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THE OLD WAY vs THE NEW WAY

Live contribution used to mean building or renting infrastructure for every single location. Here’s what that actually costs — and what replaces it.

	The Old Way	The New Way
What you deploy	SNG truck, fiber pull, or venue circuit	One bonded kit: 4–8× 5G + Starlink + any house circuit
Cost per remote	$6,000–$9,500 (truck day + space segment)	$150–$400 in data
Cost per venue event	$5,000–$25,000 rented circuit	$0 incremental — you own the uplink
Lead time	Fiber: 45–120 days. Truck: booking + positioning	Zero-day. Case open to on-air in 8–15 minutes
Capital	$450k–$750k per SNG truck	~$15k–$25k per kit, reused at every location
Failure mode	One dish, one circuit, one congested carrier = dead air	A path drops; the stream doesn’t. Packets already flowing on 4–9 other paths
Crew	8–20 on site (truck/OB)	2–4 on site; control room stays home (REMO)
When it’s obsolete	The day the venue changes	Never — bond more paths when you need more bandwidth

The ROI headline: a $15,000 quad-5G kit pays for itself in 3–4 truck days. After that, every remote you do is nearly free to connect.

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SOLUTIONS — three named bundles

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🎒 Bundle 1 — The Run & Gun Kit

For ENG crews, single-camera shoots, breaking news.

Dead-simple: one compact router in the vehicle or on the cart, two 5G carriers bonded, streaming SRT/RTMP to your switcher or CDN inside ten minutes.

• Peplink MAX BR2 Pro 5G — dual 5G modems, dual-SIM each
• 12V vehicle power + battery-pluggable; lives happily in a backpack or ENG van
• Bonded uplink typically 60–150 Mbps up — 5–15× what a 1080p HEVC feed needs
• SpeedFusion hot failover: carrier hiccup ≠ frame drop
• Runs crew Wi-Fi, IFB/comms, and file backhaul on the same box

From ~$1,300 one-time. Shop MAX BR2 Pro 5G →

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📡 Bundle 2 — The REMO Field Kit ⭐ most popular

For remote productions: venue side sends camera feeds home; control room stays home.

This is the SNG-truck killer. Four 5G modems on four different carriers, plus a Starlink Enterprise terminal that doesn’t care how crowded the venue is.

• Peplink HD4 MBX — quad 5G, one modem per carrier, ~$15k one-time
• Starlink Enterprise Kit — flat high-performance terminal; 150–250 Mbps down / 20–40 up, immune to cell congestion
• Aggregate uplink 120–300+ Mbps — enough for multiple 4K HEVC contribution feeds
• SpeedFusion WAN smoothing duplicates critical packets across paths — jitter erased, streams glitch-free
• Flight-cased, 8–15 minute setup, one person

~$18k one-time + data. Pays for itself in 3–4 avoided truck days. Shop HD4 MBX →

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🏟️ Bundle 3 — The Master Control Bundle

For flagship productions, festival sites, and anywhere you’d have parked an OB truck.

The site core: bond up to eight 5G modems plus Starlink plus the venue circuit into one multi-gigabit, self-healing uplink for the entire compound.

• Peplink Balance 580X — up to 8× 5G + Starlink + wired WAN; multi-Gbps SpeedFusion engine
• Starlink Enterprise Kit ×2 for path diversity
• Feeds program, comms, replay backhaul, media wall, and production Wi-Fi simultaneously
• Per-application path steering: program stream gets guaranteed smoothed paths; crew traffic rides what’s left
• Every path hot: lose the venue fiber mid-show and nobody notices

From ~$25k loaded. Replaces a $9k-per-event rented circuit in under 3 events. Shop Balance 580X →

Every bundle is designed, configured, and supported end-to-end by West Networks — we ship it on-air-ready.

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FAQ

Q1. Is bonded cellular really reliable enough for live broadcast? Single-carrier cellular isn’t — that’s why it earned its reputation. Bonding is different: your stream rides 4–9 simultaneous paths (multiple carriers, Starlink, wired). SpeedFusion’s hot failover works at the packet level, so when one path degrades, traffic is already flowing on the others — no reconnect, no frozen frame. WAN smoothing goes further and duplicates critical packets across paths. This architecture carries live coverage at golf majors, F1, and SailGP.

Q2. How much bandwidth do I actually need for contribution? Less than you think: 1080p HEVC contribution runs 8–12 Mbps; 4K runs 25–35 Mbps. A quad-5G HD4 MBX typically aggregates 120–300 Mbps of uplink, and Starlink adds 20–40 more — headroom for multiple 4K feeds plus comms, tally, and file transfer.

Q3. What happens in a packed stadium when the cell network is crushed? Four carriers rarely congest identically, and we band-lock and use high-gain external antennas to move off the congested layers. More importantly, the Starlink Enterprise terminal doesn’t care how many phones are in the building — it’s the crowd-proof path in every venue bundle.

Q4. What does a remote actually cost in data? A 4-hour 1080p HEVC feed at 10 Mbps is about 18 GB — roughly $50–$150 on pooled enterprise SIMs. Even a full 4K production day is typically under $500. Compare that to one hour of Ku-band space segment ($300–$600).

Q5. Does this replace our LiveU/TVU backpacks? It complements them. Backpacks are camera-back encoders; this is your site circuit. Most customers keep backpacks for roving cameras and use the bonded Peplink kit as the master uplink for REMO feeds, comms, and everything else on site — production Wi-Fi included.

Q6. How fast can we be on air at a new location? Zero-day is the whole point: open the case, raise the antennas, power on — the SIMs are pre-activated and SpeedFusion profiles pre-built by West Networks. Typical case-to-on-air time is 8–15 minutes with one person.

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LEAD FORM SECTION

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Get your remote-production connectivity plan — free.

Tell us how many remotes you run and what you’re paying for trucks, fiber, or venue circuits. A West Networks broadcast engineer will send back a bonded-kit design with honest ROI math — usually inside one business day. No pitch deck, just the numbers.

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