BT, Intelsat Uncover Way Deliver For Heavenly Body Operators

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Mar 21, 2011 1:41 PM, By Philip Hunter

The preference by fixed-satellite service firm Intelsat and UK telco BT to interconnect their particular fiber-based services could indicate the way deliver for other heavenly body and terrestrial operators. The two operators voiced Mar 15 that Intelsat's IntelsatONE terrestrial network will be related to BT's Global Media Network (GMN), primarily in New York and London. Both networks run often over fiber, amalgamated with a few heavenly body links, and both are driven by MPLS, that has turn the many renouned protocol for enabling IP-based parcel networks to encouragement various types of traffic with varying final for bit rate and delay. MPLS enables the origination of proxy prearranged paths opposite multi-part IP nodes by the use of labels to spot the route.

BT's GMN has points-of-presence (POPs) and gateways in more than 20 cities worldwide. Having access to the will capacitate Intelsat to expand the attain of IntelsatONE to media customers working in new locations in Europe, Africa and Asia, by BT's PoPs in Rome, Paris, Lagos, Johannesburg, Sydney, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Mumbai.

At the same time, the grouping will enables BT to take value of IntelsatONE gateways in North America and increase Intelsat teleport and heavenly body offerings to its GMN solutions. The theory is that the joint network will mix the descend bandwidth cost and aloft ability of essential element on the ground, with the ability of satellites to attain remote locations and offer mobile applications. The amalgamated gift is being pitched at leading broadcasters, rights owners and media distributors as a seamless answer for universal video distribution. Full-time customers will be able to rise their own point-to-point and point-to-multipoint in isolation networks incorporating nodes on the BT and Intelsat essential element networks for grant applications. They will moreover have access to Intelsat's portfolio of teleport hosting and MCPC solutions from BT's universal GMN essential element locations.

The amalgamated network is moreover being offered to infrequent users or for special events, with access to the BT Tower video switch in London, and future skeleton are to backhaul feeds from BT's GMN essential element nodes. This may be amalgamated with access to dedicated ability on Intelsat's universal heavenly body navy for both SD and HD applications.