Remote Satellite Invades Neighbors House

Upon arriving home on Friday night, we got a call from my wife’s brother. He was in town doing some work and wanted to stop by to visit. It is rare that we get a chance to visit so we were very excited. Paul works in a part of the tech industry that fascinates me, audio/video. He has owned his own production company and done work for G4, ESPN and numerous other exciting adventures. He was in town doing the video feed for the AIA 5A State Football Semi-Final. He owns live video streaming operation that is very cool. He has a trailer with at 2Gbps uplink to feed streams real time from events. One of his big clients is a new start up call Vootage. Vootage does feeds for many high school events. Turns out that Paul will be back next week to stream the finals. So we get two visits in one week!!!!

It was great to hear about the process, the equipment and the technology involved. Most of the work is currently done in Flash, but they are doing a lot of experimenting with Silverlight. Additionally, there is a lot of use of Ruby on Rails!