A Cost Effective Approach To Live Event Broadcasting

Consider using VSAT satellite equipment and services to broadcast your live event to any Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the Internet. Ground Control sells and rents the mobile satellite equipment as well as provide the streaming service from most any location on the globe.

Standard Plans and Video Streaming
All of Ground Control's iDirect plans allow for video streaming (except for the unlimited plans). However, since standard plans are shared, they can sometimes be unpredictable. We recommend you try your streaming on a standard plan, and if required, bump up the connection to a "daily rate" with little notice to us. Obviously, a 1:1 unshared satellite connection is predictable and your stream will make it to the backbone guaranteed.

Mobile Streaming Equipment
There is no comparing the cost between a mobile satellite system from Ground Control and a traditional SNG satellite truck. Our compact Toughsat XP is more than capable of streaming live video at 1.7 Mbps from any location with a 1:1 CIR.
(1.7 Mbps will carry a 720P High-Definition stream with our encoder).


WIth out case-based Fly-And-Drive system, you can even mount the satellite system to any roof rack, or case it up and ship it anywhere.
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Live Webcasting Services
If you have an event that needs wide Internet distribution for public or private use, we make the process simple. We provide a video player that you can embed on your web page. This player points to our webcasting servers that are tied with your live feed over our satellite service. All you need to be concerned with is the look and feel of the video player on your site. We do the rest.

Webcasting Features Include:
16:9 (640 x 360) or 4:3 (640 x 480) full screen capable embedded video player on your site.
Video Player is fully brandable with no ads from us.
Optional Pay-Per-View built-in credit card collector with pre-registration.
Multi-Stream bit rate capable, stream two speeds for high and low speed viewer connections.
Full Screen option for viewer, or minimized for adding advertising on screen.
Many many more features...

Live Webcasting For Smaller Organizations & First Responders
Ground Control also provides an easy way to broadcast a live event to smaller groups. The real-time video feed is published on our secure server for up to 20 authorized users with correct login information. This service portal can even be branded and used for any purpose. This service is excellent for first responders, board meetings, or any who must transmit a secured video signal for review by authorized persons.

Portable BGAN Terminals
Also consider a laptop sized portable BGAN system for a streaming CIR of 450 Kbps with BGAN X-Stream.