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Satellite Broadcasting Services 2 TABLE OF Vol.1-INDEX Published monthly by CONTENTS Satnews Publishers 800 Siesta Way Sonoma, CA 95476 USA Phone (707) 939-9306 Fax (707) 939-9235 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.satmagazine.com EDITORIAL Silvano Payne Publisher Virgil Labrador Managing Editor and Editor, The Americas Chris Forrester Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa John Puetz, Bruce Elbert Dan Freyer, Howard Greenfield Dan Makinster 3 / Issue Index--an issue by issue guide to the articles covered in the past year Contributing Writers, The Americas 8/ Subject Index-- a comprehensive reference to keywords, names and places Peter Marshall, Roger Stanyard Company Profiles Contributing Writers, Europe 7/ SES Global Bernardo Schneiderman 9/ PanAmSat Contributing Writer, Latin America 11/ Comtech EF Data Baden Woodford 13/ MITEQ Contributing Writer, Africa 15/ Paradise Datacom Jill Durfee 17/ Andrew Corporation/ Agile Communications Systems ([email protected]) Advertising Sales 19/ FOXCOM/ Global Link Productions, Inc. Joyce Schneider 21/ Advanced Projects Intl./ Microspace Communications Corp. ([email protected]) 23/ PROMAX Electronica S.A./ Sector Microwave industries, Inc. Advertising Sales 25/ ISCe 2004/ W.B. Walton Enterprises Satnews Publishers is the leading provider of information 27/ About the Authors on the worldwide satellite industry. Fore more informa- 28/ Calendar of Events tion, go to www.satnews.com. Copyright © 2004 Satnews Publishers All rights reserved. Vol. 1-INDEX SATMAGAZINE.COM 3 ISSUE INDEX An issue by issue guide to Volume 1: April 2003-March 2004 Vol.1, No. 1 Message From Sir Arthur C. Clarke April 2003 The State of the Art of the Satellite Industry The State of the Art of the Satellite Industry by Virgil Labrador The Satellite Broadband Promise by Dan Freyer SES Americom: “We’ll Jump Start A2H This year” by Chris Forrester Are You Protected? by John Puetz European Pay-TV: “The Rise and Rise of DTH” by Chris Forrester Post-War Opportunities in the Satellite Industry by Bruce Elbert Company Spotlight: SES Global--Preparing for 2010 by Chris Forrester Vol.1, No. 2 May 2003 Good War, Bad War By Chris Forrester Military Satcom Market Asian Businesses Change Plans to Cope with SARS by Stuart P. Browne Eutelsat Offers Ka for DTH By Chris Forrester Space Tourism: A Valid Market by 2021 By Chris Forrester Interview with Americom Government Services President David Helfgott Commercial Off the Shelf Solutions for Military Communications By Bruce Elbert Vol.1, No. 3 Asia’s Cable and Satellite Industry is Bouyant June-July 2003 by Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia Ground Equipment Market ISCe 2003: Where Innovative Satellite Technologies and Business Meet Europe’s New Sat Channel Boom and Bust by Chris Forrester European Union: Preparing for “Aquis” by Chris Forrester and Roger Stanyard Europe Satellite Radio Goes Ahead by Chris Forrester Guidelines for Success in the Asian Equipment Market by Bruce Elbert Interview with Americom Asia-Pacific’s Deepak Mathur Vol. 1-INDEX SATMAGAZINE.COM 4 ISSUE INDEX Vol.1, No. 4 The New Reality in Satellite Manufacturing by Bruce Elbert August 2003 Satellite Manufacturing: The New Reality DTH in Spain: “Savings on Satellite Transmission” by Chris Forrester Evolving Satellite Applications by Dan Freyer Indian TV in a Mess by Chris Forrester Satellite Challenges and Solutions Cross All Borders: A Case Study in Africa Satellite Manufacturing: by Howard Greenfield The New Reality Technical Tutorial: Internet via Satellite--IP overview by D.C. Palter U.S. Programmers: Now Franchising in Europe by Dan Freyer Vol. 1, No. 5 Will Satellite Deliver Mass Market Internet Service to September 2003 Europe? Opportunities in the European Satellite Market by Howard Greenfield Set Top Box PVR’s: A Long-term Opportunity by Chris Forrester VSAT4D in India by Stuart Browne From Aerial to Dish: How Satellite Changed Broadcasting by Bruce Elbert Bringing VPNs and Broadband Satellite Connections Together by John Puetz DOD Satcom Procurement: Time for a Change by David Helfgott Vol. 1, No. 6 ITU Telecom ‘04: The Demarcation Between our October 2003 Boom/Bust Past and an Open Future The Telecom Market by Bruce Elbert SES Global: More Optimistic about 2004-5 by Chris Forrester Finding Growth and Profitability in Enterprise Markets by Alan Gottlieb BBC to Export Playout Model by Chris Forrester Al-Jazeera: Adding to its Core Message by Chris Forrester Inteview with Integral CEO Steve Chamberlain Technical Tutorial: Protecting Valuable Satellite Bandwidth by John Thoma Vol. 1-INDEX SATMAGAZINE.COM 5 ISSUE INDEX Vol. 1, No. 7 What’s Hot in Satellite Applications Noveber 2003 by Virgil Labrador New Satellite Applications Europe’s First HDTV Channel Imminent by Chris Forrester The Future of VSAT Networks by Stuart P. Browne The Energy Industry Turns to High-Tech VSATs by John Puetz BT Broadcast Services: “High Margins Starting to Flow” by Chris Forrester Inteview with Tiscali SVP Mario Mariani Making Your Idea Happen--Creating a Viable Satellite Application by Bruce Elbert Vol. 1, No. 8 December 2003 Emerging Markets Markets Emerging Around the World by Howard Greenfield The Emerging Market for HDTV in North America by Chris Forrester European HDTV: Will it Fly? by Chris Forrester The “Right Match”: Introducing DBS to the Philippines by Thomas van der Heyden Emerging Markets From Global Trends by Bruce Elbert Inteview with News Skies’ CEO Dan Goldberg Vol. 1, No. 9 2003-2004: Years of Transition in the Satellite Industry January 2004 by Bruce Elbert Years of Transition in the Satellite Industry The View from Europe: A Look Back at 2003 (and 1993) by Chris Forrester The View from Asia by Stuart P. Browne A Fresh Approach to Evaluating and Purchasing a Communications Satellite System by Harold E. McDonnell The Battle for the Oilfield Customer by Alan Gottlieb Are we Listening? by John M. Kealey Vol. 1-INDEX SATMAGAZINE.COM 6 ISSUE INDEX Vol. 1, No. 10 Whither Broadband?: What’s in Store for 2004 February 2004 by Virgil Labrador Whiter Broadband? SES Global: Still Looking to Buy by Chris Forrester VSAT Technology: Which Way to Go? by Frank Francyzk Dubai’s Showtime: Worth $ 1 Billion+ by Chris Forrester Pilgrimage to Sri Lanka: A Meeting with the Father of Communication Satellitee, Sir Arthur C. Clarke by Peter Escher Broadband Satellite Services: Another Year, Another Strategy by Bruce Elbert Vol. 1, No. 11 March 2004 Satellite Operators Seek New Domain Knowledge Satellite Operators by Bruce Elbert Abu Dhabi Goes Global by Chris Forrester The Secrets of Broadband-on-Demand Revealed by John Puetz 20 million XM Subcribers by 2010 by Chris Forrester VoIP and the Future of Satellite Communications by Errol Olivier Inteview with Hellas Sat CEO Christodoulos Protopapas Plus... Future Issues: In each issue of SatMagazine, there are April 2004 Satellite Broadcasting regular features and columns such as Company Spotlight, Financial Snapshot, May 2004 Ground Equipment Calendar of Events, Industry News, Executive Moves, New Products and Services, Market Intelligience, Vital June 2004 Enterprise Market Statistics and much more... July-August 2004 Satellite Sports Coverage Vol. 1-INDEX SATMAGAZINE.COM 7 PROFILES SES GLOBAL Your Satellite Connection to the World ES GLOBAL is the world’s leading countries. ASTRA also offers a Ssatellite services provider. As a comprehensive portfolio of broadband strategic management company, SES and occasional use solutions, as well as GLOBAL heads an outstanding broadcast-related support services such network of satellite operators, whose as contribution links, uplink, Mirroring the ASTRA system in satellites together cover 95% of the multiplexing and encoding services. And Europe, SES AMERICOM has world’s population with unequalled through its TechCom services line, developed the DTH platform depth of regional AMERICOM2HomeTM at 105.5° knowledge and market and 105° West, providing capacity penetration. to broadcasters and content SES GLOBAL’s providers to transmit television and operating companies broadband Internet services to SES ASTRA, SES consumers in the U.S. AMERICOM and WORLDSAT, and its WORLDSAT partners AsiaSat, Nordic Satellite AB, As a fully-owned SES GLOBAL SES GLOBAL Headquarters in Star One and Nahuelsat, provide company, WORLDSAT interconnects Betzdorf, Luxembourg unrivalled transmission capacity and the world’s premier satellite systems, landmass coverage through a modern ASTRA provides technical solutions providing seamless solutions fleet of 40 geostationary and consultancy services to other worldwide for international communications satellites at 31 orbital satellite operators. positions. The fleet consists of 29 broadcasters, secure data networks, value-added resellers and telecoms. fully-owned satellites (13 ASTRA, 11 In addition, ASTRA provides a AMERICOM and 5 WORLDSAT complete range of proven broadband spacecraft), plus 11 satellites to which network and community management A Global Network of Partners SES GLOBAL provides access through solutions for the delivery and easy equity participations (3 AsiaSat, 2 reception of data-rich DVB-IP SES GLOBAL also holds significant SIRIUS (NSAB), 5 Brasilsat (Star compliant content. One), 1 Nahuelsat). investments in partner companies SES AMERICOM around the world: 34.10% participation SES GLOBAL stands for a culture of in AsiaSat, Asia’s premier satellite SES AMERICOM, a 100%-owned SES highest quality of service. This quality operator, providing transponder focus in all business areas enables
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