October 9, 2008

SBS Taps Tandberg

Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia's multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster, has selected Tandberg Television's IP-based iSIS 8000 headend architecture for its digital terrestrial television (DTT) network. Tandberg is supplying SD and HDTV encoders, dense multiplexing and embedded SFN (single frequency network) adaptation, all based around a core of IP switching. SBS's digital television services began in January 2001 and currently reach an estimated 96 percent of the Australian population. The new centralized headend is intended to generate DVB-T transport streams for 12 separate regions.