SES has signed new contracts with the African telecommunications carrier, Gateway Communications Africa for capacity on its NSS-703 satellite at 313 degrees East and its NSS-5 and NSS-7 satellites positioned at 340 degrees East.
Northern Sky Research’s (NSR’s) Global Satellite Manufacturing and Launch Markets, 2nd Edition, finds the satellite manufacturing and launch markets facing both softening demand and increasing competition until 2016. However, in the second half of the next decade the manufacturing market will be back on an upward track, while the launch services market will see more years of stagnant growth.
Craftwork, a pioneer of SAT>IP technology, has launched off-the-shelf software solutions enabling device manufacturers to rapidly develop and launch new SAT>IP devices. Further facilitating the adoption of SAT>IP, Craftwork also has a roadmap supporting leading system on a chip (SoC) platforms and a range of enhanced features to deliver best in class SAT>IP products.
New from Crystal Vision is the FTX-L 3G - a fibre optic transmitter designed to transmit 3Gb/s, HD or SD signals over large distances in a robust, reliable and space-saving way and including two input loop-throughs ideal for system checking or distributing input video.
“It is an uphill battle for Africa to complete the migration from analogue broadcasting to digital terrestrial television (DTT) by 2015, the deadline set by the international Telecommunications Union (ITU) and I can’t see that any country will meet this deadline.”
Egyptian Radio and TV Union (ERTU) recently placed an order for 20 Jampro flat panel FM antennas, according to an announcement made by Alex M Perchevitch, president of the manufacturing company.
Together with leading industry partners SES has announced the introduction of SAT-IP, a new IP-based satellite reception technology that demodulates and converts satellite signals to IP for further in-home distribution to any IP-enabled device.
Integrated Microwave Technologies showcased its Nucomm Newscoder 4 low-power, HD/SD, video/audio encoder with AES encryption at last week’s NAB show in Las Vegas. The compact Newscoder 4 is designed to work with any transmitter and delivers superior MPEG-4 H.264 SD and HD encoding, enabling broadcasters to transmit HD content efficiently over the same infrastructure used to transmit SD content.
BSkyB will broadcast 48 new BBC channels dedicated to London 2012 Olympic coverage. Over 40 of the new channels will broadcast in the UK through the ASTRA Satellite System. The 24 HD and 24 SD channels will cover each of the Olympic locations and show the full range of different events during the Games.
NSR today released its newest market survey and forecast report: Hosted Payloads on Commercial Satellites, 2nd Edition. The report provides an in-depth overview of demand trends for military and civil government requirements for creative solutions that address Communications and Earth Observation/Science missions, as well as the emergence of private enterprise risk-taking.
Australian systems integrator Quinto Communications recently supplied Australia’s SBS Television with an Evertz MVP3000 Multiview display processor system for transmission monitoring at its Sydney Broadcast Centre.
Jampro Antennas, Inc, a manufacturer and designer of radio frequency components and antennas for radio and television transmission has announced the successful installation and commissioning of a custom designed, digital television transmission antenna for CFAP-DT, a French language broadcaster located in Québec City, Québec, Canada.
The European Satellite Operators’ Association (ESOA), the US Satellite Industry Association (SIA), the Space Industry Association of Australia, the Canadian Satellite and Space Industry Forum, the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia and the Global VSAT Forum today voiced continued satellite industry opposition to the UNIDROIT Space Assets Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, which was approved today at a UNIDROIT diplomatic conference in Berlin.
Satellite company SES has signed a capacity and uplink agreement with Netherlands-based Scope Media TV for the free-to-air distribution of African Television (AFTV) via its ASTRA satellite at the 23.5 degrees East orbital position (12,168 MHz vertical polarisation) covering Europe.
Boosting access to cost-effective Internet across Africa, improving network infrastructure to aid future technology deployments, as well as increasing broadband and delivering affordable mobile TV have been identified by Chief Technology Officers, Chief Operating Officers and Technical Directors as some of the challenges for this year.
UAE-based satellite operator Yahsat, has announced that it is to implement Newtec’s FlexACM technology for its high-speed, Ka-band IP trunking service.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has applauded an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) move to allow governments to take "necessary actions" when foreign powers deliberately interfere with satellite transmissions.
Cartoon Network HD has become the first high definition (HD) children's channel in Southeast Asia, after a deal with GlobeCast to deliver the channel via its capacity on the MEASAT-3 satellite.
SES’ new satellite, SES-4, will provide new capacity to the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This is the 50th satellite in the global SES fleet and also the largest, most powerful SES satellite to date. It will replace the NSS-7 satellite at 338 degrees East longitude and provide replacement as well as incremental capacity at this well established SES orbital slot over the Atlantic Ocean.
According to a fact sheet compiled by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), over 500 satellites orbit the earth delivering broadcasting; voice, Internet and emergency communications; environmental and scientific monitoring; and global navigation and positioning systems for planes, ships and vehicles.
