Oman’s national broadcaster Oman TV has selected Germany’s Rohde & Schwarz to supply and install a DVB-T2 network to provide digital terrestrial television (DTT) across the country.
The contract, worth more than OMR10 million (€22 million), places Rohde & Schwarz as the prime contractor to set up, on a turnkey basis, a nationwide DVB-T2 digital TV network with 69 sites. The planned implementation will be within 28 months.
The contract comprises the DVB-T2 signal processing and transmitter infrastructure, including: headend; transmitters from 50 W to 5 kW for 56 sites; transposer systems for 13 sites (all units in 1+1 standby configuration); programme feed and monitoring equipment including transport stream analysers, satellite receivers and multiviewers for 56 sites; network management systems for 21 sites; and diverse test and measurement instruments.
In addition, products from other manufacturers, installed by local subcontractors, will include UHF TV antennas, satellite dish antennas, feeders, mask filters, dummy loads, voltage regulators, power distribution boards, shelters, towers, air conditioners, generators and firefighting equipment.
Consultants for the DTT broadcast project, Public Authority for Radio and Television Omani team, have been responsible for the design and the technical specifications for the project.
The new network will gradually be rolled out between January 2017 and September 2018, after which Oman’s analogue TV will cease to broadcast.
This is the latest in a string of Middle East DTT successes for Rohde and Schwartz, which has already supplied DVB-T2 network infrastructure in Qatar, Bahrain, Sharjah and Jordan.
