We're Earth's home field advantage

Intelsat's Occasional Broadcast Services are designed to meet your global occasional and short-term video feeds and grow your market. We specialize in providing programmers and news agencies with a full range of services, including satellite news gathering (SNG), special event and part-time recurring services. We offer convenient, affordable and reliable, on demand services to meet your traffic requirements from anywhere in the world. All without worrying about encoding, decoding, standards conversion or switching.

Applications

• Satellite News Gathering
• Studio-to-Studio Broadcast
• Events (HDTV transmission now available)
• Sports & Entertainment Broadcast
• Part-Time Contribution links
• Post-Production Transfer
• Video Streaming & Tape Playouts

Benefits

• On-site dedicated special event team with full range of services, from simple videotape play-out to a complex production center complete with editing and live camera services.
• Direct access to hundreds of event venues, customer premises and HD programmers.
• The benefit of the largest fleet on the planet combined with the most advanced, integrated fiber optic and ground network on the planet (GXS Media).
• Cable programmers, broadcasters, and media companies can access our network through any of 50+ video switching facilities and teleports around the world.
• Content is managed on the our network from the origination to the destination using the most efficient and reliable transport; satellite, fiber or a combination of both.
• Ability to transport end-to-end in first generation
• Full support of HD transmissions within the network and from the event venue using a pool of Intelsat-owned and coordinated encoders
• Equipment redundancies in place across encoders, muxes, and switches … and, everything is 5th generation, state-of-the-art MPEG-2 across the network PoPs.
• Accept hand-off of content in either analog or digital formats (TV1, DS3, SDI, OC3, IC12, GigE, Dark Fiber, ATM and IP)
• Dedicated, 24/7 single point of contact customer support and service at the international Video Operations Center (VOC) where all booking, billing, provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and inquiries are managed.