South America
By Staff Writer | June 1, 2013
Elara Comunicaciones Helps Rural Towns In Southeast Mexico Benefit from New Satellite Project
Elara Comunicaciones has begun implementing a large-scale satellite network to bring voice and data service to 2,717 towns in rural southeast Mexico. The network, built on the iDirect Evolution platform, is part of Mexico’s “10K” program, overseen by the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT), to connect thousands of villages in Mexico that lack modern communications infrastructure.
Thomson Video Networks Contribution and Receiver Decoder Solutions Selected by Brazil’s TV Integração
TV Integração, the first Brazilian affiliate of TV Globo, has deployed Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE CP6000 contribution platform and RD5000 MPEG-2/4 receiver decoder to provide video contribution services to more than 5.4 million viewers.
Based in Uberlândia in Minas Gerais state, TV Integração serves viewers living in more than 230 cities.