Allegro 3GPP Mobile TV Transcoders Operated by GO

PARIS, September 8 /PRNewswire/ — GO, Malta’s leading quadruple-play
operator, uses Allegro transcoders for simultaneous 3GPP Mobile TV and WMV
broadcasting.

Allegro AL2000 transcoders
(http://www.allegrodvt.com/products-live-encoders-transcoders-mosaic-
al2000.php) enable the same program to be broadcast simultaneously to three
screens, reaching the widest possible audience on IPTV, Internet TV and
Mobile TV. Transcoders ingest compressed audio/video content, integrate
operations such as video resize, frame rate change, and audio adjustment, and
deliver it transcoded to a variety of codecs and transport modes, adapted to
DVB, 3GPP, iPhone, Windows Media, Silverlight, Flash, ISDB-Tb, and T-DMB
players, mobile phones, and set-top boxes. A single 1 RU unit delivers up to
32 encoding profiles for unrivaled integration. It also offers redundancy,
advanced network options, and graphical control for easier operation.

GO (http://www.go.com.mt/) is currently operating Allegro AL2000
(http://www.allegrodvt.com/products-live-encoders-transcoders-mosaic-
al2000.php) transcoders for delivering Mobile TV over a nationwide 3G/3.5G
(HSDPA) network. Twenty-four live channels are delivered to GO mobile
subscribers using 3GPP (RTSP) streaming and a selection of local channels
broadcast over broadband using WMV. The integrated Allegro solution enables
the operator to re-purpose content from the Digital Terrestrial TV Headend
enabling it to reach its viewers whether they are in front of the TV, using
their mobile phone or on the PC.

Kelvin Camenzuli, Senior Manager of GO’s Video and Network Operation
Centres, commented “We wanted to re-use the MPEG-2 streams from our all-IP
headend core to offer content to our mobile and broadband subscribers.
Allegro transcoders fit the requirements perfectly: efficient and high
quality transcoding on a flexible and intuitive platform”.

Henry Gauci, Technical Architect at GO, who leads the integration and
development of GO’s multimedia services added, “We also plan to use this
platform to improve our mobile TV viewer’s experience since it can provide us
with multirate streams capable of enabling dynamic bitrate adaptation”.

About Allegro

Allegro is a leading provider of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC solutions, including
industry standard compliance test suites and real-time audio/video encoders
and transcoders. Allegro products have been chosen by more than 55 major IC
providers, OEMs and broadcasters.

See: http://www.allegrodvt.com

About GO p.l.c.

GO is Malta’s first quadruple play operator, a truly converged and
integrated telecommunications company with a wide range of services. As
Malta’s leading provider of telecommunications services, GO offers fixed
phone, mobile telephony, broadband internet services, digital tv, in addition
to business-related services like data networking solutions, business IP
services, managed and co-location facilities.

GO has been in the business of communications for the past 30 years and
our major shareholder is Emirates International Telecommunications LLC (EIT),
a joint venture between TECOM Investments and Dubai Investment Group – both
part of Dubai Holding. The remaining shares are traded on the Malta and
London Stock Exchanges.

See: http://www.go.com.mt

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