SOUTHAMPTON, U.K. -- TANDBERG Television (TAT.OL), part of the Ericsson Group, today further extended its lead in the digital TV market with the announcement that it has been selected by Maltacom Group as the strategic provider of multi-platform video processing solutions. The agreement will see TANDBERG Television provide a range of advanced digital video technologies, capable of enabling Maltacom to roll-out live and on-demand digital TV services and opening up new fixed and mobile delivery mediums and revenue streams. The Maltacom Group is the leading provider of telecommunications and related services on the Maltese Islands. Its portfolio of activities includes advanced national and international telecommunications services, mobile, internet services, data, and IT business solutions.

The first deployment is of TANDBERG Television’s native IP head-end platform which will be used to ensure enhanced service quality for Maltacom’s new Digital Terrestrial TV (DVB-T) offering. TANDBERG Television is providing its best in class technologies, as well as its systems integration and turnkey project management skills to ensure that Maltacom is able to deploy a state-of-the art digital video infrastructure that will enable it to launch advanced digital media solutions today, with the confidence that the system can scale and expand to support the introduction of new services such as mobile TV and IPTV in the future. Scheduled for full system completion later this year, the entire head-end and monitoring systems are being commissioned at TANDBERG Television’s UK facilities in Southampton before being shipped to the Maghtab facility in Malta.

“TANDBERG Television has clear leadership in DVB-T as well as other strategic areas for Maltacom such as Mobile TV, IPTV, and on-demand. The reception and compression products, combined with the latest technology over IP will enable us to deliver the highest quality services in Malta,” says Joseph Bugeja, Group Technical Director of Maltacom Group. “Our future plans include other delivery networks and service types, and the combination of the TANDBERG iPlex platform and EN5720 encoders gives us the greatest ability to re-purpose content for new platforms. TANDBERG Television satisfied our stringent timescales and was able to deliver a fully integrated solution, as well as supporting us with its extensive knowledge and specialists.”

Maltacom is deploying 8 DVB-T multiplexes and the solution is based on TANDBERG Television’s iSIS 8000 IP head-end, including the award-winning iPlex video processor for content encoding as well as EN5720 MPEG-2 encoders with expansion capability for MPEG-4 AVC simulcast with native IP outputs. TANDBERG TT1222 professional receivers are being used to decode the majority of services received from satellite and digital terrestrial feeds. Efficient bandwidth management and content scrambling will be provided through the use of TANDBERG Television’s MX8400 dense multiplexer with market leading Reflex™ IP statistical multiplexing. In addition, TANDBERG nCompass will perform a range of control and monitoring tasks.

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