IDC Provides Radio Television Unida in Ecuador with DVB/IP Radio Network

OTTAWA, Feb. 23, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) said on Wednesday that its customer, Radio y Television Unida (RTU) in Ecuador, has launched a new radio network using IDC's SuperFlex satellite datacasting system.

Last year IDC provided RTU with its initial MPEG4 television network, which reaches cities across the country-even a remote station in the Galapagos Islands.

IDC said initially, its DVB/IP SuperFlex broadband multimedia datacasting system was selected to provide a low-cost, highly flexible infrastructure for this new TV network. This SuperFlex implementation uses MPEG4, a digital encoding standard that allows broadcasters to dramatically reduce satellite bandwidth usage (bandwidth is typically the largest recurring operating cost for any network.) The savings in bandwidth enabled RTU to add a radio network.

Another important factor in RTU's selection of SuperFlex, according to IDC, was the inclusion of the company’s Datacast XD Content Management and Distribution system enabling custom distribution of content for regionalized advertising as well as back up content in case of a signal interruption.

The recent expansion of RTU's network to radio broadcasting was made possible by the scalable architecture of SuperFlex, which provides the ability to add high quality professional audio without a significant additional investment in core infrastructure.

IDC president and CEO Ron Clifton said the RTU network is an excellent example of the powerful multimedia capabilities of IDC’s flagship SuperFlex products. “There is a growing market for innovative, cost-effective alternatives to traditional audio and video broadcasting technology and IDC is in the thick of it,” he said.

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