Dish service for college dorms

[dare2be]

Our university is planning on changing the TV provider for the dorms from cable to Dish. I believe the service or vendor is called Apogee, and I vaguely recall reading something about it on these forums, but can't find anything from a search, except for references to satellite orbits.

Anyone want to provide any pertinent details so that I can do a little research for myself? Other departments don't usually share their plans with IT like they should, until it is too late to make an informed decision.

 

[Juan]

We Are Apogee

 

[dare2be]

Yeah, I got that, but I don't see any reference to Dish in their sales site, and I'm trying to verify if Dish service would/could be involved in the implementation, or if the information I was given verbally was incorrect.

I'm thinking I must have imagined that this service had been discussed on here before.

 

[Juan]

Yeah, I got that, but I don't see any reference to Dish in their sales site, and I'm trying to verify if Dish service would/could be involved in the implementation, or if the information I was given verbally was incorrect.

They probably have a dish headend..a stack of receivers in a closet somewhere

 

[HipKat]

Even better is the Smartbox, now I'm not to up to speed on how it works. it's for commercial installs, but it'll run up to 96 tv's using HD over Coax (I have no idea how that works).

Found this The Smartbox from DISH - TV Entertainment for Properties | DISH