GlobeCast Secures Capacity with Intelsat for Occasional Use Global Contribution Services

Pembroke, Bermuda, and Paris, France, 9 September 2009

Intelsat, the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, announced it signed a contract with GlobeCast, a leading content management and delivery company, for occasional use (OU) capacity that spans Intelsat’s entire satellite fleet. The multi-year contract offers GlobeCast increased satellite transmissions infrastructure to fulfill its customer needs for distribution of live sports, breaking news and special events.
Recognizing the increased demand from broadcasters and content service providers for global distribution of special events, Intelsat has dedicated approximately 140 transponders across its entire fleet specifically to be used for OU services.
Growing demand for HD services was a key driver for GlobeCast’s investment in this capacity, which will allow GlobeCast to service even more clients with top-notch sports and news coverage. In addition to transmission, GlobeCast provides ground services, including SNGs and flyaways, crewing and playout from around the globe.

“Customers such as GlobeCast rely on Intelsat to have capacity ready to fulfill their broadcast distribution needs for global events,” said Jean-Philippe Gillet, Intelsat’s Regional Vice President, Europe & Middle East. “Intelsat’s continued investment in our OU business directly speaks to our commitment to ensuring that customers always have access to a global transmissions infrastructure. This year, we are on track to handle over 120,000 OU feeds throughout our network.”

Intelsat will be exhibiting in Hall 1, Stand C71 and GlobeCast will be in Hall 1, Stand B40 at IBC 2009, the international tradeshow for professionals involved in the creation, management and delivery of content for the broadcasting industry, which is being held at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam on 11-15 September.
GlobeCast (www.globecast.com): a subsidiary of France Telecom, GlobeCast is a leading global provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. The company operates a secure global satellite and fiber network to manage and transport 10 million hours of video and other rich media each year. Top-tier broadcasters and content providers of all sizes turn to GlobeCast for ingest, aggregation, transmission and repurposing of content for delivery to direct-to-home satellite platforms; cable, IPTV, mobile and broadband headends, as well as corporate and digital signage networks. GlobeCast’s fleet of SNG trucks deploys globally to support coverage of the biggest news and sporting events each year in SD and HDTV formats. Borders are non-existent when it comes to GlobeCast’s services, thanks to the company’s 11 teleports and technical operations centres as well as its 17 offices in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia
About Intelsat

Intelsat is the leading provider of fixed satellite services worldwide. For more than 40 years, Intelsat has been delivering information and entertainment for many of the world’s leading media and network companies, multinational corporations, Internet service providers and governmental agencies. Intelsat’s satellite, teleport and fiber infrastructure is unmatched in the industry, setting the standard for transmissions of video, data and voice services. From the globalization of content and the proliferation of HD, to the expansion of cellular networks and broadband access, with Intelsat, advanced communications anywhere in the world are closer, by far.