Stockholm, Sweden - Net Insight's Singapore office has received a major order from Korea Telecom for a multiservice media network connecting ten cities in South Korea. The order value is above SEK 10 million.
Korea Telecom (KT), the leading communications service provider in Korea, is deploying a combined distribution and contribution media network using Net Insight's Nimbra platform. The network is aimed for broadcaster SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System), who will use the network for video and audio services between its headquarters in Seoul and local broadcasters in nine other cities in South Korea. The order was received in cooperation with Net Insight's partner Sanam Technology and systems integrator Yukyung.
From the SBS main broadcasting center in Seoul various media services will be distributed out to local broadcasters in nine regions. Services include uncompressed high-definition (HD) and standard-defintion (SD) video for digital terrestrial TV (DTT), compressed video for mobile TV distribution, FM radio channels, digital audio services, and various data signals for traffic information, program schedule data, etc. The same network will also allow each local broadcasting company to send uncompressed HD and SD video for contribution purposes and to share the contents between SBS and local sites.
The network will comprise more than 100 nodes of the Nimbra multiservice switches. KT will make the most of the multiservice transport capability of the Nimbra platform by combining HD-SDI, SDI, ASI, AES/EBU, IP/Ethernet, and E1 services over 2.5 Gbps high-capacity transport links. The equipment will be delivered during the fourth quarter of 2007.
"This is an important order for us, that Korea Telecom selects Net Insight for this demanding media network", says Fredrik Trägårdh, CEO of Net Insight. "Their decision was made following extensive qualification testing in KT labs and in tough competition with other vendors. It once again demonstrates the unique strength of the Nimbra platform for multiservice media transport in multipurpose networks."
For more information, please contact:
Fredrik Trägårdh, CEO of Net Insight AB, +46 8 685 04 00, fredrik.tragardh@netinsight.net
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Net Insight delivers the world's most efficient and scaleable optical transport solution for Broadcast and Media, Digital Terrestrial TV, Mobile TV and IPTV/CATV networks.Net Insight products truly deliver 100 percent Quality of Service with three times improvement in utilization of bandwidth for a converged transport infrastructure. Net Insight's Nimbra(TM) platform is the industry solution for video, voice and data, reducing operational costs by 50 percent and enhancing competitiveness in delivery of existing and new media services.
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