SES AMERICOM, an SES company [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Exchange:SESG], and AT&T Inc. [NYSE:T] have reached an agreement to supply AT&T U-verseSM TV with international programming via SES AMERICOM’s IP-PRIME platform. SES AMERICOM will also provide international programming for AT&T broadband and wireless platforms.
IP-PRIME receives and encodes video from any source, formats the content, and distributes it to any media platform. The process takes place at IP-PRIME’s super headend facility in Vernon Valley, N.J., where content is encoded into the MPEG-4 video standard used in IP to optimize the picture quality of each program while requiring only half the bandwidth of programs in the older MPEG-2 standard. Programs are then uplinked to the IP-PRIME satellites, which in turn will deliver the content to AT&T video super hub offices for distribution to U-verse customers—Princeton, New Jersey & San Antonio, Texas
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