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The World Teleport Association (WTA) has named TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) [NASDAQGM:TSYS] to its prestigious “Fast Twenty” and “Independent Top Twenty” rankings for the second consecutive year. WTA’s annual rankings provide the only independently compiled rankings of teleport operating companies.
Read MoreHughes Network Systems, LLC’s subsidiary HNS, Ltd., has sold to Bentley Walker an additional HX System Network Operations Centre (NOC). The HX platform employs a highly efficient implementation of the DVB-S2 industry standard, including Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM).
Read MoreIntegral Systems Europe (ISE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ:ISYS] and they have received a contract to provide a fully integrated Carrier Signal Monitoring (CSM) and transponder planning system for RascomStar-QAF (AKA Mission Control) and their Rascom-QAF 1 satellite.
Read MoreThe World Teleport Association (WTA) has named GlobeCast the top Independent Teleport Operator for broadcast services (number two of all operators) for the third consecutive year. The WTA has also included GlobeCast on its 2007 Top Twenty list of Global Teleport operators, placing the company just behind satellite fleet operators at number 6.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and its TEAM TSAT partners have successfully demonstrated the "one-button" start-up feature of its U.S. ground station. The ground station is an essential element of the companies' Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) offering.
Read MoreRT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ-ISYS], has debuted their Telemetrix® 500RX High-Rate Digital/Analog Recorder System (T500RX). Combining RT Logic high-speed FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)-based hardware and firmware with affordable COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) PC server technology, the T500RX provides aggregate recording and playback rates in excess of 1 Gbps.
Read MoreSES [Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG] has consolidated their satellite, ground, procurement, engineering and operational services into a single division. Martin Halliwell, previously Chief Technology Officer of SES ASTRA, is the President of this new entity to be called SES ENGINEERING.
Read MoreJuniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] has debuted Juniper Networks Unified Access Control (UAC) version 2.1. This version advances the solution's ability to meet the evolving access control and security requirements of high-performance businesses.
Read MoreJuniper Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: JNPR] is going to team with Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] to develop a pilot Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) transition test bed designed to simulate a government agency transition. Lockheed Martin will transition a portion of its global network to IPv6 for use during the simulation. To support this transition, Juniper Networks will contribute its high-performance IPv6-capable routers to the test bed for the simulation.
Read MoreThe satellite ground station network in Hawaii and Australia are receiving a huge boost — in number. Universal Space Network, inc. (USN) is adding capacity due to demand and record backlog, plus client requests for additional, low-latitude services. Each of the new full-motion antennas are going to provide new X-band uplink services for USN customers.
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