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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).
Read MoreSpacenet Inc. has introduced a new, affordable program specifically designed for retail enterprises to help reduce operational expenses and minimize lost revenue caused by network downtime. The program enables customers to leverage VSAT services as part of a hybrid network for ultra reliable networking and redundant communications for business continuity.
Read More-- AU$4.5m For NT E-Health Satellite Broadband -- IWPC Events Packed With Info --
Read MoreProviding full mesh, hub and spoke and hybrid network activities is the new MDX420 Satellite Network Gateway unveiled by Radyne Corporation [NASDAQ: RADN] at IBC in Amsterdam. The MDX420 applies Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and can operate in single channel per carried mode—all on the same platform.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreAdvent Communications is preparing to communicate most eagerly with visitors to their IBC booth. Their portable and mobile satellite uplinks will all be on display, and the new IP modem — ADM5000 L Band Modem — has also arrived.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreRussian 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
Read MoreMaking content easier for terrestrial and mobile TV network distribution is the key element of the cooperative agreement just signed ‘tween SES ASTRA (yes, the satellite operator) and Newtec (satellite communication technologies). The two firms plan to test and demo a managed satellite distribution system that will deliver several mobile TV channels from Betzdorf, Luxembourg, to a number of remote and unmanned terrestrial transmission sites.
Read MoreGeez, two booths at the upcoming IBC for ND SatCom… that’s generous! And the company is going to be enlightening those who visit with their SkyRAY Light 1200, which also happens to have been short listed for the CSI Product of the Year Awards 2007.
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