RRsat Launches Second DVB-S2 Platform on MEASAT-3a

October 27, 2011

RRsat  announced today that it is offering services on its second DVB-S2 MCPC platform on MEASAT-3a. The SD/HD video channels on the MEASAT-3/3a satellites currently reach over 50 million pay-TV households in the Middle East, North Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, Australia/Oceana and parts of Africa.

RRsat has provided an end-to-end managed fiber and satellite uplink and teleport service, including optional playout, via MEASAT-3a since October 2010. The first RRsat DVB-S2 platform is booked almost entirely with HD/3D channels including Sky News HD, All Sports Network (ASN), GinxTV, iConcerts, BabyTV Asia, Bigfoot TV, Unitel Classica Asia and Nat Geo Music.

"As a result of the great success of our first DVB-S2 platform on MEASAT-3a," Yaniv Lior, Senior Director of US Sales and Operations said, "we have leased additional capacity and are offering other TV and radio channels the opportunity to reach the same extensive audience of cable headends throughout Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa with competitive high performance services based on the RRsat Global Network."