Advantech Wireless Selected by Hoje Telecom for VSAT Upgrade

Advantech Wireless signed a contract with Hoje Telecom of Brazil to provide a VSAT upgrade hub, RF equipment and more than 1,000 remote terminals. By 2014, Internet penetration in Brazil is expected to increase by 79 percent from 2009, and Hoje Telecom expects to leverage this growth and provide thousands of previously unconnected users with Internet access.

EMS Wins WGS-7 Hardware Contract from Boeing

EMS Defense & Space received a follow-on contract from Boeing to design and integrate a power divider and a splitter combiner assembly for the seventh flight set of the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite architecture.

WGS-7 will support additional X- and Ka-band communications requirements for U.S. military warfighters. EMS Defense & Space will provide space, airborne and ground-based applications as well as its Wavestorm GS-GBS Ka-band receive antenna aperture designed to enable full data rates from the WGS constellation and support airborne or ground-based comms-on-the-move applications across all of the major X-band constellations.

GlobeCast Signs Five-Year Distribution Deal with Eutelsat

GlobeCast concluded a five-year contract with Eutelsat Communications for a third transponder on the Eurobird 9A satellite, which was selected for its potential to reach more than 5 million DTH and cable homes.

GlobeCast’s service includes content management, playout and origination and encoding. Uplink to Eurobird 9A is possible from Paris, which has connectivity to more than 30 points-of-presence via GlobeCast’s fiber network.

Intelsat Captures European Capacity Deals

MTV Networks signed a multi-year contract for Intelsat managed video services that includes Intelsat capacity at 1 degree West, terrestrial connectivity via the IntelsatOne network and uplink service via Intelsat’s Fuchsstadt teleport. MTV Networks will use the managed services to consolidate channel programming into one platform over Central and Eastern Europe.

Eastern Space Systems Romania also expanded its portfolio at 1 degree West by signing two multi-year contracts for Intelsat capacity that will enable video distribution to cable headends and DTH platforms in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Hungary, Macedonia and other Central and Eastern European countries.

SES World Skies Provides Enterprise Broadband Capacity

SES World Skies signed a deal with Axesat for two transponders on SES’ AMC-4 satellite at 67 degrees West to provide business voice, data and Internet services to companies in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Central America and the Caribbean.

SES deployed AMC-4 in September 2010 as part of an agreement with the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) to deliver high-power Ku-band capacity to the Andean region. This capacity is enabling the expansion of many voice, data, Internet and video networks in the Andean countries, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.