ViewSat Selects Intelsat for Expansion to
the United States
5 February 2014
Intelsat S.A. announced that ViewSat
is utilizing Intelsat capacity to facilitate and successfully
enhance ViewSat's distribution service to the North American
direct-to-home (DTH) market. The service has been
previously disclosed and live to new and existing ViewSat
customers since November 2013.
As part of the
agreement, ViewSat is utilizing the power of Intelsat's Galaxy
19 video neighborhood. Located at 97° West, Galaxy
19 serves as the premier U.S. neighborhood for free-to-air
multicultural programming, distributing content originating from
66 countries around the world in more than 40 different
languages. The satellite offers a Ku-band DTH platform
that serves customers in the United States and Caribbean.
Intelsat is also providing an uplink via the IntelsatOneSM
PoP in London and transporting the signal via IntelsatOne
fiber to the company's Mountainside Teleport in Maryland.
At the Mountainside Teleport, the signal is being uplinked to
Galaxy 19 for the DTH application.
"ViewSat's
programming lineup includes some of the world's most diversified
content," stated Safia Rana, Head of Sales and Marketing at
ViewSat. "As we looked to expand our geographic footprint to
North America, it was only natural that we would work with
Intelsat, which has been our partner in serving the sub-Saharan
African market on Intelsat 20 for many years. The Galaxy
19 video neighborhood will allow us to deliver high quality,
regionalized content, allowing us to increase our client's
audience and meet the unique demands of the North American
market."
"Maximizing
viewership through global content distribution drives increased
performance for content owners," said Jean Phillipe Gillet,
Intelsat's vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
sales. "Galaxy 19 is the perfect neighborhood for programmers
and distributors, such as ViewSat, seeking multicultural
audiences."
