Dato: Tuesday, 29. June, 2010

While other national football teams, are busy fighting for the World Cup trophy in South Africa, GlobalConnect's subsidiary GigaContent is busy supplying the technology that helps ensure Danish football fans a top-quality World Cup experience - including direct World Cup coverage in full HD.

As many as 53 out of a total of 64 World Cup matches will be broadcast using GigaContent's services, delivered via GlobalConnect's nationwide fibre network. GigaContent is Denmark's leading supplier of fibre-based network broadcast services, i.e. direct transmission of sound and images in HD quality via the fibre network.

During the World Cup, GigaContent supplies the Gb connections from Danish broadcaster TV2's studio in the Royal Danish Playhouse in Copenhagen to the station's broadcasting facilities in Odense. Canal9 - another TV station broadcasting 21 World Cup matches - will also be using GigaContent's services. The TV signal from South Africa lands at DR Byen (national TV station) in Ørestad in Copenhagen, and a GigaContent 1 Gbps connection subsequently forwards the images to Canal9's main facility and World Cup studio at Østerbro in Copenhagen.