Kratos Selected by Dialog Television to Provide Satellite Earth Stations and Video Platform

March 6, 2014

Integral Systems Europe Limited (Kratos ISE UK) subsidiary has been selected by Dialog Television (Private) Limited of Sri Lanka to deliver multiple satellite earth stations and a video platform for integration to Dialog's new and existing transmission facilities in Sri Lanka.

The system to be delivered includes a 10-terminal redundant content-ingest earth station farm, a play-out automation system, a high-power broadcast uplink including RF equipment with a 13m Antenna, together with a network operations center (NOC) and network management system (NMS), all of which will be installed at a new disaster recovery site. Kratos ISE UK's project scope also includes upgrading the existing primary uplink facility RF System in Colombo. In a further contract award, as part of Dialog Television's MPEG-4 Migration project, Kratos ISE UK will provide a new Play-out Automation System and SDI Router upgrade for the primary uplink facility.

Kratos ISE UK will build and test the system in its ground system integration facility near Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, prior to shipping it to Sri Lanka where Kratos ISE UK will also undertake the installation, integration and testing.

"We are extremely excited at this contract award from Dialog Television," said Andrew Smith, President of Kratos ISE UK. "Much of our satellite earth station work over the past 30 years has been associated with high-capacity broadcast systems, including the provision of the largest satellite transmission systems in Europe. Dialog's selection of our solution underscores the breadth and depth of our capability in the provision of satellite multimedia transmission and reception systems."