[Satellite TODAY 10-19-10] EchoStar Satellite Services has released its News Gateway delivery service, which uses a combination of the company’s U.S. fiber network and IP multicasting technologies to route and deliver live, high-quality news video content from any one of EchoStar’s 210 U.S.-designated market areas, EchoStar announced.
    News Gateway features an online interface, which allows newsroom personnel to select, decode and route simultaneous live video content in real time and deliver the content to client locations through a dedicated fiber connection into EchoStar’s Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network.
    In a statement, EchoStar COO Ken Carroll said News Gateway’s number of simultaneously viewable sources is scalable, encoded in high-quality MPEG formats and designed to meet customer needs. “With News Gateway, we can bring this proven expertise to the broadcast community and deliver important television news of natural disasters or historical events to a nationwide audience, live and instantaneous.”
    EchoStar also will provide 24/7 service support for News Gateway.