Optibase chosen by Spain’s Antena 3

Optibase have announced the deployment of their encoding and streaming platforms by Antena 3, one of Spain’s largest broadcasting companies, for the distribution of news throughout Spain and correspondent offices worldwide.
Antena 3’s dozens of offices are all connected by a Native ATM network, which is available at all times, creating an open link between regional offices and headquarters. The offices are equipped with Optibase MPEG MovieMaker encoding boards and MPEG ComMotion streaming software, which transmit broadcast quality video over the ATM network to a News Operation Centre at Antena 3’s headquarters in Madrid. The transmission systems are PC based, compact and easy to use.
Each office handles two types of footage: footage that is encoded into MPEG-2 format and stored for later transmission and footage that is encoded and transmitted live to headquarters. At the receiving end, Optibase’s VideoPlex XPress and ComMotion Receiver decode the MPEG-2 video stream and maintain its high quality.
By utilising Optibase’s streaming technology over its IP/ATM network, Antena 3 benefit from cost savings, top quality video and flexibility.
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