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GlobeCast - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is a global content management and delivery company. Via its worldwide satellite and fibre network, the company manages and transports 10 million hours of video and other rich media yearly for its core customer base of broadcasters, as well as corporate, government and retail clients. GlobeCast is network agnostic and ingests once to deliver content to any network via multiple platforms, including direct-to-home satellite, cable, video-to-mobile, IPTV/video-over-ADSL, desktop broadband, and more. It is now the world's largest provider of delivery services to live television-over-mobile operators and in 2005, it won Cable & Satellite International's Product of the Year award for Best Outside Broadcast Technology for WING Content Exchange, its IP-based file delivery platform. The company's global presence includes 15 teleports and technical operations centers throughout Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia
GlobeCast, Arabsat and ASBU have operated a successful partnership for two years, consisting of worldwide distribution of the Arabsat/ASBU digital bouquet of Arabic-language channels. Since the launch of this satellite bouquet, the three market leaders have succeeded in turning this project into a true reference for the satellite industry. With its global coverage, channels worldwide are able to join the bouquet and viewers on five continents are free to view its community channels.
Currently, the available services cover the following regions:
Europe via Astra 1E
Australia via PAS-8
North America via GlobeCast WorldTV on Intelsat Americas 5
South America via Hispasat 1C
Africa via NSS 7
Asia via Asiasat 2
GlobeCast also provides individual DTH channel distribution for select ASBU members channels to:
Europe via Hot Bird
Australia via Optus B3
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