BT Broadcast Services' end-to-end fiber and satellite services are bringing transmission of the US Open live to Europe and Australia from today. Broadcast right holders Eurosport and Network 9 Australia respectively turned to BT Broadcast Services (BT) for complete, all-digital solutions, according to a company release.

For the fifth year, BT Broadcast Services is providing transmission services for this event with this year's solution featuring utilisation of its global, all-digital infrastructure, which includes the integration and coordination of a turnkey system including a hybrid of satellite and fiber capabilities.

BT's solution starts at The Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows, transmitting to multiple destinations in Europe using BT's Ku-band "Special Events Mux", uplinking five simultaneous channels of 36 MHz to the new NSS 7 satellite. The same flyaway will also transmit a SCPC (Single Channel Per Carrier) signal to NSS 7 for unilateral contribution feeds for stand-up shots and various ad hoc feeds. BT's C-band flyaway will uplink 18 Mhz of capacity to AMC4 to be used as a domestic backhaul path to BT's Media Center in Los Angeles and uplinked to Network 9's full time service also provided by BT on IS 180(Degree) for a downlink in Australia states the release.

Finally a 270 Mbit local fiber loop from the venue to BT's New York switch at 60 Hudson Street is used as a fiber backup to the satellite feed to Australia.

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