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[Via Satellite 04-26-2016] Kacific Broadband Satellites and Newtec have reached an agreement to use Newtec Dialog for powering Kacific’s interim services. Ahead of launching a Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS), Kacific plans to provide interim Ku-band capacity to customers in the Pacific.

The company plans to use the Newtec Dialog multiservice platform initially to deliver Internet connectivity to a number of schools in the Republic of Vanuatu. Kacific says it will be expanding its broadband service delivery to consumers, enterprises and other public institutions in places where Internet connectivity is lacking due to poor or unavailable terrestrial infrastructure. Kacific’s target market includes the whole of South-East Asia and the Pacific, from Sumatra, Indonesia, to the French Polynesian archipelagos.

Newtec Dialog enables tailored services and optimal modulation and bandwidth allocation, whether it is being used to provide enterprise, consumer broadband, cellular backhaul or mobility services. It features Newtec’s return link technology Mx-DMA, which delivers the efficiency of Single Channel Per Carrier (SCPC) with the dynamic bandwidth allocation of Multi-Frequency Time Division Multiple Access (MF-TDMA), making Kacific’s services more bandwidth efficient and enabling services to run more reliably than before, according to Newtec.