What can you achieve when you pair BFBS MiPlayer and OneWeb?

Thank you for your interest in our platforms and our cooperation with OneWeb.  

 

If you’re still visiting DSEI please do come and meet us on stand H5-620 in the Naval Zone – not far from the OneWeb stand.   

BFBS and OneWeb are technology innovators who combine to great effect. OneWeb’s LEO satellite capability delivers many new opportunities for connectivity, and BFBS has 80 years of experience in delivering welfare media services to the UK armed forces globally, on land and at sea. 

OneWeb sees the enormous potential enhancements to welfare support that can be achieved the levels of connectivity they can offer. Their welfare use case says:  

  • Enhanced and new applications   
  • Personnel welfare   
  • Connecting forward-deployed personnel with families and friends back home 
  • Delivering live TV and radio media as well as on-demand video, podcasts and electronic books and magazines via platforms such as the BFBS MiPlayer 

With its innovative MiPlayer technology, BFBS can make exponentially efficient use of that connectivity capacity by using intelligent logic to deliver media content in both linear and on-demand forms – be that video, audio or digital print.   

Also Available to UK Partners 

This solution delivered by BFBS and OneWeb is not limited to the UK armed forces. With relevant and appropriate content offers we can deliver the effect to other military or civil authority users globally, scientific organisations, disaster response efforts, remote and disconnected communities and energy platforms to list but a few examples.  

The new MiPlayer Edge hub (pictured left) which delivers content to multiple personal devices – such as iPads – in a given location.  Credit: ‘Robert Weideman, Schmooly’