Plisch won the IBC2011 Innovation Award in Amsterdam under the category of content delivery for the “single frequency networks project for HD with DVB-T2″ with their partners DNA, Ericsson and Teamcast.

IBC is the premier annual event for television and broadcasting professionals world-wide.

The coveted IBC Innovation Award’s are awarded to company’s possessing the most innovative technology and solutions for media and broadcast technologies.

More: “IBC Innovation Award 2011″.

The coveted IBC Innovation Award’s are awarded to company’s possessing the most innovative technology and solutions for media and broadcast technologies.

The following three finalists have been nominated in the ‘Content Distribution’ category:

• Digital End-to-End. Delivery of movies and TV programmes to a large number of broadcast stations, head-ends, cinemas and web sites using technology from Accenture and AmberFin.
• Metro Ethernet Backbone. City-wide IP data exchange for the Brazilian broadcast station TV Globo using technologies from Cisco.
• Single Frequency Networks for HD television. Using a cellular approach, the Finnish broadcaster DNA deployed technologies from Plisch and TeamCast allowing rapid deployment and nation-wide broadcasting of DVB-T2.

Source: http://www.mebucom.de/news/events/Finalisten-des-IBC-Innovation-Awards-2011-2500.

French specialist Technology Investment Company, Innovacom invests in Plisch.

Plisch GmbH announces today that it has received investment funding of € 5m from the French specialist Technology Investment Company, Innovacom.
Mr. Heucke-Scheller, managing director of Plisch commented “this is a very exciting development for Plisch and we are delighted with the opportunities this now brings to the Company. As a visionary company, Innovacom’s investment will allow Plisch to accelerate its development activity and to expand its operations in overseas markets as the demand for our products increases”.

About Innovacom:

Innovacom, a venture capital company created in 1988, finances telecommunications and Internet start-up companies through funds open to institutional investors.
Innovacom has financed over 300 companies, 25 of which have been floated on the Paris Stock Exchange or other European and American stock exchanges. Its many notable successes include Business Objects, Micronas, Infovista, Intershop, Soitec, LastMinute.com, Alapage, Kelkoo, AuFéminin, Inventel, Netcentrex, Steek, Streamezzo and Digitick.

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This transmitter supplements the existing DVB-T coverage and can easily be changed over to the new standard DVB-T2 at any time.

We have won this exclusive contract to cover more than 75% of the country with DVB-T during the next years. Our partner Furrer AG delivers together with our transmitter equipment the most professional service to the customer TP Emitel.

Our partner Ericsson Oy acts as the system integrator for the customer DNA Oy which is a well-known telecommunication company in Finland.

Plisch provides customised liquid cooled DVB-T2 transmitter systems in 3+1 reserve configuration. These transmitters are equipped with redundant IP inputs and with our new precision GPS clock distribution unit PGC3000.

Up to the end of the year 2011, 60% of the Finnish population will be covered with DVB-T2. A further step is already planned to increase the coverage in the following years until 2014.

More on http://www.ericsson.com/news/1443995

In the course of DVB-T deployment, PLISCH delivers a 2+1 DVB-T transmitter with 1.5 kW output power to the BR for feeding Lindau city; location Pfänder.

To improve coverage, two DVB-T transmitters with 3 kW resp. 4 kW output power are delivered to the NDR; location Visselhövede.

• SCU:
  1512:
  Bug fix for 1412: Dual Drive switch-over unit was not ready in SFN for TX B in reserve.
  1412:
  New trap in Private MIB for N+1, indicating impossible switch-over when reserve is occupied.
  0512:
  No more Bit-Bus message about automatic input switch-over for DAB, as this is pointless and rather disturbing with seamless switching (similar to SNMP TCMIB).
  0412:
  As of 4611.
  4611:
  As of 4311.
  4311:
  As of 4211.
  4211:
  As of 3911.
  3911:
  Switch-over delay for LAN fault reduced to 12 s. Delay against unintended switch-over in case of IP input signal disturbance.
  2711:
  Evaluation of reference fault is now independent of the type of reference locking, thus preventing erroneous switch-over.
  1711:
  As of 1211.
  1211:
  Web pages for Low Power Transmitters reworked (invalid dispensable information removed). Unintended and missing switch-over during run-in phase of DVB “MAX” modulator corrected.
  1011:
  Regression corrected: The links to the exciters on the Overview page as well as to the system switch were no longer opened in a new window/tab. Unintended occasional double fault acknowledgement to the exciters fixed. Warning for power loss compensation is now correctly assigned to power amplifiers.
  0911:
  Private MIB SNMP traps from the exciters are now correctly routed to the outside. The informations of the “Switch-Over Unit” web page are now available also by SNMP.
• Exciter:
  1512:
  As of 1412.
  1412:
  DVB “MT2″, DVB “MHX” and ISDB modulators: Reloading of precorrector settings now working correctly.
  DVB “MT2″ modulator and IP input module: Auto switch back for IP input reserve added.
  DVB “MT2″ modulator: Obsolete indications “IP Bitrate too high” and “IP Latency too low” removed; SFN delay source setup and SFN time margin status added (S103); ASI input switch over on modulator setup pages hidden on IP input reserve; run-in phase like for DVB “MAX” modulator.
  AVB modulator: CW output signal with 6dB reduced power in case of missing input signal; “BrightEye” SDI converter integrated.
  Unlocked 10MHz PLL in SFN mode now only warning for all modulators.
  DAB “MHX” modulator and DVB “PTV” transposer/repeater inplemented.
  0512:
  Corrected positioning of muting display fields for DVB and DVB “MAX” modulators.
  0412:
  Upgrade of DVB “MT2″ modulator now available via the web interface. Source of modulator muting now also displayed for DVB and DVB “MAX” modulators. DAB: Missing MNSC was notified only if all parameter sources (delay and TII) were set to MNSC.
  4611:
  DVB2 modulator: Monitoring of bus connection. DVB “MT2″ modulator: Corrected ASI/IP input selection, Cell ID insertion now switchable. DVB “PTV” modulator: Static delay settable also with parameter source MIP. DVB “MT2″ and DVB “PTV” modulators: ASI test output now selectable, ASI1/2 instead of active ASI. DVB2 and DVB “MT2″ modulators: Display of network ID and system ID on actual operating parameters. All modules: Type and serial numbers are now displayed on the status web pages.
  4311:
  DVB “PTV” modulator: Supervision of external reference signals now working correctly; loading of configuration from USB/file rightly restores the precorrector data; external 1PPS input set to 50 Ohm.
  
  4211:
  DVB “MT2″ modulator: Corrected linear precorrection, input automatic with selectable switch-back, muting on error in SFN with selectable holdover time.
  3911:
  IP input module: Monitoring of bus connection as well as check of multicast group addresses with refresh in case of fault. DVB “MHX” modulator: Muting on error now selectable, muting source now displayed, no muting on unlocked PLL due to run-in time, software version now displayed on update web page. DVB modulator (MOD 2000): Muting on error now selectable, fix for incorrectly applied stored non-linear precorrection after booting. All modules: No more irritating warnings and event entries in case of software/hardware problem. Exciter restart button on sysconfig webpage plus related event log entry. Software and hardware versions of the modules are now displayed on the status web pages. DVB “MT2″, DVB “PTV” and ISDB modulators implemented.
  2711:
  Warning note on main setup web pages now in warning colour (customer request).
  1711:
  Multiple PLP support with DVB-T2 modulator introduced, available since modulator firmware S130. IP input module: Input switch-over and monitoring corrected, MAC addresses of input interfaces are now displayed.
  1211:
  Precorrection for DVB-T2 modulator corrected. Hard reset of IP input module added in web interface. One more selectable message assignment for remote relay interface in Low Power TX: “Input Signal Present – Power Alarm – Power Warning”.
  1011:
  10MHz PLL warning of DVB-T2 modulator suppressed if locking set to internal. Useless and confusing display of Transport Stream 2 hidden from DVB modulator status page in connection with IP input module in IP input reserve. Power compensation pushed down already at -0.1dB instead of 0dB output power to handle tolerances; related warning suppressed while power switched off.
  0911:
  Warning if modulator is switched to testmode (dangerous in SFN). Warning if neither ETI1 nor ETI2 are present (customer request). Missing TIST and TIST fault are now only warning instead of alarm (modulator can continue running in SFN).
• General:
  1512:
  As of 1412.
  1412:
  As of 0512.
  0512:
  As of 0412.
  0412:
  As of 4611.
  4611:
  SNMP OIDs of all modulator types are now delegated from SCU to the exciters.
  4311:
  SNMP get requests on multiple OIDs now working also with variables delegated from SCU to exciters.
  
  4211:
  Configuration save/load (USB/file) was no longer working (bug in 3911).
  3911:
  As of 2711.
  2711:
  Usernames and passwords can now be obtained from an LDAP server, related setup located under “Network Configuration – LDAP”. The usernames are arbitrary, each user has on the server assigned an access rule (role) which is one of the local usernames defining the access rights.
  1711:
  Many french text corrections.
  1211:
  As of 0911.
  1011:
  As of 0911.
  0911:
  Disabling of the IRT-MIB SNMP traps in local mode now settable in the web interface. Community name can now be specified for SNMP traps.
• Eventlist:
  0412:
  The last max. 10 cleared lists are now saved and can be downloaded as ZIP archive via the web interface.
  4611:
  Can now be cleared via the web interface.
  3911:
  Additional entries for modulator soft reset, module hard reset, module upgrade and software update/revert of SCU and exciter.
  1711:
  The list of current events can now be downloaded too from the device as CSV file.

Important correction of timers for event processing (they expired 99 days after (re)boot and were not restarted): If you experience inexplicable phenomenons, please at first update to this release!

 
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