Operators and broadcasters are invited to bring their ideas and challenges to Stand 1.471 at the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre in Amsterdam to learn how S-A's solutions can help deliver their content.

In a release, S-A claims that strong global presence and region-specific products and technologies enable operators to offer new services to help create new revenue opportunities, whilst keeping control of costs.

S-A also has a wide range of uplink products that deliver MPEG-2 encoded digital programming by satellite; to headends and playout centres; transport products for today's advanced networks; and DVB set-tops in the consumers' homes. S-A also claims a total system solution that meets the expectations of broadcasters, telcos, and cable and satellite operators now and in the future.

S-A is demonstrating its DVB-compliant DTH (Direct-to-Home) satellite playout system at IBC. This includes the advanced Continuum DVP, D9030, MPEG-2 Encoder offering best-in-class video quality and statistical multiplexing.

S-A also claims that its technology uses the Krypton DVB Scrambler to support all major DVB-compliant conditional access systems. The company's extensive experience of integrating a large number of DVB compliant CA systems around the world will play an important part in this display.

The release also adds that further indication of the S-A commitment to DVB products and systems will be highlighted with a demonstration of the EyeQ interactive system and two of the company's newest set-tops - the Explorer® 42000DVB and the Explorer 100DVB models.

Based on the award-winning Scientific-Atlanta Explorer cable set-tops, the Explorer 4200DVB set-top supports multiple standards including DVB-C, PAL, DOCSIS and Euro-DOCSIS.

A demonstration of digital video recording (DVR) via the Explorer 8,000 will showcase the popularity of this service that allows consumers to watch what they want, when they want. Additionally, a full range of WebSTAR cable modems for high-speed data and Voice over IP services will also be on display.

S-A will also be demonstrating DVB capabilities for the PowerVu® Secure Content Distribution system include a demonstration of DVB- video subtitling support and DVB-MPE IP data transmission.

S-A will also show a complete xDSL/FTTx Headend system. This demonstration includes the acquisition and descrambling of signals, low-bit rate encoding, high-quality rate-limiting to fit the smaller pipes, and powerful IP streaming. The xDSL/FTTx system enables operators to deliver video services very cost and space-efficiently by avoiding expensive decoding and re-encoding of signals.

As part of its demonstration for cable operators, S-A will display its IP-to-the-edge solution, which uses IP transport on a Gigabit Ethernet Backbone through the Prisma GbE platform. IBC2003 will also be the first showing in Europe for S-A's new Continuum DVP xDQA (Extra Dense QAM Array), which enables broadcast quality RF performance for both normal TV as well as on-demand services in the Hub.

The Continuum DVP D9010 MPEG-2 Decoder and Pulsar MKII TV Modulator are used to provide analog simulcast signals in the hub.

In addition, S-A will showcase its FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) concepts that deliver unsurpassed capacity and BroadLAN technology, enabling cable operators to offer commercial (high-speed) Internet services, wide area network, and Voice over IP to large offices and SOHOs over existing HFC networks.

These solutions will be commercially available in Q2 2004. Also premiered at IBC is S-A's new Continuum DVP D9640 Intelligent Transmodulator. This enables satellite content to be cost-efficiently transferred to cable networks whilst enabling operators to change Transport stream and DVB-SI related parameters.