This Recommendation: "Distribution of digital multi-programme signals for television, sound and data services through SMATV networks" covers the definition of the framing structure, channel coding and modulation for digital multi-programme signals for television, sound and data services received from a satellite system and distributed in a transparent way through Satellite Master Antenna Television (SMATV) networks.
This Recommendation defines the required network architecture for SMATV systems and is closely related to ITU-R Recommendation BO.1211 (applicable to the satellite path) and to Recommendation J.83 (applicable to the cable path).
This Recommendation has four Annexes (A, B, C and D) that provide the specifications for the digital television SMATV systems submitted to the ITU-T. This reflects the fact that standardization of digital SMATV television systems is being addressed for the first time by the ITU-T and that a number of systems had been developed and provisionally implemented when this standardization effort was undertaken by the ITU.
This Recommendation recommends that those implementing new digital multi-programme services on existing and future SMATV networks should use one of the systems whose framing structure, channel coding and modulation are specified in Annexes A, B, C and D.