TV Cabo Lowers Cost of Real-time Contribution Content Delivery Using Cisco IP Transport - May 12, 2004 04:00 AM (BusinessWire) COLOGNE, Germany & LISBON, Portugal--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004-- Cisco-based IP Video Contribution Network Will Provide Flexibility and Cost Savings for Delivery of Broadcast Quality Video Content to Transmission Centre Cisco Systems(R) (Nasdaq:CSCO) today announced that TV Cabo, Portugal's largest cable operator, is successfully utilising a quality of service (QoS) enabled broadband IP network backbone based on Cisco solutions to contribute high-quality digital video content. This single converged IP infrastructure will help it to make significant cost-savings over traditional methods of video contribution, which traditionally involve hiring either satellite space or a dedicated leased line. TV Cabo first looked at contributing video over its broadband network in 2002 in an effort to cost-effectively integrate one of its regional channels, which is produced some 300 km away from the broadcast center in Lisbon, into the rest of its channel line up. Using Cisco technology, the company has been able to take advantage of its existing nationwide multi-service broadband IP network for real-time contribution of content for more than a year now. This has been achieved at no more than the cost of Cisco routing technology connected to the rest of TV Cabo's multi-service IP backbone and TT6120 MediaLink units, providing ASI / Fast Ethernet adaptation, from TANDBERG Television. ... - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41367508 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.