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InSAT

Comtech Secures
US$1.5M In Orders
C

omtech
Telecommunications
recently announced that during its
fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, Comtech's
Government Solutions segment, was
awarded in excess of US$1.5 million in
new orders by an international space
and communications customer.
The orders consolidate requirements
for high reliability electrical, electronic
and electromechanical (EEE) parts
and engineering services in support
of several Japanese spacecraft
missions, two of which are the QuasiZenith Satellite System (QZSS) and
Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite
(GOSAT-3).
"These awards further illustrate that

our customers continue to recognize
the unique value of Comtech's space
level electronic parts supply chain
management and engineering services
expertise in their most important
satellite
programs,"
said
Fred
Kornberg, Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer of Comtech
Telecommunications Corp.
Comtech's Space & Component
Technology (SCT) division, which
is part of Comtech's Government
Solutions segment and which is located
in Cypress, California, specialises
in the supply of high reliability
microelectronics, supplying EEE parts
for use in satellite, launch vehicle and

Fred Kornberg, Chair and CEO
of Comtech Telecommunications

manned space applications. Combining
longstanding resources in Cypress,
with new locations in Richardson,
Texas and Hampshire, UK, SCT also
provides services encompassing all
aspects of ground station life cycle
management. A full line of XY satellite
tracking antennas from 30cm to 13m,
as well as RF feeds, radomes and
carbon fibre reflectors, all for LEO,
MEO and GEO orbits are also supplied
to customers worldwide.

Gilat Selected to Extend and Expand
Managed Service Cellular
Backhaul Project

3G and 4G services over
Gilat's satellite backhaul

G

ilat Satellite Networks has
announced that Gilat received an
extension for an 18-month managed
service cellular backhaul project from
a leading Mobile Network Operator in
Mexico.
"We are pleased to strengthen our
relationship with our partner and to
continue to provide quality end-to-end
service and high performance with our
leading technology, providing excellent
spectral efficiency," said Tobias
Dezordi, Regional Vice President Latin
America at Gilat.
"This project is a testament not
only to Gilat's ongoing technological

leadership
but
also
to
Gilat's
local
presence
and expertise in
delivering a highly
reliable
service,
meeting
rigorous
SLAs, that has led our partner to
provide an 18-month extension to the
managed service contract."
The Mobile Network Operator will
provide 3G and 4G services over Gilat's
satellite backhaul to remote regions
where terrestrial means such as fibre
and microwave are not available.
In addition, Gilat's satellite platform

will allow the mobile operator to use
transportable VSATs, for disaster
recovery, thus ensuring connectivity
anywhere in Mexico at all times.
The capacity increase of 40% will
enable Gilat to provide a superior
end-to-end solution for the operator to
expand its service into remote villages
cost-effectively.

SES And Harmonic Partner For Transition
Of C-Band Spectrum To Enable 5G

H

armonic has announced that it will
partner with SES for technology
upgrades associated with the SES
transition plan filed with the Federal
Communications Commission on June
19, 2020.
SES and Harmonic will work together
to
fast-track
this
deployment,
freeing up spectrum for 5G while
simultaneously enabling SES's C-band
customers to maintain the quality
and resilience of their critical video
services.
"We are proud to support SES, its
customers and the communications

industry
in
enabling
the
transformation of C-band spectrum
for 5G," said Jeremy Rosenberg, Senior
Vice President, Business Development
at Harmonic. "Our software-based
solutions set the standard for flexibility
by enabling these traditional satellite
delivery networks to deliver solutions
with
industry-leading
bandwidth
efficiency."
This network transformation is based
on Harmonic's powerful software
solutions for satellite video delivery.
SES and Harmonic will work jointly
to deploy Harmonic's XOS advanced

media processing in the headend and
XOS Edge transcoding solutions in
remote sites for primary distribution
of video feeds. The XOS solutions are
based on Harmonic's widely deployed
streaming platform, bringing unique
OTT capabilities to satellite delivery.
Harmonic is a worldwide leader in
virtualised cable access and video
delivery solutions.
The technology enables media
companies and service providers
to deliver ultra-high-quality video
streaming and broadcast services to
consumers globally.

Etisalat
Cloud OTT
Service On
Synamedia's
Infinite
U

AE's largest operator, Etisalat, has
launched SwitchTV, a new directto-consumer (D2C) service based on
Synamedia's Infinite cloud TV platform
and its end-to-end video network
portfolio.
Etisalat, a leading telecommunication
operator in emerging markets, chose
to work with Synamedia because its
technologies provide the flexibility,
security and agility needed to support,
monetise and scale a multi-screen
service with both free and premium
live TV channels, catch-up and ondemand. Of particular importance is
Synamedia's private CDN, allowing
Etisalat to leverage its infrastructure
and private cloud solutions to deliver
content to large audiences.
With Infinite, Etisalat can process,
secure, distribute and monetise video
to all consumer devices. Benefits
include the flexibility to offer a choice
of SwitchTV subscription packages and
different movie rental models.
Users can also enjoy a personalised
viewing experience, making it easy
to find their favourite content and
deepening their engagement. With
Synamedia's cloud DVR solution,
viewers can record programmes in
the cloud and watch them on any of
their devices. Synamedia also supports
Etisalat's multi-language requirements
with channels offering Arabic, Western
and Asian content.
In addition, Etisalat is deploying
Synamedia's end-to-end video network
to reduce latency at every stage of
the video workflow - from encoding
through to the CDN and player while also minimising bandwidth
requirements.
This ensures that SwitchTV gives
viewers a highly reliable, consistently
high-quality viewing experience with
no interruptions or buffering.
Infinite is pre-integrated with
Evergent's market-leading global
revenue and customer lifecycle
management platform.
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