The B²C Lab at Humber College participated in a demonstration of an ATSC 3.0 Inter-Tower Communications Network (ITCN) at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas this past week. The ITCN technology development is led by ATSC's Tower Network Implementation Team (IT5). NAB is a recurring event that celebrates innovation in the broadcast, media and entertainment industry.

IT5 members involved in the demo include the Communications Research Centre (CRC), Ottawa; University of the Basque Country, Spain; and Humber. Equipment contributors included Triveni Digital, PBS North Carolina, DekTec, Sinclair Broadcast Group and ETRI South Korea. Dr. Yiyan Wu, Principal Research Scientist at CRC, is the chair of IT5.

Explaining the project, Orest Sushko, director of the B²C Lab, said, “ITCN is designed to link TV broadcast towers to form a Tower Communications Network (cluster) for control, monitoring, data communication, localized datacast and broadcast services. It may additionally distribute broadcast internet data. This type of advanced initiative places Humber's B²C Lab squarely on the global stage of broadcast/telecommunications research".

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