BellSouth Chooses Artel's DigiLink 1220 to Transport Live Video Programming for Super Bowl XXXVI.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2002 Artel Artel (Russian: арте́ль) is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern. helps broadcasters deliver game day action in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded to millions of viewers worldwide Artel Video Systems today announced that its optical video networking solution will provide live, uncompressed video from Super Bowl XXXVI Super Bowl XXXVI was the 36th championship game of the modern National Football League (NFL). The game was played on February 3, 2002 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana following the 2001 regular season. to millions of viewers. BellSouth will be providing video circuits for broadcasters and Artel's DigiLink 1220, a fiber optic video networking system, will enable BellSouth to transport game day action to those broadcasters. The key advantage of Artel systems is the ability to transport video from event locations out to broadcast studio locations using fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber in both analog and digital formats. Douel Wright, Specialist Transmission Engineer at BellSouth commented on the Super Bowl video transport network saying, "Artel Video Systems has provided BellSouth with carrier class telecommunication equipment for the transport of high quality video programming for Super Bowl XXXVI. We rely on Artel's products to enable our network to service our video studio and television broadcast customers. We are pleased with Artel's service and commitment to our business and look forward to an ongoing and productive relationship with Artel Video Systems." "Artel's long history of providing video transport solutions for major sporting events such as the Olympics, the World Series, French Open, and prior Super Bowls have shown the high reliability of Artel's DigiLink product line and its effective analog/digital design," said 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. . "We are committed to providing telecommunication service providers such as BellSouth with video transport solutions that fit a wide variety of video network requirements well into the future." About Artel Video Systems Artel provides video networking systems to cable TV and telecommunications service providers A Telecommunications Service Provider or TSP is a type of Communications Service Provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services. This category includes ILECs, CLECs, and mobile wireless companies. 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, Massachusetts Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling. , USA, with sales and service centers worldwide. Further information about the company is available on the World Wide Web at www.artel.tv. |
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