Products by Telecast Fiber Systems

Telecast has released a Fiber Optics in ENG and SNG White Paper that is a guide to applications, systems integration and field deployments. We developed this guide to assist non-engineering broadcast ...Read More

Telecast has released a Fiber Optics in ENG and SNG White Paper that is a guide to applications, systems integration and field deployments. We developed this guide to assist non-engineering broadcast professionals in making critical decisions during the transition to 100% HDTV programming.

Not since the transition to color nearly a half century ago has the television broadcast infrastructure experienced such a dramatic shift in technology. Because of the vastly increased bandwidth requirements of HDTV signals, fiber optic technology is certain to play an expanding role in program production at all levels – ENG and SNG included.

intoPIX has published a JPEG 2000 white paper in this year IABM Sourcebook. Today, the broadcast industry is increasly turning its attention towards JPEG2000. In recognition, the JPEG committee is ...Read More

intoPIX has published a JPEG 2000 white paper in this year IABM Sourcebook. Today, the broadcast industry is increasly turning its attention towards JPEG2000. In recognition, the JPEG committee is currently finalizing the standardization of a new profile specifically dedicated to broadcast applications. This should be no surprise as already the JPEG 2000 compression format guarantees the highest image and video quality while also offering many other properties that are particularly useful to the industry.

As digital broadband technologies continue to evolve, the market for delivery digital television programming to the subscriber is becoming increasingly competitive. A digital TV customer may choose ...Read More

As digital broadband technologies continue to evolve, the market for delivery digital television programming to the subscriber is becoming increasingly competitive. A digital TV customer may choose among a number of service providers, including cable, telco or satellite companies.

In order to remain competitive, providers of digital TV services need to achieve high customer satisfaction to help them to gain new customers and to minimize subscriber churn. The increased competition also makes it imperative to control costs, including customer support and repair services to deal with impaired signal delivery.

The key to maximizing customer satisfaction and controlling support costs is to build a highly
reliable end-to-end infrastructure with a 99.999% reliability goal.
In order to achieve end-to-end availability of 99.999%, each type of element on the end-to-end path between the signal source and the subscriber needs to be available more than 99.999% of the time.