China’s Hebei Broadcasting Bureau Taps Scopus Systems for DTV

TEL AVIV, Feb. 1/Satnews Daily/ — Scopus Network Technologies said on Monday Hebei Broadcasting Bureau, Hebei Province’s government broadcaster, has launched a Digital TV platform based on Scopus solutions for its digital microwave network. The system, in the province adjacent to Beijing, represents China’s first provincial digitized SDH microwave network system.

Operating since October 2004, Hebei’s DTV platform transmits six video and four audio channels over the network from the central microwave station in Hebei’s capital city, Shijiazhuang. The transmission reaches 26 remote sites throughout the whole province and enables content contribution of ten additional channels from 10 prefecture-level microwave stations. The new system enhances Hebei Broadcasting Bureau’s abilities to further diversify its programming while at the same time improving its microwave network usability and control.

Scopus said its complete platform for Hebei Broadcasting Bureau includes digital broadcast headend, remote digital receiving decoding and contribution systems. Integrated together, the platform comprises CODICO® E-1000 Encoders, IRD-2600 & IRD-2800 Professional Decoders, RTM-3300 & RTM-3800 Multiplexers and a state-of-the-art Network Management System based on Scopus’ NMS-4000. The headends have built-in redundancy to ensure system stability required by microwave transmissions and broadcast.

At the system's launching, testing and accepting ceremony, SARFT (State Administration of Radio Film and Television) officials praised the project’s construction speed and quality. They said this is the first time a digital microwave project has passed smoothly from design to construction, testing and acceptance for the radio, film and television industry in China. 

Scopus worked in Hebei with its authorized system integrator in China, Smart Network Solutions (International) Ltd. (SNS).

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