Ericsson said Telespazio will deploy Ericsson AVP 4000 compression platform for the transmission of HD content across Europe, North and South America, North Africa and the Middle East.
The deal will enable Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales company, to expand the company’s current service offering to include MPEG-4 AVC HD and SD channels, while maintaining existing MPEG-2 SD channels at premium quality within the existing content distribution infrastructure.
Ericsson said Telespazio will benefit from cost savings as a result of continuing to use its existing Ericsson multiplexer platform and current transponder space.
In addition, Ericsson AVP 4000 system encoder will give enough bandwidth to introduce new content distribution services.
Michele Aita, Platforms Engineering Manager, Telespazio, said: “The superior overall picture quality for premium content offered by Ericsson’s solution gives us an edge over our competitors, enabling us to maximize our revenue basis over the coming years.”
The Ericsson AVP family of video processors offer the highest performance and broadest capability in the industry on a single platform across all applications, from SD to HD, 1080p50/60, 3DTV and Ultra High Definition TV (UHDTV), and all codecs, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and JPEG2000, with 4:2:0 and 4:2:2, 8-bit and 10-bit all supported.
