Best Of Show Award For VITEC's MGW Pico TOUGH

At NAB Show 2016, VITEC's MGW Pico TOUGH, a military-grade video encoder, won the Government Video's 2016 Best of Show Award.

Weighing less than 400g, the pocket-sized MGW Pico TOUGH is a dual-channel MPEG-4 H.264 HD/SD video encoder. It features VITEC's hardware-based, low latency H.264 compression chip, and delivers high quality full-motion video and critical KLV/STANAG metadata over any IP network. Additional features include simultaneous streaming from HD-SDI and analog signals, JITC-compliant metadata processing, Zixi error correction technology, and real-time video scaling and image cropping.

The MGW Pico TOUGH consumes less than seven watts of power for 1080p encoding and is ready to stream 20 seconds from power on.

Eli Garten, vice president of product management at VITEC, said: "The MGW Pico TOUGH sets the bar high for video streaming applications on military platforms and performance in harsh environments. We designed it to meet the growing need for real-time imagery in the most demanding environments, packing all the necessary capabilities for any ISR sensor or situational awareness video in an ultra-small airborne and marine-certified enclosure. The Government Video 2016 Best of Show Award is a great recognition of all the engineering we've put into this compact, rugged device."

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