The Briefing Room

David Anderson, chief technology officer of Beers Enterprises, Inc. (BEI) the parent company of The Switch™ announced today that the company has increased its network capacity between The New York Switch and The Miami Switch, and also between The Los Angeles Switch and The Miami Switch to OC-192 (10 Gbps). This expansion enables transport of uncompressed HD-SDI between NY, LA and Miami over The Switch’s Inter-City on Demand (ICOD) service, as well as uncompressed SDI, ASI and SDTI.

This follows a similar expansion from August of this year when The Switch first introduced uncompressed HD-SDI paths between NY and LA, also upgrading its fiber capacity to OC-192.

“Our customers have appreciated our offering of uncompressed HD and HD-SDI paths at such competitive rates,� said Scott Beers, president and CEO of Beers Enterprises, Inc. “With the success of our initial HD offerings, we wanted to continue to enhance our ICOD service by allowing the ability to transmit uncompressed HD between our three largest city pairs and in any direction.�

ICOD is a revolutionary transmission service that allows customers to select 270 Mbps SDI, JPEG 2000-compressed HD and uncompressed HD-SDI paths through touch-screen control computers eliminating the need to call a carrier. ICOD can be engaged for any length of time without incurring minimum transmission fees.

Beers continued, “With no booking fees or minimums for on demand service, customers have the ability to monitor expenses and pay for just what they need.�

The Switch and ICOD are registered trademarks of Beers Enterprises, Inc. The Switch provides customer-controlled video switching in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Miami, London, England and Toronto, Canada.