The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (ARABSAT), and the Egyptian Satellite Company (Nilesat) signed a strategic partnership agreement enabling ARABSAT to establish a new “ARABSAT Media Gateway” (“AMG”) from Cairo, located in Nilesat’s 6th of October City free zone area premises.
Engineer Khalid Ahmed Balkheyour, ARABSAT’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Amin Basyouni, Nilesat’s Chairman, have expressed their great mutual satisfaction and happiness towards having reached this key agreement in the satellite broadcasting field which will benefit millions of Arab viewers, considering it as a critical first step towards a further constructive and mutually beneficial cooperation.
This new Media Gateway will enable ARABSAT to provide the Egypt-based Broadcasters with direct access to a comprehensive range of video services such as Uplink and turnaround onto Arabsat’s 26°East 130Mn viewers neighborhood, full digital platform management, as well as extensive content processing such as playout, store and forward, transcoding, etc.
As part of its strategic move towards getting closer to its customers’ locations, this 9th AMG from ARABSAT will complement the ones already serving the MENA region from Amman-Jordan, Beirut-Lebanon, Bonn-Germany, Dubai-UAE, Madrid-Spain, Riyadh-KSA, Sharjah-UAE and Tunis-Tunisia.