Canal+ International has tapped technology outfit Enensys Technologies for the upgrade of its EasyTV service in Africa.
The operation consists in migrating the existing DVB-T2 network in Africa from a standard DVB-T2/T2MI over C-band delivery towards a OneBeam DVB-SIS-over-Ku-band delivery.
According to Enensys, the migration enables the pay TV provider to generate operating expenditure satellite capacity saving by merging the DTT distribution with its existing DTH distribution.
It said that using the Ku-band DTH platform enables a good DTT signal distribution and removes the impact of 5G interference.
The technology enables DVB T2 SFN network operation and centralised regionalisation to provide a different content line-up per country.
The first phase of the project started with Guinea-Conakry before being extended to major cities throughout the Democractic Republic of Congo,…
