International Datacasting Tattoo DTH Satellite to IP Distribution Gateway System

IDC Tattoo IP Gateway

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Satellite‐to‐IP Gateway for DTH Satellite Operators

Tattoo Gateway enables direct‐to‐home (DTH) satellite operators to deliver their existing content cost effectively to a new subscriber base ‐ residential customers in MDUs.

Increase the Market for Existing Services

Part of the Digital Tattoo suite of products, Tattoo Gateway enables direct‐to‐home (DTH) satellite operators to expand the addressable market for their existing services by gaining access to residential customers living in multi‐dwelling units (MDUs). Tattoo Gateway helps overcome the distribution challenges currently faced by DTH operators wishing to expand in to this segment of the market.

High Density Satellite‐to‐IP Gateway

Installing a satellite dish for every resident is not generally embraced by MDU owners. Distributing satellite signals from a single dish to multiple apartments is expensive, and requires the MDU owner to invest in a dedicated RF distribution network which cannot be repurposed. IDC’s Tattoo Gateway uses IP to distribute content from a single satellite dish to every

MDU apartment over a standard Ethernet network.  This approach is easier and cheaper to implement, and the Ethernet infrastructure investments can be repurposed, allowing the MDU owner to offer residents lucrative additional services, such as internet connectivity, voice over IP, and surveillance camera monitoring.

Conditional Access Transparent

Tattoo Gateway is content and Conditional Access (CA) transparent. This enables DTH operators to keep their content encrypted all the way to the subscriber’s Set Top Box (STB), guaranteeing security, and allowing the same business systems used for CA and billing in DTH deployments to be used in MDU deployments.  Operators simply have to deploy an IP version of their STB to offer MDU subscribers the same user experience as their existing DTH customers.

Expanded DTH Service Offering

Tattoo Gateway enables DTH operators to increase the addressable market for their existing services by delivering linear content over Ethernet to new subscribers within MDUs. The broader Digital Tattoo solution also allows operators to expand their service offering within the MDU. Content can be delivered by satellite to a micro video server with the MDU which can

be used to provide a comprehensive Video on Demand (VOD) service. Server content is delivered and managed using IDC’s Centient media aware CDN platform. Once again, the content remains encrypted, and is accessed using the operator’s own Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and streamed over the MDU Ethernet network to residents’ STBs.