Satellite communications provider ST Engineering iDirect is claiming the world’s first deployment of DVB Native IP (DVB-NIP) as the company positions itself as a frontrunner in the shift from traditional satellite broadcasting toward hybrid satellite-IP approaches. Developed over a year alongside satellite operator Eutelsat, ST Engineering deployed DVB-NIP for Peruvian broadcaster IRTP, which, as Bart de Moor, Senior Product Marketing Manager at ST Engineering, confirmed to Faultline, “selected a DVB-NIP ecosystem that requires no internet connectivity, helping reach the 30% of Peruvians who still lack access to the internet or public broadcasting”. DVB-NIP is an IP-based evolution of DVB that carries IP data over satellite instead of traditional broadcast structures, sharing common ground with 5G Broadcast in enabling converged broadcast…