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  • Hathway looks to operate from three headends in Mumbai in the long term

    Submitted by ITV Production on Oct 03, 2001

    Broadband may be a while coming to Indian shores but the big MSOs are all readying the backend for it. Rajan Raheja-promoted Hathway Cable & Datacom, which recently moved its main operational centre to a state-of-the-art headend in the central Mumbai suburb of Parel, plans to consolidate all its headends into three main ones over the next two years.
    Hathway earlier had 14 headends controlling operations, mainly in south Mumbai and along the western suburbs. With the Parel headend going onstream, two control rooms in Worli and Mahim have been disbanded, Praveen Shrikande, CTO, Hathway says. According to Shrikande, the whole process will take two to three years.

    Due to the geographical layout of Mumbai (it is a linear city), it is not possible for Hathway go the way of Bangalore, where it has consolidated with a fiber optic backbone into one headend. Earlier Bangalore had five headends.

    The headend is the data centre for all Internet operations in Mumbai for Hathway. All points are hooked up from here through five CMTSs (cable modem termination system). Depending on the scheme under which a client has joined up, Hathway offers 64-512 kbps bandwidth Navroz P Behramfram, head - technical support, says. Hathway supplies modems as per client requirements but all models are DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Services Interface Specifications) compatible, Behramfram says.

    Explaining the operational set-up, Behramfram says satellite signals (for their 92 channel feed) are captured through nine dishes using L band or intermediate frequency (IF) distribution to receiver / decoders. Each decoder transmits a single channel AV and each channel is modulated and then mixed using the principle of frequency domain multiplexing. The objective here is to combine all the individual channel feeds. At the end of it all, a single optic fiber cable carries the feed out from the headend.

    Behramfram says the system that has been set up is structured in such a way that it is easy to trace which signal is going where and therefore in case of any problems, pinpointing the source is not difficult.

  • Hathway looks to operate from three headends in Mumbai in the long term

    Broadband may be a while coming to Indian shores but the big MSOs are all readying the backend for it.

  • Sony to air Disney series 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' from Sunday

    Submitted by ITV Production on Oct 02, 2001

    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, from the Walt Disney stable, is all set to make its splash on Indian television on Sunday 7 October 2001 on Sony Entertainment Television.

    The 65 episodes of the one-hour family adventure syndicated television series is distributed by Buena Vista and will air on Sundays at 11:00 am.

    The series, which ran for three seasons in the West, is dubbed in two languages to suite Indian audiences and will be aired in Hindi and Tamil on the Sony and Sun TV channels respectively.

    Made in Calgary in 1997, the series picks up from the point where the franchise movies of the same name Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ends. The high adventure sci-fi series is aimed at the entire family and chronicles the escapades of the Szalinski family.


    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

    Honey, I shrunk The Kids is the first non-animation series that Disney produced for television. In the US, the series ran for three seasons from September 97 to May 98, Sept 98 to 12 June 99 and Sept 99 to May 2000.

     

  • Sony to air Disney series 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' from Sunday

    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, from the Walt Disney stable, is all set to make its splash on Indian television on Sunday 7

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