Application
Camera Fiber for Outside Broadcast Trucks
One cable per camera, control and power from the truck, and a rig that comes down in the rain without a cable fault.
An OB truck is a cable management problem with a deadline. Every camera used to need a multicore run, a control run and a power run; the fiber system collapses that to one hybrid cable per camera position.
The practical gains in a truck are rig time, fault finding and truck weight. One cable per camera position means one drum per camera, one connector to clean at each end, and one failure mode instead of three.
The constraint is that the camera-side adaptor has to speak the control protocol of the camera in use. Trucks that carry mixed camera families keep adaptors per family and one common base station, which is how the range is built.
What changes in practice
- +One hybrid cable per camera position
- +Control and power from the truck side
- +Adaptors per camera family, one base station platform
- +Fewer connectors to clean and inspect
The equipment behind this