Ericsson has signed a media delivery services deal with Australian public service broadcaster, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

Earlier this year, Ericsson announced a multi-year access services contract with SBS to provide both live and file based captions for SBS TV.

As per today’s contract, Ericsson will aggregate, prepare and deliver content from multiple content owners and distributors through its broadcast and media services hub in London and deliver media assets directly into SBS’s headquarters in Sydney in a format ready for transmission.

Ericsson provides Quality Control and delivers full technical metadata, adhering to SBS’s technical and editorial specifications.

“This is a milestone for SBS’s Acquired Content Delivery and Technology teams; transitioning from a manual delivery process to a digitised process when receiving international content,” said Noel Leslie, chief technology officer (CTO) of SBS.

“We have designed our media management services to help our clients to streamline operations and provide them with the flexibility and agility they need to meet the demands of managing media assets in an always on, multi-screen world,” said Thorsten Sauer, head of Broadcast and Media Services, Ericsson.

Ericsson has worked with broadcasters, platforms and content producers, including BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT Sport, ITV, FOX, DreamWorks, Liberty Global, NPO, Canal+, NOS, Bonnier Group, Sky, HBO, TV5 Monde and France 24.

Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services distributes more than 2.7 million hours of programming in more than 90 languages for more than 500 TV channels worldwide. Ericsson’s content discovery portfolio spans more than 10 million movies and program titles covering over 35 languages.

Globally more than 200 million people interact with Ericsson’s rich metadata each week. In addition, Ericsson provides over 230,000 hours of subtitling each year – more than 100,000 hours of which is live.