Brazil. Grupo Globo, which runs the largest television network in Brazil and Latin America, has conducted a field trial of 5G Broadcast in cooperation with Rohde & Schwarz. In late September 2019, the Rock in Rio festival was broadcast on an experimental UHF channel using the new technology.
Rohde & Schwarz supplied an R&S TMU9evo transmitter and the R&S BSCC network component. 5G Broadcast has a signal characteristic similar to that employed in digital terrestrial television. Like the 5G Today project in Bavaria, this field trial is intended to provide information to discuss the future development of television in Brazil and around the world.
The services of the 5G Today project in Bavaria, funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation (BFS), have been on the air since December 2018. The partners of this research project, namely the German Institute of Broadcasting Technology (IRT), Kathrein, Rohde & Schwarz, and Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and Telefonica Germany as associate partners, are jointly investigating the options of a 5G-based transmission solution.
As a technology leader, Rohde & Schwarz has been driving the development of 5G Broadcast for years. With this next-generation concept, broadcasters in a changing and converging market can distribute content over 5G networks for different types of applications. Advantages such as high video quality, low latency, and wide coverage will appeal to a growing number of mobile users.
