Soliton ZAO-X was chosen for 4G video contribution in the Champions League. See why.

Get to know the user case about this project that Pantalha carried out with our client Papagaio Loiro and how the advantages of high portability and low latency were essential for choosing the Soliton ZAO-X.

"On November 18th, 2022, Papagaio Loiro, Lda. will be 14 years old. I feel very proud of the path we have taken, a sustained growth, but always with the commitment to innovation and in the constant monitoring that the audiovisual technological market offers us.
Fundamental to this growth are our loyal customers, partners, and suppliers.
Customers, because they “force” us, with their constant challenges, to respond with the utmost professionalism, responsibility, and competence, which a good service demands.
The partners, because alone, it is difficult to achieve the objectives.
Suppliers, because they are the ones that allow us to always be ahead and technologically up-to-date.
We are currently embracing yet another challenge, within our main area of intervention, which is sports. From television broadcasts, whether live or deferred, to various ENG teams, throughout Portugal and even abroad.

We started this sports season, with the challenge of covering the Champions League, through Eleven Sports, following the F.C. from Porto, from S.L. Benfica, and Sporting C.P. For this, we also challenged Pantalha, our trusted supplier, since the beginning of our activity, to advise us on the most appropriate solution given the requirements placed. For this purpose and after consulting the market and the options that Pantalha made available to us, we acquired 3x 4G/5G ZAO-X live transmission systems from the company SOLITON and a server with the capacity to receive up to 4x signals simultaneously, which allows us to excellent response in the constant direct requests that the customer requests us, in Portugal and anywhere in Europe.

This SOLITON ZAO-X video contribution solution, due to its great portability, the possibility of using 4 SIM cards, the ease of reception of up to 4 video signals in a single receiver, and a unique price-feature ratio on the market, guarantees us the SOLITON ZAO-X solution was and is the most suitable solution for this project. In this case, the low latency of the SOLITON ZAO-X was also important so that there was a better interaction between the remote journalist and the journalist in the studio.

I would like to highlight Pantalha's help, technical professionalism, and commitment throughout this process.
The idea is to continue to grow, with the same philosophy, not only in the sports area but in all areas of audiovisual."

Paulo Silva
- Papagaio Loiro

Key features of the SOLITON ZAO-X:
- Fully encrypted H265 end-to-end encoding and transmission
- Proprietary Soliton RASCOW 2 encoding protocol
- Support 4G and 5G
- Ultra-low latency - latency of 65ms (0.04s.) in the case of 1-channel transmission
- HD and 4K support with bonding

Application in areas:
- Broadcast TV transmission
- Remote operation of construction/agriculture machines, cranes, underwater excavation, remote driving, telesurgeries
- Remote surveillance with drones
- Remote support for emergency events

Find out more about Zao-X from our partner Soliton HERE.