BBC Technology to Provide Video Networks with Managed Service to Deliver Content for Broadband Television.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2004 BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Technology's London Media Gateway and Digital Operations Centre Will Deliver Highest Levels of Service Availability and Reliability to On-Demand Operator BBC Technology, provider of products and services to media-driven organizations, today announced that Video Networks Limited (VNL VNL Via Net Loss VNL Virtual National Laboratory VNL Video Networks Limited ), the London-based broadband television company, will be using its Media Communications services to manage content delivery for its new broadband interactive services. Under a managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality agreement, which will initially run for three years, BBC Technology will provide a range of broadcast-critical operations, through its London Media Gateway (LMG LMG Light Machine Gun LMG Laurence M. Gould (Antarctic Research Support Vessel, USAP) LMG Local Marketing Group LMG Loaf's Merry Guild LMG Laboratory Molecular Genetics LMG Liquid Methane Gas ) and an extensive coding and multiplexing service at its Digital Operations Centre. Services will include: channel reception, circuit connectivity, encoding, multiplexing, as well as content distribution to VNL's video headends prior to broadcast. Currently in the final stages of operational testing, VNL's service will go live to existing subscribers in March this year. External feeds from VNL's channel content providers will be carried over the LMG -- an expanding fiber-based content distribution network encircling encircling (en·serˑ·k London that allows the broadcast community to exchange content -- to BBC Technology's Digital Operations Centre for coding and multiplexing. Compressed content will then be redistributed over the LMG to VNL, where it will be combined with interactive and on-demand service elements. VNL's content will subsequently be delivered to its customers across its broadband cable network using ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (communications, protocol) Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - (ADSL, or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop) A form of Digital Subscriber Line in which the bandwidth available for downstream connection is significantly larger then for upstream. ) technology. BBC Technology helps broadcast organizations, like the BBC, Globecast, the Press Association and MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , to reduce overheads, and minimize the financial and technology risk involved in high quality content distribution. Managed from BBC Television Centre BBC Television Centre (sometimes abbreviated TVC or TC , BBC Technology will ensure the highest levels of resilience, security and support, and will also oversee the interface with VNL's equipment suppliers. Says Gideon Senensieb, managing director, platform operations at Video Networks: "Our broadcast programs need to be delivered reliably to customer homes. To deliver this kind of service, reliably, we need to depend on a company that provides the highest levels of service availability. BBC Technology's London Media Gateway will be key to the content distribution network; the resilience and flexibility it delivers at a flat rate makes it a highly attractive proposition for any broadcaster needing to distribute content securely and reliably." Phil Fearnley, director of new business, BBC Technology, adds: "We are delighted that VNL is joining the growing number of broadcast organizations who are benefiting from our Media Communications services. There is no room for error in broadcast-critical business and we understand that it needs to be right first-time, every time." About BBC Technology Founded in March 2001, BBC Technology provides products and services for both the BBC and other global media-driven organizations. Drawing on eight decades of pioneering technical expertise and innovation for the BBC, BBC Technology helps organizations create, manage and distribute content more effectively across multiple platforms. BBC Technology's products and services include: the award-winning Colledia(TM) product portfolio, Colledia(TM) Control, media communications, Internet solutions, and consulting services. Customers include: BBC News, BSkyB, DIRECTV, Inc., ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , Inc., Hutchison 3G, SABC SABC South African Broadcasting Corporation and Scottish Enterprise. About Video Networks Ltd. Video Networks Ltd. is the London based broadband television and Internet company marketed under the brand name HomeChoice. HomeChoice includes on-demand movies, television programs and a super fast up to 1Mb broadband Internet service available to consumers in the London area. Later this year, HomeChoice will begin to roll out to a wider subscriber base across London, offering its customers a selection of high quality television channels as well as its video on demand services. For more information please visit www.videonetworks.com and www.homechoice.co.uk. |
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