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| Grass Valley Wins Contract for its Cable Video Head ends Solutions Paris, France/Nevada City, Calif., April 14, 2009 – Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC) has selected Grass Valley™ for a major migration to digitalized cable in one of the country’s largest video head end deployments. TBC, a leading Taiwanese cable operator with over 700,000 subscribers, will also increase its service offering and introduce HD video using a range of solutions from Grass Valley. TBC needed to optimize their digital network delivery capacity and offer a greater number of digital channels and services, while further improving picture quality for their customers. Using a range of advanced video head end systems from Grass Valley, TBC will be able to carry more channels on the same number of frequencies, introduce HD channels and even provide digital advertising insertion for local commercials. The first services were deployed in March this year. “We chose Grass Valley for this major migration due to a number of factors including the capability of the Grass Valley team to supply a turnkey system within a challenging time frame and also the efficiency and reliability of their products,” said Thomas Ee, CEO of TBC. “The ViBE encoders supply the best compression and picture quality on the market for SD and HD. In addition, Grass Valley’s suite of head end solutions will bring a range of advanced features including ad insertion in H264 format, along with full network management and quality of service monitoring”. “This major contract illustrates how Grass Valley replies to the needs of cable operators to maximize bandwidth resources, offer compelling new services such as HD and guarantee best of breed viewing quality“ said Graham Cradock, General Manager of Grass Valley’s Video Head End business unit. |
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