Globecomm Completes Upgrade to Mexico City Broadcast Center for Televisa

15 February 2011

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced the completion of a satellite uplink hub for Televisa at its Mexico City Broadcast Center. Globecomm’s design supports seven standard-definition and three high-definition video carriers on 9m and 11m earth stations, with redundancy switching to a backup 9m antenna in the event of terminal failure or maintenance.

The new uplink capacity supports Sky’s DTH program over Mexico, with capacity built into the system for future carriers.

Gerard Johnston, Globecomm Vice President of Americas, said: “Globecomm has long experience serving Televisa and other prominent media companies in Latin America. This new infrastructure provides that cost-effective reliability that broadcasters demand.”

William Aguirre Ballesteros, Satellite Operations General Director, said: “The Globecomm team showed professionalism throughout the implementation, test, training and handover phases of the project. With this project, we have increased the level of reliability in our DTH system operation.”