Traffic Sports International, a rights-holder for several high-profile Brazilian football clubs, has chosen GlobeCast to provide satellite contribution services for delivery of several high-profile Latin American football championships to fans in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Through the end of 2012, GlobeCast will support distribution of over 150 matches, representing hundreds of hours of programming, […]
DVB has announced that at the 71st Meeting of the Steering Board, Phase 2a of the DVB-3DTV specification was approved. The specification will be submitted immediately to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation. An amended DVB-3DTV BlueBook is to be published to reflect the addition to the specification. The Phase 2a system, […]
Californian-based ViaSat used Britain’s Farnborough Air Show to reveal that it had beaten off tough competition to win an Australian contract, worth about $286 million (AUS$280m), to provide the ground-based infrastructure for broadband-by-satellite across the nation. The scheme is designed to serve up to 200,000 subscribers. Two satellites have already been ordered from Space Systems/Loral […]
SES has announced the certification of the industry’s first SAT-IP converter by Inverto Digital Labs, a Luxembourg-based developer and marketer of consumer and professional broadcast reception products. SAT-IP is a new standard and trademark developed and supported by SES. With SAT-IP, satellite-delivered programmes are converted into Internet Protocol (IP) standard at the point of reception […]
Entropic Communications, an expert in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, has acquired direct broadcast satellite intellectual property from PLX Technology, a supplier of high-speed connectivity solutions enabling emerging data center architectures. The purchased assets relate to the design and development of a digital channel stacking switch (dCSS) semiconductor product for up to $8 million. […]
Italian DTH platform TivùSat has achieved the figure of 1.52 million active smart cards in early July, just a few days after the completion of the analogue switch-off in Italy. In recent weeks there has been a sharp increase in smart card activations, surpassing the peak of 3,000 smart cards daily. As a result, currently […]
SES has confirmed that the SES-5 satellite has successfully been launched into orbit. The SES-5 satellite was designed and built for SES by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a leading manufacturer of commercial satellites. The spacecraft, to be positioned at the orbital slot of 5 degrees East, features 36 active Ku-band transponders and up to 24 active […]
Consolidating a relationship now entering into its 30th year, Eutelsat Communications and Arianespace have announced the conclusion of a new launch services contract for a future Eutelsat satellite. The assignment of the launch to a satellite will be made at a later stage. The contract for an Ariane 5 launch from the Guiana Space Centre […]
Satellite operator SES is poised to invest further in its efforts to maintain its lead in the Asian market, which is predicted to grow from 2,000 channels to 9,000 by 2016, according to Deepak Mathur, Senior VP Commercial, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East at SES. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mathur said […]
SES-5, the latest satellite from SES of Luxembourg, has been rescheduled for launch late in the evening of July 9th (Paris time at 20.38, local Baikonur time is 00.38 on July 10th). The launch was scrubbed twice last month while the Proton rocket system was checked. SES’s high-powered Ku-band beams will bring incremental capacity over […]