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Efficient Channel Coding (ECC), a ViaSat company, has introduced a multi-stream extraction feature that enables its ECC3100 Digital Video Broadcast Satellite standard (DVB-S2) receiver chip to extract multiple data streams from a single DVB-S2 input. Embedding multi-stream soft-IP into the receiver FPGA eliminates the need to use multiple DVB-S2 application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), reducing circuit board size and cost.
Read MoreMaybe the station owners thought it might serve as a distraction for the high cost of gas. Word comes from Hughes Network Systems, LLC , a broadband satellite network solutions and services provider, that enterprise customers of its HughesNet Managed Digital Signage service will now be able to display real-time weather information at their retail sites from AccuWeather, Inc., the leading provider of weather information for companies such as Gas Station TV and FuelCast.
Read MoreEarly yesterday morning, N1US, a stock AgustaWestland A109 Grand Helicopter piloted by Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik, successfully completed a round-the-world flight, touching down in New York having circumnavigated the globe in exactly 11 days, 7 hours, and 3 minutes. This feat smashed the previous record time for a helicopter flight around the world.
Read MoreAs soon as a few hours after landing in Tbilisi, Telecoms Sans Frontieres began its first humanitarian calling operations enabling Georgians displaced by the conflict to give news to their anxious relatives of their survival, and any other information. In this process more than 200 families who fled the bombings in South Ossetia and Gori made calls to a loved one from operations taking place in camps installed at Tbilisi airport or in schools of the capital.
Read MoreSenior federal officials today in Seattle commissioned the Okeanos Explorer, the first federal ship solely dedicated to exploring the ocean. A former U.S. Navy surveillance vessel, Okeanos Explorer, was transferred to NOAA in 2004 and converted to perform ocean exploration.
Read MoreEver ready to assist, Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) has been on alert since the conflict between Georgia and Russia began, and deployed an emergency crew of telecoms specialists to land in Tbilisi on Wednesday afternoon. This action came after five days of intense combat between both countries.
Read MoreIntelsat, Ltd., a provider of commercial satellite services, announced that NPR (National Public Radio) signed a multi-transponder, multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity to support the distribution of public radio programming across the United States. NPR operates the Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS) on behalf of all public radio stations and program distributors.
Read MoreSTM Group offers the first DVB-RCS compatible mesh VSAT network system as an extension of its SatLink? product platform. The SatLink 1910 Mesh VSAT is enabled using a simple plug-in card upgrade to the current SatLink 1910. This equips the VSAT to receive burst communications on four, concurrent MF-TDMA carriers, which assures non-blocking mesh networking performance for voice and data to typical end-user sites.
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