Harmonic Enables World's First Single Frequency Network Transmission Over IP For Teledifusion Madrid
Wednesday November 15, 9:00 am ET
IP-Based Solution Reduces Capital and Operating Expenses While Ensuring High Quality DVB-T Broadcast Service Delivery
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT - News) today announced that Teledifusion Madrid, a digital terrestrial television provider in Spain, has deployed Harmonic's versatile ProStream(TM) 1000 stream processing platform to power the world's first single frequency network (SFN) broadcast transmission over an IP network. Deployed in conjunction with Telindus, a leading sourcing partner in the region that provides consultancy, integration and maintenance services, the new SFN services were launched in Madrid in September. The IP-based Harmonic solution also includes DiviCom® Electra(TM) 1000 encoders and DiviTrackIP(TM) statistical multiplexing.
Terrestrial broadcasters like Teledifusion Madrid need to transport content from local studios to a central headend, and then on to a number of remote transmitter sites, which requires precise timing for synchronized broadcasting. Harmonic's ProStream solution eliminates the complexities previously associated with operating a SFN architecture over IP, and provides significant cost savings in terms of both capital and operating expenditures. At Teledifusion Madrid, the Electra encoders are used to transmit content from the studios to the central headend, where the ProStream 1000 aggregates the services into DVB-T transports, which are then distributed over IP to the various transmitter sites and received by local ProStream 1000 systems. |
