SatLink Upgrading Occasional Use Capabilities: Transmission of UK’s Royal Wedding To Benefit from New HD Technologies
March 9, 2011
SatLink Communications Ltd., will be upgrading its Occasional Uses (OU) capabilities with the addition of further high definition (HD) DVB-S2 feeds and other technologies. With over 100 OU feeds going through its facilities on a daily basis, 365 days a year, SatLink’s OU division is a
prime transmission provider of sporting events, breaking news, cultural celebrations and other newsworthy broadcasts making it the preferred teleport of choice to transmit OU feeds between Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim by Reuters, APTN, Globecast, EBU, Genesis and others. SatLink executives will be at the upcoming Sportel Asia event in Hong Kong (16-18 March) to
continue supporting leading sports industry broadcasters.
The company’s strategic location, utilization of cutting edge technology plus its highly skilled technical staff provides an advantage for broadcasters and operators seeking to enhance their worldwide distribution networks throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. For instance, the company will
be applying HD feeds to broadcast Prince William’s royal wedding next month.
“SatLink’s new investment plan includes over US $1 million asset build-up of our already strong HD program to reach transmission capabilities of 25 simultaneous feeds in addition to our existing ability to handle up to 72 simultaneous incoming feeds,” remarked SatLink CEO, David Hochner. “Our OU business has always been a major pillar of growth and with the addition of new technologies, we will be in an even better position to support our global and regional clients with the flexibility, service and price they need and expect.”
SatLink’s facilities encompass all types routers including IF & RF and HD3G enabling the company to handle up to 72 simultaneous incoming feeds in MPEG2, H264, DVBS and DVB-S2. Encoding in HD MPEG4, HD MPEG2 4.2.2 formats is handled by equipment from Tandberg, Harmonic and Cisco. The company’s OU operations, managed from the state-of-the-art Master Control Room, use an M&C system (MaxView Rockwell Collins) together with quality assurance software and a real time multi-viewer alerts system (Evertz).
