Connectivity

[Via Satellite 09-19-13] Gilat Satellite Networks announced the availability of the Wavestream Ka-band Matchbox Mini Block Upconverter, which incorporates Wavestream’s spatial advantEdge technology to provide higher output power in smaller,...

High Throughput Satellites (HTS) remain a hot topic of conversation in the industry, but their impact outside of North America is harder to examine. In Latin America, a vibrant region...

[Via Satellite 09-18-13] SES and KVH Industries have signed an expanded capacity agreement to provide connectivity to luxury, government and commercial ships across the Caribbean and beyond. The deal will...

[Via Satellite 09-18-13] Discovery Communications has signed a new capacity agreement with Intelsat. As part of the multi-transponder agreement, Discovery will use the distribution power of the Intelsat 19 video...

[Via Satellite 09-18-13] Bentley Walker, a service provider for broadband satellite Internet, is extending its service coverage toward Libya using Newtec’s Ka-band VSAT broadband platform and mainly deploying services using...

[Amsterdam 09-18-13] The VSAT market is in surprisingly good shape and showed good growth in 2012. This was the view of Simon Bull, senior consultant at Comsys, who kicked off...

[Via Satellite 09-17-13] After seeing its first four satellites launch successfully in June, O3b Networks has been dealt a blow by the news that its second group of four satellites...

[Via Satellite 09-17-13] Thales and SITA have seen success with the pairing of Thales’ GateSync with SITA’s e-Aircraft Connectivity Services to enable in-flight entertainment (IFE) on demand to passengers’ smartphones,...

[Via Satellite 09-17-13] Newtec signed an agreement at IBC 2013 to provide a VSAT Broadband Hub and thousands of VSAT terminals to Liquid Telecom, an independent data, voice and IP...

[Via Satellite 09-17-13] Advantech Wireless’ GaN-based SapphireBlu Series of UltraLinear Ku-Band Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) received certification from the Brazilian National Telecommunication Agency (Anatel). “This certification allows us to...