RE'EM, Israel, June 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RRsat
Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a rapidly
growing provider of comprehensive content management and global
distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting
industries, announced today that it has upgraded its occasional use
services division for the upcoming sports season. RRsat provides
uplink, downlink and turnaround services from and to almost
anywhere on the globe. The success of the occasional use services
division, already delivering more than 30,000 hours of
occasional-use content per year, is primarily due to RRsat's
flexibility and quality of service combined with the extensive
RRsat Global Network comprising over 40 digital satellite platforms
and vast fiber optic capacity.
RRsat has designed a completely new, advanced Master Control
Room (MCR), fully dedicated to the 24/7/365 occasional use services
division, using the most cutting-edge technology and highly skilled
staff. With equipment acquired from vendors such as Snell, Ericsson
(Tandberg Television) and Miranda Technologies, RRsat is
implementing a range of robust solutions for the creation,
management and distribution of content. These include an advanced
large-scale 3G matrix, an HD motion-compensated convertor that
enables RRsat to perform myriad format conversion and audio
processing tasks, including Dolby E routing, to ensure sports feed
quality. Using a live multiview system along with an overall
monitor and control application, RRsat's staff can monitor and
control HD, SD or other transport sources with real-time alerts and
automatic redundancy for possible faults in the service chain.
The increased IRD capacity, along with large scale RF and IF
routers, enlarges HD/SD amount of I/Os, increases DVB-S2
capabilities, allows signal decryption and encryption as needed,
and permits up to 32 simultaneous incoming feeds for the occasional
use market. The large number of new and existing encoders and
modulators permit RRsat to provide services with any required
formats: MPEG-2 or h.264, DVB-S, DSNG or S2 at the highest
modulation hierarchies.
"RRsat has been providing global occasional use turnaround
services to major clients for over five years, covering numerous
types of live events, such as sports and news originating
throughout the world. This upgrade increases the sophistication and
speed of response of the RRsat occasional use services division in
order to connect a great variety of sources to a breadth of
destination with a push of a button - satellite to satellite,
satellite to fiber, fiber to satellite and fiber to fiber. In
addition, two clients connected to the RRsat Global Network will be
able to readily establish a connection between them in order to
share feeds between them," commented Shmulik Itzhaki, Sr. Director, Broadcast Sales
& Occasional Use of RRsat. "The new technologies and increased
equipment improve workflows, decrease risk of failure and permit
RRsat staff to spend more time communicating with its clients. We
believe these new developments will enable us to further increase
our service levels to current and new potential customers."
About RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd.
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) provides
global, comprehensive, content management and distribution services
to the rapidly expanding television and radio broadcasting
industries, and communications solutions to the maritime,
terrestrial and aviation markets through Station711, its mobile
satellite arm. Through its proprietary "RRsat Global Network,"
composed of satellite and terrestrial fiber optic transmission
capacity and the public Internet, RRsat is able to offer
high-quality and flexible global distribution services for content
providers. RRsat's comprehensive content management services
include producing and playing out TV content as well as providing
satellite newsgathering services (SNG). RRsat concurrently provide
these services to more than 550 television and radio channels,
covering more than 150 countries.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, including statements regarding (i) the growth of our
business and the television and radio broadcasting industries, (ii)
our expectation to expand our client base and sell additional
services to our existing client base, (iii) our ability to expand
the product and service portfolio of Station711, (iv) our ability
to successfully integrate the teleports we acquired, (v) our
ability to develop and commercialize the RRinternetTV service, (vi)
our expectation to extend the average length of our contracts in
the future, (vii) our ability to report future successes and (viii)
our intention to distribute dividends in the future and the size of
any dividends declared. These forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current
expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the
companies and the industry as of the date of this press release.
The company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking
statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances,
or to changes in its expectations, except as may be required by
law. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially
from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements,
including the risks indicated in our filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC). For more details, please refer to
our SEC filings and the amendments thereto, including our Annual
Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2009 and our Current Reports on Form
6-K.
Company Contact Information:
Gil Efron, CFO
Tel: +972-8-861-0000
Email: investors@RRsat.com
External Investor Relations Contacts:
Ehud Helft / Kenny Green
Tel: +1-646-201-9246
SOURCE RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd