[Satellite TODAY 05-18-10] GlobeCast has revealed the details of its network and services to rights-holders and non-rights-holders for worldwide distribution of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa this summer.
    In a May 18 company statement, GlobeCast said it would offer rights-holding broadcasters dedicated HD and SD uplink and downlink paths available to and from the International Broadcast Center’s (IBC’s) satellite dish farm in Johannesburg, for end-to-end delivery of the matches and associated content. GlobeCast is providing multiple unilateral feeds for clients including ITV in the United Kingdom and TF1 in France. GlobeCast said it also was contracted by an unnamed European Broadcaster to build and manage a studio and stand-up position with fibre links into the IBC.
    GlobeCast also will provide HD and SD SNG trucks and fly-aways, international and domestic fibre links, studios, camera crews and playout for both domestic and international delivery via satellite and fibre for broadcasters outside of the IBC, including SVT, Sky Italia, Mediaset, RAI, Softbank, Korea Telecom, TV Asahi, Fox Australia and RCTI.
    GlobeCast’s World Cup satellite network includes more than 300Mhz of sold satellite capacity on Intelsat’s IS-709, Eutelsat’s W7, W3A and more than 1300MB of redundant, networked SDH fiber connectivity over the six week period.
    GlobeCast has also secured 11 live stand-up positions – including views of the stadiums in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Rustenburg, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Polokwane, George, Durban and Pretoria as well as city views of Johannesburg and Cape Town. GlobeCast is expecting to be providing feed points at as many as 50 of the 64 games.

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