Case Studies
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Australian Satellite Communications : Going the Extra Mile with Distance Learning
Australia’s Northern Territory Government Partners with Australian Satellite Communications and iDirect to Expand Educational Reach in the Outback
Submitted by: iDirect
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Bagan Cybertech Joint Venture [Myanmar]
By far the largest and most successful Telecoms & IT related project undertaken in Myanmar to date [probably with any Local or Foreign Operator] is the creation of the 1st Private ISP and Next Generation Info-Communications Service Provider, Bagan Cybertech Co. Ltd.
ATM's staff conceptualized and significantly contributed to the development of the Business Plan Concept, commercial analysis and detailed technical design for Bagan Cybertech IDC & Teleport, the first Private ISP, Data Center, Satellite Communications facility and Broadband Wireless Access provider in Myanmar.
Submitted by: Ultra Developments Pte. Ltd
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Bourbon and Orange Business Services : Bringing VSAT Benefits Onboard
Bourbon Partners with iDirect and Orange Business Services to Modernize Fleet Communications
Submitted by: iDirect
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Cost-effective Rural Broadband: A Vietnam Case Study
Beginning in 2006, Intel, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the
Vietnam Data Communication Company (VDC) formed a public-private partnership in a joint effort
to introduce WiMAX (World Interoperability for Microwave Access), into Vietnam. This partnership
included the delivery of broadband access to the remote village of Ta Van in Lào Cai province located
in north-west Vietnam. The Ta Van project utilized the IPSTAR satellite network for linking the village
to the Internet. Distribution throughout the village was accomplished via the deployment of a single
WiMAX base station and several remote subscriber stations (SS) located across Ta Van. In addition to
Internet access, the joint project included voice services through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP),
complete with PSTN integration that allows for calls throughout the Lao Cai province.
Submitted by: THAICOM Public Company Limited
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Delivering Services to the Rural Poor through ICTs
On a drive into Portland from Sunriver, Oregon, Darrell Owen, the projectmanager for the last mile initiative (LMI)project in Vietnam, received a unique call on his mobile phone. The call was from half a world away, from an Intel colleague who at the time was in TaVan, a small remote rural village located in northern Vietnam. The call was
placed over a recently installed broadband network using several newer technologies available in the marketplace—here applied for reaching into rural locations. If there was ever a rich information and communication technology (ICT) “leapfrog” deployment, this was a showcase.
Submitted by: GVF sa
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Educational Assets Via iNetVu
Satellite communication (SATCOM) systems have made it possible to deliver information into areas where no connectivity exists. This is particularly true in the case of rural and remote areas. SATCOM makes cooperation between countries and within regions possible and allows for linking people with technologies that go far beyond boundaries, be such a nation’s borders or technical competence. While developing countries continue to struggle to equip schools in rural areas with computers and the Internet, the developed world is highly desirous of providing highspeed Internet access into every school and learning center. Satellite technology plays a crucial role in making this goal possible.
Submitted by: C-COM Satellite Systems Inc.
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EMC broadcasts the Football World Cup 2006
The Football World Cup 2006 organizers have qualified the satellite transmission of this event as a great success.
Submitted by: Emerging Markets Communications, Inc (EMC)
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EMC Supports IOM's Humanitarian Efforts
IOM's humanitarian committment and EMC's logistic support at an emergency situation ensured a quick chanelling of assistance tasks in the tsunami-affected areas.
Submitted by: Emerging Markets Communications, Inc (EMC)
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Equipping Responders for the Hot Zone
The UK’s Hazardous Area Response Team partners with Excelerate Technology and iDirect. The result: a satellite network that provides first responders with high-speed connectivity to treat disaster victims onsite.
Submitted by: iDirect
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GVF Strategic Calendar
GVF's 2012 Strategic Calendar
Submitted by: GVF sa
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GVF's 2012 Member Directory Advertisment Opportunities
Published every year since 1999, the GVF Directory & Satellite Resource Guide has come to be regarded by the satcom industry as an essential buyers’ guide, with corporate listings of manufacturers and suppliers, market reports, and case studies on vertical and horizontal market applications. Many public and private-sector purchasing offices use the Directory as an internal reference for acquisitions.
The GVF Directory & Satellite Resource Guide 2012 will be produced in print, CD and web formats. 6,000 copies of the Directory will be distributed directly to a targeted audience of satellite industry professionals, and distributed at key industry events around the world. Copies will also be available at GVF conferences and workshops.
Submitted by: GVF sa
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High Performance IP VPN Solutions Over Satellite Networks
Using off-the-shelf high performance VPN solutions, that can interoperate with different PEP implementations (Performance Enhancing Proxy), has been problematic. Encore Networks has developed innovative VPN solutions that can combine the best of two worlds, providing end-to-end security solutions over satellite networks and taking full advantage of embedded TCP acceleration capabilities built into satellite modems.
Submitted by: Encore Networks
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Intelsat and Mindset Network join forces to deliver education to Africa
The Challenge A vast area of the continent of Africa, South Africa was in need of a better delivery system of educational resources for use in the schooling, health and vocational sectors. Mindset
Network was founded to meet this need, and has been extraordinarily successful in the delivery of educational tools to students, teachers, and health care professionals.Realizing early on
that technology would be a prime driver of their success, they tapped the deep experience and resources of Intelsat.
Submitted by: Intelsat
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Intelsat and the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) join forces to fight Aids in Burundi and Burki
The Challenge In the information society, equality means equal access to knowledge. This equality is a fundamental condition for a harmonious transition to a global society. In developing countries,
access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) helps boost economic growth. ICTs contribute to resolving a number of problems related to underdevelopment, such as
education, health, nutrition and good governance.Access to ICTs is one of the key objectives identified by the United Nations for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Submitted by: Intelsat
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Intelsat Globalizes Largest Concert Event in history
The Challenge
When event organizers and broadcasters have simultaneous projects underway and those events are happening around the globe, having an advanced network in place to transmit content in various formats to various outlets without interruption or loss is paramount. However, it is challenging to choose the right network that can deliver always-on, secure connectivity. This was the challenge Live Earth organizers
faced in July 2007 during the logistical planning of the largest live concert event in history.
Executives at Live Earth had to find a transmission service provider that could handle 24 hours of live, simultaneous content from eight international venues on six continents and be able to disseminate
that content to an estimated two billion viewers worldwide, seamlessly and simultaneously. They turned to Intelsat for a solution.
From its inception, Live Earth was a huge technology hurdle. Organizers described it as the equivalent of transmitting seven simultaneous Super Bowls live to a global audience. Andre
Mika, the Executive in Charge of Production for Live Earth, said, “I’ve worked on the Olympics... and this project was much larger and more complex than the Olympic Games.” Mika
knew from the beginning that collaboration with a leader in high definition broadcasting would be a key component in the success of the Live Earth broadcast. He needed a truly
global service provider with deep experience in video distribution and one with proven resources to handle an event of this scale. Mika called the Live Earth production “the biggest
Rubik’s cube I’ve ever seen.”
Submitted by: Intelsat
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No Climate too Extreme for TELE Greenland International A/S
Telecommunications from the Greenlandic Ice to the Sahara Desert
Today, the Greenlandic people have a fully digitalised telecommunications system, which connects even the most remote settlements with the rest of the world through flexible and modern technology: 16 earth stations are placed strategically along the vast distances on the eastern and western coasts of Greenland, spanding from 78° north to 60° south. No matter how isolated the area, you can instantly send e-mails via satellite-based broadband Internet, watch TV-channels and dial up to anywhere in the world.
Submitted by: TeleGreenland International A/S
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PRESS RELEASE
Luxembourg 23 June 2010 – SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced today that it has renamed its 100 percent owned affiliate SES SIRIUS into SES ASTRA. The renaming follows the full acquisition of SES SIRIUS in March 2010 and completes the integration of the company’s fleet, activities and teams into SES ASTRA’s operations.
SES first became a shareholder in SES SIRIUS in October 2000 with a stake of 50 percent. In the course of the last decade, SES ASTRA has gradually increased this stake until it purchased the remaining 10 percent of the shares from the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in March 2010.
Submitted by: SES ASTRA
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Public Private Partnership with the Global VSAT Forum
During early December 2008, a new public-private partnership was put into place by EGAT’s ICT Team. The Director for Infrastructure and Engineering for USAID, and by David Hartshorn, Secretary General of the Global VSAT Forum (GVF). The signing of this MOU follows several months in which USAID and GVF discussed a number of
potential benefits. For USAID this focused on exploring the potential of where deployment of satellite technologies could potentially add value to USAID’s international development portfolio. For GVF the discussions were between GVF and their member companies, exploring potential interest in partnering with USAID and how GVF members’ satellite-related services could add value to USAID’s programs, especially those being implemented in more
rural locations.
Submitted by: GVF sa
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Quick Reaction Terminals (QRT)
The project awarded to Globecomm was the “Rehabilitation of the Satellite Earth Station” Project. The purpose of this project is to rebuild an international gateway in Kabul. The gateway will be capable of transmitting international voice and data traffic as well as video.
Submitted by: Globecomm Systems Inc
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SatCom in the SNG Market
Developments in the Satellite News Gathering (SNG) industry over the last 20 years have
been dramatic. They have changed the way we consume news and view world events. No longer is
“reporting the news” enough — consumers want to become “part of the news.” This expectation translates into having Live News available for every major story. Innovations in satellite and Internet technologies have enabled much of this advancement.
Submitted by: C-COM Satellite Systems Inc.
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SISLink found a partner with a shared focus on customer service
“In Intelsat, SISLink found a partner with a shared focus on exceeding its customers’ requirements. Our revolutionary, clientempowering approach to the uplink process combined with Intelsat’s reach and flexibility made SISLink’s most ambitious plans a reality. Together, we are changing the way the world gathers and delivers video content.”
Submitted by: Intelsat
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SkyWAN for the World Bank - a space andn fibre solution linking East and West.
A global composite space and fibre network, with focuses in the US and Australia, is hard at work for the world's largest institution for development assistance - the World Bank Group.
Submitted by: ND SatCom AG
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SmartRig Communications Solution for Iraq
SmartRig is the joint new initiative from reputed VSAT Satellite System integrators and Field Service Providers NET FZE, SkyLinks and Echelon Satnet, based in UAE, Iraq, and over 30 other countries in the Middle East and Africa, aimed specifically at providing advanced communications infrastructure to Oil & Gas sector companies with operations in Iraq.
Submitted by: Echelon Satnet Ltd
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Use Of Extended C-Band With Mobile Antennas In India
From dial-up in the 90s to broadband connections in the early 2000s, and now to mobile satellite
communications, Internet connectivity in the Asian sub-continent has evolved exponentially over the
past decade. A growing demand for high speed Internet in the cities as well as in remote areas
has led to an early penetration of satellite broadband in these countries.
Submitted by: C-COM Satellite Systems Inc.
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Wireless Internet Links Highland Community to the World
Nestled in the Hoang Lien Son mountain range in northern Vietnam is the small, picturesque village of Ta
Van. Set in a tranquil landscape of rice terraces and roaming water buffalo, Ta Van is an unlikely highland
location for a small technological marvel that holds potential for replication in other remote villages
around the world. With help from Intel, Vietnam Data Communication Company (VDC), a subsidiary of Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Ta Van has managed to establish Internet links with the surrounding region and indeed, the rest of the
world—no mean feat for a remote village that previously struggled with weak mobile phone signals and
has only two fixed-line phones.
Though still in the early stage, the success of the Ta Van project thus far has its partners optimistic that
the solution can be replicated in other remote communities in Vietnam, as well as other underserved
regions throughout the world.
Submitted by: THAICOM Public Company Limited
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YPFB TRANSPORTE S.A. : Flowing at full capacity
YPFB Transporte Taps the iDirect Platform to Improve Bolivia’s Pipeline Operations
Submitted by: iDirect
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