobile Operation by Public Safety Workers
Vancouver, BC, July 12, 2005. At the WiMAX Forum's Plenary on July 12 and 13, 2005, in Vancouver BC, Canada, KenCast, Inc., with Trinity Workplace Learning and PanAmSat, will demonstrate delivery of live streaming video and instructional video & informational clips (files) to handheld devices (PDAs, smartphones, laptops) for Public Safety workers.
In emergency situations, it is increasingly possible for public safety organizations to quickly get a video-equipped vehicle to the incident and broadcast the unfolding events back to their command center. It would be very useful if that live video stream and relevant file content could then be fed to public safety workers in vehicles and on foot who are converging on the incident, as well as to other public safety workers in the vicinity who may also provide support.
Using satellite delivery of live streaming video content from Trinity's operational facilities in Dallas, Texas, PanAmSat will carry the video via its Galaxy 11 satellite to the Vancouver showroom, where KenCast will encode the video, transcode it to fit handheld device screens, and broadcast it from a central Fazzt Enterprise Sever to Fazzt Edge Servers at WiMAX base stations provided by the participating WiMAX equipment vendors. KenCast will multicast 10 channels of live streaming video and file content through the WiMAX base stations, across the wireless WiMAX networks, into WiMAX CPE, and directly into laptops, as well as into WiFi access points to PDAs and smartphones. All content will be delivered end-to-end from the central server to the handheld devices as standard IP traffic.
"Approximately 62% of the USA population is found in the top 20 metropolitan areas", said William Steele, Chairman & CEO of KenCast, Inc. "Live coverage of emergency incidents in center cities for Public Safety workers with handheld devices will enhance their response capability and reinforce their own safety."
Access to the video streams will be done by dynamic authorization to only targeted handheld devices. Files will be retrieved upon request by single users, as well as "pushed"/multicast securely in the background to active handheld devices of multiple users. The push will be completed to unavailable users, who did not acknowledge receipt to the Fazzt Edge Servers, when they next power-up. Delivery of flawless live video streams will be enabled by unique, powerful Fazzt FEC. Roaming operation will be provided by opportunistically combining reception from 2 or more base stations from different WiMAX vendors (Network Diversity).
Trinity will provide live deliver of 2 of these 10 live streaming video channels. In place of a true emergency incidence, Trinity will provide a live feed of its Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN) and its Fire and Emergency Training Network (FETN). The LETN and FETN are both current video broadcast services that are available 24-hours/7-days to Public Safety organizations. Trinity will also provide informational public safety video clips (files) that will reside on the central Fazzt Server and can be requested from the handheld devices and immediately delivered.
"Delivery into the field in mission-critical operations allows us to relay live incident video back to responders in the field, and to send as-needed short refresher information to supplement the more extensive desktop training and certification that Trinity is noted for," said Randy Corbin, Vice President of Public Safety of Trinity. "This opens a new avenue for us to serve our customers in Public Safety."
PanAmSat's Satellite News Gathering (SNG) trucks are often used to provide live video coverage of emergency incidents. PanAmSat will provide the video feed to the Vancouver showroom floor. This demonstration will show how satellite can provide a wide geographic backbone for delivery of content, both live streams and files, to multiple local WiMAX base stations for last-mile delivery to mobile users. This combination of satellite backbone to WiMAX enables Mobile Broadband delivery to users in vehicles or on foot in center cities and/or indoors where satellite sometimes cannot serve, but WiMAX excels.
"Linking our satellites with WiMAX in this way demonstrates a whole new class of completely wireless applications," said Chris Stengrim, Director of Business Development for the PanAmSat Corporation. "The wide footprint of satellite coverage permits these type applications to be quickly rolled out to many markets."
About KenCast, Inc.
Over the last decade KenCast has developed ultra-reliable software for multicast of content, often global, and often encrypted or in DRM format. KenCast's Fazzt software products enable content delivery of files and streams with unique high reliability. Fazzt systems are often used for difficult-delivery applications, even one-way in poor environments. Fazzt is currently used in wireless applications on satellite, the Internet and increasingly on terrestrial wireless networks. Fazzt is ideal for wireless delivery of files and live TV to mobile users with handheld devices (PDAs/cellular/smartphones) in vehicles or on foot.
About Trinity Workplace Learning
Trinity Workplace Learning, a division of Trinity Learning Corporation (OTCBB:TTYL), is a leading provider of integrated learning solutions for millions of professionals in the industrial, healthcare, fire & emergency, government, law enforcement and private security markets. Trinity Workplace Learning's unique offerings include the critically important Fire and Emergency Training Network (FETN), Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN) and Healthy Sciences Television Network (HSTN); a host of other CD-ROM, Web-based and videotape training programs; an Internet-enabled learning management system, and a workforce development/human capital database, "The Academy," which together allow Trinity Workplace Learning to serve corporations and government agencies seeking to better manage, track and measure their in-house training efforts.
About PanAmSat
Through its owned and operated fleet of 23 satellites, PanAmSat (NYSE:PA) is a leading global provider of video, broadcasting and network distribution and delivery services. In total, the Company's in-orbit fleet is capable of reaching over 98% of the world's population through cable television systems, broadcast affiliates, direct-to-home operators, Internet service providers and telecommunication companies. In addition, PanAmSat supports the largest concentration of satellite-based business networks in the U.S., as well as specialized communications services in remote areas throughout the world.
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