[SatNews] Intelsat S.A. is providing global transmission services of the World Cup in South Africa. Intelsat will use its terrestrial platform, IntelsatONE(sm), to complement the distribution capabilities of its fleet.

As the matches start this week, nine Intelsat satellites will provide more than 900MHz of capacity specifically for Occasional Use Services to transmit the World Cup matches. The satellites include: Intelsat 907, located at 332.5 degrees East; Intelsat 11, located at 317 degrees East; Intelsat 12, located at 45 degrees East; Intelsat 10 located at 68.5 degrees East; Intelsat 702 located at 66 degrees East; Intelsat 904 located at 60 degrees East; and the Intelsat 10-02 located at 1 degree West. In addition, Intelsat relocated its Intelsat 709 and Intelsat 705 satellites to 55 degrees East and 330.5 degrees East, respectively, specifically to meet the capacity demand for broadcast services of the event.

In addition to offering satellite capacity, Intelsat's special events team is on-site to provide services for rights-holding and non-rights-holding broadcasters. Intelsat Managed Services include platforms for encoding, multiplexing and compression in high definition and standard definition, teleport services and fiber circuits from South Africa to the IntelsatONE network inter-connect in London. In cooperation with its media partners Aberdeen House Sports Management and VCSS, Reuters Global Broadcast Services Partner, Intelsat will provide play out and live shot transmission services from event locations at Soccer City Stadium and Coca-Cola Park Stadium in Johannesburg, Green Point Stadium in Cape Town and Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. Intelsat will deliver World Cup content throughout the duration of the tournament that ends July 11th.