Focus: Broadcasting

Organizations that depend on the Internet must go beyond firewalls and intrusion detection systems to anticipate and protect against potential threats. V-ONE Corp. has been designing, developing and marketing next-generation network security software since 1993 and holds eight patents. Using open standards and application layer technology, the company’s product lines integrate encryption, authentication and access...

By James Careless There is a new word in the TV lexicon: ‘centralcasting’. It is the cost-saving strategy of producing a whole range of TV channels in a central facility, then distributing them to their respective markets by satellite. Functionally, centralcasting is a form of networking. It is built upon the same one-to-many distribution structure...

By James Careless With the first five years of the 21st century nearly over, the satellite industry is looking ahead to the next five years with many questions in mind: What applications will be money makers? How will HDTV, IP, and the military’s use of commercial influence the market? How will new mergers and recent...

By Owen D. Kurtin 2004 may just go down in history as the year the satellite business started to rationalize itself, turned the economic corner and positioned itself to take on both terrestrial competition and the challenge of new service offerings. The year began with President Bush’s call in January for a U.S. return to...

by Nick Mitsis As the global commercial satellite industry enters the final months of 2004, business executives are examining which of the undertaken ventures worked and what strategic objectives they will need to execute in the coming years in order to increase revenues and improve their respective company’s bottom line. It is no secret that...

By Nick Mitsis Today’s broadcaster is highly sophisticated, educated on satellite products and services and expects more from a contract than mere satellite space. Many content service providers within the satellite industry have answered that call and provide the broadcasting community with tools necessary for a successful, diversified transmission. This, in turn, is working well...

By Peter J. Brown The problem of global satellite signal theft looms large. The parties engaged are everywhere and they are highly sophisticated and eager to make money, lots of money. Satellite signal theft is an activity that can spiral out of control in a very short time. In region after region and especially in...

With the expansion of the European Union, the makeup of the Eastern European satellite market has changed. Today, when people speak of this market, they are referring to Russia and its former Soviet republics; members of the former Yugoslavia as well as Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. And even though familiar economic challenges remain, this Eastern...

By Mark Holmes The European broadcasting marketplace is entering a new and particularly vibrant phase. All the talk is centered around technologies such as HDTV (High-Definition TV) and new consumer electronics devices such as PVRs (Personal Video Recorders). In these areas, things are already happening in Europe. Satellite pay-TV operators such as BSkyB in the...

By James Careless In the past, broadcasters only had to worry about transmitting one-way video signals via satellite. to compete in today’s fast-paced information universe, however, broadcasters must be able to integrate video and data into coherent transmission streams for global and simultaneous delivery, and do so in ways that are both efficient and cost...