[Satellite Today 12-10-08] GlobeCast signed a three-year deal with Rai Way, owners of Italian public broadcaster Rai, to provide fiber connectivity, teleport facilities and satellite capacity to deliver Rai signals to digital terrestrial television (DTT) transmitters throughout Italy in preparation for the country’s switch from analog to digital TV, GlobeCast announced Dec. 10.
    GlobeCast will send multiple feeds for Rai Way via fiber from its headquarters in Rome to GlobeCast’s technical operations center in Paris for uplink to Eutelsat’s Atlantic Bird 3 satellite. This operation is backed up through a second teleport in Madrid and distributed via satellite to Rai Way’s DTT transmitters throughout Italy.
    By mid-2009, GlobeCast will install and manage an uplink station at Rai Way’s premises in Rome, where the signal will be uplinked directly to GlobeCast’s capacity on Atlantic Bird 3. Backed up via Paris, this tailored package will provide Rai Way with a solution for implementing the move to DTT.