Hughes Network Systems, LLC [HUGHES] and Gulfsat Communications Company [Gulfsat] have announced that Gulfsat has purchased an HN System Network Operations Center (NOC). The NOC was installed at the Globecomm Systems, Inc. (GSI) teleport in Hauppauge, New York where it will be used to provide a new broadband residential Internet access service, “Shownet Two-Way Service”. Gulfsat will launch this service in the Gulf region during the 4th quarter of 2007.
The HN platform employs a highly efficient implementation of the DVB-S2 industry standard including Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM, plus its fully compliant with IPoS (IP over Satellite), the first global satellite industry standard approved by TIA in North America, and ETSI and ITU in Europe.
By utilizing the Eutelsat Atlantic Bird 2 that services the Arabian Gulf, together with the Hughes NOC operating at GSI’s carrier-class facility in New York, Gulfsat’s Shownet Two-Way Service will represent the latest generation of high-speed Internet access for customers in the Middle East. For the first time in the region, Shownet Two-Way will be introducing consumption-based packages with speeds up to 2Mbps, enabled by integrated acceleration and spoofing techniques on the Hughes platform along with a new billing system—Sefat, Kuwait
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