Teleports

in the past there were very few options available for delivering high-quality video signals for contribution applications over long distances and all of them were expensive and had long lead times. Satellite connections had to be booked in advance, costly space segments were necessary and required relatively expensive terminal equipment at both ends of the circuit. Terrestrial fiber connections over dedicated video networks also required the installation of a delivery path between each customer location the ingest point into the managed network – universally known as POPs or Points of Presence.