Dubai telco deploys TANDBERG encoding for IPTV expansion
Broadcast Engineering
Mar 19, 2008 5:58 PM
The Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based telco du has selected TANDBERG Television’s iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing and transcoding system as the headend for its IPTV services.
Launched in February 2007, du is the UAE’s newest telecommunications company, with already more than 1.5 million customers. The multilingual IPTV service offers TV channels from around the world, including more than 15 premium TV packages in 18 different languages.
The iPlex UltraCompression HD and SD IPTV headend is based on the AVC platform and includes MPEG-2 SD encoding, MPEG-4 AVC HD and SD encoding, MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 transcoding, MPEG-2 transrating and picture-in-picture (PIP) service generation in a chassis designed for telco operations.
The iPlex UltraCompression IP headend technology is based on the AVC platform and includes support for multiple flavors of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding in a chassis designed for telco operations.
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