Xcrypt and TNTSAT Africa, in the person of its CEO, Ismaila Sidibe, inked their agreement in principle during IBC 2014. Less than one year later, after having had to build an entire DTH uplink from scratch, after training 3,000 installers to the art of not only setting-up dishes but also reselling their TV package, TNTSAT […]
ABS and Arab Satellite Communication Organisation (Arabsat) have signed an expansion capacity agreement on ABS-3A for a multi-transponder, multiyear deal for Ku-band payload. The additional capacity will be used for different customer networks within the Middle East and North Africa regions in particular Saudi Arabia.Under the agreement, Arabsat will use the new bandwidth on ABS-3A […]
Eurofins Digital Testing (formerly Digital TV Labs and Testronic Labs Belgium) is now the official lab for certifying pay-TV enabled automotive infotainment systems, which use the MOST network to transport CI+ protected content, using Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP). The MOST Cooperation recently released its latest MOST Stream Transmission Specification, which includes support for the […]
Telestream, a provider of video transcoding and workflow automation solutions, has announced the acquisition of Cloud-based encoding provider, PandaStream. The result of a comprehensive investigation of key suppliers in the cloud-based encoding market, the acquisition accelerates Telestream’s strategy for providing cloud services to complement its on-premise solutions. As a direct result of this acquisition, Telestream […]
The Weather Network, an industry leader in multi-platform weather services announced today that its weather application is now available on Apple TV, offering users quick and easy access to localised weather forecasts and personalised content. “The Weather Network team is dedicated to providing users with the most compelling experience possible, and Apple has helped us […]
Swedish CryptoGuard keeps growing and is now establishing a new sales and support office in India, with the latest recruitment of Vinayak Hadkar as Sales Director and Chetan Mehra as Support Manager. Vinayak has many years of experience from the CAS industry in Asia and Chetan has great experience from a larger operator in India. […]
Twickenham is the largest stadium in the world devoted solely to rugby union. Ahead of 2015 the RFU set a clear objective to deliver a state-of-the-art, connected stadium that would ultimately benefit the fans. The RFU set out to invest £76 million into the stadium upgrade project and it has seen significant modernisations to the […]
Arxan Technologies, a provider of application protection solutions, has announced expanded application security protections for the Apple tvOS platform. A number of the applications which come pre-installed on the newly announced Apple TV are already protected by Arxan with the most advanced application security measures designed to assure app performance, protect sensitive data, and prevent […]
Network operators are forced to implement strategies to meet the challenges of today’s data-driven world, such as falling ARPU (Average Revenue per User) and increased data demand. Network functions virtualization (NFV) is such a strategy. The advantages of NFV are even stronger when applying application awareness technology to a virtualized network environment. It adds traffic […]
KLRU-TV, Austin PBS has selected BroadStream Solutions Inc. as its playout partner of choice and selected the OASYS Integrated Playout solution with full redundancy, extensive integrated graphics capabilities and the SMPTE BXF (Broadcast Exchange Format) protocol. “Our goal in replacing both automation and playout systems was to find something that was simple, flexible, and really powerful, […]