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Intelsat Powers Olympics Into South America

August 22, 2008 / Satellite Communications

Intelsat, Ltd. is currently offering transmission support for Latin American rightsholders and non-rightsholders of the Beijing Summer Games, delivering more than 12,000 hours of live coverage and recorded highlights to the region. Programmers include Globosat Programadora Ltda., ESPN Channels in Brazil, Organizacion de Telecomunicaciones Iberoamericanas (OTI), Terra Networks Brasil SA and Televisa S.A. de C.V. For Globosat Programadora Ltda., and ESPN Channels in Brazil, Intelsat is providing a fully managed network solution.

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Star-Cell Likes Sunny Side Up

August 22, 2008 / Satellite Communications

Ericsson [NASDAQ:ERIC] has achieved a 'first' and it will improve the world's remote areas. Ericsson combined a GSM base station and satellite transmission in a solar-powered site, enabling Cambodian mobile operator Star-Cell to expand its network coverage in remote areas. The solution offers affordable communications for all and is based on Ericsson's energy-optimized, main-remote base-station.

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Jumping For JV Is Stratos Global + JSAT Corp.

August 22, 2008 / Contracts & Commercial Deals

Stratos Global Corporation has formed a joint venture company with JSAT Corporation (JSAT) to serve the mobile satellite communications needs of Japanese businesses and government agencies. The new company, called JSAT MOBILE Communications Inc. (JSAT MOBILE), will build upon the Japanese market success that Stratos has enjoyed over the past seven years. JSAT MOBILE will bring Stratos' portfolio of mobile satellite services (MSS), including Inmarsat and Iridium services, to the Japanese market.

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ND SatCom’s IBC Inventiveness

August 21, 2008 / Events & Conferences

ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, will be exhibiting at IBC 2008 in Amsterdam from September 12th through the 16th at both outdoor Stand OE320 and Indoor Stand 1.C51. The new products they'll be presenting are... SkyRAY Light IPS HD for live video streaming — Equipped with the latest SkyWAN? VSAT modem with a full set of IP functionalities and an advanced H.264/MPEG-4 AVC HD/SD and MPEG-2 encoder for the highest video quality per bandwidth performance and with the lowest latency (350s) on the market for high profile up to 4:2:2 chroma format, SkyRAY Light IPS HD is ND SatCom’s new VSAT application for mobile IP video broadcasting.

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ECC Chipping Away At DVB-S2 Multi-Streams…

August 21, 2008 / Satellite Communications

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.

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Hughes Network Systems Sunny Forecast

August 21, 2008 / Satellite Communications

Maybe 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.

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