Fujitsu Frontech North America has appointed VISLINK News and Entertainment to sell its new range of H.264 encoders and decoders. In addition, VISLINK will use the Fujitsu low-delay H.264 technology to provide 4:2:0 SD/HD H.264 upgrades for the Advent DVE5100 MPEG-2 exciter and IRD5100 in the second quarter of 2010.

In addition to MPEG-2 and H.264 HD/SD codecs, VISLINK’s DVE5100 and IRD5100 platforms support DVB-S/S2 and DVB-T/LMST modulation, integral HPA control over L-band, BISS 1/E encryption, ASI REMUX and ASI-over-IP input/output. Five audio channels are supported.