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The Weather Channel is optimizing its network to deliver...

The Weather Channel is optimizing its network to deliver more regionalized data and linear services while reducing bandwidth demands with Arris Group integrated receiver decoders (IRDs), said Arris and Weather Channel parent The Weather Co. in a news release Wednesday…

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(http://bit.ly/1cUUJ6c). The Weather Channel is upgrading its satellite network to address the “immediate needs” for network capacity for more regionalized data and to create “future unique content experiences,” said the companies. The multiformat IRDs will enable MPEG-4 distribution via satellite to affiliates and backward compatibility with legacy systems, said the companies.