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global C-Band and multi-regional Ku-Band<br />
VSAT networks. Its advanced IP overMPLS<br />
backbone is approved for use with U.S. government<br />
encryption technologies, and provides a<br />
secure and robust integrated global network.<br />
TCS AWARDED USD 246 MILLION<br />
U.S. ARMY CONTRACT<br />
Wireless communications provider TeleCommunication<br />
Systems (TCS) has been awarded<br />
an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity delivery<br />
order with a potential value of USD 246 million<br />
over the next 39 months. The delivery order is<br />
with the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics<br />
Life Cycle Management Command (CECOM<br />
LCMC) to support its need for rapidly deployable<br />
and highly secure <strong>satellite</strong> communication<br />
access to broadband <strong>satellite</strong> services.<br />
SEAMOBILE TO PROVIDE IPTV<br />
PLATFORM FOR CRUISE SHIPS<br />
Wave Entertainment Network, a division of<br />
SeaMobile Enterprises, has presented its IPTV<br />
television platform available to the cruise line<br />
industry worldwide. The continually expanding<br />
line-up includes linear and on-demand programming<br />
services from major media companies<br />
such as A&E Networks, CBS, Comcast, Cox<br />
Communications, Discovery Networks, Fox<br />
Cable, Fox News, NBC Universal, Twentieth<br />
Century Fox Studios and Viacom. In addition,<br />
cruise line guests who are sailing in the<br />
Mediterranean are able to view television<br />
programs in a variety of different languages<br />
from the top European providers, including<br />
Euronews, BBC News, BBC Prime, France<br />
24, TV5 Monde, RAI <strong>International</strong>, RAI News<br />
24, DW TV, ARD, and TVE <strong>International</strong>.<br />
L A T I N A M E R I C A<br />
BRAZIL<br />
SHIRON SATELLITE WINS VSAT CONTRACT<br />
Shiron Satellite Communication’s Brazil office<br />
has closed a commercial agreement with Sanmina-SCI<br />
to produce state-of-the-art, broadband<br />
<strong>satellite</strong> communication VSATs locally in<br />
Hortolândia (SP), district of Campinas. Shiron<br />
will be the first and only company to have local<br />
production of VSATs in Brazil. Currently, more<br />
than 20,000 VSATS are imported every year into<br />
Brazil, and the country’s installed base exceeds<br />
100,000 VSATs. With Coldecon and Anditel/IPC<br />
in Colombia, Shiron has deployed over 7,000<br />
VSAT terminals in 2007, and is deploying, for<br />
the first time in Latin America, 3,000 iRG-S2/<br />
ACM VSATs with 16APSK ACM (Adaptive Code<br />
Modulation) outbound and an 8PSK with FEC<br />
8/9, the most efficient VSAT system deployed.<br />
A S I A & P A C I F I C<br />
BANGLADESH<br />
FIRST PRIVATE INTERNET<br />
GATEWAY OPERATIONAL<br />
The first private <strong>International</strong> Internet Gateway<br />
(IIG) started operating in Bangladesh in June.<br />
Two POPs have been installed in Dhaka and<br />
Chittagong in the first phase of operations, to be<br />
expanded later. Mango Teleservices, a unit of<br />
Dhaka-based Communication Solution Limited,<br />
set up the IIG in partnership with multinational<br />
corporation Cisco Systems, Inc. The<br />
IIG operator will give internet service providers<br />
and businesses high speed, high bandwidth<br />
international connections through its network.<br />
Mango’s IIG will be connected with the existing<br />
submarine cable as its main link and with<br />
the Satellite Earth Station/VSAT as its back up<br />
until another submarine cable is available.<br />
FIJI<br />
TFL PROVIDES VSAT HUB FOR<br />
VANUATU COMPANY<br />
Vanuatu’s telecom company has been assisted<br />
by the Telecom Fiji Limited (TFL) in providing<br />
telecommunication services to its remote customers<br />
through its VSAT hub based in Yaqara. Like<br />
Fiji, Vanuatu has customers in remote lying areas<br />
whose only means of access to telecommunication<br />
services is via <strong>satellite</strong>. Two years ago TFL<br />
made a substantial investment in its upgrading<br />
of the VTSAT service through its partnership<br />
with Gilat using their Sky Edge technology.<br />
INDIA<br />
RAILWAYS TO GET VSAT<br />
COMMUNICATION HUB<br />
Indian Railways will soon have its own stateof-the-art<br />
communication network as it has<br />
signed a contract with Hughes to set up its first<br />
dedicated VSAT communication hub. The VSAT<br />
hub would allow the Indian Railways to not only<br />
offer a host of mission critical applications but<br />
also provide Internet access on running trains.<br />
The commissioning of the dedicated VSAT hub<br />
will allow Indian Railways to connect 1,000<br />
locations across 19 States and give voice and<br />
data connectivity for their services at remotely<br />
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