HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a leading global provider of communications and broadcast solutions and services, announced today the completion of a satellite uplink hub for Televisa at its Mexico City Broadcast Center. Globecomm’s design supports seven standard-definition and three high-definition video carriers on 9m and 11m earth stations, with redundancy switching to a backup 9m antenna in the event of terminal failure or maintenance.
The new uplink capacity supports Sky’s DTH program over Mexico, with capacity built into the system for future carriers.
Gerard Johnston, Globecomm Vice President of Americas, said: “Globecomm has long experience serving Televisa and other prominent media companies in Latin America. This new infrastructure provides that cost-effective reliability that broadcasters demand.”
William Aguirre Ballesteros, Satellite Operations General Director, said: “The Globecomm team showed professionalism throughout the implementation, test, training and handover phases of the project. With this project, we have increased the level of reliability in our DTH system operation.”
About Globecomm Systems
Globecomm Systems Inc., or Globecomm, is a leading global provider of satellite-based managed network solutions. Employing our expertise in emerging communication technologies we are able to offer a comprehensive suite of system integration, system products, and network services enabling a complete end-to-end solution for our customers. We believe our integrated approach of in-house design and engineering expertise combined with a world-class global network and our 24 by 7 network operating centers provides us a unique competitive advantage. We are now taking this value proposition to selective vertical markets, including government, wireless, media, enterprise, and maritime. As a network solution provider we leverage our global network to provide customers managed access services to the United States Internet backbone, video content, the public switched telephone network or their corporate headquarters, or government offices. We currently have customers for which we are providing such services in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Based in Hauppauge, New York, Globecomm Systems also maintains offices in Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.
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