Our Infrastructure

SHEZBELA BROADCAST uses SRT and PRO TXRX technology to broadcast its nationwide contents. These technologies are scalable technologies that eliminate loss of pallets and glitches in transmissions. SHEZBELA BROADCAST has installed retransmission sites across the departments in the country to ensure seamless DTH-FTA broadcast over the country.

SHEZBELA BROADCAST deploys ultra-modern mime types and formats for multiple interactive end-user experience. SHEZBELA BROADCAST integrates and manages multiple DTH and KSDS platforms systems. Through the years SHEZBELA BROADCAST has been prominent with its carrier bandwidths of data traffic on satellite and wireless networks for most of the corporations and telecoms in Zimbabwe. Our in-depth knowledge and practice of top notch effective and efficient transmission technologies for content broadcast and data transport has honoured us the leading and formidable position as the best reliable intermediary multimedia broadcast entity in the country.

SHEZBELA BROADCAST head-end infrastructure equipment is a system of hardware and software that enables contribution feeds to encode, decode, transcode, encrypt, multiplex, and deliver video-audio and data transmissions over multiple broadcast networks. It consists of video encoders, decoders, modulators, multiplexers, modems, and IRDs.

SHEZBELA BROADCAST head-end equipment is used to convert WAV AV signals into digital AV signals for broadcasting over DTH-FTA-OTT networks. It also allows for the integration of data routing services such as VOD INTERNET TV and CATCH-UP TV services. SHEZBELA BROADCAST ensured that their latest head-end equipment are future ready for the services required by telecoms, digital wireless operators, and TV broadcasters who desire to deliver digital services such as DTH TV, DTT TV, IPTV, STREAM TV and many more.

SHEZBELA BROADCAST installs the largest AV data contribution and monitoring centre in the country. This enables us to understand the incoming feed and its parameters for transcoding and re-routing when applicable. The centre is equipped with facilities that analysis the quality of the content on 24/7 basis and monitors the performance of the feed for upgrades.

Each remote site is interconnected to this centre for effective monitoring control and swift response to downtime operations. The centre monitors the functions and operations of the uplinks and downlinks of the DTH services over the country as well as the DTT retransmissions.

Customer support is a key yardstick of our operations. With this in view, the monitoring centre ensures to cumulate report in order to inform broadcasters to emulate high level customer satisfaction services.

SHEZBELA BROADCAST installs remote DTH headed equipment that includes multiple devices designed to support ASI, SDI, FIBER and HDMI interfaces and as well as RTSP/RTP/UDP/HTTP/TS/RTMP multicast and unicast protocols.

These protocols aids the seamless functions of subtitles, multilingual support, software upgrades, file playback and diverse video output solutions up to full HD. The systems integrate DTH, DTT and OTT broadcast simultaneously, making them suitable for interactive broadcast experience.

The systems interactive touch screen LCD and NMS (Network Management Software) configured on the devices, fosters easy operation and efficient management.

Additionally, their high integration designs makes them suitable for a variety of applications, such as professional broadcast VMIX, OBS, MUXTX, XTV, TELE2, TRICAST TX systems and many more. One interesting function of ;the remote head-end systems are the Remote HD multi-window video conferences, Remote HD education, Remote HD medical assist, Live regional insertion Broadcasts.

Our interactive TV service trends enormously among the youth. The interactive service allows the user to indicate their thoughts over a broadcast content.

Further, the service offers users to form groups and discuss the relevance of the broadcast content. These interactive services have changed the user interface systems of television experience in Zimbabwe.

SHEZBELA BROADCAST installed these interactive applications and systems to offer convenient viewing experience for the people of Zimbabwe especially the youth as they also express their views.