Artel Video Systems Announces The DigiLink 2700 Family of ASI Transport Products, Defining a New Price/Performance Benchmark for Video-On-Demand Solutions.Business/Technology Editors The Western Show 2001 NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2001 The DigiLink 2701 single channel video transport systems will premier at the Western Show 2001 exhibition in Anaheim, California “Anaheim” redirects here. For Annaheim, see Annaheim, Saskatchewan. Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. , November 27th-30th, Booth 1401 Artel's latest innovation, the DigiLink 2700 family of ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. transport solutions, is designed specifically for the Video-on-Demand (VoD) market. It offers cable television operators a cost-effective solution for centralized VoD transport networks by enabling the transport of digital video programming from centralized video servers out to regional hub locations over existing fiber-optic links. As the cable television industry looks to rollout economical on-demand programming to subscribers, the DigiLink 2701 is aligned well with the market demand for cost effective VoD transport at cost-per-stream levels below $100 for typical installations. "Our new DigiLink 2700 product family advances Artel's position in the video networking market with a timely and cost competitive solution," commented Hal Charnley, Artel's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "VoD delivery networks are currently being designed on a large scale and Artel Artel (Russian: арте́ль) is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern. is here to meet that demand." "Video-On-Demand services are being planned by the MSO's with a focus on reducing the cost-per-stream of the subscriber service." Commented Ryan Jones, a cable industry analyst for the Yankee Group, "Artel's focus on a low cost solution for VoD transport using ASI over existing fiber is the right strategy today and is sure to get attention." Artel' s DigiLink 2701 is a fiber optic transmission system designed to economically transport a single channel of industry standard Digital Video Broadcast - Asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. Serial Interface (DVB-ASI DVB-ASI Digital Video Broadcasting - Asynchronous Serial Interface ) or uncompressed SDI (1) (Serial Digital Interface) A physical interface widely used for transmitting digital video in various formats. For electrical transmission, it uses a high grade of coaxial cable and a single BNC connector with Teflon insulation. over metropolitan area distances. The system utilizes highly reliable dark fiber constant delay transmission and is able to transport up to 55 digital TV programs per ASI transport stream. To further bandwidth conservation, the DigiLink 2701 incorporates Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) capabilities for up to 32 ASI streams to be multiplexed onto a single fiber when the DigiLink 2701 is combined with Artel's MegaWav DWDM multiplexer. The DigiLink 2701 is built using the same dependable, time-tested engineering concepts of Artel's other DigiLink products, including the DigiLink 1220 and DigiLink 8000--products that have a proven track record transporting critical video in headends and telco central offices around the world. The DigiLink 2700 family are one rack unit (1RU) in size featuring a plug-and-play design adding to its ease-of-use and simplicity. About Artel Video Systems Artel provides video networking systems to cable TV and telecommunications service providers who need to satisfy the consumer's ever growing appetite for broadband digital entertainment. Artel's products are transforming the world's networking infrastructures by enabling the transmission of broadcast and interactive TV over standards based multi-service networks. Artel is headquartered in Marlborough, MA, USA, with sales and service centers worldwide. Further information about the company is available on the World Wide Web at www.artel.tv. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.111901/bb3 |
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