[SatNews] Newtec announced its Broadcast Satellite Modulator technology was selected and incorporated into the 2wcom standard satellite audio transmission solution, that has already helped German professional broadcast systems experts 2wcom GmbH win a major order with Poland’s most popular radio station, the RMF FM Group. Newtec’s broadcast satellite equipment ability to deliver major savings in satellite bandwidth with no loss of audio quality, plus its high reliability and flexibility and the future proof design, combining video and IP technologies were all significant factors in supporting 2wcom.

The AZ110 Broadcast Satellite Modulator is part of Newtec’s Azimuth product family, which includes a wide range of DVB-S and DVB-S2 modulators, demodulators and modems for broadcast (contribution, distribution and DSNG), telco and Wide Area Networks applications, as well as generic satellite communications equipment such as frequency converters, redundancy switches and data converters. RMF FM was the first, and is today the most popular, commercial radio station in Poland, having just celebrated its tenth anniversary and the station averages an audience of ten million Poles each day.