Connectivity

Video transport solutions provider Nevion is on track to produce double-digit revenue growth in 2011, driven by an expanding interest in its portfolio of video-over-IP products. Nevion CEO Oddbjørn Bergem […]

[Satellite News 04-18-11] Satellite pay-TV and telecom operators France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have established a joint venture that will oversee about $13 billion in combined annualized spending between the […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-18-11] Global pay-TV subscriptions rose 6 percent last year, with satellite pay-TV giants DirecTV and Dish Network contributing 19.6 million and 14.1 million subscribers, respectively in 2010, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-18-11] A number of catalysts developing in the next several months should propel Iridium Communications’ long-term financial outlook, according to Raymond James Analyst Chris Quilty, who predicts […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-15-11] Gilat won a contract with Telecom Namibia to provide a SkyEdge 2 broadband satellite network to serve hundreds of locations throughout Namibia, Gilat announced April 14. […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-15-11] SES World Skies signed a deal with Axesat intended to provide capacity for growing corporate service demand across Latin America and the Caribbean, SES World Skies announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-15-11] The imaging payload for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite passed the critical design review, manufacturer ITT Corp., announced April 14.     DigitalGlobe is developing WorldView-3 under a 10-year, $3.5 […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-15-11] Sat-Comm awarded a contract to Rohde & Schwarz to provide spectrum analyzers for use in satellite newsgathering vehicles, Rohde & Schwarz announced April 14.     Under the […]

[Satellite News 04-15-11] Albania’s communist past has left the Eastern European country of 3 million people with very little terrestrial infrastructure, making it a healthy market for satellite TV and […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-14-11] SES selected Arianespace to launch the Astra 2E satellite in the 2013 second quarter as part of SES’s multi-launch agreement with Arianespace, the companies announced April […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] NewSat expanded its executive management team with the appointment of David Ball as CTO, the company announced April 13.     The company decided to increase its team […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] Advantech Wireless signed a contract with Hoje Telecom of Brazil to provide a VSAT upgrade hub, RF equipment and more than 1,000 remote terminals, Advantech announced April […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] MeshTV introduced its MeshTV HD series Intelligent Bonding compact backpack video system for live stream TV and Web reporting, the company announced April 13.     The unit, […]

[Satellite News 04-14-11] Tullow Oil has exploration operations spread around the globe, making its communications needs very complex. Tullow looks to use a mix of satellite and fiber to meet […]

GlobeCast concluded a five-year contract with Eutelsat Communications for a third transponder on the Eurobird 9A satellite, Globecast announced April 11.      Eurobird 9A was chosen for its potential to […]

BBC Worldwide contracted GlobeCast to provide playout and media workflow services for four of the broadcaster’s Polish-language channels from GlobeCast’s London media management and delivery hub, GlobeCast announced.     GlobeCast […]

Sky Deutschland has reached a deal with HD Plus in Germany to expand the offering of HD channels to its satellite pay-TV subscribers.      The deal, announced April 11, notes […]

Digital media tools and workflow solutions provider Telestream has released an upgraded version of its Pipeline video capture system, the company announced.     Pipeline 2.5 was designed to function as […]

Nagra, an independent provider of value-added content protection solutions, has secured a contract with Italian broadcaster Mediaset to provide its over-the-top (OTT) video-on-demand solutions to Mediaset subscribers, Nagra announced April […]

Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel hopes its slew of new Hollywood studio contracts to bring movies to Foxtel subscribers in a similar timeframe with DVD releases will help the company recover […]

Some people in the broadcasting sector thought the migration to digital would make managing workflows easier. Others, like resource management software developers, knew they had a brand new growth market […]

Satellite industry-focused coverage on issues concerning the ever-more ubiquitous mobile broadband spectrum resource and its allocation by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tends to be focused on the operator’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-13-11] Broadband access will be the leading revenue generator for satellite broadband providers during the next 10 years, growing at nearly 15 percent annually, according to NSR. The […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-13-11] The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the merger of Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings (CSR), parent company of XM Canada, and Sirius Canada, the companies announced […]

Streambox has introduced an all-in-one, software-based enterprise server designed to allow broadcasters and other video-centric organizations to manage the acquisition of video content when substantial amounts of video are being […]

Chinese cable operator Fujian Southeast selected technology solutions from Thomson Video Networks (TVN) to help the broadcaster upgrade its headend infrastructure, TVN announced April 6.     The TVN system was […]

The World Teleport Association (WTA) appointed Arqiva Strategy & Business Development Director Brett Belinsky as its new chairman, along with Teleport Internacional Buenos Aires CEO Norberto Alvarez Vitale as its […]

Satellite security specialist Digital Alert Systems (DAS) has introduced its MultiPlayer four-channel EAS audio player and program switcher to eliminate one-channel-at-a-time restrictions for encoder/decoder units, DAS announced.    The MultiPlayer […]

Video network developer Haivision has unveiled its new Kraken Enterprise and Kraken ISR low-latency IP transcoding solutions, the company announced.     The new Kraken products were designed to optimize video […]

Amino’s Freedom Jump device aims to help pay-TV operators add Over-The-Top (OTT) content without costly existing device change-outs. The box works alongside a cable or satellite set-top box to add […]