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February 2005 Click on the Title to Go Directly to the Story Satellite Broadcasting Services Back to Contents 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Vol. 2 No. 9, February 2005 Click on the title to go directly to the story COVER STORY FEATURES VIEWPOINT REGIONAL UPDATE 20 / Satellites 28 / Satellites can 32 / In Wi-Fi Veritas 34 / Latin American and Wi–Fi Win European Satellite Market HD Distribution By Bruce Elbert 2005: A Hot Spot By Virgil Labrador Veteran consultant Bruce for Vendors Elbert gives the Wi-Fi and other wireless By Chris Forrester bottomline on Wi-Fi. By Bernardo Schneiderman technologies are expanding rapidly. Will satellite Europe’s satcasters 2005 began auspiciously for companies be able to take remain confident of the Latin American satellite advantage of this success in 2005. They market with the awarding of opportunity? see the next few years as two major broadband one where they have an contracts. exclusive opportunity to push HD television to an enthusiastic audience. REGULAR DEPARTMENTS 25 / Satellite and Wi- Fi Bandwidth 3 / Note from the Editor 17-19 / New Products and Services Intergration: 4 / Calendar of Events Cost Effective 36 / Market Intelligence: ‘Last Mile’ 5-8 / Featured Event: ISCe 2005 Solutions “Middle EAST Satcoms” By Thomas van der Solving the Teleport Equation presented by the GVF Forum Heyden by Bruce Elbert The critical bottleneck in 38 / Stock Monitor / the development of 9-13 / Industry News broadband services is the Advertisers’ Index ‘last mile.’ Satellite 14-16 / Executives Moves wireless technologies like Wi-Fi provide viable Februarysolutions. 2005 SATMAGAZINE.COM Back to Contents 3 NOTES FROM THE EDITOR Published monthly by Satnews Publishers 800 Siesta Way, Sonoma, CA 95476 USA The Evolving Business of Teleports Phone (707) 939-9306 Fax (707) 939-9235 Two editors of SatMagazine have been invited to chair E-mail: [email protected] sessions on the business of teleports at the Website: www.satmagazine.com forthcoming ISCe Conference and Expo in Long Beach, Calif. from May 31st to June 2, 2005. Yours truly will be EDITORIAL chairing a session on “Evolving Teleport Solutions for Silvano Payne Enterprise” and our contributing editor, Bruce Elbert Publisher will be chairing the World Teleport Association (WTA) workshop on “Creating Value Through End-to-End Virgil Labrador SATCOM Solutions.” Another contributing editor of SatMagazine, John Managing Editor Puetz will be chairing a session on “Next Generation Fixed and Mobile and Editor, North America Ground Terminals.” Chris Forrester Editor, Europe, Middle East As a former teleport person myself, I am excited to chair this session. The and Africa teleport business has undergone so many changes since I left the teleport business for the publishing world seven years ago. We will have great Bernardo Schneiderman panel composed of key industry leaders such as David Justin, Senior VP, Editor, Latin America Marketing and Product Development-Globecast; Brent Bruun, SVP and General Manager-AMERICOM Enterprise Solutions and Keith Regan, VP Peter Galace of Global Engineering and Operations- Telenor Satellite Services. Editor, Asia-Pacific The WTA workshop to be chaired by Bruce will examine the continued John Puetz, Bruce Elbert evolution of the satellite communications business into an array of Dan Freyer, Howard Greenfield tightly-focused niches, to which competitors seek to provide high-value, Contributing Writers, end-to-end solutions. The Americas It should be a great show, so do mark your calendars. Bruce, John and David Hartshorn, Martin Jarrold myself are all residents of Southern California and we look forward to Contributing Writers, Europe welcoming you in June. Baden Woodford Meanwhile, we have a great issue for you this month. We focus on the Contributing Writer, Africa growing Wi-Fi market and how satellites can take advantage of this unique opportunity. Jill Durfee ([email protected]) As we went to press, the New York Post reported that XM Satellite and Advertising Sales Sirius are in preliminary merger talks. This report was immediately denied by both XM and Sirius. Hmmm...there seems to be no end to the twists Joyce Schneider and turns in this industry. Next month we focus on Satellite Radio and ([email protected]) discuss this market in depth. Watch out for it! Advertising Sales Satnews Publishers is the leading provider of information on the worldwide satellite industry. Fore more information, go to www.satnews.com Cover Design by: Simon Payne Copyright © 2005 Satnews Publishers All rights reserved. Vol.2 No. 4 July-August 2004 SATMAGAZINE.COM Back to Contents 4 CALENDAR OF EVENTS FEBRUARY APRIL February 1-3, Le Meridien Etoile, Paris, France April 11-14, Istanbul, Turkey SatCom Europe 2005 Caspian Telecoms 2005 Stefan Nilsson Elena Peredel’skaia Tel: +44 (0)20 7827 5997 / Fax: +44 (0)20 7242 1508 Tel: + 44 (0)20 7596 5205/ 5000 / Fax: + 44 (0)20 7596 5208 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.terrapinn.com/2005/satcom Websites: www.ite-exhibitions.com/ www.caspianworld.com/ February 14-18, Johannesburg, South Africa SatCom Africa 2005 April 16-21, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. Richelle Sher NAB 2005 E-mail: [email protected] Tel:+1-202-595-2052 +1-888-740-4622 Tel: +27 11 516 4052 / Fax: +27 11 707 9965 E-mail: [email protected] / Web: www.nabshow.com Website: www.satcomafrica.com MAY MARCH May 31-June 2, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A. ISCe Conference and Expo Gina Lerma March 1-4, Sao-Paolo, Brazil Tel: +1-310-410-9191 / Fax: 1-310-410-9396 Telexpo 2005 E-mail: [email protected] / Website: Cida Duarte Tel: (55-11) 3170-7000 / Fax: (55-11) 3170-7010E- www.isce.com E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.telexpo.com.br May 31-June 3, Almaty, Kazakhstan KITEL 2005- 12th Kazakhstan and Central Asian March 15-17, Chelsea Village, London, UK International Telecoms & Computer Technologies NewCom Africa 2005 Elena Peredel’skaia Paul Stahl Tel: + 44 (0)20 7596 5205/ 5000 / Fax: + 44 (0)20 7596 5208 Tel: +44-(0)208-954-2081 / E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.aitecafrica.com Websites: www.ite-exhibitions.com/ www.caspianworld.com/ March 17, Bafta, London, UK The 2nd European HDTV Summit JUNE Chris Forrester Tel: +44 20 89 488 561 / Fax: +44 20 89 406 009 June 14-17, Singapore Mobile: +44 77 678 10606 CommunicAsia 2005 E-mail: [email protected] Victor Wong Web: www.tvconferences.com Tel: (65) 6233 8662 / Fax: (65) 6835 3029 Email: [email protected] March 22-25, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Web: www.communicasia.com Satellite 2005 Rick Felperin Tel: +1-301-354-1691/ 2000 / Fax: +1 (301) 340-3169 June 14-17, Singapore E-mail: [email protected] Broadcast Asia 2005 Web: www.satellite2005.com Jackson Yeoh Tel: (65) 6233 8633 / Fax: (65) 6835 3029 March 25-27, Guangzhou, China Email: [email protected] Expo Comm China South 2005 Web: www.broadcast-asia.com Karen Owens-Leon Tel: (301)493-5500 / Fax: (301)493-5705 June 23-25, Agricenter International Memphis, TN E-mail: [email protected] Satellite Expo 2005 Web: www.expocomm.com/chinasouth Lee Gilliland1-877-SAT-SHOW E-mail: [email protected] February 2005 SATMAGAZINE.COM Back to Contents 5 FEATURED EVENT Solving the Teleport Equation With by Bruce Elbert, End-to-end Application Products President, Application Technology Strategy, Inc. he satellite communications teleport is a location-specific hotels, retail stores and malls, bars and restaurants, and facility that offers uplinking, downlinking, application other specialty markets. Thosting, collocation, and interconnect services. As the • Digital content development, management and distribu title to this article indicates, this is an equation that seeks a tion through multiple private and public networks profitable solution for the teleport operator. Converting capital • Origination and distribution of independent TV chan expense and operating expense into a profitable bottom line has nels to cable MSOs outside the traditional program never been an easy task and the successful teleports get there boutique. through lots of hard work. Like many local businesses, it’s a • Distance education and training networks for matter of being in the right place at the right time with the right enterprises and government. answers. • Internet and VoIP backbone services to ISPs, enterprises and government. With the increasing complexity of needs and ways of • Mobile telephony backhaul in regions underserved meeting them, the teleport operator must grasp the end-to-end by fiber. objectives of the customer, and move rapidly from concept to through proposal to working system. The obvious way to The third bullet, dealing with closed distribution networks achieve this process is to have the right tools “on the shelf” and involving multimedia for retail-oriented enterprises, offers one of people on board who know how to configure and run the the most promising, if still nascent, opportunities for teleports. I infrastructure. Any teleport operator who achieves a positive have recently been working closely with a three-way partnership cash flow will tell you that this is not a “cake walk” but more like of teleport operator, satellite service provider and distribution/ “living on a battleground”. display technology provider, in addressing this segment of the market. The respective companies are: GlobeCast North America, Our workshop at ISCe, organized by the JSAT International Inc., and Sony. The combined technical and World Teleport Association, will give you a management resources mesh well in working out end-to-end head start in solving this modern “Riddle of solutions on a custom basis for particular companies. Anyone the Sphinx” through a set of cutting-edge working this field knows that each customer prospect has very panels under the general panoply of Creating unique needs – and these needs may not be quantified unless a Value Through End-to-End Satcom Solutions.
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