Cove Broadcast will launch at IBC this weekend a digital optical link for video, audio and camera control which replaces add-on boxes and interconnecting cables, writes Barbara Marshall
Cove Broadcast will launch at IBC this weekend a digital optical link for video, audio and camera control which replaces add-on boxes and interconnecting cables, writes Barbara Marshall

Known as Z Link, it uses fibre optics to give transmission distances of up to 10km and handles broadcast quality video, return video, programme audio, talk-back and auxiliary data. Z Link was prototyped at IBC last year but is now ready for commercial release.

It comes in three versions - standard which is powered by a battery pack, hybrid which uses a copper/fibre optic hybrid cable to power the camera unit and high definition.