Tandberg, Larscom To Deliver MPEG Transport Services

Larscom, a provider of network access equipment has announced a co-marketing agreement with Tandberg Television to offer video over IP solutions.

Under the terms of the agreement, Tandberg may bundle its MPEG-2 encoders and IRDs with Larscom's Orion 2000 Inverse Multiplexing (IMUX) system over ATM (IMA) to transport high-definition MPEG contribution video from remote sites to network distribution hubs.

The IMUX system allows more bandwidth to be extracted from an existing copper infrastructure to save operational expenses for companies using high-definition video services. An inverse multiplexer takes a data stream that is too large for a single transmission, and breaks it down into smaller pieces. The pieces are transmitted over separate transmission paths to the receiving end where they are reassembled into the original data stream.

The system "enables proliferation of digital video to remote and often underserved locations and provides strong economic benefits over expensive fiber-based alternatives," said Gurdip Jande, vice president of marketing at Larscom.