Focus: Broadcasting

[Via Satellite 06-19-2014] Advantech Wireless was selected by Casablanca Online, a satellite digital transmission provider in Brazil, to support live transmissions of the 2014 FIFA World Cup with its 400 Watt C-band and 200 Watt Ku-Band SapphireBlu series of UltraLinear Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology-based High Power Amplifiers (HPAs). With the SapphireBlu HPAs, it’s possible to...

[Via Satellite 06-18-2014] SES increased its reach in the Asia-Pacific region from 36 million homes in 2012 to more than 41 million for 2013, representing a growth of 15 percent year-over-year. SES also maintained the highest number of Direct-to-Home (DTH) channels in the region, an offering of more than 1,000 channels with more than 90...

[Via Satellite 06-17-2014] Nine Network Australia deployed several of Newtec’s broadcast satellite modulators, demodulators, multistream and aggregators to boost efficiency to its satellite network, achieving a 64 percent increase in data rate throughput. This upgrade is intended to help Nine Network maximize its efficiency on the fully leased 54 MHz Optus D1 Ku-band transponder. Newtec’s...

[Via Satellite 06-17-2104] SES and Eurovision, a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) distributor of sports and news events, are broadcasting the 2014 FIFA World Cup to audiences in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia in Ultra-High Definition (Ultra-HD) and High Definition (HD) through SES’ NSS 806 satellite and the operator’s teleport in Manassas, Va. Eurovision...

In one of his first major speeches, new SES CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh emphasized the satellite’s industry “right to play” in the overall communications industry, as well as its ability to stay “relevant.” In a wide-ranging presentation during the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2014 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, Sabbagh spent more time talking...

[Via Satellite 06-16-2014] Eutelsat Communications, in partnership with ST Teleport, is set to introduce its 4K TV channel on the Eutelsat 70B satellite reaching Southeast Asia and Australia. Ateme and Thomson Video Networks are encoding content on the channel in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) at 50 frames per second with 10-bit color depth. The...

[Via Satellite 06-16-2014] Broadcom assisted in a live Ultra-High Definition (Ultra-HD) satellite broadcast of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, in collaboration with Globosat and Elemental Technologies, to select subscribers and pay-TV operators in Brazil. This broadcast is the first to bring display resolution at four times that of traditional High Definition (HD) displays of 1080p60....

[Via Satellite 06-16-2014] Crystal Solutions launched its Carrier ID Detection System, which allows users to quickly distinguish a satellite carrier. At the core, the system uses Crystal Carrier ID System Controller Software to direct the equipment and manage the identification process, such as logging each event of identification with an exact timestamp. Uplinkers can comply...

[Via Satellite 06-13-2014] Work Microwave will now feature Carrier Identification (Carrier ID) technology according to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) TS 103 129 standard, with its Second Generation Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB S2) modulators and modems. This capability will help satellite operators comply with the new Digital Video Broadcasting Carrier ID (DVB...

[Via Satellite 06-12-2014] Many of the world’s major news and sports programmers have committed to a total of about 500 MHz of capacity on several Intelsat satellites, and will also leverage the IntelsatOne terrestrial network, to bring coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup to viewers throughout the Americas and Europe. Intelsat will support contribution...