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Juniper IPv6’ing With Lockheed Martin

August 25, 2007 / Ground Segment & Teleports

Juniper 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.

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Asset Acumen Via GE

August 22, 2007 / Data Processing & AI/ML

GE Equipment Services today introduced VeriWise RAIL and VeriWise INTERMODAL. These are remote asset management solutions that provide customers with on-demand visibility into the status of their fleet and the cargo it carries.

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GMV Presents Payload Package

August 22, 2007 / Ground Segment & Teleports

GMV, a privately-held satellite ground segment software company, has launched SmartRings 2.0. This is the company’s latest version of its telecommunications satellite payload reconfiguration tool, SmartRings, which offers reconfiguration management of telecommunication satellite payloads.

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Middle East Gets LatestGen Service From Gulfsat

August 17, 2007 / Ground Segment & Teleports

Hughes Network Systems, LLC [HUGHES] and Gulfsat Communications Company [Gulfsat] have announced that Gulfsat has purchased an HN System Network Operations Center (NOC). The NOC was installed at the Globecomm Systems, Inc. (GSI) teleport in Hauppauge, New York where it will be used to provide a new broadband residential Internet access service, “Shownet Two-Way Service”.

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Here’s Looking At Improved Optical Links And SNG From SatService

August 9, 2007 / Ground Segment & Teleports

SatService Gesellschaft für Kommunikationssysteme is introducing at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam their improved sat-nms LFRXTX L-Band Fiber Optical Links product that includes 10Mhz transmission. The sat-nms LFRX Optical Receiver and sat-nms LFRX L-Band Optical Transmitter are high performance RF to optical converters for analog multi-carrier RF (L-Band) transportation via fiber optical links.

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Managing All Of That Data In A Coherent Fashion

August 5, 2007 / Ground Segment & Teleports

Skyline Communications supplies multi-vendor network management solutions for the HFG broadband, satellite, IPTV and broadcast industry. Newtec is engaged in satellite communications solutions. Now these two firms have formalized Newtec’s decision to include the DataMiner network management platform within its product portfolios.

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Scoping Encoders With Scopus

July 30, 2007 / Ground Segment & Teleports

With a focus and demonstrations of their integrated IP headend, as well as converged distribution solutions for satellite, broadcast, cable and Telco infrastructures, Scopus Video Networks is set to WOW visitors to their IBC 2007 Booth 1.249.

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