COLOGNE, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Appear TV, a global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, today announced that Vodafone Portugal has deployed its modular head-end chassis architecture, combining analogue RF and COFDM modulation modules. This solution is a powerful and efficient method of providing subscribers access to both analogue SD and digital HD services over Vodafone’s FTTH network.
The Appear TV solution is now live, after being deployed at Vodafone’s media centres in Lisbon and Porto. The solution provides a total of 70 SD and HD TV channels over the existing Vodafone IP FTTH network.
This unique deployment was designed and deployed by Appear TV’s business partner Satcab, a leading system integrator of professional broadcast solutions and services, working closely with Vodafone Portugal’s engineering team. The solution provides SD services such as analogue RF and uses the DVB-T tuner of today’s flat panel HD TVs to decode the COFDM modulated HD services, improving access to new services by improved utilization of the existing network.
“The modular approach of the Appear TV HE architecture and the features of its advanced RF and COFDM modulation functionality enabled us to build a solution that uses the capacity of the Vodafone FTTH network to reduce the number of set-top boxes deployed, a great benefit to both us and our customers,” said Jorge Bento, Director of Products and Services, Vodafone. ”Not only do we increase efficiency by supporting analogue and digital services from one IP head-end, but we also simplify providing SD and HD to multiple TVs in the home, a useful advantage in Portugal, where the average number of TV sets is three per household.”
“This exciting and unique deployment, distributing simulcast digital and analogue TV services over the Vodafone FTTH network, is made viable by the flexibility of our modular IP head-end design, enabling our solution to support multiple modulation schemes in one IP head-end,” said Thomas Lind, Technical Director, Appear TV. “I look forward to supporting Vodafone Portugal’s exciting FTTH service and expect that this approach will be of interest to other digital cable and FTTH operators, particularly in countries, such as Portugal, with a high number of TVs per household.”
Appear TV Head-End Solutions
The advanced modular head-end architecture enables operators to meet their specific business and technical requirements through incorporating a variety of head end function modules into a single chassis. The advanced features and functionality of the Appear TV solution allows:
- Platform operators to efficiently deliver analogue and digital TV, radio & data services
- Remote configuration and control of all modules in 1 or 4RU chassis
- Award winning redundancy and hot swap module capability
- Content acquisition and aggregation, including descrambling & decoding
- Trans-modulation, edge QAM solutions, & regional program insertion
- Transport Stream processing, adaption including EPG & EIT data
- High density modular transcoding/encoding, with multiplexing, scrambling, modulation and audio leveling in a single scalable chassis
- IO modules support DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, DVB-T/T2 including IP & ASI. Appear TV head ends are capable of supporting >250 services and 850Mbps.
Note to editors: Appear TV is attending ANGA Cable Cologne, stand #10.1/T10 June 12-14 2012. If you would like to meet Appear TV during the show, please contact Platform PR’s David Bramley, david@platformpr.com, +44 (0)20 7486 4900.
About Appear TV
Appear TV is based in Oslo, Norway. The company produces world-class equipment that enables operators to deliver professional broadcast services to millions of users around the globe. The company is dedicated to developing reliable, revenue-generating and innovative solutions for operators looking to deliver real-time content to the home. Appear TV head-ends are designed for modularity, high density, and flexibility. www.appeartv.com