- The Director General of the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Dr. Lars Prahm, and the Head of Large Enterprises at T-Systems Business Services, Paul Laumann, have signed a 12.8M/euro contract securing the availability of EUMETCast services for Europe until 2014. Under the contract, Media Broadcast, in partnership with T-Systems, will continue to provide satellite services to EUMETSAT. They will supply a bandwith of 15 Mbits/s with an annual increase of 1 Mbit/s to distribute weather data. To increase service availability, an additional link will be used through a ground station located in Milan, Italy. Media Broadcast will be responsible for operating the system, which has been specially developed for meteorological applications and will also manage communications between the weather satellites and the EUMETSAT control center in Darmstadt.
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