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Du has announced its new satellite Teleport Facility, located in the Al Qudra area of Dubai, away from planned commercial and residential real-estate developments.
The new upgraded facility covers an area of 75,000 sq. meters and has been built to enable the expanding requirements of du broadcast customers, to deliver a superior service with a focus on service reliability and close control and monitoring of services uplinked from there. The facility is built to accommodate 50 earth station antenna systems with further room to expand.
Through its teleport, du serves regional and international broadcasting customers. The number of TV channels being uplinked by its current teleport facility has grown by 600 percent since it began operations in 2004. The new world-class facility at Al Qudra Site will cater to the growth in demand of satellite TV offering state of the art technology. The new site has larger antennas ensuring robust signal levels in transmission and reception. The initial planning of the site started in 2010 and after intensive checking in terms of the location, the technical
design phase started.