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Singapore, June 20, 2008 – Today at the CommunicAsia 2008 and
BroadcastAsia 2008 trade shows, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
and SpeedCast Limited announced plans to jointly market, deploy and operate a
shared, hosted DVB-H platform for mobile TV operators in Asia. The objective of
the collaboration is to enable the seamless delivery of digital video content
to operators for transmission to devices supporting the DVB-H mobile TV
standard.
Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast will leverage their respective technologies,
infrastructure and content delivery solutions to provide operators around the
region with a state-of-the art DVB-H head-end. This hosted service, jointly
operated by Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast, will enable mobile TV service
providers to deliver more than 20 TV channels via satellite (in the Ku-band or
in the C-band) to their transmission towers for terrestrial broadcast (in the
UHF band) to DVB-H handheld devices.
This unique turnkey solution combines all the elements required for a
successful mobile TV service including the service platform, a security and
encryption technology, the platform for encoding into a DVB-H compatible
format, the satellite delivery to terrestrial infrastructure and a very large
number of TV channels with world-class content - across the major genres
spanning news, music, sports, lifestyle and entertainment – which can be
customized for different ethnic audiences.
This hosted managed service allows operators to drastically reduce the
capital and operational expenditures associated with mobile TV service, and to
leverage the economies of scale offered by a centralized platform. It also
ensures a much faster time-to-market.
“This hosted mobile TV broadcast offering will help lower the risk to
service providers associated with introducing a new service, while at the same
time giving them the opportunity to provide their customers with attractively
priced services and richer content offerings," said Pierre-Jean Beylier,
Chief Executive Officer of SpeedCast Limited.
"For cost-conscious mobile TV service operators, the key advantage of
adopting a hosted approach is to avoid having to invest in head-end
infrastructure, and therefore be able to concentrate their infrastructure
investment on gradually increasing the density of their DVB-H or DVB-SH
terrestrial transmission networks," said Frederic Rose, Alcatel-Lucent’s
President of activities in the Europe, Africa and Asia region. “By teaming-up
with SpeedCast, Alcatel-Lucent is committed to allowing traditional as well as
green-field operators accelerate their mobile TV delivery anywhere in
Asia.”
Visit SpeedCast at CommunicAsia 2008(June 17 to 20, 2008
at Singapore Expo - Hall 6, booth 6K2-01).
About SpeedCast
SpeedCast is a leading satellite service provider operating in over 35
countries in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. SpeedCast's powerful
satellite IP-based platform delivers: - SpeedCast Broadband: High speed
Internet connectivity for enterprises and service providers; - SpeedCast
Private Network: Satellite network infrastructure and managed solutions; -
SpeedCast Multimedia: Premium bouquet of over 30 world-class channels for
broadband and mobile operators; - SpeedCast Broadcast: Global content delivery
solutions to ensure high-quality distribution of enterprise and media content.
Operating on many different satellites in both C-band and Ku-band, and
partnering with Tier 1 carriers for fiber requirements, SpeedCast and its 80
partners worldwide provide first-class services and 24/7 technical support. For
more information please visit our website  www.speedcast.com
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