Haivision

MONTREAL and CHICAGO

Using the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada observatories, scientists will gather continuous

information on ocean change, seismic activity, fish and marine mammal movements, and

seafloor ecology. The projects are unique in that, for the first time, researchers will receive data

from instruments, continuously and in real time. The VENUS project deployment will also inform

subsequent HD video camera deployment on the NEPTUNE Canada network, comprising 800

km of powered fiber optic cable, connected to a number of seafloor “laboratories” or nodes, on

the seabed over the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. The interactive instruments linked to the

NEPTUNE Canada network will empower scientists to respond immediately to events such as

storms, plankton blooms, fish migrations, earthquakes, tsunamis, and underwater volcanic

eruptions.

“The exceptionally low latency of the MAKITO makes it an ideal fit for demanding real-time

video delivery and interactive applications, and its deployment as part of the VENUS and

NEPTUNE Canada projects is an exciting demonstration of its value in extending the technical

boundaries of scientific exploration and the geographic boundaries of innovative teaching

opportunities,” said Mirko Wicha, president and CEO at HaiVision Network Video.

The MAKITO is based on the highly efficient H.264 compression standard, encoding video up to

1080p60 resolution in under 70 milliseconds and saving more than 50 percent of the bandwidth

and disk space required by MPEG-2 IP video deployments. The HaiVision encoder is equally

proficient at SD (composite and s-video) as it is at all HD resolutions and frame rates up to

1080p60, and it can comfortably address video-over-IP encoding anywhere on a

resolution/bandwidth scale from CIF as low as 150 kbps to full HD at 15 Mbps.

Complete information on HaiVision products, including recent case studies and application

notes, is available within the download center at www.haivision.com.

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