Fifteen miles of open water.
An offshore platform needed its cameras visible at the land-based refinery it feeds. There was no cable to use and no appetite for special licensing.
The problem.
The platform sits about fifteen miles out, drilling for oil and natural gas and feeding a pipeline to a refinery on land. Getting camera video back across that gap ruled out every ordinary option, and a licensed link would have added permitting to an already complex site.
The deployment.
A wireless system with headroom well beyond the required distance — rated over twenty miles — was implemented between the platform and the refinery, using spectrum that needed no special permit or licence.
The result.
The refinery could see the platform. A site that is expensive to reach, and expensive to be wrong about, became something staff on land could actually watch.
A camera at the far end of any long link is added the same way today — by stream address rather than by scan, with a lighter stream profile so the link can carry it.
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