Nimbra Chooses Net Insight

STOCKHOLM -- Net Insight, leading developer of efficient and scalable optical transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has been selected to supply its Nimbra platform to RTÉ NL for the Digital Terrestrial TV distribution network in Ireland.

RTÉ NL is a communications network operator that distributes and transmits the national programme services of all national TV and Radio broadcasters.

In November 2007, RTÉ NL became a Net Insight customer ordering Nimbra equipment for a network to interconnect its regional transmitter sites. The digital TV switchover is commencing soon in Ireland and RTÉ NL will build and operate a Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) network.

Net Insight's Nimbra platform will distribute TV signals (DVB-T), DAB radio, data and all current analogue and FM radio channels from the national broadcasters, via optical fiber and microwave links, to 10 main transmitter and multiple repeater sites across Ireland. Net Insight also provides contribution feeds for Outside Broadcast Radio injection at each transmitter site and backhaul of locally generated TV services over this new platform to RTE's main broadcasting centre at Donnybrook.

The network will also implement Net Insight's unique Time Transfer feature for GPS-free time synchronization to allow for easy migration to an SFN (Single Frequency Network) architecture. The whole network will be managed through Net Insight's Nimbra Vision management platform and offers the additional security of "disaster recovery" systems at two remote locations controlled through Nimbra Vision providing fast restoration of RTÉNL's broadcast services.

The order will be delivered in the second quarter and was received in cooperation with the Irish systems integrator EMR.

"We are proud that our Nimbra platform once again has been selected for a national DTT network", says Fredrik Trägårdh, CEO of Net Insight. "It is a highly efficient multiservice transport solution that provides strong and unique benefits for network operators and their customers."

Net Insight AB (Stockholm: NETI-B)