Argosy, supplier of HD broadcast, cables and studio infrastructure products, has provided a range of its infrastructure products to Dishtv, the largest pay TV DTH platform in India. This installation forms part of an ongoing programme by Dishtv to expand to its facilities at its playout centre in Noida.

Dishtv has continued to show its confidence in Argosy products including Argosy's Image HD video cables, connectors, mains distributions units (MDUs), routers, video and audio patch panels, racks, audio monitoring equipment and an array of tools such as crimping tools, cutters and strippers, by choosing Argosy as its preferred partner.

"We have had a longstanding relationship with Argosy and chose their infrastructure equipment primarily because the company not only distribute some of the best quality products on the market, they also have one of the largest range of the right products," said Rajiv Khattar, president of projects at Dishtv. "The team at Argosy understand our business drivers and continuously deliver the highest quality products, in the shortest possible time to meet our exacting requirements."

As the largest DTH operator in India, Dishtv provides over 250 channels from its playout facility in Delhi. The majority of these are third party channels which are down linked at the Dishtv facilities before being uplinked to viewers. However Dishtv also Teleports content for 50 channels on its own playout network, with some channels being distributed as far afield as the UK and the USA, South Africa and Russia.

"We are delighted to be engaged in such a longstanding, close partnership with an organisation like Dishtv, as they continue to lead the way in the DTH market in India," said Bob Clark, director at Argosy. "Dishtv continues to regularly expand its playout facilities - and we work closely with their engineering teams across the four entertainment companies in the group to ensure that we keep on delivering products that meet their ongoing mission-critical transmission needs. Furthermore we stock limited spares of our equipment locally in India which allows us to expedite orders to customer like Dishtv as and when these are needed - ensuring we provide the best-of-breed solutions on time and within budget."

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