Teleport

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DCI’s teleport is a 24 hour staffed, state-of-the-art facility with 25 roof mounted antennas providing full access to all US Domestic and (to 4 degrees west longitude) Atlantic Ocean Region (AOR) region satellites. DCI is licensed for transmission service to Intelsat, NewSkies, Eutelsat, Telesat, Anik, Hispasat, SatMex and all USA domestic satellites.
DCI's Teleport service offerings include:

  • Satellite uplink and downlink transmissions
  • Analog and Standard (SD) and High (HD) Definition digital formats.
  • The digital video equipment used in the teleport includes Tandberg, Tiernan, NEL, and NDS encoders & IRD’s for 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 formats.
  • Video record/playback and standard conversion
  • Video Switching
  • HD Down-conversion
  • ASI turns between both digital terrestrial paths and satellite paths to eliminate re-encoding degeneration. 
  • Web streaming and other Internet services.

Fiber-optic connectivity:

  • Level 3 Washington POP (via our own fiber)
  • PEPCO (Wash. D.C. power company) metropolitan area fiber-optic system
  • ABC Washington bureau
  • CBS Washington Bureau
  • BBC Washington Bureau
  • NHK Washington Bureau
  • EBU Washington Bureau (includes all EBU members)
  • Verizon (AVOC)
     

DCI provides Co-location services and is the Washington POP for the following Video Services carriers. We supply analog and ASI switching that interfaces these carriers to our teleport and other locations:

  • Intelsat
  • Genesis Networks
  • Level 3
  • Looking Glass Networks
  • Hibernia Networks
  • Siemens
  • Media Broadcast
  • Telia Sonera
  • PAC TV
  • Keystone BTV

DCI also maintains a 48x48 Switch at Verizon’s AVOC (Audio Video Operations Center) and carries ports at The SWITCH.