{"id":62843,"date":"2019-03-14T20:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/global-invacom-edgewater-wireless-partner-for-bx-wifi\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T20:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:32:37","slug":"global-invacom-edgewater-wireless-partner-for-bx-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/global-invacom-edgewater-wireless-partner-for-bx-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Invacom, Edgewater Wireless Partner for Bx-WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global Invacom,&nbsp;<\/strong>a global provider of satellite communications equipment, partnered with <strong>Edgewater Wireless Systems<\/strong> for the further development of Broadcast WiFi (Bx-WiFi). This technology aims to enable live, high quality, and large-scale event video streaming over a Wi-Fi network.<\/p>\n<p>Edgewater specializes in Wi-Fi Multi-Channel Single Radio (MCSR) technology for residential and commercial markets.&nbsp;Bx-WiFi was first unveiled and successfully live-tested by the <strong>BBC<\/strong> and <strong>Global Invacom<\/strong> in August 2017. The technology enables simultaneous streaming of uninterrupted audio or video content from multiple sources to thousands of smartphone or tablet devices, all connected to a hotspot in the same venue (like stadiums and arenas). It uses Forward Error Correction to maintain video quality, and multicast technology that minimizes bandwidth usage when a large number of users are simultaneously streaming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to be working with Global Invacom and to be testing the Bx-WiFi technology over our footprint of Wi-Fi hotspots. This partnership will allow us to push the boundaries of our hardware and could set a new record number for video streaming to a device on each hotspot,\u201d said Edgewater Wireless Vice President (VP_ or Product Eric Smith. \u201cApplications like Bx-WiFi further enhance the capabilities of our MCSR technology and further drive market demand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Invacom,&nbsp;a global provider of satellite communications equipment, partnered with Edgewater Wireless Systems for the further development of Broadcast WiFi (Bx-WiFi). This technology aims to enable live, high quality, and large-scale event video streaming over a Wi-Fi network. Edgewater specializes in Wi-Fi Multi-Channel Single Radio (MCSR) technology for residential and commercial markets.&nbsp;Bx-WiFi was first unveiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}