The professionalizing of a SIM card is a sign of the data times. At NAB, Teradek provided a look at how your transfer of valuable cellular data can be protected, prioritized, and ring-fenced for maximum travel. But what’s involved with these new eSIMs? Data carriers are increasingly generous with their plans, with unlimited data SIMs becoming very affordable. This is great news for the regular consumer, but may hamper broadcasters and content creators who rely on fast and reliable data routes to broadcast or edit rooms-especially in the era of Cloud collaboration. Teradek has launched their own data solution, which is effectively a business-class eSIM option, allowing your SIM to be configurable to virtually any country’s native carrier worldwide. In this class of data, there are several choices, but they are limited to business-class services to US carriers, for now. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are the first available networks, with Canada, Europe, LATAM, and APAC countries coming soon. Further information on the location of new services is available here. However, with these same eSIM cards, Teradek can immediately offer a multi-carrier experience which allows their Prism video encoders, for instance, to lock onto a carrier when it becomes available. An example would be that if you travel to Portugal, you can lock onto MEO, NOS, or Vodafone networks there, using the same eSIM package. Tier 1 data availability Tier 1 data services are part of the new plans. But there is also another level to the new Teradek service, which...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 3 May, 2023