{"id":65538,"date":"2018-04-10T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/intelsat-unveils-broadcast-distribution-platform-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2018-04-10T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:03:06","slug":"intelsat-unveils-broadcast-distribution-platform-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/intelsat-unveils-broadcast-distribution-platform-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelsat Unveils Broadcast Distribution Platform for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intelsat<\/strong> announced that it has launched a new Ku-band Multi-Channel Per Carrier (MCPC) media platform for Central and Eastern Europe.&nbsp; As part of the IntelsatOne terrestrial network, the platform will enable regional and international programmers to expand their reach to cable headends, Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) distribution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Encompass Digital Media<\/strong> will provide multiplexing services for the platform from its facility in London, and Intelsat will provide further ground and uplink facilities from its Fuchsstadt, Germany teleport.&nbsp;Programmers will be able to contribute Standard Definition (SD) or High Definition (HD) content from anywhere around the world via Intelsat\u2019s satellite fleet, the IntelsatOne network or through Encompass\u2019 network.&nbsp;The platform is set to support MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compression technology, and Intelsat\u2019s wide satellite beams, optimized for DTH, can be received with 60cm antennas in much of its coverage area.<\/p>\n<p>According to Intelsat, the new MCPC platform will provide programmers with immediate access to 1 degrees west, one of Europe\u2019s premier video neighborhoods, located on the Intelsat 10-02 satellite.&nbsp;With four DTH platforms and more than 425 channels reaching approximately 18 million households across Europe, programmers will have access to a solution for cable\/IPTV and affiliate distribution, the ability to leverage the platform\u2019s existing channel content, and an opportunity to launch new channels and test new markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat announced that it has launched a new Ku-band Multi-Channel Per Carrier (MCPC) media platform for Central and Eastern Europe.&nbsp; As part of the IntelsatOne terrestrial network, the platform will enable regional and international programmers to expand their reach to cable headends, Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) distribution. Encompass Digital Media will provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}