Satellite Industry Launches Comprehensive
Interference Prevention Program with Broadcasters
11 November 2013
The Global VSAT
Forum (GVF), Satellite Interference Reduction Group
(IRG), and the Radio Frequency Interference – End
Users Initiative (RFI-EUI) today announced that they
have launched a joint initiative to implement
interference prevention measures more deeply
throughout the broadcast sector.
The launch follows a number of important milestones,
including a recent meeting of the Arab States
Broadcasting Union (ASBU) in Tunis, where a
significant action plan was agreed. The action plan
is aimed at establishing a public awareness campaign
to highlight that intentional interference will not
prevent the media message being delivered. The plan
includes guidelines around training, earth station
approvals, and Carrier ID (CID), as well as
regulatory and political actions.
The World Broadcasting Unions – International
Satellite Operations Group (WBU-ISOG) has also
issued a number of important resolutions relating to
the implementation of Carrier ID. These resolutions
support the requirement that by 1st
January 2015, all new model modulators and codecs
with integrated modulators purchased by end users
for video uplinking should contain a CID. They also
state that all uplinkers of SCPC and MCPC Video and
Data should include CID functionality in the
required specifications of all current and future
Requests for Proposal, with immediate effect. The
WBU-ISOG has also just approved and adopted the ASBU
Action Plan, following its meeting in Rio de
Janeiro.
“Over recent months we have been involved in
instigating a number of key milestones across the
broadcast industry,” commented David Hartshorn,
Secretary General, the Global VSAT Forum. “We now
need to use these documents as a basis for
implementing interference prevention measures on a
global scale throughout the sector.”
“I am extremely pleased with the progress being made
in the broadcast community,” commented Martin
Coleman, Executive Director, the Satellite
Interference Reduction Group. “It is extremely
important that we ensure a widespread implementation
of all of these initiatives to have a significant
effect on instances of interference.”
“We are pleased to be working with GVF and IRG to
co-ordinate a wide scale push for interference
prevention,” commented Dick Tauber, Co-Chair, the
Radio Frequency Interference – End Users Initiative.
“Initiatives such as training, type approvals, and
CID have proven to be extremely effective at
reducing satellite interference.”
