LONDON/SINGAPORE (Aug 23): Global Invacom Group, the satellite communications equipment provider, has successfully live-tested breakthrough technology that permits live, high quality and large-scale event video streaming over a Wi-Fi network.

The Bx-WiFi technology — which stands for Broadcast WiFi — was developed through a partnership with the BBC Research & Development, and the University of Hertfordshire, under a European Space Agency (ESA) contract, and was successfully live-tested at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Aug 12, 13 and 18.

Bx-WiFi enables simultaneous streaming of uninterrupted audio or video content from multiple sources — such as satellite feed, ‘live’ video or digital radio — to thousands of smartphone or tablet devices all located in the same hotspot or event.

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