A real deployment
Unlike our illustrative composite studies, this is a real West Networks deployment. The client is unnamed and some details are withheld under confidentiality — the architecture and results are as delivered.
Golf majors. Formula 1. SailGP. The trust strip on our sites names the events because the events are public — the broadcasters are our clients, so they stay unnamed. Here is what actually runs.
The problem
Live sport is the least forgiving traffic on earth: a dropped frame is a visible, career-adjacent failure, and the traditional insurance policies — satellite trucks and dedicated venue circuits — price like insurance. A truck day runs thousands before crew; venue fiber must be ordered months out for an event that lasts a weekend; and a golf course is eighteen small venues spread across two hundred acres, moving daily as the story moves.
The build
- Bonded multi-carrier cellular + Starlink as the contribution path — every camera position becomes a venue, portable enough to re-rig as play moves.
- SpeedFusion WAN smoothing on the live paths: packets duplicated across dissimilar links, so a cell-sector hiccup or a Starlink beam handoff never reaches air. Capacity is deliberately traded for certainty on program feeds; file traffic rides the efficient sub-tunnel.
- Bonded links feed REMI workflows — camera contribution to a centralized production facility, cutting the on-site crew footprint.
- Representative field throughput: 1.46 Gbps on a bonded Starlink array with SpeedFusion Boost — contribution-grade headroom from equipment that fits in cases.
The result
- Live tournament coverage carried across multiple majors, F1 weekends, and SailGP regattas — without a satellite truck.
- Carrier-level degradations absorbed silently by the bond; nothing reached air.
- Setup measured in hours per position, not truck-days; re-rigs follow the story instead of anchoring it.
The identical engine — smoothing, bonding, hot-failover — is what keeps a regional network’s away games on air and a corporate stream from stuttering. Broadcast is simply where it gets stress-tested hardest. Talk to us about your production →