Hong Kong – TANDBERG Television announced that TFN Media (Taiwan Fixed Network) has selected the company to provide a complete broadcast headend and EdgeQAM solution for the launch of its digital cable services in Taiwan. Home business group of Taiwan Mobile, TFN is one of the largest MSOs in Taiwan and offers a 100+ channel analog TV service to around 540,000 homes today. From July the company will broadcast standard-definition and HD channels, using MPEG-4 AVC to maximize bandwidth efficiency. TANDBERG Television’s business partner in Taiwan, Hitron Technologies Inc., is acting as Prime System Integrator for the new digital cable headend. TFN Media is deploying TANDBERG Television’s TT1260 Integrated Receiver Decoders, EN8030 MPEG-4 AVC SD encoders, EN8090 MPEG-4 AVC HD encoders, MX8400 Multiplexers and EQ8096 EdgeQAM modulators. The company is using an-IP headend configuration and broadcast video is multicast across the customer IP network to four regional headends. The TANDBERG Television nCompass Control system provides configuration, service setup and equipment status monitoring at the central headend and all regional sites.