Arqiva has been awarded a contract by the BBC to help bring Freesat, the free-to-air digital TV platform, to air by March 2008. Arqiva will support the creation of the new service, which will complement existing digital TV platforms. Such will ensure that viewers across the entire United Kingdom can gain access to digital television without the need for a subscription, at and prior to Digital Switch Over.
Arqiva will provide the BBC with an end-to-end distribution solution for the platform management data, which will have fully redundant back up across dual teleports to ensure maximum robustness of the broadcast signal. In order to provide this resilient network, Arqiva will implement multiple circuits between two key teleports. The primary one is located in Bedford (Bedfordshire) and the secondary one at Crawley Court (Hampshire), plus at the BBC broadcast centers in London. Arqiva has been working with the BBC for more than 18 months to develop initial project plans and design a solution to meet the broadcasters’ needs – both technically and commercially. After the BBC Trust gave Freesat the green light to launch, work went into full flow and testing of the platform began in August 2007—Winchester, United Kingdom
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