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Worldwide Satellite Magazine November 2012 SatMagazine Turned On... MENA, African & Latin American Markets SatMagazine—November 2012—Vol. 5, #6 Publishing Operations Advertisers Silvano Payne Publisher + Writer 2012 International Satellite Directory ................Page 80 Hartley G. Lesser Editorial Director Advantech Wireless ............................................ Page 17 Pattie Waldt Executive Editor Arabsat Satellite .................................... cover + Page 03 Jill Durfee Sales Director, Editorial Assistant Azure Shine International Inc. ........................... Page 13 Donald McGee Production Manager Comtech EF Data ................................................. Page 11 Simon Payne Development Manager Dan Makinster Technical Advisor Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc. ........................ Page 41 Chris Forrester Senior Contributing Editor CPI, Inc. .............................................................. Page 77 Alan Gottlieb Senior Contributing Editor Dubai World Trade Centre — CABSAT ..................Page 55 Bob Gough Senior Contributing Editor EADS Astrium Limited .........................................Page 05 Jos Heyman Senior Contributing Editor Futron Corporation ............................................. Page 57 Giles Peeters Senior Contributing Editor Harris Corporation .............................................. Page 07 Mike Antonovich Contributing Editor Intelsat ...............................................................Page 09 Richard Dutchik Contributing Editor Bert Sadtler Contributing Editor MITEQ Inc. / MCL ................................................Page 23 NewSat Limited ...................................................Page 39 Newtec CY ........................................................... Page 31 NSR (Northern Sky Research)............................. Page 16 Authors Pacific Telecommunications Council — PTC’13 .... Page 61 Teledyne Paradise Datacom ................................ Page 21 Jose Del Rosario Wavestream Corporation .................................... Page 37 Chris Forrester Patrick French Katia Gryadunova Jacob Gullish Dragana Lazic-Mijanovic David Leichner Hartley Lesser Ahsun H. Murad Peter Ostapiuk InfoBeam Bert Sadtler Triple Band Deployment (ORBIT) ................................. Page 06 José A. Sánchez Elía Taking It To The Theaters (Intelsat) ............................ Page 06 Dave Suffys Angolan Amelioration (Hermes Datacomms) ............... Page 08 Pattie Waldt Bringing Better Business (Spacecom) .......................... Page 08 ARSAT + Rural 3G Backhaul (NSR Analysis) ................. Page 10 We reserve the right to edit all submitted materials to meet our content guidelines, as well as for grammar and spelling Transport A Hi-Res EO Satellite? (Astrium) .................. Page 12 consistency. Articles may be moved to an alternative issue A Historic Feed (MEASAT) ............................................. Page 12 to accommodate publication space requirements or removed due to space restrictions. Submission of content does not Smarter Utilities (iDirect) ............................................. Page 14 constitute acceptance of said material by SatNews Publishers. Land Surface Exams (MDA) .......................................... Page 14 Edited materials may, or may not, be returned to author and/ or company for review prior to publication. The views expressed Fear Not For C-Band (NSR Analysis) ............................. Page 15 in SatNews Publishers’ various publications do not necessarily South America Is Uplifting ........................................... Page 18 reflect the views or opinions of SatNews Publishers. All rights reserved. A Private Affair For Russia (ScanEx RDC) ..................... Page 19 Satellite Detection Service Testing OK’d (CORRE) ....... Page 20 All included imagery is courtesy of, and copyright to, the respective companies or named individuals. A Key To The Future (Space Foundation) ...................... Page 20 The Controller Factor (Winegard) ................................ Page 21 Taking To The Air .......................................................... Page 21 Published monthly by SatNews Publishers 800 Siesta Way Sonoma, CA 95476 USA Phone: (707) 939-9306 Fax: (707) 838-9235 © 2012 SatNews Publishers 2 SatMagazine — November 2012 SatMagazine—November 2012—Vol. 5, #6 Features The Latin American Satellite Markets: An Assessment Page 22 Latin America, broadly identified as the countries of Central America, South America, and the island states of the Caribbean, represents... (by Ahsun H. Murad, Optimal Satcom) Smashing The Satellite Throughput Barrier Page 30 Particularly in the current global economic climate, but always a topic of concern, satellite service providers are seeking to get more... (by Dave Suffys, Newtec) SatBroadcasting™: The Satellite Wars Intensify Page 34 Europe is suffering a massive amount of deliberate satellite jamming—most is coming from the Middle East and, mainly, affects... (by Chris Forrester, Senior Contributing Editor) Africa: Poised To Leapfrog Space Technology + Applications Page 40 The recent award to South Africa of the US$2.5B Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project represents a critical milestone in the continent’s efforts... (by Jacob Gullish, Futron) The HPA Corner: Hosted Payloads + Capitol Hill Page 46 Encouraged largely by Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski and the newly established Hosted Payload Office (HPO) under her command, the FY13 President’s budget created several different... SATCOM Transforms Latin America Page 48 In 2012, despite the negative impact of the United States and Europe’s financial crises and China’s economic slowdown, Latin America managed... (by José A. Sánchez Elía, TESACOM) When Are Problems Good For You? Page 50 Many regard “A Problem” as a bad thing that gets in the way before good things can happen. Webster’s defines a problem as... (by Bert Sadtler, Contributing Editor) Executive Spotlight: Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari, CEO, Es’hailSat Page 52 Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Es’hailSat. Prior to this appointment Mr. Al-Kuwari was Assistant Secretary General at ictQATAR. Executive Spotlight: Vivian Quenet, V.P., KVH Industries Page 56 Based in Singapore, Mr. Vivian Quenet has led the Asia-Pacific sales efforts for KVH Industries since March 2011. A Case In Point: M&C In Myanmar Page 62 Intorel Sarl, based in Luxembourg, has proven how much can be accomplished in a mere four days with the proper planning, testing, and... (by Dragana Lazic-Mijanovic, Intorel) Making Your Business More Profitable With Multiple Service Plans Page 64 Can Service Providers be more profitable by offering a number of service offerings to customers? Or does that make your operations and... (by Denis Sutherland, iDirect) A Case In Point: ROCKs In Papua New Guinea Page 68 The challenge—communications and logistics are one of the most complex decisions that must be faced by mining, oil and gas companies. (by Katia Gryadunova, Pactel Int’l) Supporting The Digital Television Transition In Africa Page 70 Many nations are making big strides toward the implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), and for good reason. (by Peter Ostapiuk, Intelsat) A Case In Point: USO Services For Brazil Page 74 São Paulo State is the driver of the Brazilian economy, but even this highly developed State has regions where terrestrial communications is difficult. (by David Leichner, Gilat) A Case In Point: Network Upgrades For The Mobile Operator, Africa Page 78 Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Africa and Asia. 4 SatMagazine — November 2012 InfoBeam Triple Band Deployment Taking It To The Theaters ORBIT Communication Based on its concentric Intelsat S.A. has a new “As Latin America is a vast Systems, Inc., based in coaxial cavity technology, agreement with Grupo region with great distances Netanya, Israel, a subsidiary ORBIT offers a single feed Chilefilms to provide satellite between cinema complexes of ORBIT Technologies Ltd. supporting simultaneous connectivity for a new digital in many cases, physical (TASE:ORBI), has announced telemetry communication in all cinema distribution network distribution of films is a logistical that its new Triple Band three bands for various antenna that will serve Mexico, the challenge. Intelsat understood tracking antenna systems reflector sizes. Caribbean and South America. our requirements and worked have been successfully Moreover, the feed enables deployed and tested at switching between tracking the U.S. Naval Air Station bands on the fly without Patuxent River. compromising performance. This is the first operational Two Triple Band systems deployment of ORBIT’s were delivered for field testing breakthrough Triple Band to the Naval Air Warfare Center technology, designed to deliver telemetry team, which defined unmatched performance for the stringent test requirements long-range telemetry missions and conducted the actual tests. while facilitating a smooth The results of these tests augmentation of C-band. demonstrated the clear ORBIT’s patent-pending superiority of ORBIT’s new feed Triple Band feed is an innovative in terms of performance to any solution developed in response other available technology. to the telemetry market’s ORBIT’s Triple Band solution growing adoption of C-band is available for order and can be Under a multi-year contract, with our engineers to create a frequencies in parallel to their supplied