The SES3200: a New Standard for Mobile Broadband

In its 2010 National Broadband Plan, the Federal Communications Commission forecasted an additional 300 MHz would be required within the next four years alone to meet the telecommunication needs of mobile broadband users, and 500 MHz within another few years, and all for good reason. Consider that within the first weekend after its release, Apple’s new iPhone 4S sold over 4 million units in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Now consider that high-resolution video enabled by H.264 formatting in today’s smartphones can easily surpass 3 million bits per second, an enormous figure by anyone’s estimate. Finally, accept as a given that the worldwide number of users of the mobile Web is set to rise dramatically (currently there are 116 million American mobile Web users alone), and you can begin to appreciate the bit rate levels that will soon – that indeed at this moment are needed – to sustain a mobile Web with the appropriate speed and graphics levels that smart-phone users demand. 

With the prospect of a broadband traffic-jam of epic proportions looming our way, Telairity has begun to address the issue head-on.  Last year at the NationalAssociation of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas, we introduced our new SES3200 Video Encoding System, capable of producing 32 channels of video and 128 channels of audio for the individual user. The SES3200 encoder supports all these functions while still having a low bit rate, in addition to possessing high-res clarity and speed.

The price-tag for the SES3200 is more savvy, too, since companies can now forego having to use multiple encoder devices (and thereby take up more bandwidth) to attain that sheer volume of channels; they can now simply purchase an SES3200 and have done with it. These factors can only prove useful in the coming years, now that China has surpassed the United States in numbers of smartphones sold (24 million units sold in the 3^rd quarter of last year alone, in comparison with America’s 23.3 million units sold during a similar time-frame), and smartphone usage is expected to surge in countries like India, Brazil, South Africa, as well as throughout Southeast Asia. 

As the “online airwaves” grow ever more exponentially congested, the solution cannot simply be to increase bandwidth. The solution also must lie in reducing bandwidth consumption. With its SES3200 low bit rate encoder, Telairity not only anticipates helping reduce congestion in North America and Europe, but expects as well to play a prominent role in helping the companies of developing nations accommodate high-resolution mobile technology into their daily business cycles.