Focus: Broadcasting

Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company, will launch software aimed at offering operators a secure pay-TV solution on the PC, Robin Wilson’s Nagravision’s vice president of business development, told the IBC E-Daily.     This could offer satellite pay-TV operators a solution should they want to extend their pay-TV offerings to the PC, she said. “The PC...

OmniGlobe Networks EMEA has won two contracts to provide backhaul platforms and mobile services in the Middle East, the company announced Sept. 15.      Arabsat selected OmniGlobe to provide 12 new backhauling platforms for the transmission of SCPC TV streams throughout the Arab world countries. The new platforms will be designed for continuous operation, capable...

SES World Skies signed a multi-year capacity deal in Africa with Netcom to augment its existing capacity by utilizing multi Ku-band transponders, the company announced Sept. 15. The expanded capacity aims to enable Netcom to meet rising demand for its broad range of telecom and broadcast television services among businesses, universities and consumers in cities...

Apposite Technologies, a developer of network simulation tools has released the Linktropy Mini2, a compact version of the Linktropy WAN emulator, the company announced Sept. 15.     The Linktropy Mini2 is designed to simulate basic wide area network links of up to 100 Mbps, delay, and loss conditions to test the performance of networking applications...

[Satellite TODAY 09-18-09] David Wood, deputy director for the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) technical department has been added to speak at next week’s highly anticipated ‘What Does The Future Hold For 3D TV?’ webinar, bought to you by Access Intelligence.             The webinar now features speakers from Asia, Europe and North America who will offer...

[Satellite News 09-17-09] The European Commission (EC) wants to bring the benefits of modern communications and media to people throughout Europe, and with the switch off of analog signals approaching quickly, how the spectrum freed up by the change can be used to meet this goal is a key topic.      Viviane Reding, the European Union (EU) Commissioner...

[Satellite TODAY 09-16-09] Winegard Co. unveiled a new compact roof-mounted RV satellite television antenna – the RoadTrip Minimax, the company announced Sept. 14. The new product, available for $899 is a combination of the Winegard 12-inch RoadTrip antenna and the Carryout automatic portable antenna. The unit is 15 inches high and 20 inches in diameter....

[Satellite TODAY 09-16-09] OmniGlobe Networks EMEA has won two contracts to provide backhaul platforms and mobile services in the Middle East, the company announced Sept. 15.      Arabsat selected OmniGlobe to provide 12 new backhauling platforms for the transmission of SCPC TV streams throughout the Arab world countries. The new platforms will be designed for...

[Satellite TODAY 09-16-09] DirecTV Holdings priced an issuance of $1 billion of 4.75 percent senior notes due 2014 and $1 billion of 5.62 percent senior notes due 2019, the company announced Sept. 15.     DirecTV is attempting to raise $2 billion to use for general corporate purposes and for the repurchase of its existing 8.37...

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, has been chosen to provide its Monics system to Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) for satellite monitoring, interference detection, and satellite operator planning capability, Integral Systems announced Sept. 14.     Monics systems aim to provide automatic monitoring of SingTel’s carriers using SAT Corp.’s Digital Signal Processing (DSP)...