Broadcasting
LanTV for the broadcast industry
Broadcasting
Since the early days of broadcasting, broadcasters have operated large radio and television monitoring facilities to record programs for program acquisition and news gathering.
Broadcast facilities have also traditionally relied on extensive coaxial cabling and centralized antenna systems, allowing producers, managers, and other staff to monitor their own output and other channels.
LanTV provides TV monitoring and centralized antenna services without the limitations of traditional systems. Its capabilities include support for a very large number of channels and users, a range of applications for monitoring and live streaming over the network, centralized recording, and software-based video walls—all designed to meet the needs of broadcast organizations.
It is no surprise that more than half of the company’s customers are IRIB departments in Tehran and provincial broadcasting centers. Almost all provincial centers and many IRIB departments in Tehran use LanTV devices. More than six LanTV devices are also deployed by television networks outside Iran.
Use cases
- Network distribution of TV channels: Receive channels from terrestrial, satellite, and other sources, then distribute them over the organization’s network for access by users.
- Turn a centralized antenna system into a network-based service: Use the existing corporate network to deliver TV content throughout the facility without installing separate coaxial cabling.
- Real-time TV channel monitoring: Monitor many channels simultaneously in control rooms to keep track of broadcast content.
- Create a TV video wall: Display multiple channels and video sources on a large screen with a configurable layout for control and monitoring centers.
- Watch TV on office computers: Let users watch authorized channels on their computers without a dedicated TV receiver at each workstation.
- Centralized recording of TV content: Record selected programs and channels for documentation, broadcast review, archiving, and later playback.
- Control access to channels: Assign authorized channel lists to users or groups based on their roles and access levels.
- Monitor user activity: View information about the channels users are watching to understand how the TV service is used across the organization.
- Centralized system management: Manage LanTV services, users, and settings from one central location without configuring every device separately.
- Support newsroom operations: Give reporters, editors, and newsroom staff access to the channels they need to follow multiple sources at once.
- Support engineering and broadcast control teams: Give technical staff access to video sources for signal and content checks.
- Integrate with business software: Use APIs and integration capabilities to connect the TV service to internal applications and systems.
- Easily expand TV access points: Add users and viewing locations using the existing network infrastructure, without new cabling.
- Deliver TV sources across buildings and departments: Distribute content from a central reception point to different parts of an organization over the network, including areas where centralized antenna cabling is difficult to access.