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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...

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....

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...

Kyle Private Networks has selected Microspace Communications Corp.’s Velocity digital-signage satellite system to power DrinksTV, a digital signage network for beverage retailers, Microspace announced April 17. DrinksTV.com is a multimedia...

The Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) team of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the functionality of its Next-Generation Processor Router (NGPR) in a comprehensive test conducted by the U.S....

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’...

Cerona Networks Corp. is rolling out the SkyDSR digital satellite router, its initial DVB-S2 product, Cerona announced April 16. The robust digital satellite router is designed to serve corporate private...

DigitalGlobe will provide Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., with high-resolution imagery for Garmin’s new BlueChart g2 line of highly detailed cartography, DigitalGlobe announced April 16. BlueChart g2...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,203,490 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, MSV announced April 17. The patent describes and claims systems and methods...

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...