Direct to Home (DTH)
Asia Broadcast Satellite is actively working to create Asia's first open-access DTH neighborhood, using the Southern Beam of ABS-1. ABS-1 offers the widest coverage of any Ku-band satellite in Asia, reaching from Central Europe to the Far East. Our Southern Beam extends North to Mongolia and South to Thailand. We have established gateway teleports for easy access to our high-powered Ku-band platform from Europe and Asia, with additional fiber connectivity extending our gateways to North America.
With billions of potential viewers under our wide coverage, ABS-1 is the perfect platform for TV and Radio channels looking to bypass the process of securing carriage on cable systems. Only a small percentage of Asian TV households have access to multi-channel television, due to lack of availability, monopoly, or prohibitive pricing. ABS-1 bridges this gap, making all of Asia your potential market.
ABS offers a complete solution to interested customers, including:- Channel acquisition (i.e. downlink from an existing satellite feed)
- Bitrate shaping and grooming
- Conditional access (optional)
- Statistical multiplexing on a full-transponder MCPC platform
- Common Electronic Program Guide for all channels
- Uplink to ABS-1 Southern Beam
- Extensive downlink coverage using 90 cm or smaller antennas