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Downloads, Be Unlikely to Offer Nearly As Much with Other Criteria Such As Grade, Location Data Capacity ISSUE 35 | DECEMBER 2014 AWARDING EXCELLENCE The 2014 SatellitePro ME Awards acknowledges the massive efforts of the vibrant satellite community over the past year SatEditorial Group Chairman and Founder Dominic De Sousa Group CEO Nadeem Hood Group COO Oh What a Night! Gina O’Hara The extremely successful BroadcastPro ME Awards gala was Publishing Director Raz Islam definitely a night to remember. All the industry’s bigwigs were [email protected] present, and had a fantastic time at the event. The special +971 4 440 9129 satellite segment of the award ceremony highlighted the Editorial Director movers and shakers in the satellite sphere, and celebrated the Vijaya Cherian [email protected] significant breakthroughs that they have made in an already +971 55 105 3787 competitive market. Read more about this on page 10. 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Page 22 Page 40 December 2014 | SatellitePro | 1 SatContents Issue 35 | December 2014 6 SatNews SatStudy 4 32 Cubesat Mission Beaming Knowledge EIAST launches Nayif-1, the UAE’s first Satellite solution provider Yazmi has called CubeSat mission; Hiltron completes teleport for governments across rural areas to for Alarab; Pilot VSAT terminals delivered to use its satellite-based system to improve Es’hailSat’s HQ and more performance outcomes for students SatLead 4 SatTechnology 10 36 Awarding Excellence C-band: A Catalyst for Africa The satellite segment of the annual C-band spectrum is widely used throughout BroadcastPro ME Awards acknowledged Africa to provide essential connectivity the efforts of the very best players in the and capacity, particularly in remote or business; read on to see this year’s winners rural locations SatVoxPop SatGuest 20 40 The Best of 2014 IPTV and the Campus A quick look at the industry and what Eleuterio Fernandes, Middle East Sales satellite players have achieved in the Director, Exterity, speaks about how past year, and how they intend to grow universities in the Middle East are their businesses through strategic increasingly deploying video distribution planning in the year to come 10 networks for multiple channels SatVertical 24 Small Cells and Satellite In emerging markets where penetration is low overall, service availability is most scarce in remote areas, restricting communication and economic improvement for the communities most in need 32 December 2014 | SatellitePro | 3 SatNews meet newtec Dialog EIAST launches Nayif-1, the UAE’s first CubeSat mission the platform that EIAST, in partnership with the out a 1U Communication Mission, with American University of Sharjah development taking place in AUS, EIAST’s (AUS), launched the UAE’s first CubeSat facilities and Delft in the Netherlands. embraceS change mission, Nayif 1, on November 4. A CubeSat The project will be carried out in is a nanosatellite offering hands-on partnership with Innovative Solutions experience to engineering students in Space, a leader in the development in the design, integration, testing and of space components and nanosatellite operation of a communications satellite. systems. EIAST will take on the role of The CubeSat is scheduled to be integrator and ensure that all necessary launched on board a Falcon 9 rocket by processes are in place to preserve and Newtec Dialog allows you to the end of 2015. A ground station will build upon the experience gained. adapt your infrastructure easily be built at AUS and operated by Emirati Its objective will be to put in place all engineering students, responsible for the necessary infrastructure at the as your business changes. mission planning and operations. university for a CubeSat development The CubeSat development programme programme between the implementation ThaT’S flExIBIlITy aims to invest in and develop the engineering and mechanical engineering, partner and AUS’s Emirati students. capabilities of Emirati engineering have been assigned to the project. Nayif-1 will integrate engineering students in space technologies. A group of Students will go through intense systems student expertise and capabilities with Emiratis consisting of seven students from design and testing training and will expertise, capabilities and resources Newtec Dialog offers you a various engineering disciplines at AUS, partake in the programme as their Senior from UAE industry, government platform to build your business including computer engineering, electrical Engineering Design project, participating and academia, which is a typical in the design, assembly, integration and integration cycle in all KBEs, to build to the size you need it. www.eiast.ae testing of the CubeSat. Nayif-1 will carry and launch the CubeSat mission. ThaT’S SCalaBIlITy Airtel AfricA brings thurAyA hiltron completes teleport globecomm completes vsAt services to 12 countries for AlArAb network in irAq Thuraya and Airtel Africa have announced the Hiltron has completed work on a new teleport Globecomm has successfully completed a Newtec Dialog enables the commercial launch of Thuraya’s mobile for the Alarab News television station at 158Mb VSAT network in partnership with one most optimal modulation and satellite products and services across 12 the World Trade Centre in the heart of of the country’s leading telecommunications countries in Africa. Thuraya’s satellite phones, Bahrain’s capital, Manama. Launching this suppliers, for a European-based client bandwidth allocation. including the SatSleeve and IP+ broadband year, Alarab News is a privately owned Saudi conducting oil exploration at sites in Iraq. terminals, can now be purchased by Airtel’s channel which aims to provide viewers with The network supports dedicated internet, ThaT’S EffICIEnCy customers through the company’s Africa’s accurate, unbiased news and information data and voice connections to manage the subsidiaries in Congo-Brazzaville, the from the region and around the world. complex exploration process and provide the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, The newly installed system consists of crew with essential communications. The VSAT Kenya and Zambia. Airtel intends to further seven fixed 2.4 metre Ku-band receive- network is combined with 100Mb terrestrial expand into its five remaining markets. antennas, a 3.7 metre C-band fixed downlink microwave links in a managed service that Airtel Africa’s customers will now have and a motorised 3.7 metre receive-antenna includes a Cisco call manager telephone access to voice communication, messaging, with a four-port C-/Ku band feed. system terminating calls at the Globecomm their favorite social media apps and Europe teleport in the Netherlands. The design broadband internet through Thuraya’s of the dual-path network provides complete satellite solutions. The collaboration redundancy for all sites. spearheads the convergence between satellite “The main exploration site alone has a crew and mobile communications.
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