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10 Yearsof Innovationand Efficiency! > p 3

New office in Singapore> p 12

Towards “GreenTransmitting”> p 6

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10 Years of Innovation and Efficiency! > p 3

The Next Big Battle: BroadBand versus BroadCast? > p 4

The Satellite Battle: Nyquist against Shannon? > p 5

Tornado: DTMB and DVB-T2 > p 7

The COFDM effect: from theory to products > p 8 - 9

Beyond COFDM: Video wireless links > p 10

Corporate News > p 11

International Actions > p12

Newsletter: September 2013 Editor: Serge MalDesign: Phidéel - RennesPhotos: TeamCast, Via Storia, Libor

EDITO2013-2015: Challenges ahead!

Is Linear TV dead? – this is like overhearing some bad language - and are we on the verge of a major evolution?

Admittedly, the development of Internet usage and the decisions of the ITU certainly affect the deployment of digital terrestrial TV broadcasting around the world; and in particular we note the mobile phone services that eat away at spectral resources previously reserved for broadcast networks - in fact, one might wonder about the sustainability of some players in this area ...

Aware of the context, TeamCast has reinforced its international position and is now harvesting the fruits of its technology investments, planted in 2010 in the field of Satellite applications, by capitalising on its historical expertise in multi-carrier modulation and the spectral quality of signals, which to this day is still unmatched. This proficiency in processing Mono- and Multi-carrier waveforms opens up for us the doors to new applications in both the Defence and Security market sectors; this is the «CODFM effect».

Anticipating the direction of standards for the future, we are of course continuing our work on the terrestrial broadcast standard of tomorrow within the activities of FOBTV; and we also are at the heart of the definition process for the new DVB satellite standard Sx/S3. Further to this technical offensive, we are today opening the doors to Asia with our new Singapore office (July 2013)!

The international situation is complex, but our technology and financial foundations provide the best guarantees for long-term security and success for all our technical and economic partnerships.

Dear clients and partners, the management team, together with all the staff in the company, TeamCast, pledge to maintain our level of commitment and quality to you, to the ultimate benefit of our collaboration.

Thank you for your confidence in us.

Serge MAL, Executive Vice-President

& General Manager

Towards “Green Transmitting” > p 6

10 Years of Innovation and Efficiency!

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S t r a t e g i e s a n d M a r k e t sBy Serge Mal, Executive Vice-President & General Manager

2003-2013 : Celebrating 10 years in BusinessFrom ultra-HD to mobile, the dif-ferent video formats and methods for transmission and repurposing of TV content are constantly evol-ving, thus forcing broadcasters to expand their offerings to meet the demands of the many viewing options. Nevertheless, terrestrial and satellite delivery platforms will remain for a long time as the key solutions for global content disse-mination. It is with its proven his-tory of excellence that TeamCast addresses both these markets – with all standards catered for over their 10 years in business.

Is it just a question of know-how?To maintain a position as the international leader for terres-trial networks over ten years and to become the #1 challenger for satellite transmission in just two years, does not happen by itself but by real innovation. Yet innova-tion, which is at the heart of our history, does not come from simple know-how, but is the result of the convergence of several vectors of creativity. In this way, TeamCast has been the first company to offer the famous ModulCast product range – a technology now duplicated by many of our competi-tors. TeamCast was also the first to propose direct digital modulation and to anticipate the new IP formats for distribution to terres-trial transmission sites (including seamless switching). We have innovated also in the core work-plans for the development of the international standards for terres-trial and satellite applications, in particular and most recently for the evolution of DVB-S2 to DVB-Sx. At last, we see this innovation residing in the transparency and simple implementation at the hearts of the terrestrial TV transmitters and satellite earth stations.

Demystifying Efficiency!Efficiency is not a matter of just offering software for experts with misleading marketing communica-tions. It is something that requires a global solution in the sense of not only transmitter efficiency, but also spectrum quality over the satellite link in order to maximise gains for Capex and Opex – whate-ver the technologies and distribu-tion networks being deployed.

The notion of ‘efficiency’ involves the entire broadcast chain for the image, with HEVC source coding and DVB-T2 transmission used for optimising the bandwidth for UHDTV. But the decisive factor is clearly that of taking into account the technologies (e.g. Doherty) used in the TV transmitters (which constitute 90% of the carbon print in a terrestrial network …), and thus managing the SFN and T2 MI parameters for the content distri-bution in DVB-T2 applications for example. The effectiveness of this implies similarly the need for an optimised spectrum quality for the prospects of delivering UHDTV by satellite in the Ka Band.

The new algorithm (Green Adap-tive Processing*) from TeamCast, clearly integrates efficiency into the heart of our strategy, and we have in this way created the concept of it becoming raised to the power of two:

Transmitter Efficiency × Bandwidth Efficiency = Efficiency2

There is no competition: Our DNA** is UniqueWith all due respect to the other industries in this sector, we never compete with our customers nor do we have competitors who are able to master like us the waveforms for mono- and multi-carrier systems and the associated precorrection stages – which have been at the nucleus of our DNA for ten years now.

This DNA means that we can now offer dual solutions with an international legitimacy at the very core of terrestrial and satellite transmission networks; and this becomes a unique vector of differentiation for Defence and Security applications in both Europe and the USA.

Conscious of the challenges ahead, TeamCast continues, with quiet determination, with its technical and geographical assault on the challenges in the marketplace - as can be testified by this journal, the TeamCast News!

* see article in page 6-7

** DNA: DeoxyriboNucleic Acid

Tablets, and more generally hyper-connected smart terminals, have created an amazing and expo-nential growth in the “audio & vi-deo” traffic on broadband wireless networks. The salvation for this ca-pacity problem is expected to come from the voluntary deployment of heterogeneous networks involving 3GPP-LTE (outdoor) & IEEE-WiFi (indoor) wireless technologies. This explains the broadbanders’ claim for “co-primary” access to the UHF broadcast spectrum.

A primary battle has already oc-curred with the comparison of the

“spectrum efficiency” of the propo-nents’ broadcast & broadband phy-sical layers, competing to operate on the ‘golden’ UHF frequencies. The outcome of the M3 Project* comparison of operating efficien-cies is illustrated here.

Modern physical layers all operate close to the Shannon limit; it is from the access modes (i.e. one-to-many vs one-to-one or unicast vs multicast) that salvation must be expected. As both infrastruc-tures need bi-modal access to effi-ciently serve mobile terminals (the “broadcast” one to deliver linear

and nonlinear TV services; and the “broadband” one to off-load part of the forecast on-demand A/V tsuna-mi), they need accordingly, to ma-nage the terminals’ storage capa-city with the help of a Multi-Media Management application running on the mobile terminals.

A second big battle is now an-nounced, with the aim to satisfy the expectation of the “ATAWAD” citizens to consume Multi-Media content “Any Time, Any Where, Any Devices”. On this battlefield, the concept of “heterogeneous coverage” must provide the salva-tion by extending the city centre coverage to the countryside, while finding an economic balance for universal coverage via the co-ope-ration of complementary infras-tructures.

Can salvation result from such a “BroadBand vs BroadCast” battle?

To escape from the risk of a Pyrrhic victory, we will need the co-opera-tion of technologies in the termi-nals, of radio access modes in the UHF band, and of coverage from bi-modal infrastructures – but this seems a very promising path to achieve the universality of Mobile Multi-Media service delivery!

The Next Big Battle: BroadBand versus BroadCast?

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T e c h n o l o g yBy Gérard Faria, Chief Technology Officer

* The M3 project is French collaborative resarch project dealing with convergenceof broadcast and mobile broadband networks. See page 11.

Up to 450 million satellite receivers around the world are using the Digital Video Broadcasting satel-lite specifications DVB-S (1993) & DVB-S2 (2003) to enjoy “Direct to Home” TV services.

Although the 2nd generation DVB-S2 standard primarily targets Di-rect To Home (DTH) services, it can be used for many other appli-cations such as: interactive broad-band applications, Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG), internet trunking, etc.

Hence, S2’s capacity curve shows how a relatively small number of operating modes are suitable for a huge market. In particular, the Di-rect To Home (DTH) application has justified (economically) the advent of Application Specific IC (ASIC) in many products, and no system has surpassed DVB-S2 so far with this success.

Operating in the “near-Shannon” region for capacity, it would seem unlikely that another satellite transmission system could out-

perform S2’s performance. Even if proved true for the DTH segment, it has been demonstrated that for the non-DTH segments, additio-nal performance (several tens of percent) can be gained from the S2 standard.

Early in 2013, DVB decided to reac-tivate the S2’s technical working group in order to understand what were the secrets behind this gain in performance. Thank goodness, neither the Shannon limit nor the Robert G. Gallager’s FEC (LDPC) were incriminated! In fact, the secret was revealed to be a non-standardised extension to some parameters’ values (which had been originally limited to values considered “reasonable” for DTH applications).

Accordingly, it has been relatively straightforward for the “Sx” tech-nical working group of DVB to ela-borate a new annex to the ETSI EN302307 standard to include these and other beneficial exten-sions. The annex will permit the

usage of dense constellations (i.e. 64APSK, 128APSK even 256APSK) - which actually have little inte-rest for DTH applications - and will introduce sharper roll-off filtering (i.e. Nyquist pulse shaping) - with considerable benefits for the DTH segment!

With these forthcoming extensions, DVB has reached the ultimate per-formance level of S2’s state-of-the-art technology ‘bricks’. During the S2 re-visitation process, however, some new concepts have emerged, such as Single Carrier OFDM (SC-OFDM), Faster-than-Nyquist signal-ling (FTN), etc. - which should open a path to a new contest between Shannon and Nyquist operational considerations, and the possibility of a new DVB-S3 standard!

“Is the market ready for such re-volutionary green-field approach?“ No doubt DVB will respond to this question in the forthcoming months, after releasing the update of its famous DVB-S2 specifica-tions!

The Satellite Battle: Nyquist against Shannon?

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T e c h n o l o g yBy Gérard Faria, Chief Technology Officer

Towards “Green Transmitting”

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T e a m C a s t T e c h n o l o g yBy Eric Pinson, Head of TeamCast Technology

As in many business sectors today, the Broadcast industry needs an energy ma-nagement strategy. A typical 5kW TV transmitter with only 20% of power effi-ciency consumes approximately 25 kW of electricity, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is a source of carbon pollution if fossil fuels are used.

With several hundred thousand TV and Radio transmitters in operation world-wide, Broadcasters are becoming more and more concerned about reducing their “carbon footprint” in the very near future - and one key driver for reducing their energy consumption is the Transmission Power efficiency.

Power Amplification technologyTraditional solid-state transmitter plant efficiencies generally average about 18% - 20% RMS with some-times a maximum of 30% for the latest A/B class and liquid-cooled designs. Nowadays, rather than inductive output tubes (IOT), solid-state technology is the most popu-lar for power amplifiers, as it brings several key advantages - such as a wide range of output power capa-bilities, lower cost, improved MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure), lower power supply voltages, compact-ness, easier installation and main-tenance, etc.

50V LDMOS power amplifier technologyLDMOS (Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor) devices are today considered as the best state-of-the-art technology for solid-state Power Amplifier (PA) design,

and LDMOS is the dominant tech-nology used in high-power Digital TV transmitters. LDMOS transistors provide superior power gain and li-nearity, higher power density, and higher operating efficiency than other devices. Some well-known companies’ LDMOS transistors are shown in Figure 1.

Using these relatively low voltage 50V LDMOS FETs, some manufac-turers manage up to 10 kW ave-rage digital power from their liquid-cooled solid-state transmitters, with overall efficiency figures in the range of 22% to 28%.

Doherty PA topologyThe resurgence of interest in the ‘Doherty PA’ architecture is based on its very high power-added effi-ciency when amplifying input si-gnals with high peak-to-average power ratios (PAPR), such as OFDM signals. The level of efficiency that can be reached with a Doherty-based PA is 10% to 15% greater than amplifiers operating in Class A/B. In Doherty operation, users can save up to 50% of energy costs compared with conventional trans-mitters, achieving 38% efficiency for COFDM.

Crest Factor/PAP ReductionThe reduction of the amplified signal peak (Crest Factor) is the first step in improving power am-plifier operation and efficiency, as it enables the power amplifiers to work very close to their satura-tion limits, for maximum output power and thus highest efficiency. Although this method is straight-forward, it has to be carefully per-

formed within certain limits, as it affects directly the signal quality (i.e. MER) by eliminating some signal peaks. The effects of a 5dB Crest Factor reduction are illustra-ted in Figures 2 and 3.

Digital Adaptive PrecorrectionA major achievement of Team-Cast has been to develop a nonli-near Digital Adaptive Precorrector (DAP) solution for OEM modula-tors that fulfills the wide range of requirements demanded by the various transmitter environments (low power, medium power, high power, VHF, UHF, A/B Class, Doher-ty, etc.), and which has proven to be ideal for a very large number of digital TV and radio standards ope-rating over diverse bandwidths and conditions.

What are the key drivers for gaining Power Efficiency?

Infineon PTVA042502FC

Figure 1: 50V LDMOS transistor models

NXP BLF888b

FreeScale MRFE6VP8600

Figure 3: PA Response Curve

Figure 2: Crest Factor figures

Green Adaptive Processing Techniques invented by TeamCast

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T e a m C a s t T e c h n o l o g yBy Eric Pinson, Head of TeamCast Technology

TORNADO:DTMB and DVB-T2

TORNADO consists of a new set of modu-lators supporting DTMB modulation (fully compliant with SARFT), PAL and DVB-T2 – all on the same hardware platform. Itincorporates TeamCast’s latest state-of-the-art modulation techniques, plus Digital Adaptive Precorrection (powered by GAP®) providing enhanced RF signal performance. Transmitter manufacturers can easily integrate TORNADO, choosing to use either the OEM model or the 1-RU rack form factor. The DTMB market can be foreseen as one of major business opportunities world-wide, with the need for several thousand digital transmitters. China’s Digital Switch Over plan consists of digitalising all of the thirty Chinese provinces.

TORNADO features a third generation DTMB modulation core. The flexible input stream formats include ASI and IP strea-ming inputs. The TORNADO platform comes with a completely new hardware build (very similar to Green4Cast), espe-cially designed to provide maximum per-formance at the lowest cost.

Chinese Provinces

New Green modulator platforms!During 2013, TeamCast engineers have been very active in designing new ranges of high-end digital OEM modulators, all dedicated to “Green Transmitting”: Green4CAST featuring PAL, DVB-T, DVB-T2, ISDB-T/TB; Green4DAB for Digital Radio; and TORNADO for the DTMB market. All these new hardware

products incorporate TeamCast’s cutting-edge digital adaptive pre-correction algorithm – the so-cal-led GAP® - to achieve significant gains in terms of transmitter power efficiency and therefore to contri-bute in reducing recurrent OPEX costs for Broadcasters.

TX Output Power 1000W 1000W

Drain Voltage (V_MOS) 50V 43V

MER_Out (DAP off) 30,2dB 28,4dB

MER_Out (DAP ON) 35,6dB 34,2dB

MER_Out (DAP + GAP®) 37dB 35,5dB

Electrical Power Supply (Σ currents * Voltage)

3700W 3125W (575W power saved)

Power Efficiency 27% 32%

OPEX Cost Saving per year (assuming 0.2€/kWh) 1000€ per year

GAP® benefit for the transmitter power efficiencyDepending on the final MER output requirements (generally specified by the Broadcaster), any additional dB improvement in terms of MER provides some additional operating headroom. This means that for a constant TX output power, the tran-sistor drain voltage could be de-creased, which would correspond to an electrical power consumption reduction for the same MER per-formance. In the following table, a 1kW DOHERTY transmitter is pre-corrected with DAP and GAP®. The minimum output MER is required to be 35dB. Thanks to the DAP+GAP® performance (and 37dB MER

achieved), the transmitter electri-cal power could be reduced and the power efficiency could be increased from 27% to 32%.

This gain can be directly translated into OPEX cost saving, considering the power saved and the electricity supply cost. Although TeamCast’s standard DAP algorithm fulfills target performances when driving a Low-Power or Medium Power Transmitter, the GAP® implemen-tation is optimised to operate wit-hin a High-Power context and an illustration of a Power Efficiency Gain in the range of 5% for a 1 kW transmitter is highlighted here.

Illustration of GAP® gain (estimates)

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T e a m C a s t S a t e l l i t e S o l u t i o n sBy Christophe Trolet, Head of TeamCast Solutions

SaTurn: compact DVB-S2 demodulator for high end IRDs

High Efficiency Satellite Transmission: the HESAT project

TeamCast and CNES (the French National Centre for Space Re-search) initiated a new technical collaboration pro-ject early 2013, with the main ob-

jective to increase the efficiency of a standard 36/72 MHz transponder while remaining compliant with the established DVB-S2 standard.

Three techniques are being jointly studied and optimised at the uplink modulator:

• linear signal pre-distortion forcompensating the satellite’s inputand output filter impairments,

• nonlinear signal pre-distortionfor compensating the satellite’sTWT amplifier impairments,

• use of low roll-off filter values.

The first and third techniques enable a better use of the transponder bandwidth edges, by reducing the unwanted side band signals; while the association of the first and se-cond techniques allow the use of higher rate modulation schemes such as 16-APSK and 32-APSK. All together, they significantly increase the transponder efficiency (greater capacity in the same bandwidth).

In this collaboration, CNES is brin-ging their satellite chain expertise and test resources, such as their laboratory chain emulator. While TeamCast is bringing their expertise in implementation of pre-distortion and filtering techniques, which are well developed and widely proven in the COFDM terrestrial TV transmis-sion area.

Preliminary tests have been made mid 2013, producing very promising results. Final results are expected at the end of 2013.

«The intermediate results of HESAT are very encouraging and it is remarkable to observe that the enhancements we are working on are compatible with the deployed DVB-S2 receivers. The forthcoming introduction of these new techniques will be beneficial to both the consu-mer and the professional markets, without requiring the renewal of receivers,» says Olivier ROUSSET, Deputy Technical Director of Team-Cast.

The COFDM Effect: from Theory to Products

The brand new OEM satellite demodulator board, SaTurn, offers unprecedented features: the most compact DVB-S/S2 OEM board in the market; an All-In-One functionality approach (all DVB-S/S2 features, including VCM multi-stream and ACM); dual on-board demodulators; low power operation; top class performance for 16-APSK and 32-APSK (with ultra low implementation loss); and hence the most efficient transponder usage. Dedicated to applications in the professional satellite IRD industry, SaTurn offers an exceptionnally easy integration process into a product. As a stand-alone board with its own embedded CPU, it pro-vides the best functional flexibility, an easy-to-use API, all necessary connectors, and a future-proof embedded FPGA - leading to the shortest time to market for IRD developers. SaTurn is definitely the optimised answer to the currently growing market demand for 16-APSK and 32-APSK capable IRDs.

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T e a m C a s t S a t e l l i t e S o l u t i o n s By Christophe Trolet, Head of TeamCast Solutions

Vyper: a new kindof satellite RF modulator is born

Well known for its multi-carrier technology for terrestrial TV transmission and high performance wireless links, TeamCast is also active in the single carrier business, with a portfolio of cutting edge and innovative ideas concerned with spectrum purity, spectrum efficiency, and power efficiency for satellite transmission equipment. Vyper is the first member of a new generation of satellite RF modulators.

Cutting edge DSNG trucks are using VyperViaStoria, a well established company for over 25 years and recognised all over Europe for their services and systems for video production, is using Vyper for its satellite contribution links.

The new range of DSNG trucks (VS3 and VS7) embeds a number of Vypers from TeamCast to send live programs from remote locations to customer’ studios through powerful, efficient and reliable satellite transmisson links.

«After having tested the Vyper modulator and checked that it offers the best performance and comes standard with advanced features like 32-APSK and 5% roll-off, we decided to select it for our new trucks. They have been successfully used already on several events, such as Football Ligue 1, Strasbourg International Tennis Tournament, etc.,» says Jean-Luc An-toine, Technical Director at Via Storia.

Henry Spong, General Managerof LIBOR

Vyper certified by AnatelVyper has been approved for all commercial satellite trans-mission systems in Brazil thanks to its RF output purity, its high EVM, its very low out-of-band spurious signals and of course its reliability.

This new official endorsement enlarges Vyper’s market footprint in a very promising market area!

«We are pleased and enthusiastic to join TeamCast’s distribution

network. We see high opportunities for Vyper & Syper products here in the dynamic Brazilian market», says Henry Spong, General Manager of LIBOR, a well known TV equipment distributor based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Spectrum purity: TeamCast’s unique digital signal processing technolo-gy provides unprecedented performance in terms of EVM and spurious signal sup-pression, in comparison with the compe-tition. This technology is compliant also with today’s demand for sharp roll-off values.

Spectrum efficiency: The regu-lar modulator (with no additional options needed) allows 16/32-APSK in practice. When used with low roll-off values, it provides a larger payload at lower power on the satellite channels, at no additional cost.

Power efficiency: TeamCast has unique expertise in the digital pre-cor-rection of multi-carrier signals for maxi-mising the efficiency of power amplifiers. Applying this technology to mono-carrier signals enables even better correction of channel distortions and thus increases the link budget margins.

DVB-Sx Ready: with its field pro-grammable technology core, Vyper is easily upgraded with the next enhance-ments of the DVB-S2 standard, making clients’ investment quite safe.

The COFDM Effect: from Theory to Products

DVB-Sx Ready

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With its recognised expertise of multi-carrier/single-carrier RF waveform and digital signal processing, TeamCast has also gained a great deal of know-how for responding to demanding wireless applications with high bitrate and high availability requirements.

In fact TeamCast is uniquely able to combine advanced COFDM (beyond DVB-T and ISDB-T) and single-carrier technology (DVB-S2 and «beyond S2») for addressing both LOS (Line-of-Sight) and NLOS (Non Line-of-Sight) transmission situations, in the same products, using a Software Defined Radio approach which ensures the appropriate on-field flexibility.

This approach allows TeamCast to address various markets requiring top performance video/data links.

A first example is ENG (Electronic Gathering News) for outdoor sport coverage, where TeamCast’s product range covers the needs of multiple uplinks and downlinks through various relay aircraft. The MNG/RSG solution allows the assem-bling of multiple video streams together in a single RF channel, without any external multiplexer.

Other applications take great advantage of the IP connectivity. For instance, surveil-lance applications imply high-quality video

streams together with metadata, that are easily carried over Ethernet, without any protocol limitations.

For dedicated applications, TeamCast recently colla-borated with DGA, the French Defence Procurement Agency, and the Thales Group, on an enhanced DVB-S2 based waveform capable of resilience to echoes. The resulting breakthrough technology uniquely combines the long range transmission capability of DVB-S2 with a high level of performance for NLOS ground reception in urban areas, with compact omni-directional antennas. This is an application which is key for close-air support and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicules). TeamCast is currently running tests to bring this innovation to NLOS broadcast ENG cameras operating at frequencies above 6 GHz, where COFDM simply no longer works and spec-trum resources are less congested.

Beyond COFDM: Video wireless links

T e a m C a s t W i r e l e s s S o l u t i o n sBy Samuel Ryckewaert, Head of Wireless Activity

The MNG flexible modulator and the RNG diversity demodulator have been used with great success in several main sport events in 2012/2013

After having proven their technologies in the civil sec-tor, TeamCast’s wireless solutions are of growing in-terest for the defence sector, where a huge demand exists for high bit rate and reliable wireless links (e.g. air-to ground video and data links).

TeamCast is seeing there the opportunity to enhance its solutions and to develop further its business. Team-Cast has recently joined several French initiatives targeting the development of SME activity in the Defence sector:

Pacte PME Defense (Defence and SME Pact): The French Mi-nistry of Defence introduced in 2012 an initiative with 40 prac-tical provisions for stimulating the activity of SMEs, in collabo-ration with the larger defence groups.

EDEN BRETAGNE: EDEN is an industry cluster of Breton SMEs with activities in the Defence sector. It acts as a networking tool for stimulating collaboration between SMEs and identifying new business opportunities.

DGA, the French Defence Procurement Agency, is en-couraging the research work of SMEs in technologies with dual applications (civil and defence) through a

collaborative R&D programme called RAPID. After a success-ful first RAPID project, Team-Cast was invited to present the results at the DGA ‘50 year Day’ (in May 2012) and at the DGA ‘Innovation Day’ (in November 2012).

Towards dual applications

DGA 50 year day

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C o r p o r a t e n e w s By Serge Mal, Executive Vice-President & General Manager

A complete DVB-T2 test system for the Jeju Techno ParkThe Jeju Techno Park (JTP) in the Re-public of Korea is a newly opened tech-nology centre specialising in wireless technology, including broadcasting. The JTP provides validation services for consumer TV receivers and set-top-boxes, for the worldwide markets, with the ability to test ATSC, ISDB-T and DVB-T2 compliant products.

TeamCast has supplied a complete DVB-T2 system including a T2 gateway, a pair of modulators (MT2), and a pair of RF channel emulators (VEGA). The system offers full T2 capabilities (SFN, Multi-PLP, MISO, FEF,...) for laboratory testing, and is complemented by a T2 transmitter equipped with a TeamCast MT2 modulator for field testing.

The JTP was inaugurated on April 25 and 26, 2013, in the presence of offi-cials from the self-governing Province of Jeju. Gérard Faria, TeamCast’s CTO and co-chairman of a technical group of the FoBTV (Future of Broadcast TV) initiative, was invited there to make a presentation about the current and future worldwide status of digital TV, including the latest results of the FoB-TV’s work on technical standards.

TeamCast contributed to the public demons-tration made by the Mobile Multi Media (M3) ANR research project on 16 May 2013. The M3 project aims at studying the cooperation between broadband and broadcast technolo-gies for delivering the continuously growing amount of multi-media content to mobile devices in an optimised way. Specifically the project developed and demonstrated a «convergent» physical layer derived from the eMBMS broadcast format of LTE, which was able to be carried in a DVB-T2 broadcast si-gnal, using the Future Extension Frame (FEF) mechanism of T2. The project organised an «open event» for sharing its results with ex-perts from the mobile broadband/broadcast communities, with a real-time demonstration of the convergent physical layer embedded in a T2 signal. For more information: (https://m3.rd.francetelecom.com/espace-public)

News from collaborative projects: M3 project

One of the M3 demonstrations at the Open Event,showing the insertion of LTE frames in a DVB-T2 signal

At the Satellite2013 conference, Gérard Faria participated in the DVB round panel session, where he discussed the new challenges and opportunities for the latest satellite transmission techniques.

A growing actor in the satellite world

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To come soon, in 2013-2014

TeamCast will be honoured to welcome you at IBC2013 (Sept. 2013, Amsterdam, stand 2B51), CAPER (Oct. 2013, Buenos Aires), CSTB (Jan.

2014, Moscow), Satellite Washington (March 2014), CCBN (March 2014, Beijing), NABshow (April 2014, Las Vegas), Broadcast Asia (June 2014,

Singapore), BIRTV (Aug. 2014, Beijing), SET Broadcast and Cable (Aug. 2014, Sao-Paulo),....

As every year, TeamCast has been very active in conferences and shows around the world from September 2012 (IBC) to August 2013 (SET).

E v e n t s

SET Conference, August 2013, Sao Paulo

CCBN, March 2013, Beijing

IBC, September 2012, Amsterdam

International actions

And Now… Asia !TeamCast opens an office in Singapore

Following successful developments in Japan, China and South Korea, the digi-talisation of digital terrestrial television is booming in major Asian countries, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and many others.

Already active in this area for several years (in particular in Japan, China, South Korea, and Vietnam), TeamCast has now opened a representative office in Singa-pore to strengthen business growth in the

area. TeamCast intends to take advantage of the potential market opportunities re-sulting from the adoption and deployment of digital terrestrial television by countries using the European DVB-T2 standard.

In addition to digital modulators and mo-nitoring receivers for local manufacturers of television transmitters, TeamCast pro-vides operators with a range of satellite transmission products for professional applications.

«The opening of this office, led by Eric Lossouarn, is a significant step in the evo-lution of TeamCast, and is part of our stra-tegy to get closer to our market, which began four years ago with the opening of our office in the United States,» says

Serge Mal (General Manager, TeamCast).

TeamCast is grateful to the International Trade Office of Bretagne (BCI) for its sup-port in this matter.

THAIBEX, July 2013, Bangkok

BCA, June 2013, Singapore

NAB show, April 2013, Las Vegas