BT North America Broadcast Services Joins Forces with iBlast Networks; First IP DVB Platform Out of New LA Teleport.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2001 BT North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Broadcast Services, a leading supplier of global broadcast solutions, has signed an agreement with iBlast Networks located in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , California. IBlast is a new, wireless distribution network for broadband content that will complement the Internet and other distribution methods. BT Broadcast Services will take programming from the iBlast network operations center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. and uplink out of the new state of the art teleport in LA to the PanAmSat Galaxy 10R mux. The material will then be downlinked by 225 local television-broadcasting stations as part of the iBlast network. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. General Manager of BT Broadcast Services, Jon Romm, "iBlast is our cornerstone customer and the first IP DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. platform out of our new West Coast facility. Our capital investment in the state-of-the-art LA Teleport demonstrates BT's commitment to developing its business interest in the Americas. Our East Coast teleport has been highly successful and we are currently upgrading it to enable us to meet increased business in New Media areas while continuing to support our current news and sports communities." As BT's first LA customer for full time IP services, David Anderson David Anderson may refer to:
Scheduled to open March 1, the West Coast facility's new digital platform places Broadcast Services at the forefront of the video-over-IP revolution providing digital video contribution services and IP distribution, including broadband connection See broadband and wireless broadband. to an IP backbone and a video streaming platform. At the heart of the Los Angeles broadcast center, the new facility also will enable BT Broadcast Services to meet increased demand for broadcast and multimedia services in the Pacific Rim and Latin American regions. About BT Broadcast Services (www.broadcast.bt.com.) BT Broadcast Services is one of the world's leading suppliers of global broadcast solutions, providing a comprehensive range of terrestrial and satellite based multimedia transmission solutions as well as content and customer management services. The group offers flexible, cost effective tailor-made services to an international client base including broadcasters, news agencies, production companies, special event organizers, and large corporations around the world. Broadcast Services delivers technically advanced services based on the latest video and internet technologies, including video streaming, digital terrestrial television Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or , high speed internet access via satellite and digital business TV. The group is a division of BT Ignite, which is a data-centric, broadband IP business, focused on corporate and wholesale markets. With the largest broadband network coverage in Europe, the group is focused on the explosive growth in data transport and value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services. |
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