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KVH’s TracPhone Is Exclusive VSAT Solution For Mackay

August 6, 2007 / Maritime & Aviation Satcom

KVH Industries, Inc., [NASDAQ: KVHI) announced Mackay Communications, Inc., will begin offering the new KVH TracPhone V7 with mini-VSAT Broadband service as its exclusive maritime VSAT (very small aperture terminal) solution. The new mini-VSAT Broadband service uses sophisticated spread spectrum technology to provide vessels with data reception rates as fast as 2 Mbps and data transmission rates as fast as 512 Kbps via the 24" KVH TracPhone V7.

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Latens to Secure du IPTV Services

August 6, 2007 / Satellite Communications

Latens has been awarded a contract by the Dubai-based telco, du, to protect its IPTV service. du, the new telecom operator in United Arab Emirates (UAE), has acquired over 500,000 customers. This represents more than 10% of the UAE population within less than a year of its launch of operations. Latens CA is to protect du’s population of Motorola set-top boxes (STBs).

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NewSat & Dodo Push Broadband To The Bush

August 5, 2007 / Satellite Communications

A deal has been signed in Melbourne that finds indie satservices provider NewSat Limited [ASX: NWT] and consumer telco Dodo working together to bring affordable broadband Internet connectivity to remote Australian households and businesses. This will occur under the Howard Government’s Australian Broadband Guarantee program.

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Boeing’s FABulous Link

August 4, 2007 / Satellite Communications

How FAB… actually, FAB-T… Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals, with The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] successfully demo’ing for the first these systems can acquire an operational satellite and complete downlink transmissions. During the Low Data Rate test, a FAB-T radio communicated with an operational Milstar satellite and completed a series of downlink tests.

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Hughes Whittles Iskra Remote Needs Down To SatSize

August 4, 2007 / Satellite Communications

Russian Joint Stock Company Iskra Research & Development, located in Krasnoyarsk, have now been provided with an HN NOC and 500 HN7000/7740 remote satellite terminals from Hughes Network Systems [HUGHES]. With government agencies, large enterprises, small and medium enterprises (SME) and telecom operators as their primary customers (in Siberia, the Urals, and Far Eastern Federal regions), these new Hughes supplied terminals will aid in the company’s support of a wide range of web apps, VPN services, Voice over IP (VoIP), videoconferencing, as well as broadcast and multicast apps

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