Globecomm announced April 26 an expansion of its Broadcast Lab, a test facility for leading-edge video applications established in 2001, to integrate test capabilities for the many technologies involved in the delivery of IPTV.

The expansion of the Broadcast Lab equips Globecomm to conduct research and development, both for customers and for its own products and services, in areas that include MPEG-4, standardizing headend systems, integrating video-on-demand capability into regional headends and adapting advertising insertion systems for operation