Missed highlights of the 2012 World Teleport Awards for Excellence. Check out the video above to see what happened at the SATELLITE 2012 annual conference held in Washington last March 2012.
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Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Friday, September 21, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The advantages and benefits of Australian Teleports
As a politically and geologically stable country, with low rain fall and mild temperatures, Australia provides the perfect location to house Teleports and satellite infrastructure. In fact, many military organizations rely on the ground facilities in Australia for their mission critical communications in volatile regions like Middle East, where terrestrial networks simply won't do. The teleport facilities are also crucial links in the success of VSAT systems and mobile backhaul solutions being deployed in remote regions.
Friday, August 24, 2012
American Chamber of Commerce Visit Perth Teleport
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| Photos from the Perth Teleport Tour |
Twenty-five guests from the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) visited the Perth Teleport in Western Australia, one of two such facilities operated by NewSat Ltd. The guests were given a tour of the antenna systems used in the ground port, as well as a presentation of the company's history and the satellite industry. Len McGoldrick, Vice President of Engineering and Operations, welcomed the guests and also gave them a quick tour of the Network Operations Centre which run 24 x 7 x 365. The Perth teleport is an award-winning facility certified by military organizations across the world to supply services to the defence industry. Aside from servicing government and military customers, the Perth teleport was recently awarded a contract to provide offshore and onshore communications to Chevron's Wheatstone Project in Western Australia, one of the largest liquid natural gas developments in the region.
Monday, July 23, 2012
NewSat's Ball Plans Growth and Jabiru
NewSat’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), David Ball, an executive focusing on scientific and technological issues within the organization, features in APB’s Satellite Special. He discusses the big changes within the satellite industry, as well as news that shakes and shapes the market.
Ball sketches out three growth areas and threats to the satellite market. Aside from that, he also provides an update on the Jabiru Satellite Program’s fleet of Ka band satellites.
NewSat is to date the largest independent provider of satellite communications/communications satellite (COMSAT) or artificial satellite stationed in space for the purpose of telecommunications in the Commonwealth of Australia, a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Newsat provides coverage to 75.5% of the Earth’s surface, including their satellites, VSATs (very small aperture terminals), a two-way satellite ground station or a stabilized maritime VSAT antenna with a dish antenna that is smaller than three meters, and teleports (telecommunications port), a satellite ground station with multiple parabolic antennas (i.e., an antenna farm) that functions as a hub connecting a satellite or geocentric orbital network with a terrestrial telecommunications network.
See: 'Voyager 1' Mission Profile: Exploration of Jupiter
Ball sketches out three growth areas and threats to the satellite market. Aside from that, he also provides an update on the Jabiru Satellite Program’s fleet of Ka band satellites.
NewSat is to date the largest independent provider of satellite communications/communications satellite (COMSAT) or artificial satellite stationed in space for the purpose of telecommunications in the Commonwealth of Australia, a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Newsat provides coverage to 75.5% of the Earth’s surface, including their satellites, VSATs (very small aperture terminals), a two-way satellite ground station or a stabilized maritime VSAT antenna with a dish antenna that is smaller than three meters, and teleports (telecommunications port), a satellite ground station with multiple parabolic antennas (i.e., an antenna farm) that functions as a hub connecting a satellite or geocentric orbital network with a terrestrial telecommunications network.
See: 'Voyager 1' Mission Profile: Exploration of Jupiter
Friday, July 20, 2012
NewSat, Australia's Satellite Company
NewSat Limited (ASX: NWT) is Australia’s largest specialist satellite communications company, delivering Internet, voice, data and video communications via satellite. With its unique-to-Australia Teleport infrastructure, NewSat provides a full range of managed satellite communication services and has established a reputation as the partner of choice for governments, corporations and private enterprises. Today, NewSat has the ability to provide coverage to 75% of the globe; from Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, across the Indian Ocean extending into Europe and across the Pacific Ocean, reaching into the West coast of the USA.
NewSat’s world acclaimed Teleports in Perth (Western Australia) and Adelaide (South Australia) were Top 3 Finalists in the World Teleport Association’s 2012 and 2010 “Awards for Excellence” and made the 2011 “Top Operator Rankings”. Both Teleports are accredited to supply services to the Australian Department of Defence (DRSS) and are recognised as highly secure Global Access Points, supporting certified classified networks to ensure the transmission of vital and sensitive information for government clients.
NewSat will be expanding its satellite capabilities with the Jabiru Satellite Program, beginning with the launch and operation of Jabiru-1, Australia’s first independently owned commercial satellite. Jabiru-1, a large Ka- band next generation satellite, will provide superior coverage over South East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Jabiru-2, also scheduled, will deliver enhanced coverage in and around Australia. NewSat has rights to eight premium orbital slots and its fleet of next generation geostationary satellites will lead Australia’s space quest.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The C Band Interference
There is one issue that refuses to go away for the satellite industry. It is the C band interference.
ABS’s Chief Operating Officer Scott Sprague said “C band Wi-max issues and interference are always a worry.” He said that the satellite is used for lifeline-like services and then there is also the economic impact.
SES World Skies’s Senior Vice-President Deepak Mathur at SES agreed: “C band is an enormous issue and will be an ongoing issue. We have to remember 98% of video content in Asia is delivered by C band.”
The C band is the name given to certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum which includes wavelengths of microwaves that are used for long distance radio telecommunications. The IEEE C band (4 GHz to 8 GHz) and its slight variations contains frequency ranges that are used for many satellite communications transmissions, some WiFi devices, some cordless telephones, and some weather radar systems.
The microwave frequencies of this band perform better under adverse weather conditions in comparison with others, especially Ku band (11.2 GHz tyo 14.5 GHz) microwave frequencies which are used by another large set of communication satellites. The adverse weather conditions, collectively referred to a rain fade, all have to do with moisture in the air, including rain and snow.
See: 'Voyager 1': Pre-Voyager Mission Interstellar Mission Profile
ABS’s Chief Operating Officer Scott Sprague said “C band Wi-max issues and interference are always a worry.” He said that the satellite is used for lifeline-like services and then there is also the economic impact.
SES World Skies’s Senior Vice-President Deepak Mathur at SES agreed: “C band is an enormous issue and will be an ongoing issue. We have to remember 98% of video content in Asia is delivered by C band.”
The C band is the name given to certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum which includes wavelengths of microwaves that are used for long distance radio telecommunications. The IEEE C band (4 GHz to 8 GHz) and its slight variations contains frequency ranges that are used for many satellite communications transmissions, some WiFi devices, some cordless telephones, and some weather radar systems.
The microwave frequencies of this band perform better under adverse weather conditions in comparison with others, especially Ku band (11.2 GHz tyo 14.5 GHz) microwave frequencies which are used by another large set of communication satellites. The adverse weather conditions, collectively referred to a rain fade, all have to do with moisture in the air, including rain and snow.
See: 'Voyager 1': Pre-Voyager Mission Interstellar Mission Profile
Monday, July 16, 2012
VSAT History
The concept of the geostationary orbit was originated by Russian theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. He wrote articles in space travel at the turn of the century.
In the 1920s, Hermann Oberth and Herman Potocnik, aka Herman Noordung, described an orbit at an altitude of 35,900 kilometers. Its orbital period, or the time for it to make one complete orbit about another object, exactly matched the Earth’s rotational period, making it appear to hover a fixed point on the Earth’s equator.
Arthur C. Clarke contributed to the understanding of satellites through an article published in Wireless World in October 1945 titled “Extra-Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?” In this article, Clarke not only determines the orbital characteristics/elements, or the parameters required to uniquely identify a specific orbit, necessary for a geostationary orbit, but also discusses the frequencies and power needed for communications.
Live satellite communications was developed in the sixties by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), named Syncom 1-3. It is transmitted live coverage of the 1964 Olympics in Japan to viewers in the United States and Europe. Soon after, on April 6, 1965, the first commercial satellite was launched into space, Intelsat I, nicknamed Early Bird.
The first commercial VSATs were C band (6 GHz) receive-only systems by Equatorial Communications using spread spectrum technology. More than 30,000 60 cm antenna systems were sold in the early 1980s. Equatorial later developed a C band (4/6 GHz) two-way system using 1 m x 0.5 m antennas and sold about 10,000 units in 1984-85.
In 1985, Schlumberger Oilfield Research co-developed the world’s first Ku band (12-14 GHz) VSATs with Hughes Aerospace to provide portable network connectivity for the oil field drilling and exploration units. Ku Band VSATs make up the vast majority of sites in use today for data or telephony applications. The largest VSAT network (more than 12,000 sites) was developed by Spacenet and MCI for the US Postal Service.
See: SDI is No "Star Wars"
In the 1920s, Hermann Oberth and Herman Potocnik, aka Herman Noordung, described an orbit at an altitude of 35,900 kilometers. Its orbital period, or the time for it to make one complete orbit about another object, exactly matched the Earth’s rotational period, making it appear to hover a fixed point on the Earth’s equator.
Arthur C. Clarke contributed to the understanding of satellites through an article published in Wireless World in October 1945 titled “Extra-Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?” In this article, Clarke not only determines the orbital characteristics/elements, or the parameters required to uniquely identify a specific orbit, necessary for a geostationary orbit, but also discusses the frequencies and power needed for communications.
Live satellite communications was developed in the sixties by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), named Syncom 1-3. It is transmitted live coverage of the 1964 Olympics in Japan to viewers in the United States and Europe. Soon after, on April 6, 1965, the first commercial satellite was launched into space, Intelsat I, nicknamed Early Bird.
The first commercial VSATs were C band (6 GHz) receive-only systems by Equatorial Communications using spread spectrum technology. More than 30,000 60 cm antenna systems were sold in the early 1980s. Equatorial later developed a C band (4/6 GHz) two-way system using 1 m x 0.5 m antennas and sold about 10,000 units in 1984-85.
In 1985, Schlumberger Oilfield Research co-developed the world’s first Ku band (12-14 GHz) VSATs with Hughes Aerospace to provide portable network connectivity for the oil field drilling and exploration units. Ku Band VSATs make up the vast majority of sites in use today for data or telephony applications. The largest VSAT network (more than 12,000 sites) was developed by Spacenet and MCI for the US Postal Service.
See: SDI is No "Star Wars"
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
NewSat's Paldao on His Ka-Band Perception
"We are not trying to be all things to all people, but certain application such as ISR are an ideal fit for Ka-band." - Diego Paldao
Milsatmagazine (MSM) asked Diego Paldao, NewSat's Senior Director-Americas on his opinion about Ka-band, the one which covers the frequencies of 26.5-40 GHz, in the middle of all the varied perception.
Paldao said that Ka-band is the next generation of satellite technology as there's some forward thinking companies like: ViaSat, a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group; DIRECTV, an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California; SES, a global satellite owner and operator based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg and is listed in the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol SESG; and EchoStar Corporation, a technology company that is the owner and maintainer of the satellite fleet for closely affiliated Dish Network. These companies have been promoting and leveraging Ka-band capabilities for some time already. He believes that in the very near future, Ka-band will be more mature and understood in many new sectors.
"I think we will see a higher proliferation of Ka-band terminals due to higher demand, which will help drive down costs and standardize design, just like we saw with Ku-band," he said.
NewSat is to date the largest independent provider of satellite communications/communications satellite (COMSAT) or artificial satellite stationed in space for the purpose of telecommunications in the Commonwealth of Australia, a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Newsat provides coverage to 75.5% of the Earth's surface, including their satellites, VSATs (very small aperture terminals), a two-way satellite ground station or a stabilized maritime VSAT antenna with a dish antenna that is smaller than three meters, and teleports (telecommunications port), a satellite ground station with multiple parabolic antennas (i.e., an antenna farm) that functions as a hub connecting a satellite or geocentric orbital network with a terrestrial telecommunications network.
In 1987, NewSat was founded by its CEO Adrian Ballintine and the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation, an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States, that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing, Paul Allen, an American investor and philanthropist. The company started as a multimedia business. It survived the dotcom crash/bubble (also referred as the "Internet bubble" and the "Information Technology Bubble"), a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995-2000 (with a climac on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132.52 in intraday trading before closing at 50048.62) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise from growth in the Internet sector and related fields, to evolve into a fully-fledged satellite communications company. Most NewSat customers are located in Australia, the Middle East, a region that encompasses Western Asia and all of or part of Northern Africa, depending on the context; Africa is the world's second largest and second-most-populous continent, after Asia.
See: "Voyager 1" Mission Background: Scientific Instruments
Milsatmagazine (MSM) asked Diego Paldao, NewSat's Senior Director-Americas on his opinion about Ka-band, the one which covers the frequencies of 26.5-40 GHz, in the middle of all the varied perception.
Paldao said that Ka-band is the next generation of satellite technology as there's some forward thinking companies like: ViaSat, a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group; DIRECTV, an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California; SES, a global satellite owner and operator based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg and is listed in the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol SESG; and EchoStar Corporation, a technology company that is the owner and maintainer of the satellite fleet for closely affiliated Dish Network. These companies have been promoting and leveraging Ka-band capabilities for some time already. He believes that in the very near future, Ka-band will be more mature and understood in many new sectors.
"I think we will see a higher proliferation of Ka-band terminals due to higher demand, which will help drive down costs and standardize design, just like we saw with Ku-band," he said.
NewSat is to date the largest independent provider of satellite communications/communications satellite (COMSAT) or artificial satellite stationed in space for the purpose of telecommunications in the Commonwealth of Australia, a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Newsat provides coverage to 75.5% of the Earth's surface, including their satellites, VSATs (very small aperture terminals), a two-way satellite ground station or a stabilized maritime VSAT antenna with a dish antenna that is smaller than three meters, and teleports (telecommunications port), a satellite ground station with multiple parabolic antennas (i.e., an antenna farm) that functions as a hub connecting a satellite or geocentric orbital network with a terrestrial telecommunications network.
In 1987, NewSat was founded by its CEO Adrian Ballintine and the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation, an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States, that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing, Paul Allen, an American investor and philanthropist. The company started as a multimedia business. It survived the dotcom crash/bubble (also referred as the "Internet bubble" and the "Information Technology Bubble"), a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995-2000 (with a climac on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132.52 in intraday trading before closing at 50048.62) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise from growth in the Internet sector and related fields, to evolve into a fully-fledged satellite communications company. Most NewSat customers are located in Australia, the Middle East, a region that encompasses Western Asia and all of or part of Northern Africa, depending on the context; Africa is the world's second largest and second-most-populous continent, after Asia.
See: "Voyager 1" Mission Background: Scientific Instruments
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Australian Satellite Communications Leading the Pack
Australian satellite communications has seen tremendous growth over the years, and it hasn't gone unrecognized. In the Satellite 2012 event in Washington, the Australian Ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley hosted an evening to recognize the outstanding achievements of the satellite communications industry down-under.
As the forefront of space technology shift from the Americas and Europe to the Asia-Pacific region, satellite operators in Australia have taken the opportunity to lead the changes. Case in point, the independent satellite operator NewSat.
Over the years, NewSat has transformed itself from a communications company into the leading independent satellite operator in the country since it's acquisition of world-class Teleport facilities in Adelaide and Perth in 2005. With these assets, NewSat rallied behind improved services to deliver high-quality satellite capacity to both enterprise and government consumers. Now, services like VoIP, satellite broadband, terrestrial backhaul, and private corporate networks are more accessible to the Australian community.
Presently, the company is riding a wave of positive feedback as it offers wireless communications services to various industries. This include providing mission critical communications for the US Military in the Middle East; communications solutions to government departments like the DFAT and NSW fire brigade; and providing the entertainment solutions via satellite communications in remote mining locations.
Just recently, NewSat celebrated a milestone with the completion of its Jabiru-1 Satellite - part of the Jabiru Satellite Program - by Lockheed Martin. The high-powered Ka band capacity satellite has been designed to meet the demand for the spectrum across South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Ka band offers unique advantages over the usual C band and allows a technology which can be combined even with present Ku band services.
With the focus of the satellite industry on direct-to-home service increasing, expect that the demand for Ka band will also grow, and along with it, a robust sector being led by operators in Australia.
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