du's new state-of-the-art Teleport Facility will add even more benefits for regional broadcasters

Dubai, UAE, 20th June 2017

du announced its new Teleport Facility, located at Al Qudra area in Dubai, away from planned commercial and residential real-estate developments. The new upgraded facility covers an area of 75000 sq. meters and has been built to enable the expanding requirements of du broadcast customers, to deliver a superior service with a focus on service reliability and close control and monitoring of services uplinked from there. The facility is built to accommodate 50 earth station antenna systems with further room to expand.

Through its teleport, du serves regional and international Broadcasting customers. The number of TV channels being uplinked by its current teleport facility has grown by 600% since it started operations in 2004. The new world-class facility at Al Qudra Site will cater to the growth in demand of satellite TV offering state of the art technology.  The new site has larger antennas ensuring robust signal levels in transmission and reception.

 “In order for du to meet the growing requirements of customers in the region and internationally we have come up with our new Teleport facility. Today, ours is the top ranked teleport in the MENA region and is already one of the top ten independent operators in the world. As broadcast requirements continue to proliferate, we will endeavour to innovate and offer our customers new broadcast solutions that will deliver on superior quality of service,” said Ahmed Al Muhaideb, Vice President, Broadcasting and IPTV Services.

The initial planning of du’s new Teleport site started in 2010 and after intensive checking in terms of the location, the technical design phase started. This included civil and electromechanical works and satellite transmission systems. The building project was decided and started in 2012. The facility will be scaled up even further to cover all broadcasting operations, including TV signal processing and TV Playout services, to ensure service fulfilment for du’s  TV broadcasting partners.

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About du
du is a vibrant and multiple award-winning telecommunications service provider serving 9 million individual customers with its mobile, fixedline, broadband internet, and Home services over its 4G LTE network. du also caters to over 100,000 UAE businesses with its vast range of ICT and managed services. Since its launch in 2007, du has many UAE firsts to its credit, including introduction of Pay by the Second® billing system, IPTV and self-service portal.

du is ideally placed to support the realisation of UAE Vision 2021 and transformation of Dubai into a Smart City. du is also the official strategic partner of the Smart Dubai Office and the platform provider for Smart Dubai. Following the successful testing of the Middle East’s first Internet of Things (IoT) network, du is on course to complete deployment of its IoT network in 2016.

Brand Finance ranked du as the 12th most valuable brand in the Middle East in 2016. du previously won the coveted Brand of the year title by Superbrands Middle East in 2013. The company has been recognised with several other awards such as ISO 27001 certification of Managed Security Services and having the distinction of opening UAE’s first LEED Platinum Certified Green Shop. du also has the unique distinction of the first telecom in the world to release Sustainability Report based  on GRI-G4 guidelines in 2014. du is also credited with du’s world-class teleport is the largest of its kind in the Middle East and ranked among the top teleports in the world by World teleport Association.

du is 39.5 percent owned by Emirates Investment Authority, 19.75 percent by Mubadala Development Company PJSC, 19.5 percent by Emirates Communications and Technology LLC and the remaining by public shareholders. Listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), the company trades under the name ‘du’.

Saugat Chatterjee
PR Lead (B2B) Commercial
du
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Layal Dalal
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