The video test infrastructure being implemented by CNC includes Tektronix PQA500 picture quality analyzers, WFM7120 waveform monitors, MTM400 MPEG-TS monitors, and an MTS430 MPEG test system.

CNC, a broadband communications and fixed-line telecommunications operator, is responsible for transmitting video signals to the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) from all the Olympic competition venues in seven cities.

Tektronix provided NBC with WFM7120 monitors, WVR7120 rasterizers and TG700 signal generators for ensuring signal quality during the Games.

Test and measurement equipment manufacturer Tektronix Inc. recently donated picture-quality measurement equipment to Portland State University. PSU will use Tektronix MTS210 MPEG test systems and a PQA200 picture-quality analyzer in a new digital video laboratory that PSU Engineering will build. The lab will be used f

Mississippi Education Broadcasting Television, an eight-station public television network, ordered $3.2 million in transmission equipment from Harris Corp.'s Broadcast Communication Division to aid the network's transition to digital broadcasting. The public television network bought a Platinum CD VHF digital transmit

Tektronix recently announced its RSA6100A series of real-time spectrum analyzers. The analyzers are designed specifically for digital RF systems, simultaneously delivering 110 MHz real-time bandwidth and 73 dB spurious-free dynamic range. Signal instabilities and previously invisible transients can now be captured usin

Harris Corp. is buying Aastra Digital Video, a business unit of Canadian company Aastra Technologies Ltd. , for about $35 million. Harris said the deal broadens its Total Content Delivery solutions. Tim Thorsteinson, president of Harris Broadcast Communications Division said the acquisition would enable Harris to o

Citing potential “synergies and cost savings,” industrial conglomerate Danaher Corp. is poised to acquire test and measurement giant Tektronix for $2.8 billion.