Ground-based satellite services from our largest teleport
Nittedal Teleport, located just north of Oslo, Norway, is Telenor Satellite’s largest teleport, employing nearly 70 systems and operations engineers.
The earth station carries out TV/multimedia encoding, contribution and distribution services 24/7. It operates, monitors and manages all of Telenor Satellite’s TV contribution/uplink sites and offers occasional services with global connectivity.
Satellite connectivity
- Intelsat positions 359°East and 62°East
- World Skies positions 338°East and 57°East
- Eutelsat positions 7°East and 36°East
- THOR 10-02 S1 and S2, THOR 5 and THOR 6 at 1°West
Terrestrial connectivity
- Fibre to major broadcasters in Nordic region, UK and rest of Europe
- Fibre ring interconnecting Telenor Satellite’s satelite uplink stations in Europe
- Various STM1 and Internet Tier 1 backbone
Broadcast platforms
- DTH transmissions of more than 250 TV and 70 radio channels via 1°West
- Centralised head-end for transmission platforms
- DTT: delivery of 44 TV and 29 radio channels to Norway’s network
- IPTV: delivery of 400 unique SPTS to DSL and cable network operators
- Web TV: streaming of TV services to the internet
- VOD (video-on-demand) content delivery to cable and DTH networks
Datacomms platforms
- DVB-RCS and iDirect hub
- Various SCPC modem types
- Customer co-located equipment for hosting
Antennas
- 30 antennas ranging from 3.7m to 18m
- C- and Ku-band capabilities
- More than 80 high-power amplifiers
- Various RX/TX equipment, IF-and L-band distribution
Network operations centre
- 24/7 customer service desk and master control room (MCR)
- Service monitoring and control
- Request handling
- Incident management
- Engineering support
- Fault finding and service restoration
