GTS Media Line
GTS Media Line
GTS Media Line is a professional solution developed to fulfil the specific needs of the media industry.
The service is the most professional and practical solution for media contribution and distribution. When rapidly increasingcosts of satellite transponders have become a significant cost burden for media customers, the GTS Media Line service provides a terrestrial solution for primary distribution that assures flexibility, resilience and the highest quality.With GTS Media Line, high definition video content can be easily distributed to large numbers of affiliates.High flexibility, scalability, professional management, industry standardised interfaces and coverage of the entire CE region are the principle advantages of the service.
With the GTS Media Line service, a variety of media formats can be transmitted including HDTV with compressed or uncompressed signals, while meeting specific media industry requirements.
Service Benefits
- Highly specific service developed for media distribution and contribution solutions
- Standardized media-interfaces - ASI, SDI, IP
- Variety of formats including SD and HD, compressed or uncompressed
- Loss-less redundancy, optionally
- Flexible bandwidth options available from 2Mbps to 10Gbps
- GTS provides its own management of the network and media solution
- In house, dedicated fully trained media technical specialists ready to build individual solutions according to your needs
- Excellent geographical reach across the central-European region
- Guaranteed Service Level Agreement.
Service parameters
| Attribute | Parameters | ||
| Managed variant | Unmanaged variant | ||
| Bandwidths | From 2Mbps to 10Gbps | ||
| Use | Permanent or occasional use. | ||
| Media Gateway | Provided as part of the service. | n/a | |
| Management | Yes, fully managed service, up to the media interfaces. |
Yes, up to data service interfaces. | |
| Interfaces |
ASI IP-Ethernet |
Ethernet | |
| Interface capacities | ASI: 2Mbps-200Mbps |
2Mbps - 10gbps. | |
| SD-SDI: 270Mbps HD-SDI: 1,5 Gbps HD-3G-SDI: 3Gbps |
JPEG2000 compression available, optionally. | ||
| IP: < 1Gbp | |||
| Redundancy/ switchover time | optional/ 0ms (loss-less) |
optional/ less than 50ms |
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GTS Media Line - scheme
Our optical backbone network enables us to offer our customers unrivalled capacity and excellent geographical reach across the central European region. The service can be set up for permanent or occasional use.

Our media service is designed to transmit live, broadcast quality video between any number of points on our regional media network with the highest quality, full control and resilience.
Service capabilities
GTS Media Line is designed for all applications in which on-line transmission of media content of the highest quality is required. The service is ideal for a variety of situations such as:
- Distribution- tranmission of media content (TV programs, films, multimedia files…) with local, national and international reach.Example: distribution of TV programs from primary distribution to cable TV/ IPTV/satellite TV operators.
- Contribution - interconnection of production locations with studios, or interconnection of TV studios.Example: connection of TV studios with sports stadiums or cultural event venues (concert halls, theatres)
- Special events - multimedia interconnection of two or more places for a one-time, specific, event.Example: interconnection of hospitals for the transmission of surgical procedures.
Coverage
The GTS Media Line service is based on our wholly owned network, with 17,000 km of fiber spanning the CEE region. Our dense metro networks allow us to offer our media customers unrivalled access possibilities.
GTS offers this service on its own fiber based backbone network across a five country footprint: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. In other countries, the solution is provided in cooperation with service partners.
