Net Insight (SX: NETI B), a leading provider of video, voice and data networking equipment, today announced a partnership with Simac Broadcast, an international systems integrator specializing in video rich network applications such as Broadcast, Triple Play and Digital Terrestrial Networks. Simac Broadcast is partly founded out of Philips broadcast division and has a large customer base in EMEA and SE-Asia.
The partnership enables Simac to provide Broadcasters and Network Operators with complete end-to-end solutions for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Triple Play and Broadcast networks.
Prestigious and demanding customers worldwide such as, EBU, Broadwing, Vernon, UPC and many others have chosen Net Insight´s Nimbra platform. The Nimbra platform excels in its ability to transport any mix of video, voice and data, with full end-to-end quality-of-service and at the same time enables the network operator to significantly reduce their operational costs.
"Net Insight´s Nimbra platform is truly state-of-the-art and it is perfectly suited for our business within DTT, Triple Play and Broadcast networks. It enables us to offer highly cost-efficient solutions with full broadcast quality, something that is extremely complex and costly to achieve in other platforms", said Dick Hamann, Managing Director of Simac Broadcast.
"This is a win-win situation, our state-of-the art network platform in combination with Simac´s expertise and international reach will be beneficial to both companies and most importantly, to our customers, said Tomas Duffy, CEO of Net Insight.
For more information, please contact:
Tomas Duffy, CEO, Net Insight AB.
Phone: +46 8 685 04 00, e-mail: tomas.duffy@netinsight.net
Dick Hamann, MD, Simac Broadcast BV
Phone: +31 40 258 2050, email: dick.hamann@simacbroadcast.com
About Net Insight
Net Insight develops video, voice and data networking equipment that delivers guaranteed 100% QoS with maximum network utilization and multicast to provide a network that can efficiently and economically deliver advanced video services such as HDTV, Video on Demand and Digital Television combined with Internet and voice traffic. Our Nimbra platform enables our customers to launch new revenue generating TV and video related services for Broadcast TV, CATV, Telco Triple Play and DVB-T with significantly reduced CAPEX and OPEX. Net Insight is quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange´s O list and has offices in Sweden and the USA. For more information, visit www.netinsight.net
About Simac Broadcast
Simac Broadcast bv was founded out of Philips DTS and is a 50-50 joint venture between Simac Techniek NV and IMPEQ Broadcast Solutions B.V., both from the Netherlands. Simac is a well-known, stock listed, Dutch company active in ICT and IE&A, and expanding their business in high tech related areas. IMPEQ Broadcast Solutions is a 100 percent pure broadcast-oriented company with extensive experience in video compression and multiplexing, from system architecture to project management. Simac Broadcast clients worldwide include satellite, cable and terrestrial operators and can also be found among telco companies. Simac Broadcast has subsidiaries in the UK and Singapore.