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Arabsat, ASBU & Newtec Sign Partnership for "MENOS" Project |
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AMSTERDAM, September 12, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — Arab Satellite Telecommunications Organization (Arabsat), the satellite operator in the Middle East, Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), and Newtec have announced a major partnership for the progressive deployment of their MENOS project.
The ASBU, which is currently operating a large international radio and television satellite exchange network on the Arabsat satellite fleet, has awarded a contract to Newtec for the supply and installation of a revolutionary broadband IP-based satellite network for the exchange of multimedia services to be operated on Arabsat's soon-to-be launched new BADR-4 satellite.
Newtec said the "Multimedia Exchange Network Over Satellite" system that will be proposed to ASBU members and Arabsat customers as a result of this partnership is expected to open new horizons for satellite-based content exchange throughout the Arab world --and beyond, by providing our region with a truly ground-breaking project at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies.
Arabsat said MENOS will be the largest and fastest ever feed and file exchange network for Broadcasters and Corporates, encompassing the entire Middle-East/North-Africa (MENA) and Europe.
Combining the power and flexibility of IP-based communications with the most advanced satellite transmission and data compression technologies, Newtec said the MENOS system fully exploits the bandwidth efficiency of the DVB-RCS, DVB-S2 and MPEG-4 standards. It's been developed by Newtec specifically to match the particular requirements of the ASBU members for media files exchange within the MENA region.
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