STN PLC

from PRO50 2016

Tek Signals/Qatar Signals Systems

STN is a leading innovative teleport with headquarters in Slovenia, Europe.

STN’s services include remote and managed playout services, turnaround, down/up link in SD/ HD/UHD, channels distribution via all prime satellite orbital positions, TT&C, IPTV & OTT, CAS - encryption and fibre connectivity.

BROADCASTING BEYOND BORDERS

STN PLC provides global broadcast distribution via satellite and media services, with the capabilities to offer multiple solutions, satellites and platforms best-suited and tailored to individual customer requirements.

Since its inception in 2004, STN, the Satellite Telecommunications Network, has significantly grown to become a leader amongst teleports on a global scale - with world-class facilities that elevate industry standards. In addition to its cutting-edge facilities, STN is celebrated for its quality of services that include multiple solutions, satellites and platforms. Its speciality is tailoring services to ideally suit individual customer’s requirements, making it a single state-of-the-art emporium with quality highlighting everything you need. Smart Solutions and Swift Services STN provides a comprehensive, highly proficient range of services covering myriad technical possibilities that are superior to competitors and go far beyond the transport of signals via satellite or fibre. STN offers TV channels, radio broadcasters and content producers a high quality, cost-effective outsource for all or part of their playout and transmission requirements. The foundation of STN’s operation is based on reliable and uninterrupted services which are provided through several levels of redundancy ranging from power supply to end-transmission chains.

STN is a well-established and trusted partner to all major satellite owners around the world, a provider that offers its services around the globe with satellite capacity on all prime and most popular orbital positions to cover Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America and South America.

Trusted, Qualified and Technically Prepared STN’s range of expertise is diverse, enabling the company to facilitate single channel start-ups as well as transmit multiple top-tier direct-to-home satellite platforms while serving everything in between. Through professionalism and vast industry knowledge, STN has earned a reputation that is punctuated by reliability, trustworthiness, high quality and an unrivalled turnaround time. It is a trusted partner of choice to over 600 TV and 300 radio channels to date.

STN HQ, Slovenia.

Future-focussed and Ready for an Evolving Digital World To keep ahead of the expanding market, STN has developed strong work ethics to equip itself with the latest technology and spare capacity on a rolling basis, in order to handle the demand for the increasing number of time-dependent projects. STN is able to maximise customer’s possibilities by utilising the most effective technology available in the market. It is STN’s cutting-edge technical infrastructure that affords complete peace of mind as reliable, uninterrupted highquality services are ensured.

STN can receive a signal in a variety of standards including NTSC, PAL or SECAM, HDTV formats in 1080p59.94, 1080p50, 1080i59.94, 1080i50, 720p59.94 or 720p50 and 4K UHD (2160p) and convert it to any other standard using state-of-theart motion compensated cross converters, encoders and transcoders.

For playout customers, STN uses threetier playout options (Bronze, Silver and Gold) all of which are industry established SD/HD/UHD channel playout systems with advanced graphics capabilities, each with a unique capability to tailor customers’ specific needs.

STN’s compression headend system is based on the latest series of SD/HD MPEG-2, SD/HD MPEG-4 AVC encoders and the new h.265 (HEVC) encoders that can be used to compress SD/HD or UHD signals; all of which utilise advanced preprocessing algorithms and multiplexing to further increase bitrate efficiencies and picture quality improvements. The headend system is designed to provide world-class performance, optimise bitrate/picture ratios and be completely flexible. With STN there are no restrictions: 10-bit, 4:2:2, JPEG 2000 or 3DTV, 4K UHD are all available today.

STN has implemented the new generation of system multiplexers. These robust devices combined with powerful stream processing constitutes the heart of

STN’s unique global footprint provides customers with simple, reliable access to diverse multi-platform distribution, which allows channels to grow in whatever direction you choose.

STN Equipment/Data Centre.

STN not only has its PoPs in all major data centres in Europe, but is also connected with fibre networks spanning worldwide.

the company’s MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC SD, HD and UHD based broadcast systems. STN takes great pride in the fact that each transmission chain is protected by spare/redundant units to ensure error-free no-single-point-of-failure operation.

Modernised Data Centre STN PLC has recently invested in a major internet and L2 PoP’s infrastructure upgrade. The upgrade includes investment into the new ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, ASA 5585-X models with FirePOWER services which includes a Security Services Processor (SSP) for maximum protection against any potential threats on internet lines. At the same time it has upgraded and increased its international traffic capabilities on various PoPs around the world (while simultaneously increasing its diverse path/dual ISP provider public internet line by 1000% from 1Gbps redundant connection to 10Gbps fully redundant public internet line).

The new data centre switches are now based on Nexus series of switches and Catalyst 6500 series switches. All these devices operate in full active/active redundancy mode enabling maximum resiliency without single point of failure.

This modernisation will enable STN to give better quality and meet the increasing demand to migrate contribution path from traditional satellite to the more cost-effective fibre/IP contribution. Over the last couple of years STN has seen a huge rise in the amount of clients who are investing in the products/services for fibre /IP delivery systems. This migration into the ‘terrestrial/cable’ contribution will on a long term save content providers/TV stations a great deal of money.

STN has also concluded this phase with a move to purely IP-based infrastructure eliminating and bypassing the need for costly (3/6/12HD)-SDI routers and ASI switches. The new IP-based infrastructure will provide the company with flexible robust solutions while retaining maximum possible quality both for SD/HD/UHD formats as well as for MPEG-2/MPEG4 AVC/HEVC video codecs. The core of the headend consists of the Nexus family of data centre switches offering capabilities of the comprehensive NX-OS feature set. The switches are renowned for their high scalability and unparalleled performance and are designed to meet the scaling demands of traditional and cloud deployments. With the throughput of a staggering 2.56 Tbps (Layer 2 and 3 hardware based) and 96 10GE ports and 8 true 40GE QSFP ports, these behemoths now stand and serve the core of STN’s new advanced headend based on a multiplatform headend architecture.

The new IP-based infrastructure is not only up to the latest technological standard but also enables STN to offer higher reliability and flexibility to its customers, and all at a competitive price to the elimination of costly routing and switching equipment.

Satellite point-to-point IP backbone and IP Trunking networks provide local networks with access to the internet (or any other type of network) from a remote access point to regions that have no access to fibre or undersea cable infrastructure.

With STN’s implementation of the latest technical solutions, clients are provided with highly reliable, robust, costeffective solutions that will help maintain their competitiveness while retaining profitability. Efficiency and reliability are at the core of STN’s IP trunking services ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction. It is broadcasting distribution, beyond borders, beyond expectations.

CONTACT

STN Kidričeva Ulica 22 1233 DobSlovenia Tel: +386 1 527 24 40 Website: www.stn.eu