UK, 14 July 2011. Rotterdam City Hall, the beautiful and historic listed building which sits at the centre of the Netherland’s second largest city, has just been completely refurbished, and as part of its update, is now able to distribute multichannel TV across an extensive Cat-6 network using Cabletime’s MediaStar Pro solution.

Originally built between 1914 and 1920, the building, home to the Council chamber and offices, has undergone a radical modernisation including the installation of state of the art IT and communications equipment. The Facilities, ICT and Multimedia departments of City Hall were also determined to include a flexible TV distribution system, but wanted this to run off LAN, in real time and require no additional specialist cabling.

Richard Vermeulen, Product Manager at Forehand Netwerken B.V., the specialist distributor, said: “MediaStar Pro met all the key selection criteria of our design and Endenburg Elektrotechniek, the systems integrator, quickly and easily installed the system. City Hall is now able to deliver a managed TV signal to every workplace, bringing 40 standard TV channels to all locations as well as selectively distributing a number of in-house channels which are used for special events and formal Council meetings within the building.”

Nick Bradford, Managing Director, Cabletime, said: “MediaStar Pro is ideally suited to an application such as the City Hall project, which requires a variety of different TV sources to many end users and to public spaces. Not only can it be integrated onto the new cabling infrastructure with ease, the fibre-fed distributed hub architecture can also be expanded at a future date if required. We are delighted that the system is being used in such an historic and important national site.”

MediaStar Pro is a proven solution for distributing and managing video services in a building using existing data cabling infrastructure, and has been widely deployed in banks, financial institutions, schools, sports stadia and shopping malls across the world. As well as featuring zero LAN impact, it is also highly scalable supporting unlimited users and delivering up to 200 TV channels.

The MediaStar range, which has a strong, established heritage, includes TV/AV and multimedia delivery products for use over Cat-5/6/UTP and IP infrastructures, providing solutions for live TV, corporate communications, multicasts, music TV, training and digital signage.