How is a signal beamed from other hemisphere?

[DruzeTito]

i have always wondered how they beam a channel that is not reachable from north america to north america.

For example, an uplink station uplinks at Hot Bird, but they now have the dough and the idea and want people in NA to watch , for example to IA 5. What is the method taken for this?

[vj9999]

Here is the example how Globacst delivers HRT:

PARIS, 17 November 2003 – GlobeCast, the world’s leading satellite service provider, announced today that it is distributing Picture of Croatia and Voice of Croatia via its GlobeCast WorldTV direct-to-home satellite platforms in North America (Intelsat Americas 5) and Australia (Optus B3), as well as on NSS 806 in Latin America. Picture of Croatia and Voice of Croatia are digital networks produced by Croatian public broadcaster HRT (Hrvatska Radio Televizija).

GlobeCast - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is the world’s leading satellite services company, operating a global network of satellite distribution platforms for broadcast and advanced content delivery. GlobeCast WorldTV is the fastest growing community of international television and radio channels on DTH satellite, available via Intelsat Americas 5 in North America and Optus B3/C1 in Australia.

HRT is benefiting from GlobeCast’s global presence and reach with a seamless, end-to-end solution involving both satellite and fiber and including transmission, turnaround, multiplexing, standards conversion and space capacity. GlobeCast receives HRT’s feed at its Paris technical operation centers and provides uplink to NSS 806 for broadcast to Latin America and turnaround to North America at its Miami Gateway. GlobeCast then delivers HRT’s signal across its ATM fiber network to the company’s Los Angeles teleport for transmission onto GlobeCast WorldTV on Intelsat Americas 5, as well as turnaround to GlobeCast’s Sydney teleport on Intelsat 180 for distribution to the GlobeCast WorldTV platform on Optus B3 in Australia and New Zealand.


http://www.globecast.com/_2004/_0_li...117_hrtdth.htm

[DruzeTito]

Ahh just what i was looking for Thanks Vj. Few questions though..

Since gc receives HRTs signal through Hot Bird 6, if this satellite unexpectedly goes out, does the channel in IA5, NSS 806, and Optus go out?

Why don't they uplink the cband signal they receive in Miami from NSS right to IA 5 and instead transfer it through fiber networks to LA?

Also, where the heck is intelsat 180?

And finally, do you know the path Pink Plus takes?