Outside Broadcast
Powering the Future of Outside Broadcasting
Outside broadcasting is no longer just about sending an OB truck to a venue. It’s about delivering high-quality, real-time content from anywhere in the world — reliably, flexibly, and cost-effectively. Whether you’re covering a global sports event, a breaking news story, or a live concert, Lawo empowers OB teams with IP-native, scalable solutions that adapt to any production scenario.
From OB trucks and flypacks to remote production and global event coverage, Lawo helps broadcasters overcome the challenges of mobility and control — without compromising on quality or creativity.
Solutions for Outside Broadcast Workflows
OB Trucks
Lawo equips OB trucks with powerful, space-efficient systems that deliver full-scale production capabilities in compact environments. Our IP-native and app-based solutions simplify setup, reduce cabling, and ensure seamless integration with production hubs and remote workflows — all while maintaining the highest standards of reliability and performance.
Remote Production
Extend your production capabilities beyond the venue. Lawo offers remote production workflows that reduce travel cost and increase efficiency — all while maintaining full creative control. Our solutions support seamless collaboration between on-site crews and centralized control rooms, ensuring consistent quality across locations.
Global Events
From world championships and political events to international music festivals, Lawo powers some of the world’s most complex live productions. Our scalable, interoperable systems support multi-language, multi-feed, and multi-platform delivery — helping broadcasters meet the demands of global audiences with confidence and precision.
Flypacks
When flexibility is key, flypacks offer a modular, portable alternative to fixed infrastructure. Lawo’s flypack solutions are designed for rapid deployment and easy transport, enabling high-quality production in temporary or space-constrained environments. Ideal for pop-up studios, international events, and backup systems.
Key Benefits for Your OB Operations
Mobility & Speed
Deploy faster with compact, modular systems that reduce setup time and simplify logistics.
Operational Efficiency
Streamline workflows and reduce crew requirements with remote production scenarios and automation.
Broadcast-Grade Reliability
Ensure uninterrupted coverage with redundant, IP-native systems built for mission-critical projects.
Game Creek Video Hollywood: Next-Gen Sports Production
Game Creek Video’s new mobile production unit generation raises the bar with Lawo’s HOME platform! After 13 highly successful all-IP OB trucks based on their Bravo unit, which already contained Lawo IP infrastructure, Game Creek Video has launched a new breed of OB trucks.
What Our Customers Say
Our two new OB trucks are among the most advanced on the planet. Their ST2110-based approach has resulted in highly flexible tools for OB assignments of any scale.
Products for Outside Broadcast
HOME Platform
HOME is a management platform for IP-based media infrastructures and is designed to connect, manage and secure all aspects and instances of live production environments.
HOME Apps
HOME Apps are Lawo’s modular software applications that extend the HOME platform with flexible processing, monitoring, and control—enabling fully scalable, IP‑based broadcast workflows.
VSM
VSM is Lawo’s powerful, vendor‑agnostic broadcast control and orchestration system that unifies devices, workflows, and operators into one intuitive, IP‑ready control layer.
mc² Series
IP‑native audio production consoles offering premium sound quality and scalable performance for broadcast and live production environments.
A__line
Fully IP‑connected stageboxes delivering pristine audio and flexible ST2110 connectivity—whether next door or across the globe.
Power Core
A compact 1RU, software‑defined AoIP engine combining high‑density I/O, flexible routing, and powerful DSP for demanding broadcast workflows.
.edge
A scalable, software‑based platform that brings IP signal processing, routing, and monitoring together in one flexible workflow layer.
Edge One
Edge One combines audio and video connectivity in a single stagebox, bringing true AV convergence to life with HOME Apps.
Featured Case Studies
The Perfect Truck for Corporate Events and Network Partners
Discover an advanced truck with everything customers can wish for: cinematic video and up to 7.1.4 immersive audio right inside the truck.
Live corporate and entertainment events need to wow their audiences more than ever before. The delivery has become almost as important as the message organizers wish to send. Video walls showing glimpses of attendees as well as close-ups of the action on stage have become a given. The same is true of audio: pristine sound quality mixed by experts for the delivery through a carefully selected and arranged speaker system—increasingly using immersive or spatial audio—is expected.
Hollywood: Next-Gen Sports Production
Hollywood, the first in the series, fully embraces Lawo’s unified, open platform and all the hardware/software synergies it provides. Among the top reasons for choosing Lawo’s platform approach are the flexibility the HOME platform affords and the fact that basing GCV’s technology stack on COTS servers leads to even more space and weight reduction than before.
Meet Two of the Most Advanced OB Trucks on the Planet
RTBF, Belgium’s public broadcaster for the country’s French-speaking community, took delivery of two groundbreaking, full-IP OB trucks. The 12m long trailers had to be configured remotely in order to be delivered on time, due to the covid-19 lockdown.
FAQ: Outside Broadcasting
What is outside broadcasting?
Outside broadcasting (OB) refers to the production and transmission of live content from locations outside to the production facility using mobile units like OB trucks or flypacks.
What is an OB truck used for?
OB trucks are mobile production units equipped with all the tools needed for live broadcasting — including video switching, audio mixing, intercom, and signal routing.
What is a flypack in broadcast?
A flypack is a portable production system that can be quickly deployed in temporary or remote locations. It offers ingest capabilities that are similar to what an OB truck provides, but in a modular, lightweight format.
What are the challenges of outside broadcasting?
Key challenges include limited space, unpredictable environments, connectivity issues, and the need for rapid setup. Lawo’s IP-native solutions help overcome these with flexibility and resilience.
What equipment is needed for outside broadcasting?
Typical OB setups include video/audio routers, audio mixing, video switching consoles, signal processing, intercom systems, multiviewers, and control software — all of which Lawo provides as scalable, integrated solutions.
How does remote production support outside broadcasting?
Remote production allows parts of the OB workflow (like video switching or audio mixing) to be handled from a central facility, reducing travel and increasing efficiency.
Associated Solutions
Broadcast Facility
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