Thor Broadcast is a privately owned company based in the US. Founded in 2009, with approximately 60 employees, the company reported $5.7M in revenue as of 2023. Functioning as a California-based manufacturer with over two decades of experience, it specializes in CATV (Cable Television) and fiber optic transport equipment. The company designs and builds hardware solutions for video and data distribution, including HDMI and SDI-to-RF modulators, IPTV encoders and decoders, satellite modulators, and extensive fiber optic transport systems for signals such as SDI, CATV RF, L-Band satellite, and Ethernet. Thor Broadcast provides these "headend in a box" solutions to a variety of industries, including telecom, broadcast, sports, education, hospitality, and government entities such as NASA and the US Armed Forces.
On March 20, Thor Broadcast issued a design guide for RF over fiber systems, emphasizing that splitter insertion loss and RF output balancing are as critical as fiber distance, noting that a 1x4 splitter typically introduces about 7 dB of optical loss, while a 1x8 splitter adds approximately 11 dB. Earlier the same day, a project overview detailed isolating CCTV networks for navigation radar and mission applications, explaining the process of decoding four CCTV channels from a dedicated LAN into baseband video before re-encoding them for delivery onto a separate navigation network without allowing return traffic. Previously, on March 16, the company compared RF and IPTV solutions for gym equipment displays, observing that many existing installations utilize cable-provider set-top boxes feeding RF modulators to create in-house television channels. On the same day, guidance was provided on powering mini nodes in CATV distribution systems, clarifying assumptions regarding attenuators for short coax runs and the differences between digital QAM/ATSC and analog NTSC/PAL levels. Also on March 16, the company explained how to convert UDP IPTV streams into 32 or 64 QAM RF channels, highlighting that UDP streams can directly integrate into an IPTV-to-QAM gateway, thereby simplifying the system and reducing the number of required devices compared to RTSP and SRT protocols.
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Thor Broadcast offers products in the media tech industry. Thor Broadcast's product portfolio comprises of connectivity infrastructure.
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Thor Broadcast's revenues were less than $10M in 2023. All the revenue comes from professional IRDs.
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