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UPSTAR Comunicacoes selects Nevion’s Flashlink for video transport upgrades
Solution provides greater channel capacity, increased redundancy and Gigabit Ethernet services
Sandefjord, Norway, December 10, 2012—Portugal’sUPSTAR Comunicacoes has selected Nevion, a leadingprovider of managed video services for broadcasters, service providers and government entities worldwide, to upgrade theirexisting video transport infrastructure with greater channel capacity, longer distance transport and increased redundancy.
Backed by the technical expertise and sales support of Portugal-based Dec.Imagem, Nevion engineered a solution for UPSTAR Comunicacoes—a joint venture between Portuguese media group ZON Multimedia and Angolan satellite TV group SOCIP—thatupgrades their network to specific requirements cost effectively and with industry-recognised reliability.
“Nevion was able to look closely at our needs and design a streamlined system that offered all the expanded services we needed while working within our current infrastructure and minimising the hardware required,” said Luis Henriques, technical director at UPSTAR.“It’s a system that can grow as we do and allow even greater future expansion.”
Nevion, which has worked with the media provider for several years, provided amulti-product solution based on the Flashlink optical transport family, providing increased channel capacity without adding electrical-to-optical conversion or wavelengths. The solution includes multiple 3G time division multiplexers/demultiplexers, enabling additional signal contribution through DWDM infrastructure, as well as a redundant fibre link for signal transport in excess of 150km.
“We’re continually gratified by our work with UPSTAR,” said Kjetil Bonde, Nevion’s vice president of sales, Europe.“They’re an outstanding example of a company using the latest technology to upgrade their video transport system in ways that provide the most value and scalability.”
About UPSTAR
Upstar plays the key role in the satellite uplink of several TV channels for sub-Saharan Africa subscribers of the ZAP Pay-TV packages. The signals are acquired through satellite and fibre optic feeds at Upstar's head-end, where cutting-edge equipment is used for reception, compression, encryption, modulation, uplink and monitoring.
About ZAP
ZAP is currently the fastest-growing pay-TV operator in Angola, focused on delivering the richest content, the broadest HD selection and the best image quality through its state-of-the-art HDTV decoders. ZAP's satellite footprint encompasses the sub-Saharan countries ranging from South Africa to as far north as Angola, Zambia and Tanzania, covering a Portuguese-speaking population of over 40 million. For more information, please visit
About Nevion
Moving beyond video transport to fully managed and controlled video services, Nevion manufactures award-winning systems for broadcasters, service providers and government agencies worldwide. Highly modular solutions encompass IP and optical transport, state-of-the-art compression and routing for any video format over any network infrastructure—within buildings or across continents. With the industry’s greenest and most scalable products, Nevion preserves quality while delivering video from content acquisition through distribution. By creating new service-offering opportunities or minimizing costs, Nevion enables its customers to move, manage and monetize video content. World headquarters in Sandefjord, Norway, with U.S. headquarters in Oxnard, California; Nevion also maintains offices in Oslo, Chicago, London, Dubai, Beijing and Singapore.
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