DSO - The Greatest Project in UK Broadcasting

DSO - The Greatest Project in UK Broadcasting
6 April 2011
18:45 for 19:30

Peter Heslop, DSO Director, Arqiva
Tony Mattera, DSO Network Design Director, Arqiva

 

Arqiva Headquarters

Crawley Court
Winchester
SO21 2QA
United Kingdom

Digital Switch Over - An update on what is involved in DSO, the big challenges that it presents, progress to date, unexpected issues and critical success factors.

The venue for this meeting is Arqiva HQ at Crawley Court, near Winchester. Directions can be found by clicking here. Refreshments will be provided from 6:45pm.

As a curtain-raiser, a video shot by media students from Southampton Solent University on their impressions of IBC2010, will be shown at 7:15 pm before the main meeting starts at 7:30.

The Digital Switch Over project peaks in 2011 as some of the largest TV regions move to all-digital transmission. The implementation of this five-year £700m project is a major engineering and logistical exercise, led by Peter Heslop at Arqiva. The reality is that Arqiva has to replace 5000 existing analogue and 500 lower-power digital transmitters with a new high-power digital network, ideally without anyone noticing!

 Tony Mattera explains how the roll-out plan minimises disruption to existing services, how the new network was designed, and how HD services were incorporated into the main roll-out and in advance of DSO for main population centres.

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This is a joint meeting with the IET.