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Tandberg wins Oz DTT project

Chris Forrester ©RapidTVNews | 08-10-2008

Tandberg TV (now part of the Ericsson Group) says that Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia's speciality pub-caster, has bought Tandberg’s IP-based iSIS 8000 head-end architecture for its DTT network.

Tandberg is supplying SD and HDTV encoders, as well as dense multiplexing and embedded SFN (Single Frequency Network) kit.

SBS’s digital television services began in January 2001 and currently reach an estimated 96% of the Australian population. The new centralized head-end will generate DVB-T transport streams for 12 separate regions. This is the first deployment of Tandberg’s iSIS 8000 IP head-end architecture for the Australian DTT market and is the first deployment worldwide of dense SFN adaptation as part of the TANDBERG MX8400 IP multiplexer.

“SBS Television is watched by more than seven million Australians every week and an increasing number of them choose to view in digital,” says Paul Broderick, Director/Technology & Distribution at SBS. “We are committed to expanding digital broadcasting to our diverse audience and we are upgrading our DTT network to take advantage of the latest generation head-end technology. Tandberg TV was a natural choice given their innovative digital terrestrial solutions and their proven track record in Australian DTT.”

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