Kratos ISE UK to Provide Satellite Earth Stations and Video Platform to Dialog Television

Satellite Earth system. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

[Via Satellite 03-07-2014] Sri Lanka–based Dialog Television Limited has selected Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary Integral Systems Europe Limited (Kratos ISE UK) to deliver multiple satellite Earth stations and a video platform for integration to Dialog’s transmission facilities in Sri Lanka. The system includes a 10-terminal redundant content-ingest Earth station farm, a play-out automation system, a high-power broadcast uplink including RF equipment with a 13-meter antenna, along with a Network Operations Center (NOC) and Network Management System (NMS) that will be installed at a new disaster recovery site.

Kratos ISE UK will provide a new play-out automation system and serial digital interface (SDI) router upgrade for the primary uplink facility as part of Dialog Television’s MPEG-4 Migration project.