"Ludicrous and Ridiculous": CEOs React to Intelsat's 5G Proposal “Simply ludicrous and ridiculous” — Tom Choi, CEO of ABS and one of the most outspoken CEOs in the satellite industry, did not hold back when assessing Intelsat’s announcement last week… Advertise with us: SES Wins Multiple Government Contracts for MEO Capacity SES announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, SES Government Solutions, has won several key contracts to provide managed network services leveraging SES’ high throughput, low latency Medium Earth Orbit… Advertise with us: Join SSPI in New York City on October 17 as we celebrate the 12th Annual Future Leaders Dinner, a benefit event that supports our programs to attract and retain the Next Generation of the satellite industry! Find out more at www.satfuture.com Advertise with us: Gulfsat Partners with Thuraya to Expand Services to Kuwait Thuraya Telecommunications announced it has signed a partnership with satellite communications company Gulfsat at the ongoing Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) event in Kuwait. According to Gulfsat, the strategic alliance will enable… Advertise with us: Why advertise in Via Satellite? We reach end users who are involved with the purchase, implementation and use of satellite technology. Here is a sampling of those end users.   Bentley Walker Launches New DVB-S2X Satellite Service Bentley Walker has launched a live Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation Extension (DVB-S2X) satellite service leveraging iDirect’s iQ Desktop and iDX 4.0 software. Bentley Walker will deploy the new service in… L3 to Provide Satcom Terminals to US Air National Guard L3 Technologies has won a contract to provide Hawkeye 3 Lite Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite communications terminals and on-site training to the U.S. Air National Guard’s Joint Incident Site… Cobham Explores Augmented Reality for Maritime Satcom Cobham Satcom is working with custom software house Kanda and Osterhout Design Group (ODG) to build an Augmented Reality (AR) wearable solution for maritime service technicians. With AR already established… Upcoming Events DC5G Summit 2017 2017 Joint 35th AIAA ICSSC and 23rd Ka and Broadband Communications Conference MilCom 2017 Space Tech Expo Europe SATCOMRUS 2017 CyberSat Summit AfricaCom 2017 OilComm FleetComm Global MilSatCom 2017 The Economist Events: A New Space Age Career Center Engineer Systems 4 #19979 Northrop Grumman Corporation – Redstone Arsenal, AL Communications and Networking Engineer 3 Northrop Grumman Corporation – Patuxent River, MD Network Communications 3/4 (AS2A) Northrop Grumman Corporation – Falls Church, VA Network Communications 2/3 (AS2D) Northrop Grumman Corporation – Palmdale, CA Advertise with us: Stay Connected         Subscribe to Via Satellite Advertise © 2017 Satellite Today, an Access Intelligence LLC Company