In March, it is the season when everything is revived and the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. The cherry blossom viewing spots have become the pink dream world.

In order to let everyone, see the cherry blossoms without leaving home, the Media Center in Baoshan District, Shanghai organized a lively event to allow viewers to enjoy the viewing of cherry blossoms on the clouds. On March 20th, the 2021 Baoshan Media Center’s "Cherry Blossoms Viewing on the Clouds" live broadcast event was successfully held.

During the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Gucun Park, in addition to enjoying the beautiful scenery of cherry blossoms, the audience can also learn about the knowledge of cherry blossoms, experience the culture of Hanfu, and realize the dream of viewing the cherry blossoms together with the anti-epidemic heroes. People’s Net, Xinhuanet, China Economic News, CCTV, Kannews, Archimedes, and Dongfang.com have attracted more than one million users to watch online.

In the event, there are multiple video interviews and interactions among several cities, including Gucun Park in Shanghai, Wuxi (Yuantouzhu Cherry Blossom Forest), Wuhan (Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan University and Donghu Moshan Cherry Blossom Garden), and Tokyo (Ueno Park). Streams are pushing between the main venue and the sub-venue. For real-time network streaming, Cogent, together with Dongfang.com, unleashed a new transmission solution for this live broadcast connection.

In the sub-venue where there are no fixed network conditions, the brand new Cogent 5G Gateway are deployed.  The Cogent 5G gateway is used as a multi-link aggregation gateway device. And these are installed on the broadcast vehicle in the sub-venues. In this event the Gateway has 6 x 5G/4G link aggregations which provide stable and reliable network access for live streaming from the broadcast vehicle. This help Dongfang.com smoothly transmit the video stream produced by the sub-venue back to the main venue in real time, and the delay of the entire system is controlled within 1 second.

An old Chinese poetry say, “a day of leisure is all flowers”. This is particularly applicable when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. The "Cherry Blossoms Viewing on the Clouds" perfectly provoke social distancing. The attendants around the country cannot miss the vitality dedicated to this spring, and feel the fun of being at the scene at the same time. Isn't it beautiful?