Want to transit your media?
No matter how big or small your audience, we provide a number of satellite services throughout Australia and New Zealand, including:
- Free-to-air DTH (direct-to-home) television broadcasting
- Pay DTH television broadcasting
- Television distribution to hill-top terrestrial transmitter towers
- Voice and data satellite services
- Emergency Services and Mobile Black Spot backhaul connectivity
- Optus Occasional Use, which is a satellite service to distribute a digital television signal across Australia
- The Optus Aurora Digital service. This is a digital distribution system designed to deliver very large files from the Optus Belrose Satellite Operations Centre to any location throughout Australia and New Zealand, where the Optus satellite beam coverage is available
Aurora Digital
As Australia’s leading satellite provider, we’re striving to continuously create innovative broadcast solutions for our customers. And, in turn, their customers.
One of these innovations is Aurora Digital – a direct-to-home satellite broadcasting service to all Australians. This service allows you to reach hundreds of thousands of satellite receivers, in all areas of Australia, simultaneously with a single transmission. This is particularly useful for digital television and radio content.
The Optus Aurora Digital platform supports three satellite broadcast products:
- RemoteCast: Free-to-air television and radio services provided to rural and remote areas of Australia. These are also known as “Viewer Access Satellite Television”, or VAST
- MultiCast: NarrowCast television services for closed (eg. content for pubs and clubs, cinemas) or open viewer groups. Open content is available to anyone with an Aurora Digital set-top box
- AudioCast: NarrowCast radio services for closed or open groups. There are around 100 audio-only channels on the Aurora Digital platform
All Aurora Digital services have a state-of-the-art conditional access system applied, using a combination of smart cards and digital encryption to help protect content from unauthorised access. Direct-to-home reception is easy to install and manage – all a user needs is a small satellite dish and an Aurora Digital (or VAST) set-top box.
The set-top box receives the signal from the satellite dish on the roof of the user’s home, then decodes the selected television or radio channel. Aurora Digital services can be integrated with other Optus national and international satellite services providing network design flexibility.
A service tailored for you
Your Aurora Digital services will include the following features:
- Broadcast satellite transmission
- Viewer management system
- Conditional access system
- Electronic program guide
- Bouquet assignment
Customise your plan with additional services
- Fibre backhaul
- Backup uplink
- Rain diversity
- Disaster recovery or business continuity options
- Data casting using private data transmission (eg. for file transfer)
- Installation and maintenance services
- Billing
- Virtual Network Operator
- White labelling for own channel branding
Additional benefits of Aurora Digital
- You’ll gain access to set-top boxes across Australia
- Open narrowcasters have ready access to a platform and an audience – you don’t have to be a national or regional broadcaster
- In most population centres, the satellite dish size required for Aurora Digital is just 65cm
- The controlled set top box offers full compatibility with the Aurora Digital platform and helps maintain content security
- Virtual network operator capability allows small customers to operate as full broadcasters by leveraging Optus’ scale and systems
- Optus provides uplink equipment redundancy to protect against equipment failure
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