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Harris Equips Transmission Facility for New Arabsat Services |
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 11, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has announced that it has fulfilled a significant order for a range of Harris broadcast equipment for Jordan Media City Co. (JMC) in Amman, Jordan. The equipment is being used to support a new multichannel playout facility dedicated to the Arab Satellite Communications Organisation (Arabsat), the satellite services company in the Middle East.
Harris said the order included nine NEXIO server platforms, an Integrator(R) Gold wideband digital multi-rate router, an Inscriber(R) G3(TM) HD/SD- selectable character generator (CG) system, Videotek(R) TVM-850 test and measurement instruments, NEO(R) SuiteView(TM) modular multiviewer and a range of infrastructure products.
Initially accommodating 16 channels, the new playout facility at JMC went on air September 1, 2006. Harris said JMC will gradually expand the facility to accommodate 32 channels.
The new playout facility provides services to Arabsat to broadcast its programs within the Middle East region. The 16-channel transmission system is based on nine NEXIO server platforms with more than 1000 hours of storage. The NEXIO platforms are split across two domains: the ingest domain is configured as eight record/play ports and eight play ports, while the transmission domain is configured as two record/play and 18 play ports. This configuration offers an effective redundancy solution for the client as the ingest domain provides backup for the transmission domain in the event of a failure.
Harrissaid the playout automation for this multichannel service is based on a Pebble Beach Neptune automation system, and the archive is provided by a Sony PetaSite(TM) S Series tape library. Content is copied between the ingest domain, transmission domain and digital library over a fast Gigabit network.
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