Flo TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has selected Newtec’s Multistream technology and products for an IRD upgrade of its Mobile TV content distribution network, Newtec announced Sept. 8.
    Newtec’s Multistream aims to enable Flo TV to fully optimize their data rate, antenna size and link availability on a per-stream basis. 
    Newtec has begun delivery of the receivers in Mobile TV’s UHF towers with multiple ASI and GbE interfaces. The GbE interface aims to provide true IP connectivity to the transmitter sites for future applications, such as the distribution of IP services and IP networking applications.
    Multistream, a concept introduced by the DVB-S2 standard, allows broadcasters to aggregate a number of ASI transport streams and/or IP streams into one satellite carrier without modifying the original transport signal.