Advanced Television

WRN Broadcast links Voxafrica to broadcast chain

Content delivery specialist WRN Broadcast is providing essential fibre connectivity to support Voxafrica, a TV broadcaster of Pan African news and general entertainment. WRN Broadcast’s fully redundant fibre connectivity enables Voxafrica’s feed to reach its distribution point for onward transmission to DSTV and Canal Sat in Africa, as well as a number of IPTV platforms […]

September 23, 2014

Prime Entertainment signs with Russia’s Stream

Prime Entertainment Group has announced a package deal with Stream Television Company – one of the leading networks of pay-thematic channels in Russia and CIS. “We are glad to start a business relationship with this new client. Russia has been an important market for us. We have a close relationship with major broadcasters in the […]

September 23, 2014

Chile’s VTR selects ARRIS

VTR GlobalCom has chosen ARRIS Group’s E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) to grow its network and offer enhanced high-speed broadband services. The E6000 CER also enables VTR concurrently to reduce its operating expenditures with its industry-leading rack space, power, and cooling efficiencies, and a ‘wire-once’ architecture that reduces the need for re-cabling in the data […]

September 23, 2014

Scripps selects Globecast for AP distribution

Globecast has been selected by Scripps Networks Interactive to provide distribution, playout, content preparation and select post production services for the company’s portfolio of networks across Asia-Pacific. Scripps Networks owns and operates four channels across the region including Asian Food Channel, Food Network, Travel Channel and HGTV, which will launch at the end of the […]

September 23, 2014

National Geographic hits 50m Facebook fans

National Geographic Channel has reached 50 million Facebook fans, propelling the fan page into the top 50 pages worldwide and making National Geographic Channel the second largest global TV brand page on Facebook. “This 50 million-strong Facebook community allows us to keep all of our fans engaged at both the global and the local levels […]

September 23, 2014

VeEX expands CaTV product line

VeEX, a global leader in Telecom and CATV test solutions, has announced three new CaTV product offerings, to be showcased at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2014. VeSion VeEX’s VeSion is a Cloud-Based, One System Platform, representing the next step in innovation for Network Monitoring. VeSion integrates RF monitoring systems (Return and Forward), advanced DOCSIS Monitoring, […]

September 23, 2014

Avere enables Deluxe to meet demands from major UK broadcasters

Avere Systems, a provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, is the driving force behind the transcoding, editing and quality-control of content provision supplied by Deluxe Media Acton, formerly ITFC, for major broadcasting companies in the United Kingdom. Deluxe uses Avere FXT Edge filers to ensure that content for major broadcasters meets compliance regulations […]

September 23, 2014

VeEX expands OTDR functions to complement Transmission and Ethernet test capability

VeEX, a global player in Telecom and CATV test solutions, has added OTDR capability to the TX300S, the company’s flagship 10G multi-service tester. The TX300S integrates an impressive arsenal of physical layer optical test tools, including a full featured OTDR, a power meter, a light source and a visual fault locator. Fiber inspection probes provide […]

September 23, 2014

RealNetworks multi-screen media streaming on Inspur STBs

RealNetworks and Inspur Americas have announced a joint demonstration in booth 1624 at Cable-Tec Expo (SCTE). The two companies have unveiled the Inspur set-top box HMG-1200 outfitted with RealHome Media Portal, providing cable, satellite and IPTV customers with multi-screen viewing of TV, OTT media and user-generated content. RealHome Media Portal, from RealNetworks, is a multimedia […]

September 23, 2014

Half the world online by 2017

Over 50 per cent of the global population will have Internet access within three years’ time, with mobile broadband over smartphones and tablets now the fastest growing technology in human history, according to the 2014 edition of the State of Broadband report. The report reveals that more than 40 per cent of the world’s people […]

September 22, 2014