The teleport business is changing rapidly. To a get an insight on the dynamics of this vital segment of the satellite industry, Satellite Executive Briefing spoke with Vladimir Rangelov, Senior Manager, Broadcast Services at VIVACOM--Bulgaria’s largest media company that operates a teleport, among its other businesses. Excerpts of the interview:
RF-Design has announced the presentation of their latest L-Band Switch Matrix system “FlexLink K4”, which will showcased at their booth (Hall 1, booth 1.F45) during the IBC 2019.
The new “FlexLink K4” system complements the well-established FlexLink Switch Matrix series with more then 500 systems in operation at Satellite Ground Stations, Teleports, Broadcasting and Cable-TV headends around the globe.
The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released Inside the Top Operators, an annual report on growth, pricing changes, the state of competition and how leading teleport operators are responding to the trends.
Satcube, a disruptive development company in the satellite communications arena that manufactures innovative, lightweight terminals enabling high-speed broadband access, today announced a new partnership with Newtec.
Newtec delivers market leading equipment and technologies for global satellite communications. From now on the Satcube Ku terminal can be delivered with the Newtec MDM2510 modem fully integrated.
An Inter-regional Workshop focused on preparations for the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) opened in Geneva today.
This preparatory workshop for WRC-19, the third such meeting, will meet 4-6 September 2019. Discussions will centre on the agenda of the World Radiocommunication Conference as well as regional priorities and inputs that have been prepared both for WRC-19, which will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from 28 October until 22 November 2019, and the Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-19) that will precede it at the same venue, 21-25 October.
According to Euroconsult's newly released research report, Prospects for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity, the number of connected commercial aircraft will increase from 8,200 at the end of 2018 to more than 20,500 over the next ten years.
Following shareholder approval and its registration in the Chamber of Commerce, Airbus’ Italian space subsidiary Space Engineering has officially changed its name to Airbus Italia S.p.A.. Space Engineering is adopting the Airbus logo as its single visual identity.
Astrocast, a Switzerland-based Internet of Things (IoT) nanosatellite network, has secured US$ 9.2 (€8.3M) Series A round of funding to accelerate production of IoT modules, to begin commercial phase and deployment of the its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) IoT network.
To date, Astrocast has raised CHF 16.6M in total funding. Founded in 2014 by the developers of SwissCube, one of the longest lasting, operational nanosatellites in space and led by Fabien Jordan, CEO, and José Achache, to develop an advanced nanosatellite network for the Internet of things (IoT).
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