[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] South African turnkey solutions provider Q-Kon has launched its iDirect Evolution Internet Broadband VSAT Service via satellite to its customers in Africa, Q-Kon announced July 27.
    The voice, video and data point-to-multipoint access service is available on C-band beams via the Intelsat IS905 satellite and is aimed at enterprises, ISPs and government bodies. The service is managed from Q-Kon’s network operations center in South Africa and is hosted at its teleport in Mountainside, Wash. The company said the U.S.-based DVB-S2 iDirect hub provides interconnectivity to the U.S. Internet backbone, which will increase the speed of the service.
    The iDirect Evolution platform “is centered on an upgrade to new Evolution X3 satellite modem and IP router with an Ethernet interface that maximizes bandwidth efficiencies. It features iDirect’s efficient implementation of the DVB-S2 standard with adaptive coding and modulation on the outbound carrier and iDirect’s patented TDMA inbound channel,” Q-Kon CEO Dawie de Wet said in a statement.