Connectivity

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has started integration for DigitalGlobe’s next generation commercial remote-sensing satellite.

Panasonic Avionics Corporation has announced completion of commercial agreement with Australian Satellite Communications (ASC) and is now ready to enter into service with a full transponder of capacity on the Eutelsat 172A satellite pending imminent regulatory approval.

MEASAT Satellite Systems has announced an agreement with CET Teleport GmbH for capacity on the Africasat-1a satellite.

LGS Innovations, an independent subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, has announced the appointment of Rich Martin to chief information officer.

The take-up rate of in-flight connectivity services is proving to be lower than expected. Euroconsult recently released the “Prospects for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity” report

C-COM Satellite Systems has announced its iNetVuKa-98H mobile antenna system, combined with the HNS 2W Dual IFL Transceiver, is suitable to operate over the Middle East satellite operator Yahsat’s Yahclick network.

KVH Industries has introduced its new TracPhone V3-IP satellite communications systems and announced the availability of an integrated service package that pairs its mini-VSAT Broadband service with the Iridium OpenPort broadband service.

ATEME has announced that Turner Broadcasting has used ATEME's Kyrion CM5000 encoder in its dual channel version for remote production.

he compression market is heating up ahead of NAB with the main technology vendors making a flurry of announcements as they look to meet the needs of broadcasters and DTH players.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’ subsidiary RT Logic has launched two new products for building cost-effective satellite control centers: the Software Front End Processor (FEP) and the Software Gateway. Both are based on a "software only" architecture that replaces the hardware/software appliances used in the industry today.