Fox Sports details 5G livestreaming trial with AT&T, Ericsson at U.S. Open

Fox Sports and Fox Innovation Lab, alongside AT&T, Ericsson and Intel, are offering up some details on their 5G livestreaming trial from the U.S. Open in June.To demonstrate how use mmWave 5G cellular technology can be used to stream 4K video for nationwide broadcasts in this case a golf tournament AT&T provided the required spectrum; Ericsson provided the 5G network equipment and 4K video encoder and decoder; and Intel supplied its Mobile Trial Platform, working as the 5G modem.“The collaboration with Fox Sports, AT&T and Ericsson to ‘unplug the wires’ at the U.S. Open Golf Tournament and broadcast the golf action on DirecTV is just an example of what can be achieved with mmWave spectrum for extreme capacity and throughput,” said Asha Keddy, vice president and general manager of Next Generation and Standards at Intel, in a statement.For the trial, the companies placed 4K cameras around the green and tee box on the 7th hole of the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills in New York. The objective was to show that 5G could be used to send large 4K video files with no detectible delays (latency) and no degradation to video quality transmitting at very high speeds (throughput).