Ericsson announced a contract with 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.
Specifically, Telespazio will deploy Ericsson’s AVP 4000 system encoder. The Ericsson AVP family of video processors has been very well received by broadcasters and operators around the world. The selection offers 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.
“In order to consistently deliver the high quality content in high definition that we know our subscribers want, it was imperative that we upgraded our existing content distribution infrastructure. Ericsson was the natural choice, as we were able to leverage our existing legacy platform to minimize costs, while launching additional MPEG-4 AVC SD and HD premium channels,” said Michele Aita, Platforms Engineering Manager, Telespazio. “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.”
