M-Link Exchange

M-Link Exchange is the video receiver for M-Link Newscaster & M-Link Live X clients, delivering professional, high quality Live and Store & Forward video feeds.

This comprehensive receiver system is available as an integrated rack mount server designed for inte-gration into a newsroom with professional SDI & HD-SDI interfaces as well as legacy composite and analogue audio presentation. Exchange offers full backward compatibility with previous Livewire Dig-ital video solutions.

High Definition Support
M-Link Exchange has an option for High Definition support, allowing an M-Link Newscaster client to file HD material from the field. The outstanding performance of the M-Link H.264/AVC codec makes the delivery of very high quality 1080i foot-age possible over narrow bandwidth connections.

Universal Content
MM-Link Exchange can be enabled to support "Uni-versal Content" meaning it can accept adhoc video feeds from the public, including mobile and 3G phones. Newsrooms can receive news from profes-sional reporters as well as the general public, elim-inating the need for multiple servers, complicated format conversion and the ʻheadachesʼ of manag-ing a public facing system.The ʻUniversal contentʼ option allows the newsroom to quickly accredit members of the general public to deliver ad-hoc content for a defined period of time. By using a simple to administer access con-trol, i.e. a Web interface or via FTP, contributors can be authenticated and their video feeds tracked.

Connectivity and Playout
M-Link Exchange receivers are installed with a wide range of news and media organisations, and will accept M-Link Newscaster feeds from around the world via any IP network – including contributions made via Inmarsat 3G, BGAN, DVB-RCS, VSAT, ADSL, SDSL, Wi-Fi Internet, or an Intranet connection.

Communications
Where communications links are intermittent or unreliable, M-Linkʼs automatic appending will guarantee that the story gets through. The proto-cols used by the M-Link product range o.er the most e.ective use of the available bandwidth, re-ducing both costs and transmission times.To provide e.cient communications for M-Link and 3rd party video reporting solutions the M-Link Exchange Server supports FTP (passive/active mode), the HTTP (generic and optimised) and Web upload transmission methods. These protocols are implemented as ʻplug-insʼ providing flexibility to include other e.cient protocols in the future.

Receive Live Feeds
M-Link Exchange supports live video feeds from M-Link Live X clients. Fully optimised for use over 3GG and satellite, the system o.ers exceptional picture quality and very low latency. When used over the Inmarsat BGAN 256kbps streaming class service, M-Link can o.er SIF resolution at the na-tive frame rates (PAL 25fps, NTSC 29.97), the re-sult is high quality video without compromising motion handling.Where higher connection speeds are available M-Link can o.er Full D1 resolution, native frame rates and exceptional picture quality.