Thaicom PCL to Launch Thaicom 6

Note: This is a permitted re-post from a well-known: Satellite Service Adviser

Attention Satellite Service Providers!

This information is from a very reliable source inside the said company mentioned below.

This is to formally informed you that Thaicom PCL are curently working on the demand forecast for the new satellite (Thaicom 6), which is planned to be in operation in 2013 at 78.5 E.

The standard C-band footprint shall be similar to the one of Thaicom 5 (regional beam).

So, if you think you have the capacity need by that time, or at the latest, a year after, it's better to start talking now to Handeil - it's International Sales Account Manager via this e-mail: handeilm@thaicom.net, or you can call him directly on his mobile phone: +66892014368.

Securing your satellite bandwidth needs of the future before actually launching the satellite is the most intelligent approach you can do to benefit your satellite related business. Doing it later, surely, it will not only give headaches in the negotiations stage, but it will also give you worries of whether you can secure the capacity or not because of the tight competition for the same capacity as it happened in the past.

Time just flies, so make the first move now!

Satellite Capacity Availability

The scarcity of the satellite bandwidth this year makes broadcast business difficult, especially for those start-up ones.

Pakistan alone, presents lots of bandwidth requirements, especially this time that Paksat is running full of capacity. With its next satellite launch that would take some more time, it means that at the moment, it doesn't have much options.

So, many has gone to other satellite service providers, especially Thaicom to ask for the same bandwidth capacity requirements. But, since it is also struggling for capacity needs within its base country, then it means that clients have not much bargaining power to negotiate with Thaicom or any other satellite service provider.

Portable Satellite Navigation Systems

If you are looking for a perfect satellite navigation system for you to easily come and go to and from any location then, Snooper’s S270 Sapphire Plus Pocket Navigator is the answer.

Snooper portable satellite navigation systems include the very best street level mapping from Navteq and Snooper’s market leading speed camera detector technology. Portable satellite navigation (Sat Nav) systems from Snooper are award winning, utilising TMC traffic information technology, Bluetooth hands free and Multi routing technology.

The Snooper S270 Sapphire Plus Pocket Navigator is perfect for moving from car to car or using on foot. It's ultra compact design makes it easy for you to carry in your pocket or bag. Only £199.99 including free speed camera updates!
It has been designed to be completely portable. Not only can you move it easily between vehicles but it’s ultra compact design means that you can use it just as easily on foot and it can be stored in your pocket or bag. No bigger than a standard mobile phone, the Snooper S270 Pocket Navigator is perfect for anybody constantly on the move.

Below is the summary of it wonderful features:

Advanced street level mapping

Recognised as the industry leader in digital street level mapping the Snooper S270 uses Navteq data. Ensuring you are taken seamlessly from A to B on the best possible route. Sapphire Plus will give you detailed turn by turn instructions to guide you to your destination together with voice prompts so you don’t have to take your eyes from the road ahead.

One touch Home and Office modes.

Save your home and/or your office address so that you can navigate straight there at the touch of just one button. No need to search for the address each and every time. Just hit the Home button wherever you are and you are ready to navigate.

Full postcode search.

To ensure the most accurate postcode search available Sapphire uses Royal Mail postcode search - the most comprehensive of its kind. Plus you can still search by city or street name.

Favourites

Save of up to 100 of your favourite addresses in your Favourites folder. Once stored, you can access them in seconds making routing quicker and easier.

Auto re-routing

Turn off the route by mistake or decide you want to go another way? Sapphire Plus Pocket Navigator will automatically re-route you in seconds, getting you back on track or finding an alternative route.

Find your destination by using the map.

Don’t know the address or postcode but no where it is on the map? Select the map view on the bright LCD screen and find your destination from the air. Click a point on the map of where you want to go and Sapphire Plus will direct you straight there.

Over 2 million POI's across Europe - Extensive list of points of interest!

Hotels, restaurants, petrol stations, speed cameras, golf courses, cash machines, airports, train stations, shops plus many more. Go straight to your destination at the touch of a button.

For more details, please kindly explore this link: http://www.snooperuk.com/snooper_products/satellite_navigation_gps_speed_camera_locators/satellite_navigation/

Ground Control's Satellite VPN and Satellite Networking

Encore Bandit II
Client & Server-Side VPN
$699 Each

Encore VSR-1200 Server-Side VPN Concentrator
Connects up to 1200 simultaneous VPN sessions
$9499.

According to Ground Control information resources, many VPN solutions will slow a connection to a crawl over satellite because they are not designed to handle the intrinsic latency unavoidable with satellite. The Encore Bandit II and the Encore VSR-1200 VPN pair deliver superior performance over satellite. The Bandit appliance will tunnel to an identical Bandit, or it can connect to the VSR-1200 which can handle up to 1200 simultaneous VPN sessions. Both devices have feature rich tools and are both are a time tested proven solution for high security VPN over satellite.

Standard Star Topology Network.

On its Star Topology iDirect services, there is no special provisioning required to integrate the Encore VPN solution into an existing terrestrial network.

Expanding an existing network to include satellite is fairly straight forward, but never the same for any organization. Ground Control’s sales engineers will answer any questions you have so that they can help you achieve your objectives on time and under budget.

Total Private Satellite Network.

A Total Private Network (TPN) uses a leased line from the corporate server directly to the satellite NOC, where the connection to client sites is secured through a variety of methods. The iDirect 5000 series iNfiniti router, includes powerful AES Link Encryption.

For more information on its other network topologies, please kindly go to this link: http://www.groundcontrol.com/satellite_network_topologies.htm#Private

Thank you very much.

Crosspoint Joins TVZ to promote its Broadcast Facilities

Based in the South of England with easy access to both air and sea-ports, Crosspoint specializes in providing broadcasters with production, distribution & transmission facilities for both Sports & Newsgathering events around the Globe.
www.tvz.tv is a supplier of Broadcast Services information to the international television newsgathering industry. Its principle aim is to act as an online venue for the promotion of professional TV facilities to newsdesks and sports desks around the world.
World First for Satlink Productions
Broadcast quality HD TV footage from 20 meters underwater.
The event, which included special equipment, took place on a warship that sank off the coast of Eilat, Israel and was broadcast directly to Europe.
The event was produced by Satlink Productions
TVZ Global Broadcast Services Directory
Need to find uplink operators/broadcast facilities? Visit its database here: http://www.tvz.tv/broadcast-services-directory.
Looking for a camera crew ? TVZ has crews listed worldwide which you can find here: http://www.tvz.tv/camera-crews.
Want a new job? See its 'Jobs' section here: http://www.tvz.tv/jobs.
Broadcast video to buy or sell - upload your video details free of charge.

IPSTAR Technology Best For the Philippines

One of the best ways to improve the situation in the Philippines, especially in its centralized governance, is to use the same example as in the government at Donsol.

This humble part of the Philippines used to be a sleepy coastal town in Sorsogon – a province in the southernmost tip of Luzon. Long time back, nobody knows the place except for its local inhabitants, until a few years ago when tourists began to flock this remote place to take a look and see the biggest fish on Earth, called the “whale shark.”

According to IPSTAR news (see original source here: http://www.ipstar.com/ph/success_ipstar_helps.html) as the government seeing the increase in local population due to the booming tourism industry, the local government of Donsol focused its efforts towards ICT applications that will effectively enhance the delivery of frontline government services to its constituents.

Through the Philippine government's broadband connectivity project – dubbed as ‘Jumpstarting Electronic Governance in Local Government Units (eLGU)' – Donsol has been provided with an IPSTAR broadband Internet connection by We are IT (WIT). The newly installed IPSTAR network proves to be not only beneficial to the LGUs and its employees, but also to the town's constituents.

In the past, local residents need to go to government offices just to pay their taxes or to apply for a business license. This traditional way of service delivery in most rural LGUs is slow, expensive, and oftentimes time-consuming – especially for the villagers who are living in far-flung areas outside the town center.

With the eLGU project, government offices are able to deliver better and faster online services via IPSTAR at lesser costs, while generating higher revenue for Donsol's local government. Town residents now file their applications for business license or pay their taxes directly from their homes, offices or any Internet cafe. In addition, notification of tax dues and payment status can also be checked via eLGU's online service.

The eLGU project also promotes information dissemination as it gives constituents and investors anytime, anywhere access to critical information via Donsol's local website. “With vital information exposed to public scrutiny via the government's website, e-governance would mean lesser opportunities for graft and corruption. Enhanced transparency will definitely give the public a clearer picture of what is happening in various government offices”, said a local resident.

With this approach, I am very confident that President Noynoy Aquino’s visions for the Philippines will surely be helped by this strategy.

So, if the Philippines will study extensively the case in Donsol and the other parts of the country applying the same strategy, and apply this same to at least 95% of the country’s populated islands, then I am pretty sure Filipinos will be in different and higher level in many aspects of their lives.

Technologies like the one used with IPSTAR would be of great help to achieve the greatest dream of the all the Filipino people – eliminating poverty and scary crimes happening all around the country. And of course, prayers are also needed to attain this dream.

Satellite Broadband

How do you determine how fast really is fast when talking about broadband satellite?

Harboursat has an answer to this question.

Fast satellite broadband is exactly that... fast! Offering download speeds 10-20 times faster than dial-up, satellite broadband is an "always on service", separate from your phone line, meaning you can access a greater number of websites and internet features faster and with greater reliability.

Why Broadband?

What is Broadband and why do I need it?

Broadband is internet which allows you to have fast and reliable access to multimedia services and applications, bigger data files and new communications services. It is vastly superior to "dial-up" internet in that service is more reliable and speeds provided can be up to 10 to 20 times faster. In laymen's terms, broadband has greater information-carrying capacity.

Features / Benefits

• It's all about you! - Satellite broadband is "always on". No more waiting for a phone line to be freed up gets you access to your information anytime you want... placing you in control. Connect when you want, to what you want, anytime you want.
• Speed - allows the whole family to get access to the information they need 10-20 times faster than dial-up. Downloading music, pictures, emails, movies... everything is faster and smoother saving you time and increasing your productivity.
• Cost control - with a wide variety of plans and prices, satellite broadband costs can be controlled by you.

Broadband Lifestyle

Broadband allows you to access all kinds of features and services from the comfort of your home or office. Just a few of the lifestyle benefits include:
• Book an international or domestic holiday
• Check your bank balance or apply for loan
• Download music or media files
• Email friends and family and share photos, jokes and other news
• Shop for or sell an almost endless range of products


For details of the company’s service plan, please visit this link: http://www.harboursat.com.au/

Gorilla in the TV Market

In our world today, there are so many ultras: ultra-sound, ultra-violet rays, ultra-power, etc. One of these ultras is coming to be very popular very soon. This is known as “Ultra-strong glass” and now named as Gorilla glass.

This ultra-strong glass has shown some great promise since its inception in 1960, but failed to find a commercial application at that time. So, according to Yahoo News, it's been biding its time in a hilltop research lab for almost a half-century.

However, in 2008 it picked up its first customer and has quickly become a multi-million dollar a year business as a protective layer over the screens of 40 million-plus cell phones and other mobile devices.

Conrning Inc., the 159-year old glass pioneer is now raising high its Gorilla glass productions, expecting it to be the hot new face of touch-screen tablets and high-end TVs.

Since Gorilla glass is very hard to break, dent or scratch, the company is now very confident that it will be the glass of choice as TV-set manufacturers dispense with protective rims or bezels for their sets, in search of an elegant look.

For details of this news, please visit this link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/1962-glass-could-be-Cornings-apf-978849301.html?x=0

Driving Business Through Triple-Play Strategy

Most of the telecommunications service providers today are going for a triple-play business in order to hold its competitiveness in the market.

One good example is the Portuguese pay-TV operator ZON which is now enjoying considerable success in migrating its subscribers to multiple play bundles, though its overall subscriber total is falling. According to Broadband TV News (which can be found from this link: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2010/07/30/triple-play-drives-zon-growth/), its number of triple play customers stood at 571,900 (+46.3%) and almost one in two cable subscribers (49%) received triple play services.

Seeing this success, others had also followed. So, different sectors have now converged on delivering information and services to consumers through the Internet. By doing so, it gives them a very high competitive advantage over those who remain its traditional way of doing business.

At the moment, Pacific Broadband Networks (PBN) is trying to contact one of the biggest satellite service providers in Asia to introduce its Light Link Series signal transmission equipment for the delivery of ‘triple play’ services including TV, Internet and Voice across broadband networks.


PBN product range includes:

Ø Optical TXs and RXs for all standard wavelengths 1270 nm thru 1610 nm,

Ø EDFA amplifiers,

Ø RFoG Systems,

Ø Deep fiber nodes and Distribution Amplifiers,

Ø FTTx systems, and

Ø Network System Monitoring, Management and Provisioning Software.


The value and benefits of PBN equipment are :

ü Western-design of broadband RF and optical equipment,

ü High-quality manufacturing to ensure product reliability,

ü Same-time-zone, Australia-based support, and

ü Price & Value ....... PBN products offer Value and can compete with any manufacturer on Price.

If you are interested, please log on to the website link below or request a full-line catalog if you have questions about the PBN product line or want a quote for equipment for any new projects you may be working on or considering to quote.

You may also direct your inquiry to the person below with the following details:


Howard Rupert,

Director, SE Asia Sales
Pacific Broadband Networks
8-10 Keith Campbell Court

Scoresby Victoria 3179 Australia
Phone: +61-3-9780-5100 (x 110)
Fax: +61-3-9763-5522
M: +61-411-066-108
Skype: howard.rupert

E-mail: hrupert@pbnglobal.com

Web: www.pbnglobal.com

Wireless Communication Products

If you have the same concerns as the other businesses which live the challenge of trying to integrate disparate communications systems, streamline operations, and lower costs, then On_Go's Wireless Communications Products might be able to help you.

Although communication and networking technologies have advanced significantly, the ability to fully utilize today’s communication networks has been restricted by device and network interface incompatibilities.

On-Go specializes in developing solutions that leverage the power of wireless networks to meet the changing communications needs of business. It's groundbreaking technology offers the ease of plug-n-play with the power of transparent communication and network connectivity … regardless of underlying network systems.

Some of its basic information are briefly summarized below:

Seamlessly Integrate Peripheral Devices

On-Go’s uniHub™ technology products bridge the “interface incompatibility” gap between networks and communication devices, allowing them to carry out intelligent application processing and keep information flowing smoothly.

Effortlessly Boost Wireless Bandwidth

On-Go’s RocketLink technology product harnesses the bandwidth of multiple wireless networks and technologies … giving you unsurpassed connection reliability and up to four times the speed of a single link.

So, for a complimentary consultation, please contact On-Go today. You may visit its site here: http://www.on-go.com/techov.html