Products/Services

Hertfordshire, UK, November 26, 2015 – SkyVision Global Networks Ltd., a leading global satellite communications service provider, today announced a partnership with ABS, one of the fastest growing global satellite operators in the world, to launch two new video platforms on ABS-3A.  This will provide quality DVB-S and DVB-S2 content, including HD, via satellite across Sub-Saharan Africa, including French speaking Africa and South Africa.

Montreal, Canada, November 17, 2015– XipLink, the technology leader in wireless link optimization, announced the completion of successful testing with a top tier Asian Cellular Service Provider, delivering accelerated voice, data and video traffic exceeding 90 megabits per second (Mbps) to a remote LTE base station over a satellite connection.

Montreal, Canada, November 6, 2015 – Advantech Wireless, a global leader for Satellite and Microwave broadband communications solutions announced today that it had won a major contract for supply of  its new line of Advanced Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) for Electron Accelerator Scientific Applications.

Hollywood, Fla., November 5, 2015--ScheduALL, the leading global provider of intelligent resource scheduling solutions for media, broadcast and transmission businesses since 1989, will demonstrate new customer self-provisioning capabilities for 4K and 8K feeds at the Content and Communications World, featuring SATCON, conference in New York City, November 11-12. Utilizing end-to-end provisioning tools, ScheduALL Portal™ and ScheduALL Connector™, users are now able to provision multi-stream service configurations as Occasional Use (OU) bookings of any duration at any time.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 3,  2015--ABS and Arab Satellite Communication Organization (Arabsat) announced that they have signed an expansion capacity agreement on ABS-3A for a multi-transponder, multiyear deal for Ku-band payload.  The additional capacity will be used for different customer networks within the  Middle East and North Africa regions in particular Saudi Arabia. 

Tempe, Arizona, October 22, 2015 – Comtech EF Data Corp., the market leader in optimized satellite transmission technology, announced today the expansion of its LPOD Block Up Converter product family with the introduction of two new models, the 300 Watt LPOD and the 16 Watt LPOD-R. With the introduction of the higher power 300 Watt C-Band model, the LPOD is now available in a wider range of power levels and bands, including 20-125 Watt Ku-Band, 25-250 Watt X-Band and 25-300 Watt C-Band. The new 16 Watt P1dB / 20W Psat Ku-Band LPOD-R is the market’s smallest and smartest 16 Watt unit. Requiring only 110 Watts of power capability from a 24/48VDC BUC power supply contained within the modem, it greatly expands the range of throughput available from existing TDMA or SCPC modems.

Montreal, Canada, October 22, 2015 – Advantech Wireless, a global leader for Satellite broadband communications solutions, announced today that its Transcend™ 800 – Point-to-Point Microwave Radio system has been successfully and continuously operating a 95km microwave link over the Caribbean Sea for the last two years without any traffic interruption or degradation. Advantech Wireless was selected to install, consult, implement and put in service a microwave link that has been operating since 2013. This high capacity microwave link is carrying native SDH (STM-1) and native IP traffic simultaneously. The link is operating in 6 GHz and in a space diversity configuration with 1.8 m (6ft) Advantech Wireless High Performance Microwave Antennas.

Lubljana, Slovenia, October 21, 2015--STN, a leading teleport based in  Lubljana, Slovenia signs a capacity agreement with satellite operator SES to distribute over the prime orbital position of Astra 19.2 ° East.

Friedrichshafen, Germany, October 20, 2015–ND SatCom today announced a co-operation with RUAG Defence for incorporating ND SatCom’s new SKYWAN 5G - integrated in a Portable Manpack Terminal – into the RUAG ARANEA Communication Solution. This co-operation gives RUAG Defence the ability to offer more advanced mobile terminal solutions to customers.