Focus: Telecom

By Nick Mitsis Satellites are still the best way to reach multiple points with large quantities of content in the most economical way. Even so, applications like Internet streaming have a few more years of development ahead before sufficient broadband connections and revenue models to collect payments for content are totally resolved. In the meantime,...

by James Careless Club Med’s Columbus Isle in the Bahamas: the name conjures up images of sun, sand and luxurious leisure. For Club Med Management Information Systems Director Mario Fernandez, however, Columbus Isle also conjures up satellites. The reason: satellite communication is the data lifeline between Columbus Isle–located on the island of San Salvador, where...