Author: JJ McCoy

Cerona Networks Corp., a portfolio company of Republic Financial Corp.’s private equity group, has received additional funding, the company announced April 18. A Series-B financing round is being provided to...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced April 18 the appointment of Larry D. Haughey as group vice president for its government sector. Haughey will lead the company’s sales and marketing initiatives...

Unconfirmed reports have been widely published that Intelsat, the world’s largest commercial satellite operator, has been approached for possible sale. On April 17, the Wall Street Journal reported on its...

Norsat International Inc. has unveiled its next-generation family of ultra-portable satellite newsgathering terminals, the company announced April 17. Packaged in rugged, wheelable, self-contained cases to comply with International Air Transport...

Globecomm has introduced SkyBorne Enterprise to integrate cost-effective IPTV broadcast technology into enterprise networks, Globecomm announced April 17. Designed to provide satellite-based IPTV content acquisition and management, subscriber management, packaging...

ViaSat Inc. has received orders for its LinkWay 2100 IP modems and LinkWay Network Management Systems from General Dynamics C4 Systems and TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS), ViaSat announced April 17....

GlobeCast is adding two Bosnian channels, BosTel and NTV Hayat, to expand the offerings on its WorldTV service, the company announced April 16. An aggregator and distributor of international television...

Beam Communications Ltd. has received a $3.5 million order from Telstra Corp. for Iridium-based satellite communications systems, Iridium announced April 17. The primary component, a Beam remote satellite terminal, emulates...

Intelsat and Arqiva have signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract for satellite capacity to carry digital programming after the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC)’s digital switchover, Intelsat announced April 17.   Intelsat...

Scopus Video Networks, a digital video networking provider, and Neotion, a technology provider for digital TV, announced April 16 that Neotion’s MPEG-4 conditional access module has been integrated with Scopus’...