Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast will 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 delivery of digital video content to operators for transmission to devices supporting the DVB-H mobile TV standard. Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast will combine their respective technologies, infrastructure and content delivery services to provide operators around the region with an advanced DVB-H head-end. This hosted service will be jointly operated by Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast and 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 joint service includes 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 large number of TV channels.

Source:Telecompaper