Infrastructure

In addition, Translumina operates numerous points of presence in all major cities, e.g. Frankfurt (Germany) and Vienna (Austria), where the company connects to partners and subscribers.

In all three main data centers, Translumina provides collocation space for customers and partners as well as peering interconnections of up to several Gbps speeds.

In its core, this backbone runs at 8 Gbps, thus supporting the broadcasting of more than 2000 TV channels. The entire IP network is strictly QoS managed, i.e. the same infrastructure can be used to transport data, voice and TV services. In addition, the backbone supports multi-cast addressing schemes, which allow to scale the large numbers of subscribers.

This infrastructure allows to receive TV signals from the satellite and to prepare them multicasting over the IP backbone network. Most TV streams are available in different qualities/bandwidth configurations; they can be transmitted in high quality (up to HD quality) over fiber access networks or highly compressed over low bandwidth access lines, such as ADSL.

Of course, Translumina has obtained the rights to diseminate the related TV streams availale in its network.

Translumina operates an own middleware infrastructure supporting value added TV services, such as electronic programming guide (EPG) as well as conditional access to stream Pay-TV stations.

This includes the support for emergency calls, the use of service numbers (0800, 0900) as well as all legal requirements such as lawful interception. Customers can connect to this telephone network by using either legacy interfaces (analog, digital or ISDN) or SIP trunk interfaces.

In addition, Translumina is able to provide voice services world-wide through national interconnection points in various countries.

The voice and telephony infrastructure supports many value added services, such as voice and fax mailboxes, conference servers, IVR and ACD.