Satellite Solutions Provider of the Year

2021 ASBU BROADCAST PRO AWARDS SATELLITE SOLUTIONS PROVIDER OF THE YEAR ST ENGINEERING IDIRECT

Delivery of OTT services to remote subscribers presents a major challenge for OTT service providers and telcos. This combined with congested networks means that an alternative delivery medium is highly sought after. Satellite presents the ideal solution to these challenges with its ability to transport high bitrates to the edge, its multicasting performance and smart prepositioning of content at the edge.

OTT Ecosystem – Bidirectional

DVB Demo 2021 Setup.

ST Engineering iDirect, together with their collaboration partners, Broadpeak, EKT and EasyBroadcast, introduced SKYflow, a native IP over satellite ecosystem that offers cost-effective, ultra-fast, low latency delivery of live video to mobile devices and large screens for global audiences.

The new ecosystem has far-reaching implications as it means that content delivery will not be limited to media and entertainment but will also enable educational institutions to reach their students, healthcare providers to offer telemedicine services, mobility markets to deliver video on the move and distribution of video to the consumer and households that may not have a computer but do have a television.

Utilising a VSAT platform, SKYflow enables efficient satellite distribution to a range of terminals which can be transmit-only (via a set top box) all the way to very performant high bandwidth and bi-directionally connected remote Points of Presence.

This opens the door to OTT business models for existing video service providers. For newer entrants to the video delivery business such as telcos or ISPs, it provides a standardised way for efficient delivery of video over broadband networks.

Contact

ST Engineering iDirect 13861 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300

Herndon, VA 20171, USA

Tajani Bouqentar, GM MEA, ST Engineering iDirect, with the award.