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TDF Launches Africabox's
OTT Programme Offering
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fricabox network now offers all
their programmes on the web,
smartphones and tablets, live or on
demand, using a comprehensive
integrated solution by TDF Media
Services.
As an independent group,
Africabox offers thematic payTV channels dedicated to the
culture of sub-Saharan Africa. It
was introduced on IPTV networks
in 2009 with the pay TV music
channel Africabox TV, available
from major cable providers, and
has recently launched Africabox
Series, a second channel devoted
to cinema and fiction.
Africabox is now partnering up
with TDF Media Services to make
all its contents available as an
over-the-top offering, making it
easier for viewers to access both
its channels and providing them

with more services, including live
or on-demand programmes.
TDF Media Services (CognacqJay Image, Qbrick, and SmartJog)
have developed a fully integrated
solution to meet all their
customers' needs.
As a result, Africabox subscribers
will have unlimited access to
Africabox TV and Africabox Series,
either live or on-demand, 24/7.
Subscribers will be able to view
both channels at the same time,
and to rewind up to three hours
after the beginning of a programme.
"Our comprehensive offer, which
includes content acquisition
for both channels, transcoding,
catalogue management, and
content delivery network (CDN),
allowed us to offer Africabox
as a turnkey solution", said
Michael Da-Silva, Business

Development Manager.
The new service gives
subscribers unlimited access to
the two channels' contents using
either a Windows or Mac interface,
smartphones and tablets.

Astrium To Build New Satellite For DIRECTV
strium, Europe's leading space
technology company, has
been awarded a contract by US
company DIRECTV Latin America
to build the latest addition to its
communications satellite ﬂeet.
The satellite will be based on
Astrium's highly reliable Eurostar
E3000 platform and will be placed
in orbit at the start of 2016.
It will provide broadcasting
services through up to 60 Ku-band
transponders to Brazil, ensuring
continuity of legacy services
countrywide, while at the same
time expanding into new services
such as HDTV.
To do so, it will be capable of
providing overall coverage across
Brazil, as well as regional television

channels through 20 spot beams.
Eric Beranger, CEO of Astrium
Satellites, said: "This order is great
news - and proves that our ﬂagship
Eurostar E3000 platform with more
than 480 years of operation in
orbit, is not only one of the most
reliable in the world, but still in

FRA: Broadpeak unveiled a
second application for its awardwinning nanoCDN technology.
The nanoCDN technology
implements a series of applications
to dramatically reduce operator
i n f r a s t r u c t u re i n v e s t m e n t s .
This enables operators to deliver
high-quality video services more
efﬁciently to end users by leveraging
home network equipment - such as
broadband gateways - and make
them part of the On-Net CDN.
The application supports
transparent caching so that
operators can efﬁciently handle the
growing volume of unmanaged video
content on their backbones.

ADB Unveils
CloudHDS

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Broadpeak's
nanoCDN App

demand and meeting the needs of
our customers."
"DIRECTV is looking forward to
extending its strong relationship
with Astrium for the development
of its critical high power broadcast
satellites," said Phil Goswitz,
Senior Vice President, Space and
Communications for DIRECTV.
"The new satellite will allow us to
continue to take advantage of
the tremendous opportunity for
growth in Brazil."
The satellite will be a Eurostar
E3000 satellite with a launch mass
of 6,300kg and electrical power
exceeding 16kW.
It is designed to have a nominal
orbit lifetime of over 15 years.

SUI: Advanced Digital Broadcast
(ADB) has unveiled CloudHDS, a
cloud-based, multi-screen system.
ADB say that CloudHDS enables
existing and new entrants to the
fast-growing OTT space to deliver
OTT content to connected devices
and selected STBs from the
cloud, using the HTML5 standard.
CloudHDS uses the principle
of "write once, use anywhere" to
ensure a consistent navigation and
user experience across SmartTVs,
PCs, tablets, smartphones, and
suitable STBs.

Live Basketball
Global Streaming
GBR: Perform has partnered with
FIBA, the International Basketball
Federation, its FIBA Zones and
Euroleague Basketball, to provide
live streaming for global basketball.
Livebasketball.TV has been
launched as the online home of
world basketball, uniting the former
FIBA/FIBA Zone and Euroleague.
TV platforms.

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