SOURCE http://www.globecast.com/_2004/_0_library/press_releases/pr051703_asia.htm<br /><br />GlobeCast Expands Coverage and Presence in Asia<br /><br /><br />Satellite Leader Selects Telstar 10 As Home For New Channel Distribution Platform Over Asia, Inaugurates Beijing Liaison Office <br /><br />Paris, 17 March 2005 – GlobeCast - the leading global satellite services company - announced today that it has launched a new satellite distribution platform on Telstar 10 to expand its capacity in Asia and has also opened a new liaison office in Beijing to serve the Asian market. <br /><br />GlobeCast’s Telstar 10 platform will enable programmers to target cable head-ends and DTH households with superior signal coverage and power over the entire region. From GlobeCast’s gateway in Singapore, the C-Band platform provides access to 70 million homes across 33 countries from its orbital position at 76.5° East, and offers an established neighborhood of premier programmers, including Animax, Disney, The Hallmark Channel and HBO. <br /><br />GlobeCast’s Singapore gateway serves as the uplink point to the Telstar 10 platform, and is connected by fiber to the company’s 14 other teleports and technical operations centers, thus ensuring one-hop seamless access to the platform from 5 continents. The all-inclusive service available on this platform includes encryption, multiplexing, uplink and space capacity. Playout services are also available. <br /><br />GlobeCast is prepared and eager to meet the rising demands of the Asian marketplace. The company’s new liaison office in Beijing is the fourth bureau for the company in Asia, and reflects China’s role as a key player for international media. GlobeCast Asia, the regional business unit of GlobeCast, is based in Singapore and currently also has liaison offices in New Delhi and Tokyo. <br /><br />The expansion of GlobeCast’s presence in Asia reflects the region’s rapid growth as a global economic force. Asia is home to half the world’s population and currently boasts more than 200 million TV homes and 800 cable and satellite channels; the latter is expected to reach 5,000 by 2012. <br /><br />GlobeCast Asia’s Beijing office is located at the Raycom Info Tech Park in the Haidian District, Beijing.<br /> <br /> <small>[ 24. March 2005, 03:22 PM: Message edited by: -.Lazer.- ]</small>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by -.Lazer.-:<br /><strong> ...Asia is home to half the world’s population and currently boasts more than 200 million TV homes and 800 cable and satellite channels; the latter is expected to reach 5,000 by 2012... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">It looks like we should better start learning Cantonese/Mandarin <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" />

Seems like they are going pretty international.<br /><br />Another release that came through here:-<br /><br />GlobeCast Australia Connects Sydney, Auckland, London, and Los Angeles with IPITEK’s Video Gateway<br /><br />IPITEK’s MSP-110 Video Gateway Transports Digital Video Over GlobeCast’s Worldwide SDH/SONET Network<br /><br />San Diego,– GlobeCast Australia today announced the successful deployment of IPITEK’s MSP-110 video gateway into its global fiber networks. The video platform is now carrying live DVB-ASI traffic over its SDH/SONET network between GlobeCast Australia’s points-of-presence (PoP) in Sydney, Auckland, London, and Los Angeles.<br /><br />`` GlobeCast Australia is defining the new age of content distribution. Our transmission and production services for professional broadcast, enterprise and internet content delivery demand advanced technology solutions,'' said Brad Smith of GlobeCast Australia. ``IPITEK offers a video gateway platform to SDH/SONET networks that meets our needs for quality, simplicity and flexibility at a low cost.''<br /><br />Xin Cheng, President of IPITEK’s Telecom Division, said, ``Our selection by GlobeCast Australia validates the functionality and cost-effectiveness of IPITEK's solutions in carrier-class applications. As a platform designed specifically for service providers, the MSP-110 provides GlobeCast Australia with a powerful solution for global transmission of video services. We are very pleased GlobeCast Australia selected IPITEK to play a key role in their global video and multimedia transmission network.''<br /><br />IPITEK’s MSP-110 is a video gateway that combines bi-directional studio quality video & audio and a DVB-ASI signal directly onto SONET OC-3 and SDH STM-1 transport networks. With this service, international broadcasters can now backhaul their ad-hoc or permanent video feeds to various global locations, or distribute them from a POP to the rest of the world via GlobeCast’s global fiber network. In addition, IPITEK offers the MSP-220, an enhanced product that provides bi-directional studio quality video and audio, HDTV SDI, DVB-ASI, and fast Ethernet onto SONET OC-12 and SDH STM-4 transport networks. Both the MSP-110 and MSP-220 can also be used in point-to-point private networks.<br /><br />GlobeCast Australia (www.globecastaustralia.com) is the leading provider of DTH (Direct-to-home) Services throughout Australia and New Zealand, offering international satellite, fibre connectivity and SNG (Satellite News Gathering) Services across the Australasian region.<br /><br />GlobeCast Australia provides tailored end-to-end full-time DTH Services for Specialist Broadcasters operating either Pay or Free-to-Air television services across a number of satellite platforms which deliver direct to the Australian and New Zealand home satellite markets