An analog MMDS system was upgraded to digital by Rios & Cia in Santiago, Capital of Chile.The system now transmits multiple sports events from two different venues in high-quality HD Video format to more than 100 locations around the capital city of Santiago de Chile.

The upgrade implemented by Rios & Cia included the design of two headends for HD signals encoded in MPEG-4 format as well as the simultaneous upgrade to digital and frequency migration of two redundant PTP links feeding a redundant broadband MMDS transmitter.

Following concurrent transmission of analog and digital signals during a test period, Rios & Cia has recently completed upgrading the remote receive stations prior to commissioning of the system.According to Ricardo Rios, President of Rios & Cia, “The initial design, implementation and successful completion of this project has been facilitated greatly by the cooperation and assistance of Cable AML in all phases of the project.”