SENTECH Migrates
to Multiservice with Newtec
15 November 2016
Newtec announced that state-owned
broadcasting signal distributor SENTECH has
selected the Newtec Dialog multiservice platform
including the MDM2500 IP Satellite Modem for 800
of its sites across South Africa.
The partnership was enabled through African
Union Communications – a long-term, certified
Newtec business partner, which is the primary
contractor for this SENTECH project.
The Newtec Dialog multiservice platform will
provide SENTECH with capabilities for Digital
Terrestrial Television (DTT) signal monitoring,
IP multicasting, radio backhaul, Point of Sale
(PoS) support and government disaster recovery
connectivity. The migration from the current
platform to Newtec Dialog will begin in November
and will use standard Ku-band capacity.
“As the broadcast industry evolves, it is
important for us to be able to meet not only our
present needs, but our future ones as well”,
said Dumisa Ngwenya, CTO at SENTECH. “One of the
main factors was Newtec Dialog’s capacity for
scalable growth, allowing us to target an
increasing number of services within the same
platform as our future requirements change and
grow.”
As a multiservice platform, Newtec Dialog
enables tailored services and guarantees optimal
modulation, bandwidth allocation, service
availability, reliable automation of link
set-ups and flexible workflow support, whether
it is being used to provide broadcast, consumer
broadband, cellular backhaul or mobility
services. It also features Newtec’s
award-winning return link technology which
delivers the efficiency of SCPC with the dynamic
bandwidth allocation of MF-TDMA.
"Together with our partner AUCom, we have
been able to provide SENTECH with a solution
that matches its needs both now and in the
future," said Pieter-Paul Mooijman, Regional
Sales Director Africa at Newtec. “SENTECH has
been a Newtec customer for many years now and we
are delighted that our strong track record of
reliability, customer support and
cost-effectiveness has enabled us to extend this
relationship further.”