Vendors Team on DVB-SH

PAU, France -- DiBcom, TeamCast and UDcast, three leading global providers of technologies for the broadcast and reception of Digital Terrestrial Television and Mobile TV are contributing actively at the core of the DVB-SH ecosystem, to meet the high performance requirements for the satellite and terrestrial broadcast segments.

As leaders in their respective market sectors, these companies are major collaborators in the TVMSL Project (Mobile TV Without Limits), which is financed by the French Agency of Industrial Innovation (AII, now integrated with OSEO).

DiBcom supplies the components for demodulation which are integrated into the portable receivers for Personal Mobile Television,TeamCast provides the modulators which are integrated into the terrestrial repeaters for the broadcast networks and similarly the professional measuring receivers used for the validation and monitoring of the networks,UDcast supplies the network head-end equipment including the IP encapsulators, the network managers and iSplicer distribution systems enabling broadcast of local content.

Thanks to their complementary equipment supply and high level technical support, these three SME’s have contributed to the pilot project set up at Pau by Alcatel-Lucent and SFR, while also participating in other pilot projects supporting the deployment of the DVB-SH standard around the world (in the USA for example).

“DVB-SH is a standard with international status, particularly as it uses satellite to complement the terrestrial broadcast networks. We are delighted to be collaborating with a number of French SME’s who are recognised as leaders in the supply of fundamental elements required for its deployment. DiBcom is especially pleased to also be participating in one of the first experiments for DVB-SH which will take place on American territory,” comments Yannick Levy, CEO of DiBcom.

“We are delighted to have contributed to this truly significant, first validation of DVB-SH, in a collaboration which has certainly also benefited from the active support of AII for SME’s,” declared Gerard Faria, Executive Director of TeamCast. “DVB-SH is a broadcasting system for Personal Mobile Television which brings with it a conclusive performance gain in all modes of operation – satellite only, terrestrial only, or hybrid satellite and terrestrial deployment.”

“Good signal quality is essential for practical applications of mobile television. With our technology, we are contributing to the optimisation of the DVB-SH standard and to the guarantee of good reception even under difficult signal conditions,” added Jas Saini, CEO of UDcast. “Following the first trials, several service operators around the world have now ordered their DVB-SH satellite platforms, and like us, are convinced that this market will see strong growth in the coming years.”

DiBcom

UDcast

TeamCast Inc.