GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, announced it has been selected to manage content ingestion to support the delivery of live television for MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband television and music services,

From its digital broadcast center and teleport in Los Angeles, the Company’s IP broadcasting hub in the U.S., GlobeCast is furnishing 24/7 content management, including channel ingest via satellite, signal encoding, monitoring and connectivity of live channels for delivery into MobiTV’s proprietary technology platform(s) across the Americas.

“By centralizing our channel ingestion, MobiTV is now able to easily ingest and move channels on a global scale across GlobeCast’s worldwide network of teleports, satellite capacities and a global fiber ring,” said Kay Johansson, CTO for MobiTV. “Not only do we have more flexibility to scale internationally, we have a solution in place that protects our proprietary technology while keeping our partners’ content secure.”

GlobeCast (www.globecast.com) - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is a global content management and delivery company. Via its worldwide satellite and fibre network, the company manages and transports 10 million hours of video and other rich media yearly for its core customer base of broadcasters, as well as corporate, government and retail clients. The company's global presence includes 15 teleports and technical operations centres throughout Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

Source: MobiTV