Case Study: Greenville County Sheriff's Office achieves real-time HD helicopter video streaming and countywide situational awareness with Peplink SpeedFusion

Greenville County Sheriff’s Office Real-Time Aerial Video

Greenville County Sheriff’s Office faced a critical gap in aerial video transmission: off‑the‑shelf microwave systems were costly, line‑of‑sight limited, and impractical across the county’s roughly 800 square miles. To get reliable, real‑time helicopter video to deputies and command staff without building new towers, they worked with Peplink to explore a cellular bonding solution using Peplink’s MAX/SpeedFusion technology.

Peplink implemented a SpeedFusion setup with Bandwidth Bonding and Hot Failover—four SpeedFusion VPN tunnels feeding into a Balance 210—to bond cellular WAN links from the air unit and ground receivers into a secure, high‑speed connection. The system delivers full‑HD, low‑latency video with error correction to headquarters, a mobile command post, and deputies’ phones via a secure CDN, providing cost‑effective coverage across the county and markedly improving aerial observation and situational awareness.

Greenville County Sheriff’s Office

Joe Schmauch

Greenville Media