NASA Clears IPTV for Takeoff in Calif.(Internet Protocol TV)
Multichannel News, December, 2006 by Spangler, Todd
By Todd Spangler Space Agency Goes With Technology for Internal Video Internet Protocol TV has officially become a space-age technology. Next month NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., plans to flip on an IPTV system to broadcast news and weather channels over its internal 1-Gigabit-per-second Ethernet network, along with its own channels that carry live video of flight tests.
The IPTV system will replace an analog radio-frequency cable switch that the center currently uses to distribute CNN, C-SPAN, The Weather Channel and NASA-generated video channels to televisions. Dryden is using Optibase's MGW 1100, a multicast streaming-video system that provides MPEG-4 H.264 video and audio. The center's approximately 1,000...
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