Vitec recently unveiled MGW Pico TOUGH, its latest innovation in airborne encoding
and streaming appliances. As a small dual-channel H.264 HD/SD encoding solution,
weighing less than 400 grams, MGW Pico Tough enhances the performance for
manned and unmanned airborne platforms, military vehicles, and ground units. The
MGW Pico Tough consumes less than seven watts of power for 1080p encoding with
KLV/STANAG metadata.
MGW Pico Tough features low-latency streaming of two sources from HD-SDI and
analogue composite signals, JITC-compliant metadata processing AES encryption,
forward error correction technology, real-time resolution scaling, and image
cropping. The credit-card-sized, rugged enclosure uses MIL-DTL-38999 connectors
and is certified for extreme environmental conditions.
“With government agencies and military forces increasingly relying on manned and
unmanned platforms for situational awareness and tactical video, the encoding
devices responsible for streaming video and metadata are more critical than ever,”
said Eli Garten, vice president of Product Management at VITEC. “We designed it to
include all the capabilities needed to support any type of mission while providing
operational advantage in all domains — video quality, weight, power, connectivity
options, and physical footprint.”
