Sichuan Cable TV Taps SkyStream for Digital Cable Delivery to Three Major Chinese Cities; SkyStream's IP Technology and Solutions Enable Sichuan Cable to Deliver Next-Generation Digital Cable Services.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- SkyStream(R), a leader in advanced video delivery, today announced Sichuan Cable TV Networking selected SkyStream's Mediaplex-20(TM) and iPlex(TM) video headend platforms to provide next-generation digital cable TV services to subscribers in Yi Bin, Pan Zhi Hua and the provincial capital Cheng Du -- three major cities in Sichuan Province, China's most heavily populated province. Sichuan Cable will also use SkyStream's Source Media Router (SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) The communications services used by police, ambulances, taxicabs, trucks and other delivery vehicles. Throughout the U.S., approximately 3,000 independent operators are licensed by the FCC to offer this service, which provides always-on ), along with Mediaplex and iPlex, to deliver SimulCrypt content. Sichuan Cable plans to convert its entire television offering from analog to digital cable in the next 10 years, just as the Chinese government plans to complete the digitization of the rest of the country's TV signals by 2015. SkyStream's Mediaplex headend is part of the integrated network backbone infrastructure that will help speed the digital movement while reducing capital and operating expenses Operating expenses The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted. . "Cable companies around the world are starting to switch from analog to digital video in order to offer advanced services that were once available only from satellite operators," said Andy Lovit, vice president of worldwide field operations at SkyStream. "Sichuan Cable's decision to start digitizing its cable system years before the government mandate exemplifies the rising market demand for digital media services, which will only escalate further in the coming years." Sichuan Cable selected SkyStream's Mediaplex as its next-generation cable headend for its high density and integrated design. SkyStream's all-in-one delivery platform can turn around and re-multiplex hundreds of services in a single chassis, and offers a range of video functions that reduce rack space and power requirements. Sichuan Cable also found SkyStream's IP cable technology and solutions to be ideal for a broad range of advanced applications. The Chinese service provider will use SkyStream's SMR to reliably and cost-effectively encrypt its video and data services. About Mediaplex-20 Headend SkyStream's Mediaplex-20 system is a carrier-class, complete video headend in a single chassis that enables a new level of converged services over any last mile (CATV (Community Antenna TV) The original name for cable TV. It used a single antenna at the highest location in the community in order to deliver a quality signal to homes in areas with hilly terrain or other interference. , xDSL, FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. and Wireless). It's the industry's first fully-integrated video headend to deliver MPEG-4 AVC encoding and transcoding. With its highly dense capacity of 48 MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 encoders, 64 ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. or over 120 transrating streaming, SkyStream's Mediaplex headend can distribute hundreds of high-quality video channels for large-scale video delivery in multiple formats and rates to millions of subscribers at the same time. The Mediaplex-20 system also provides video multiplexing and demultiplexing, routing, video rate-shaping, stream replication, and SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy and ATM to IP conversion. Its standards-based, forward error correction A communications technique that can correct bad data on the receiving end. Before transmission, the data are processed through an algorithm that adds extra bits for error correction. If the transmitted message is received in error, the correction bits are used to repair it. (FEC See forward error correction. FEC - Forward Error Correction ) and IP MUX capability provides protection from loss of video packets during transmission, which enables video delivery over platforms to multiple locations without sacrificing Quality of Service. The Mediaplex-20 video headend has over 100 field-proven deployments in 18 months. For service providers planning smaller deployments or in space-constrained environments, SkyStream also offers the iPlex(TM) ultra-compact video headend in a 1 RU form factor that provides the same integrated video headend capabilities of the Mediaplex-20 headend. The iPlex is the highest density integrated headend available today, supporting up to 8 MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 AVC encoders. About SkyStream SkyStream provides IP video delivery platforms that enable service providers to transform their business by offering IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. and MPEG-4 video services. SkyStream's products -- which include zBand(TM) content delivery software, Mediaplex-20(TM) and iPlex(TM) switched digital video See switched video. headends and the Source Media Router series of IP encapsulation solutions -- lower OPEX See CAPEX. and CAPEX costs by 40 percent to 50 percent and optimize video delivery over any last mile network. SkyStream is the fastest-growing provider of IP video solutions with more than 300 customers. SkyStream's Web site can be found on the Internet at www.skystream.com. |
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