SES to 'make life easier' for broadcasters

摘要

Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES is well-known for its global supply of capacity. Back in 2004 SES acquired Digital Playout Centre, founded in 1996 by Leo Kirch, and created to supply Kirch Group's Premiere pay-TV operation and then Sky Deutschiand with technical services including playout, asset management and uplinking to its satellites. Since then Astra Platform Services as it was known, and now under its new name of SES Platform Services (SPS), has won a significant number of interesting contracts. However, SES now intends to rapidly expand its reach into the services and facilities market. It has already placed staff in Johannesburg, Singapore and the USA, and is looking to invest in further expansion in Latin America, India and elsewhere, and to tap into what SPS CEO Wilfred Urner describes as a logical next step for the fast-growing business, and well beyond traditional organic growth.