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0'8 7HFKQRORJ\ 3URYLGHUV EQUIPMENT – VIDEO HEADEND, VIDEO DISTRIBUTION AND RELATED These companies offer equipment specifically related to distributing video services within MDUs. Company Featured Products or Services Advanced Media Technologies Arris Racked, wired, balanced and tested headends built with Blonder Tongue products using a space-saving design. HEMi Head End Micro solution – digital-video solution for local and edge channel insertion in MDUs and closed-community markets; ConvergeMedia XMS Mini – VOD and stand- alone linear ad insertion for MDUs. ATX Networks HD encoding card that enables the existing line of products to perform HD encoding in MPEG-2 and H.264 formats; Mini Digital Video Insertion System for MDUs that provides a means to insert locally generated MDU content into an MDU network. Blonder Tongue Laboratories DIRECTV The new HDE-2H/2S-QAM, the company's fourth- generation MPEG-2 HD encoder, accepts up to four high-definition programs and provides simultaneous outputs in QAM, IP and ASI formats. The D2 Advantage video distribution system, adaptable to any size property, delivers satellite signals from one or two dishes over a single wire to a compact lockbox housing the 32-channel Single Wire Multi-Switch units that transmit signals over existing coaxial cable to customers' receivers. DISH Network DISH Optical Network: an antenna transmits a signal to a centralized distribution system that streams programming through fiber optic cable. QAM Digital: signal is transmitted from a centralized distribution system directly to residents' individual receivers. SMATV: a single DISH antenna delivers a signal to a centralized distribution system. Display Systems International LineUp, a scrolling TV listings guide that can be integrated with a video messaging system to display advertisements or community information and generate revenue; VIP, a remote media player that powers local cable channels and signage displays; data services for interactive programming guides. Foxcom Foxcom Compact series, in a small-footprint, wall-mountable housing, that distributes up to 5 L-band signals, along with SMATV/CATV signals, on a single fiber; conventional chassis solutions that offer design flexibility in point-to-multipoint architectures. Multicom Wide range of digital headend products from Blonder Tongue, Drake, Pico Digital, ZeeVee and others; headend assembly, including racking, balancing, custom crating and shipping. ATX introduces Active Digital Access Control products that deliver customized content to hospitality or MDU customers. The units accept a full content lineup from the headend and allow operators to pass only selected content from the lineup (no filters required). The units also accommodate local content insertion requirements. Blonder Tongue Laboratories acquires R.L. Drake, another leader in the supply of CATV and satellite signal processing and distribution equipment. Recent News 54 | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com | OCTOBER 2012