Assistance Technique et Etude de Materiels Electroniques SA announced a partnership with Coweaver Co. Ltd. to add DS3 support to its latest Kyrion CM5000 and DR5000 models. By combining ATEME's best of breed codecs and COWEAVER's vast experience in optical fiber networks infrastructure, the partnership provides telecom operators and broadcasters in Korea, and around the world, a proven high-quality solution to carry premium sports and news content over existing DS3 circuits.

COWEAVER and ATEME have integrated DS3 interfaces in ATEME's latest MPEG-2/MPEG-4 video codec models. The CM5000 encoder is now available with a DS3 output, and the DR5000 integrated receiver decoder is available with a DS3 input. The solution supports SD and HD with very low end-to-end latency and can be used seamlessly with all brands of DS3 circuitry.

ATEME's DR5000 decodes DS3 feeds from any encoder. DS3 feeds encoded with CM5000 can be decoded with any legacy receiver. The Kyrion DS3 capable models are co-branded by ATEME and COWEAVER and are now available from either company for purchase.