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South American operator expands satellite service |
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
Global Media, a premiere direct-to-home satellite TV platform located in
Medellín,
Colombia, and serving
South America has added 10 new digital channels simply by becoming more efficient with their bandwidth with Thomson ViBE H.264 MPEG-4 transmission equipment. As part of the significant new agreement, Thomson engineers will manage the installation and provide maintenance and training services. The new Thomson ViBE encoders and Thomson NetProcessor equipment has recently been installed at Global Media's headend facility in Medellin, Colombia, to manage the audio and video elements supporting 10 standard-definition (SD) channels using MPEG-4 compression while also tightly integrating with conditional access software from Irdeto. A Thomson eXtensible Management System (XMS) will control the entire system. The Thomson NetProcessor will be used as a multiplexer and will allow Global Media to insert local content, advertising, logos, IDs, and emergency messages into the various channels as necessary.
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