Overon
Meets
Increasing
Demand
for
World
Cup
Coverage
with
Newtec
Technology
July
8
2010
During
the
final
stages
of
the
World
Cup,
Spanish
broadcast
service
provider
Overon
is
meeting
the
growing
requirement
for
coverage
from
its
customers
with
Newtec
Azimuth
modulators.
Responding
to
daily
requests
to
provide
more
TV
feeds,
Overon’s
team
is
able
to
keep
pace
with
demand
through
highly
efficient
use
of
the
allocated
bandwidth.
For
its
World
Cup
coverage,
Overon
has
deployed
15
DSNG
and
flyaway
stations
in
South
Africa
and
two
fixed
fully
redundant
C-band
stations
located
in
the
International
Broadcast
Centre
(IBC)
at
Johannesburg.
Along
with
their
Portuguese
TV
Production
partner
Medialuso,
Overon
is
providing
coverage
to
the
Middle
East
by
fulfilling
the
service
requirements
from
the
Arab
community’s
main
broadcaster
as
well
as
from
other
customers
around
the
world.
To
gear
up
for
the
event,
Overon
installed
new
Azimuth
DVB-S2
modulators,
and
DVB-S
to
DVB-S2
upgrades
for
some
of
its
existing
modulators.
Both
the
permanent
feeds
from
the
IBC
and
the
occasional
feeds
from
the
mobile
stations
are
transmitted
in
DVB-S2
to
make
optimum
use
of
the
limited
capacity
available
during
the
tournament,
and
at
the
same
time
to
meet
the
growing
demand
for
HD
and
3D
transmissions.
At
least
95
percent
of
the
TV
feeds
are
operating
in
high
definition.
“As
long-term
integrators
and
users
of
Newtec
equipment,
we
knew
we
could
be
confident
of a
solution
that
would
meet
our
World
Cup
requirements,”
says
Darío
Garrido
del
Hoyo,
RF
engineering
department,
Overon.
“An
event
of
this
scale
always
creates
last-minute
orders
for
services,
and
Newtec
has
been
able
to
respond
very
rapidly
when
we
needed
it.
Our
initial
plans
for
the
operation
in
South
Africa
fully
justified
deploying
the
new
resources
to
cope
with
the
increasing
demand
for
services
from
Spanish
customers.”
As a
system
integrator
Overon
uses
Newtec
Azimuth
modulators,
upconverters
and
combiners
for
contribution
and
distribution
applications
with
a
prime
focus
on
DSNG
ranging
from
small
flyaway
quick
deploy
systems
to
full
blown
SNG
trucks
typically
deployed
at
IBCs
at
large
scale
events.
“Broadcasters
and
service
providers
really
have
to
pull
out
all
the
stops
for
an
event
as
big
as
the
World
Cup,”
says
Serge
Van
Herck,
CEO
of
Newtec.
“When
there
is
stiff
competition
between
providers,
exceptional
technology
can
make
a
significant
difference
to
the
success
of
the
operation,
and
Overon’s
installation
of
Newtec’s
DVB-S2
TV
transmission
products
provided
them
a
great
platform
for
this
and
future
events.“
Newtec
Azimuth
modulators
are
used
for
all
satellite
transmissions
from
each
SNG
truck
operating
in
South
Africa.
Newtec’s
Azimuth
DVB-S2
Broadcast
Modulators
are
available
in
both
IF
and
L
band
versions,
operate
between
50
kbauds
and
63
Mbauds
at
rates
of
up
to
155
Mbps
and
provide
unique
features
such
as
combined
GbE
and
ASI
inputs
(DualFlow™),
linear
and
non-linear
pre-distortion
and
embedded
IP
encapsulation.
