With the wedding season well underway and indoor gatherings being frowned upon as important vectors for increasing the risk of spreading COVID-19, more & more weddings are being held outdoors, where the risk of spread is much lower.
But outdoor venues often do not have any available Internet Connections to allow Live Streaming of Events like Weddings (and yes, even funerals). So how would one Stream Live in such a situation?
Some might say that their cell phones are capable of streaming live over the Internet – however, the downside of using such methods is a poor live production and exorbitant bandwidth costs for streaming live video as well as limited airtime data allowances.
Many providers of Live Streaming services would insist on a reliable Internet connection (either wired or Wi-Fi) being available in order to provide their service. But with the advent of Cellular Modem technology, this is no longer an obstacle to streaming live from an outdoor location.
Enter the Bonded Cellular Connection Broadcast Device
Specialized hardware is now available to us, for providing bonded cellular data connections, whereby one can use not just one, but 2 cell modems, bonded into a single signal, which is sent to the Internet, exactly like a Wi-Fi or wired connection would.
The singular advantage of this setup is that 2 data connections are combined by the device to provide a stronger signal than a single connection would, as well as providing a backup signal in case one data provider goes down. This hardware is also capable of combining any available Wi-Fi signal (should one be available) to the two cellular modems, to reinforce any weak cell signal data connection.
This method now overcomes the limitation of Streaming Live from an outdoor venue with no Internet, with the only requirement being that a reasonably strong cellular signal should be available at the given location.
For more information, give us a call at 604.970.5055 or get a Free Quote from our website at https://weddingstreams.ca/free-quote/