40 Playbox Neo Channel in a Box servers have been installed in the Nilesat’s headquarters located in Cairo (Egypt). The system has been provided by Modern Broadcast Center (MBC), a partner of Playbox Neo.

According to Mohamed Samir, Broadcast Manager of Nilesat, the company needed a “robus operation platform” with “user-friendly control, easy expandability and good technical support”. Finally, the company, which streams through its range of satellites over 700 television channels, chose PlayBox Neo’s technology due to “its proven success at many leading broadcast networks and playout service-providers around the world”.

Sabri Arafa, SEO of MBC, has explained the installation: “The system we have supplied includes 40 AirBox Neo Playours servers in one-plus-one configuration. A great strength of AirBox Neo is its modularity which allows us to specify the exact capabilities needed to accomplish each project. The elements selected for the Nilesat project comprise AirBox Neo playout, CaptureBox Neo ingest, Titlebox Neo graphics preparation and titling, SafeBox Neo content and playout transfer, Multi Playout Manager monitoring and control and Multi-Backup Manager”.

“Installed in the apparatus room, the servers are currently being used for HD and SD channel playout and can be operated in UHD if required in the future. Playout is supervised from the facility’s presentation control suite which is among the largest of its kind in the Middle East”.

Airbox Neo’s technology can deliver output in SD, HD or UHD SDI, in DVB/ATS-compliant IP streams or in web-based formats like RTMP.