Southampton, U.K.-based GlobeCast, a satellite services company, has chosen Tandberg Television as its broadcast equipment provider of choice for this summer’s Olympic games in Athens.

Tandberg, a provider of open solutions for digital broadcasting and broadband, will deploy multiplexers, MPEG-2 encoders, modulators and network adapters. The equipment will be at the heart of GlobeCast’s compression and satellite/fiber distribution services for the duration of the games.

GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, operates a global network of satellite distribution platforms for broadcast and advanced content delivery.