This award recognises outstanding achievement in developing new or improved communications, hardware, or software products or services.

Digital Terrestrial Television
Kordia

Kordia’s digital terrestrial television project provides New Zealand with a terrestrial digital broadcasting service in addition to the satellite digital broadcasting service that is already in place.
Changing from analogue to digital television allows more channels to use the existing spectrum and enables high-definition television broadcasts.

Kordia’s innovative solution to introduce efficient MPEG-4 video compression established New Zealand as one of the first developed countries to adopt the technology for terrestrial broadcasting.

Spanning seven regions, the $30 million project used Google Earth terrain mapping software to optimise antenna placement and signal coverage, resulting in the most efficient arrangement of 54 transmitters around New Zealand.

Working within tight constraints and a demanding specification, the Kordia engineering team accomplished a major improvement to important national infrastructure, work which will potentially have a positive impact on millions of New Zealanders.

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