JSAT expands distribution capacity with Snell & Wilcox

JSAT, the largest satellite operator in Asia, has expanded its video distribution capacity, supported by a complete set of Snell & Wilcox IQ Modular intelligent infrastructure products for conversion, processing, distribution, and encoding.
JSAT has also acquired a Snell & Wilcox RollCall control and monitoring solution for the system.
Koichi Sonoda, Manager of JSAT's System Engineering Division, said: "In line with our customers' needs, we have increased the number of channels we can handle. As we did so, we needed to ensure that the entire distribution system is seamless, fast, and easy to monitor. We evaluated a number of solutions and found that Snell & Wilcox could provide the best real-time, centralised solution with the best control and monitoring. We can remotely make timely adjustments to individual modules and equipment as well as quickly identify any possible system fault.
"With Snell & Wilcox's system, program content including embedded audio from the satellite or SDI signal undergoes frame synchronisation and is fed to a master switcher for program selection and transmission. Transmitted programs can be monitored when composite video and audio signals received from the satellite downlink are converted to SDI and fed to multi-viewing equipment."
Mark Parlett, Managing Director of Snell & Wilcox Asia Pacific Limited, said: "We have provided a system that will ensure reliability at every level of the process. Our IQ Modular systems are designed to bring efficiency to the control room despite ever-increasing numbers of channels."
The IQ Modular range offers a wide choice of modules and enclosures, with customisable control interfaces that are designed to support the broadest array of activities while still maintaining ease of use and control. All essential information about any module - its status, setting, menu structure, configuration details, and PC window - is held on the card itself, for instant access by the central control system. This system integration allows users to configure video, audio, digital, analogue, SD, and HD functions all in the same box that takes up just 16 modules per 3-RU enclosure.
RollCall is a PC-based application that enables remote control functionality, monitoring of status and error condition, and gathering and viewing of error and status information reported from all equipment present on the RollCall network.
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