The production of ITV Studios’s popular reality TV show “Love Island” is no small feat considering it utilizes two locations separated by 3 km (roughly 2 miles) on the island of Majorca, Spain. To establish reliable connectivity between the two sites, veteran systems integrator Timeline Television was called in to provide ITV Studios with inter site connectivity as well as the establishing RF facilities to enable the transmission of the show live in London on the ITV 2 channel.
In remote rural locations, satellite backhaul is often the only mobile transport available that can provide the reliability and quick service rollout that is required. Newtec, a provider of equipment and technologies for satellite communications, has deployed its Dialog multiservice platform in West Africa to provide cellular backhaul for Mattel, the nation of Mauritania’s main mobile service operator.
Several years ago, the broadcast industry came to satellite operators with one request – to solve the problem of satellite interference, particularly to satellite news gathering (SNG). To that end, Carrier ID was born, and many of us believed that would be the best fix for SNG transmissions.
_460_307_70.jpg "Globecast’s Media Center in Los Angeles is central to Crown Media’s DR plan.")
Globecast’s DR service includes the encoding and transmission for both channels in the event of a failure. This entails encoding for MPEG-4 HD and DVB-S2 satellite transmission to Crown’s transponder on the AMC-11 satellite.
Globecast satellite services will debut its Optim’Net, Content Distribution Network (CDN) cost optimization technology at the 2017 NAB Show.
Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications, has unveiled a number of new DVB-S2X wideband products for use in High Throughput Satellite (HTS) and global networks.