Newtec, ASBU, Arabsat Receive IBC Innovation Award for MENOS

Newtec and its partners, the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) and Arabsat, won the 2009 IBC innovation award for content delivery as well as the Judges’ Prize for most influential project of the year for the Multimedia Exchange Network Over Satellite (MENOS) IP networking concept.

MENOS, a full IP satellite-based service, supports transmission applications such DSNG contribution uplinks to studios, primary distributions from studios to headends, international radio and TV exchange between studios, and archiving video and audio content. MENOS debuted at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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