Via Satellite Announces 2013 Excellence Awards Winners
Via Satellite’s 2013 Excellence Awards salutes the innovative companies, technologies, campaigns and people who’ve helped shape the success of the global satellite industry. Talented professionals and dynamic technologies are what support the industry’s growth and stature. Our esteemed panel of judges has conferred and has chosen the best in the industry… READ MORE »
ITU Deploys Satellite Communication Equipment and Experts to Support Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts
ITU has dispatched emergency satellite telecommunications equipment to areas severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which tore through the Visayas region of central Philippines on Friday with deadly force. One of… READ MORE »
THURSDAY’S Webinar: Oil and Gas Companies: Will High Throughput Satellites Change the Equation? Oil and gas companies are some of the major users of satellite-based communications services, thus an important market for the satellite sector. As oil companies’ demands for bandwidth go up, how will satellite fit into Oil & Gas communication network needs? Join Via Satellite THIS THURSDAY to find out what oil and gas companies demands for bandwidth will be and how their complex networks will use satellite going forward.
Comcast Renews and Expands C-Band Capacity Agreement with SES
Comcast Wholesale has renewed and expanded key agreements with SES for nearly 650 MHz of C-band capacity to deliver content management and delivery solutions to media companies across North America. As part of the multi-year deal, Comcast Wholesale continues to use 16 transponders aboard… READ MORE »
Eutelsat Signs Deal with Rai to Expand HD Broadcasting in Italy
Rai and Eutelsat Communications have signed an agreement enabling Italy’s public service broadcaster to deliver its new portfolio of HD channels across the country. Rai will broadcast its three flagship channels in HD – Rai 1, Rai 2, and Rai 3 – via… READ MORE »
The November edition of Via Satellite magazine is here! In this issue, we learn the inside story behind Eutelsat's strategy for Latin America, examine how the oil and gas industry looks to the HTS market, but only at the right price, and see how the government approaches business with satcoms under the thumb of sequestration. Read it now!
US Electrodynamics Chooses ViaLite for Ku-band Satellite
U.S. Electrodynamics, Inc. (USEI) recently completed the installation of a 4.8m Ku antenna on SES’s AMC 21 satellite using Vialite RF-over-fiber links between the new antenna and control room. Sales Director at the Brewster Teleport, David Grooms, confirmed that the equipment is now fully operational. Operated… READ MORE »
Media Networks to Provide Pay-TV Solutions for TV4ISP in Brazil
Media Networks has reached an agreement with TV4ISP to provide pay-TV solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Brazil through the integration of Media Networks’ DTH and Go Digital wholesale pay-TV services. “The Brazilian pay-TV market is very dynamic and, in the last months, new opportunities have opened for the… READ MORE »