Loral Skynet s Telstar 7 is where the BTV-related activities of St. Louis-based Edward Jones and Co. are beamed. Three transponders are used, including two for data and one for a video feed, which reach its network of small stock brokerage offices, approximately 6,500 sites, including roughly 400 in Canada. These can be used for either branch-specific unicast traffic, including trades and customer information, or multicast quote streams and software distribution. Powervu system powers this triple-channel BTV network, which provides market updates, sales training and live sessions with CEOs from top companies as guests.
Data runs our business.
We process millions of data transactions each day. With its enormous number of offices, the BTV network is constantly under refinement. BTV viewership can be tracked by computer to determine what channel each branch office is viewing at any given time. Forced tuning to one of the three specific 4.2 MHz video channels is an option. Thus, the entire BTV network can be switched to a channel before a major presentation, with polling of the network possible after the program starts to determine how many offices are tuned to the broadcast.