Madrid, 23 July 2025
SAPEC leads the renovation project of SICOM Televisión’s headend in Mexico
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- SICOM Televisión, the public television of the Mexican state of Puebla, has embarked on an ambitious refurbishment project, for which it has relied on SAPEC’s consultancy, design, implementation and after-sales services, as well as its solutions.
- BROTELEC, a SAPEC company based in Mexico City, has been responsible for designing an integration comprising the headend, reception and retransmission to six centres in total.
- With equipment such as LAGUNA or GREDOS, SAPEC enables SICOM to harness the full potential of high definition (HD) and Dolby Audio via ATSC.
Madrid, 23 July 2025 – SAPEC has been responsible for the ambitious renovation project undertaken by SICOM Television, a decentralised public organisation in the State of Puebla, Mexico, which is reaching a new milestone by consolidating HD broadcasts through renovating its headend. Working alongside SAPEC staff in Madrid, BROTELEC and a team led by Gabriella Galán have been responsible for the initial consultancy, equipment prescription, infrastructure design, testing, configuration and after-sales support, thus providing the backbone for the television station’s next phase.
SICOM Televisión began broadcasting in 2003, offering programming that combines information, entertainment, and public service. As a public broadcaster in the state of Puebla, the station broadcasts in the city of Puebla and Zacatlán. It also operates eight radio stations located throughout the region.
Recently, SICOM contacted SAPEC to redesign its entire headend in order to adapt its broadcasts to HD resolutions. Following advice and recommendations from the Spanish company, SICOM decided to implement several of its solutions, beginning with two LAGUNA Octals to handle encoding, multiplexing, and satellite uplink for distribution to six strategically located reception sites in the state: Huauchinango, Teziutlán, Zacatlán, Acatlán, Izúcar de Matamoros and Tehuacán.
In each of these installations, SAPEC has deployed a GREDOS GGR1000 unit, which downloads and demodulates the headend. This allows six additional LAGUNA Octal units to transcode and multiplex the signals to generate headends with different bandwidths and formats. All of this is done in HD with Dolby audio.
Beyond the consulting process, SAPEC was responsible for the configuration, testing, training and onboarding process through BROTELEC. The company also offers a remote technical support service prepared to meet the needs of each radio and television station. The project was completed with a second project for SICOM Radio, which improved content delivery to its transmitter centres.
As a company specialising in professional video signal transport solutions, we at BROTELEC were honoured to provide and implement the technological infrastructure for SICOM Puebla’s satellite headend project. Each station was equipped with SAPEC technology to ensure reliable, stable, high-quality encoding and reception for content transmission. This project is a significant milestone in upgrading public telecommunications in the state, and it reaffirms our commitment to quality and innovation, as well as strengthening state media in Mexico,” said Gabriella Galán, SAPEC’s Sales & Technical Manager in Mexico.
SAPEC is preparing to participate in IBC 2025 once again. This event will bring together the broadest representation of the global broadcast industry at the Amsterdam RAI from 12 to 15 September. At stand 1.D98, visitors will be able to explore the company’s full range of solutions, new developments and extended partnerships in depth.
About SAPEC
SAPEC is a Spanish company that designs, develops and manufactures reliable video contribution and distribution solutions for the most demanding broadcast and telecommunications environments.
Its solutions enable the professional-quality, real-time transport of audiovisual content via satellite, fibre optics, IP and radio links.
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About Brotelec
BROTELEC is a Mexico City-based company belonging to SAPEC. It was established to provide SAPEC customers in Mexico and Central America with better commercial support, technical assistance and training.
BROTELEC is an official distributor of renowned industry brands, including SAPEC’s encoding and decoding solutions.
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