Author: Staff Writer

Cisco’s Space-router technology has passed a U.S. Department of Defense satellite-orbit test for use of next-generation satellite-based IP services and communications from space, the company announced July 20.     The...

Wireless satellite broadband provider KeyOn has acquired a major portion of SouthWest Wireless Net’s broadband assets from New Vision to help extend KeyOn’s network footprint in southwestern Minnesota, the company...

European Media Port (EMP) will be the first provider of gateway teleport services for O3b Networks after the companies signed a long-term agreement that allows for the provision of a...

ViaSat Enerdyne, a supplier of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data links, has released a multi-channel HD video encoder, which allows an IP-based data link to transmit H.264 compressed, HS...

IP service provider Envivio has secured $15 million in financing from unnamed venture capital and banking sources, the company announced July 28. Envivio said it would use the funds to...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] The U.S. Air Force issued Boeing a $182 million contract to build the seventh Wideband Global Satcom satellite, WGS-7, the Pentagon announced Aug. 20.      Boeing has...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to build a wireless small-satellite network to provide a scalable set of open standard technologies, the agency...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] KVH and ViaSat have expanded KVH’s mini-VSAT Broadband network capacity in the North American region by more than 500 percent, the companies announced Aug. 20.     KVH...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] Broadcaster Canal Digital appointed Patrik Hofbauer CEO, parent company Telenor announced Aug. 20.     Hofbauer, currently CEO of broadcaster Clear Channel Sweden, will start his new role...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] The pay-TV hybrid set-top box market may see 90 million units by 2015, according to an IMS Research study released Aug 20.     The report, “The World...