The Issue Teracom AB owns and operates the Swedish terrestrial network for radio and TV. Teracom launched the first digital terrestrial TV services in Sweden already 1999. In order to become more competitive Teracom wanted to introduce HD channels in the network during 2010 which required Teracom to upgrade their national terrestrial network in order to meet the increased capacity demand. Teracom wanted its network to be based on the new standard for Digital Terrestrial TV, DVB-T2, which offers better utilization of capacity, which can be used for HDTV and other value adding services. The solution “In order to make the introduction of HDTV possible, the existing network needed more capacity”, explains PEO Gaasvik, CTO at Teracom AB. A key requirement on the new transport network

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