E-letter: Briefs

Atrexx Launches 2way2sat Services in Iraq Atrexx, a German provider of telecommunications and broadcast solutions, is offering satellite-based communications services to the Iraq region via Eutelsat’s Eurobird 4A satellite. The...

Vitec Names Services Division CEO Vitec Group, a U.K.-based provider of products and services for the broadcast, imaging and live event industries, named Jerry Gepner CEO of Vitec’s services division....

Nagravision Forms Technology Partnership with Intel Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company, signed a technology licensing agreement with Intel to develop compatibility between Nagravision’s NOCS technology and Intel’s CE media processors,...

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-09] The Irish government has chosen Eutelsat Communications to provide its Tooway satellite broadband service under Ireland’s national broadband scheme to deliver high-speed broadband connectivity to homes and...

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-09] Harmonic reported net sales to $83.9 million in its 2009 third quarter financial results, released Oct. 28. Sales in the same period in 2008 were $91.5 million....

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-09] Paradise Datacom released a line of indoor rack-mount block converters, the manufacturer announced Oct. 29.     The converters are configurable to accommodate C-, X- and Ku-band RF...

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-09] The second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft is progressing through a series of tests that will demonstrate the integrated satellite’s readiness to enter the...

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-09] Sims Group, a satellite network operator in Colombia, has launched an iDirect-based DVB-S2 broadband satellite service with coverage across Latin America, Caribbean and the United States, iDirect...

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-09] Stratos Global Corp. has been contracted to provide a dedicated, leased channel on Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) mobile broadband satellite service to the Canadian government,...

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-09] SIS Live, a European outside broadcast and uplink supplier, won a multimillion dollar contract from the Broadcasting Corp. of India to provide the production, coverage facilities and...