Castor offers high-quality and flexible global distribution services to content providers. We offer our customers comprehensive and flexible solutions, which address their content distribution needs to broadcast to specific regions or expand to global broadcasts in a cost-effective manner. This is accomplished through services utilizing a combination of satellite transmission capacity, terrestrial fiber optic transmission capacity and the public Internet in a manner that is customized for each customer and its changing needs. Our distribution services include both distribution solutions to professional head-ends as well as consumer broadcasting Direct-to-Home, Direct-to-PC, IPTV and Direct-to-mobile.

Content Distribution services

We are an innovative provider of comprehensive transmission services to the global broadcasting industry. As an owner-operator of two teleports and a leased fiber network we provide end-to-end distribution, uplink, downlink and turnaround services including encryption, encoding, and other services on both a continuous and occasional basis. Our distribution services include:

• End-to-end transmission services to transmit programming from/to a studio to/from a professional head-end;
• Uplink services to transmit programming to a satellite;
• Turnaround services for immediate re-transmission of broadcasts;
• Permanent satellite capacity and Occasional Use services;
• Internet Streaming to consumers TV, PC or mobile;
• MediaHub services which include encoding, transcoding, standards conversion, advertising Blackout and Insertion services.

24x7 Monitoring, Control and Support

Castor provides 24x7 support for all its services and monitors all hardware elements, the satellite carrier, partner Content Distribution Networks as well as any software based elements within the end-to-end solution being offered to the customer.

For more information concerning Castor’s Broadcasting services please contact us.