US-based live mobile electronic newsgathering (ENG) and Internet broadcasting solutions provider TVU Networks has appointed Awad Mousa as Regional Director of its MEA operations, with plans to open an office in Dubai in the next couple of months, BroadcastPro ME can reveal. As part of his new role, Mousa will oversee TVU Networks operations in […]
US-based live mobile electronic newsgathering (ENG) and Internet broadcasting solutions provider TVU Networks has appointed Awad Mousa as Regional Director of its MEA operations, with plans to open an office in Dubai in the next couple of months, BroadcastPro ME can reveal. As part of his new role, Mousa will oversee TVU Networks operations in the Middle East, Africa, Turkey, India and Pakistan.
TVU Networks, which is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has offices in New York, Boston, Raleigh, Shanghai, already has end users such as Al Jazeera and ERTU in the region. The presence of a local office, however, is intended to offer better support and service to its existing resellers and customers, according to Mousa.
TVU already has customers in the region in UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain, Ghana and so on and we have a good network of resellers such as UBMS. However, I have joined to strengthen our operations and expand our business here with an additional staff in Jordan to support our customers, Mousa told BroadcastPro ME.
With the Middle East being a hotbed for news, broadcasters are increasingly looking for faster and more cost effective methods for their reporters to get news from the field to the newsroom. Although most technologies in the market revolve around bonding, Mousa claims that TVUs Inverse StatMux technology provides a more effective method to take stories to air.
In the past, broadcasters relied heavily on traditional satellite and microwave trucks to broadcast live on location. However, today broadcasters are beginning to turn to mobile uplink solutions such as the TVUPack, which transmit the signal over existing cellular networks. The products developed by TVU Networks allows the reporter to use several USB data cards and operate with their normal telco operator using either 2.5G, 3G, 4G or Wimax wireless connections. We provide portable hardware and efficient encoding and with our patented Inverse StatMux technology, our goal is to make every transmission a success, Mousa explained.
