GlobeCast has replaced its teleport and technical operations centre in Rome, promising ‘a major addition to the media infrastructure for Italy’.
The teleport will offer content management and distribution services via satellite and fibre-optic link – addressing the growing DTH and DTT markets in the region – as well as contribution, ad-hoc services and corporate applications. GlobeCast chose to move to this new facility in response to, and in anticipation of, broadcast clients’ demands for end-to-end services in Italy, from audiovisual content management to worldwide delivery by satellite and fibre.
Based in the newly developed area of Tecnopolo Tiburtino, the new facility is connected to GlobeCast’s GCBN worldwide fibre-optic backbone and houses one of Rome’s two points of presence on this network. It has a master control room that is staffed 24/7 with satellite and fibre-optic operations specialists, and has direct fibre connectivity to major Italian broadcasters and content providers including RAI, Mediaset, Sky Italia, Gruppo l’Espresso, RTL 102.5, Telepace, Fox and Supertennis.
Uplink, downlink and turnaround services are already available in Ku-band from the facility, with C-band available on request. Among the range of services offered by GlobeCast Italy are fibre-optic connectivity; MCPC platform services; SNGs and flyaways; playout and content management; MCR and satellite monitoring; and disaster recovery and back-up.
More: www.globecast.com
