On own digital platforms, Telespazio manages more than 100 television, radio and multimedia signals which are received at its teleports from contribution satellites and terrestrial links or directly originated from local playout systems.

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TELESPAZIO HAS BEEN
PROVIDING SATELLITE
BROADCASTING SERVICES
SINCE 1960, OFFERING TO
INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTERS A WIDE
RANGE OF TAILOR-MADE
SOLUTIONS FOR DIRECT TO
HOME AND DISTRIBUTION
SERVICES.
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Communication 03/2013
On own digital platforms, Telespazio
manages more than 100 television, radio
and multimedia signals which are received
at its teleports from contribution satellites
and terrestrial links or directly originated
from local playout systems. Telespazio
provides broadcasting services over
Central/Eastern Europe and MENA Countries
(Eutelsat Hot Bird 13° East) as well as over
North, South America Africa and Asia.
In addition to services provided on own
digital platforms, Telespazio is currently
up-linking more than 350 television
channels for Italian broadcasters.

2. TV & RADIO BROADCASTING AND IP TV
DIGITAL PLATFORM SERVICES - HIGHLIGHTS
DIGITAL PLATFORM SERVICES – DVB-S AND DVB-S2
Telespazio currently operates six most advanced MCPC Digital Platforms on Hot Bird 13C
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Encoding (MPEG-2 and MPEG 4)
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Uplink on the MCPC platforms (DVB-S and DVB-S2)
and 13D from the Fucino Earth Station in Italy, transmitting about 100 TV, Radio and IP
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Real-time live transcoding for radio stations
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Space capacity
over DVB services.
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Interconnection via fiber with broadcasters
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Management and Hosting of play-out systems
Transmissions are performed either at Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and Variable Bit Rate
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Turnaround Services
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24/7 Monitoring and Control
(VBR), Free-To-Air (FTA) or with different Conditional Access Systems (CAS).
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Encryption and Conditional Access
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24/7 Measure and Monitoring of Digital Platforms BER and
Channels are transmitted either at Standard and High Definition.
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Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
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Multiplexing
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Customer support
C/N for the detection or interferences
Telespazio follows the evolution of technology with the aim of guaranteeing to its customer
base new cost effective solutions.
To this end a new DVB-S2 Eutelsat Hot Bird 13 East Digital Platform has been launched on
September 1st 2013, offering the possibility to deliver on the most viewed European orbital
position, HD and SD channels at extremely low rates per Mbit/s.
The company, is able to better respond to programs distribution requirements over specific
geographical regions such as Europe, MENA, North and South America, Africa and Asia.
TURN-KEY SERVICES
TELEPORT SERVICES
Telespazio provides customers with the
Telespazio provides broadcast teleport
design, installation, operation and
services through its main Earth Stations,
maintenance of the transmitting systems.
Fucino in central Italy (visibility 57°W–
Telespazio designs, installs, and manages
83°E) and Lario in the North (visibility
systems and provides remote monitoring
45°W–65°E).
through its National Television Control
Their favorable geographical positions, in
Centre in Lario E/S.
respect to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Most of the TV uplink stations are
Regions, allows the teleports to operate at
transmitting to Hot Bird satellites for DTH
favourable elevation angle with the main
television bouquets, others are used for
satellites in the two areas. Thanks to fast
contribution and distribution.
and reliable fiber optics connectivity with
Uplink systems located at Customer
major domestic and international Telco
premises are complemented with a full back
operators, Telespazio provides European
up service, provided by means of a
and Transcontinental C and Ku band
dedicated uplink station located at
services covering all possible customer
Telespazio’s Teleports.
requirements - on an occasional or
For broadcasters requiring very high
permanent basis - such as Digital Platform
reliability, Telespazio developed and
services, uplink backup services and
implemented the innovative XBM
turnaround services.
(Transponder Backup Manager).
Telespazio provides – through more than
XBM provides automatic traffic switch
100 dedicated antennas - European and
between two uplinks locations, in site
Transcontinental L, C, Ku, K and Ka Band
diversity, in case of bad weather conditions
uplink, downlink and turnaround services,
or during disaster recovery operations.
including encryption, compression and
television standard conversion.
Fucino Space Centre
Lario Space Centre