{"id":70875,"date":"2016-06-02T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kddi-to-use-intelsat-epicng-for-rio-olympic-broadcasts\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:41:18","slug":"kddi-to-use-intelsat-epicng-for-rio-olympic-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kddi-to-use-intelsat-epicng-for-rio-olympic-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"KDDI to Use Intelsat EpicNG for Rio Olympic Broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-02-2016] <b>KDDI Corporation<\/b> (KDDI), a Japan-based global telecommunications company, has teamed with <b>Intelsat<\/b> to use the operator\u2019s High Throughput Satellite (HTS) platform, Intelsat EpicNG, to provide regionalized video contribution and backhaul services at the upcoming Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat will support KDDI\u2019s contribution services for a global media customer via a regionalized C-band beam from Intelsat 29e, located at 310 degrees east, for the transmission of High Definition (HD) video signals from sports venues at the games to the International Broadcast Center in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability of Intelsat EpicNG<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>to deliver more megabits per megahertz enables us to provide more efficient, high-quality, video contribution services for our leading media customers,\u201d said Ikuo Mochizuki, general manager of media sales department at KDDI. \u201cBy providing lower-cost, HD video transmission solutions, we are able to differentiate our services offerings to our subscribers.&nbsp;We are leveraging the efficiencies generated by the Intelsat EpicNG platform to grow our business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat has supported all of the Olympic games since 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-02-2016] KDDI Corporation (KDDI), a Japan-based global telecommunications company, has teamed with Intelsat to use the operator\u2019s High Throughput Satellite (HTS) platform, Intelsat EpicNG, to provide regionalized video contribution and backhaul services at the upcoming Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Intelsat will support KDDI\u2019s contribution services for a global media customer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62569,"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-70875","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\/70875"}],"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=70875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}