Friday, May 02, 2014
Dubai, UAE, 1 May 2014: After being recognised as the Independent Teleport Operator of the Year Award 2013 from the World Teleport Association last year, du’s Broadcast Services division has added another feather to its cap by winning the Best Satellite Service Provider of the Year award at the recently-held 10th Annual Digital Studio Awards 2014, organised by Digital Production ME Magazine.
Du stated on Thursday that the award recognises the huge transformation that du Broadcast Services have undergone in the last 12 months, seeing an evolution from traditional uplink plus IPTV provider to becoming a fully-fledged powerhouse, facilitating content inflow and outflow through its state-of-the-art data centre.
du Broadcast Services operates multiplexed platforms on the Nilesat, Arabsat, Eutelsat and Intelsat satellites. The fibre links connected to broadcasters from du’s teleport are now HD ready to support native HD and ultra HD transmission. du’s teleport in the UAE also commissioned a state-of-the-art redundant Playout system with Pebble Beach automation and Omneon Media Server system, and including multi-language subtitling, dynamic graphics, SMS and Video Quality Check.
du’s teleport operations have also installed a VSAT hub to support enterprises in and around the UAE.
Additionally, du supports the voice and data needs of yachts and oil rigs as need be. Two uplink platforms were implemented on Yahsat to support the state-owned broadcaster DMI and the leading channel group, MBC. Direct contribution to du’s IPTV Headend was established to distribute content to over 150,000 households in Dubai.
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