{"id":86209,"date":"2010-09-14T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/multichoice-installs-thomson-sd-encoders-for-south-african-headend\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T09:45:17","slug":"multichoice-installs-thomson-sd-encoders-for-south-african-headend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/multichoice-installs-thomson-sd-encoders-for-south-african-headend\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiChoice Installs Thomson SD Encoders for South African Headend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-14-10] South African pay-television operator <strong>MultiChoice<\/strong> has installed <strong>Thomson Video Networks<\/strong>\u2018 ViBE EM2000 dual-channel SD encoders, as part of an infrastructure expansion for its Johannesburg headend facilities broadcasting to sub-Saharan Africa, MultiChoice announced. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Deployed by MultiChoice within the framework of a 14+2 redundant IP architecture designed to support multiple transponders with output from Thomson NetProcessor multiplexers, the ViBE EM2000 encoders aim to allow MultiChoice to achieve high-density expansion of its headend capability, with the potential for easy, modular growth to meet increasing demand for services.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cIt was vital for MultiChoice to provide the highest quality video at the lowest possible bit rate, while building a physically dense infrastructure at the headend to meet space constraints. With the Thomson ViBE EM2000 dual-channel encoders and the NetProcessor with its multiple output capability, we have been doing this, laying a good foundation for quick and cost-effective future expansion when required,\u201d MultiChoice CTO Gerdus Van Eeden said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-14-10] South African pay-television operator MultiChoice has installed Thomson Video Networks\u2018 ViBE EM2000 dual-channel SD encoders, as part of an infrastructure expansion for its Johannesburg headend facilities broadcasting to sub-Saharan Africa, MultiChoice announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Deployed by MultiChoice within the framework of a 14+2 redundant IP architecture designed to support multiple transponders with output from Thomson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-86209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86209"}],"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=86209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}