Focus - Africa Report - April - week 4 Helping a Continent Satellite communications are the ideal tool for building Africa’s communication infrastructure. Satellite Evolution EMEA looks at the ‘Open and Closed Skies: Satellite Access in Africa’ report, part of CATIA (Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa), a project funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre, UK’s Department for International Development, and supported by the GVF. Click here for the full story

Oil & Gas Communications: Africa and the Middle East, 15-17 May 2006, Cairo.
More than 20 energy companies from across the Middle East region and the oil producing nations of Africa have now registered over 60 representatives to attend the GVF Oil & Gas Communications: Africa and the Middle East Conference. Overall attendance is expected to exceed 100. The first day Industry Address will be provided by Schlumberger Connectivity Services, the lead sponsor of the Conference. Sponsorship support has also been provided by Codan, SES-Americom, Satlynx, Stratos Global, Comtech EF Data, and Alkan Telecom. Visit the conference web site at: www.gvf-events.org.

Contact: martin.jarrold@gvf.org or + 44 1727 884 513.

Radyne receives $3.1 million DataPath order
Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq: RADN) announced today that it received an order for $3.1 million for satellite modems from DataPath, Inc. The order provides DataPath with Radyne's DMD-20 modem for a variety of its ongoing military and commercial programs. Radyne expects to ship the order over the next 15 months...

Asian satellite industry heads for new horizons
The Cable Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will hold the sixth annual CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore on Monday June 19, 2006. The CASBAA Forum traditionally acts as a curtain-raiser for the CommunicAsia trade show in Singapore...

SES ASTRA launches interactive Blucom Service for International Customers
SES ASTRA has announced today the international launch of its new interactive mobile phone service Blucom at the world`s largest electronic media show NAB in Las Vegas...

New Skies' Latin American video neighborhood expands with addition of Brazilian Religious Channel
New Skies Satellites announced that Rede Cancao Nova, the Brazilian Catholic broadcaster, has chosen its NSS-806 Latin American satellite to distribute its free-to-air international channel to cable operators, radio and television affiliates and the general public across Latin America and Europe...

Lockheed Martin receives first two Orbus motors
Lockheed Martin's production facility has received the first two Orbus 1A motor assemblies from Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) for the Boost Vehicle-Plus program...

Globecomm integrates IPTV test capabilities in expansion of Broadcast Lab
Globecomm (www.globecommsystems.com) has announced an expansion of its Broadcast Lab, a test facility for leading-edge video applications established in 2001, to integrate test capabilities for the many technologies involved in the delivery of IPTV...

Gilat provides SkyEdge broadband satellite network to large telecommunication operator in Bolivia
Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILT), today announced it has delivered a SkyEdge broadband VSAT satellite network to the Telecommunications Cooperative of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (COTAS), Bolivia's second-largest telecommunication operator...




Satlynx acquires Spaceline, a division of HP
Satlynx SA today announced the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of Spaceline, the satellite communications division of HP, for an undisclosed amount...

Russian State Commission issues results of Proton review
The Russian State Commission has completed its investigation into the Proton M/Breeze M anomaly that left the Arabsat 4A satellite in the wrong orbit eight weeks ago, during a mission for International Launch Services (ILS)...



Globecomm to provide hosting and program distribution services for ImaginAsian TV
Globecomm www.globecommsystems.com), a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications, announced that it has been selected by ImaginAsian TV, America's first 24/7 Asian American television network (www.iatv.tv), to provide complete satellite distribution and hosting services...



GlobeCast and NEOTION build the Next-Generation satellite TV distribution turnkey platform using MPEG-4 AVC
GlobeCast, a leading content management and delivery company, and NEOTION, a high-tech company focused on digital TV and MPEG-4 related technologies, announce a strategic Agreement to offer turnkey MPEG-4 AVC satellite distribution platforms...

Arianespace reports 2005 results
Arianespace posted sales of 1.068 billion euros in 2005, over 60% higher than the previous year. It finished in the black for the third year in a row, showing a profit of 6.3 million euros despite the disadvantageous euro-US dollar exchange rate...


XTAR begins commercial service on XTAR-LANT
XTAR, LLC, a joint venture between Loral Space & Communications (NASDAQ: LORL) and HISDESAT, today announced that the second component of its X-band satellite network, XTAR-LANT, has completed in-orbit testing and has entered full commercial service. XTAR-LANT joins the XTAR-EUR satellite that entered service in April 2005...

Thaicom 5 ships to South America for Launch
Shin Satellite Public Company Limited, Asia’s leading satellite company, announced the shipment of Thaicom 5 to Guiana Space Port in French Guiana, South America, where it will be prepared for launch...


ScheduALL and ILC deliver powerful new automated workflow solution for NBC satellite operations
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — April 24, 2006 — ScheduALL, a leading provider of broadcast operations management software, today announced that it has partnered with ILC to provide NBC Satellite Operations with a tightly integrated solution for automated end-to-end coordination of network services...


SWE-DISH launches FA150K Two-In-One concept at NAB, Las Vegas
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems presents a new concept by combining two of the most compact and versatile SWE-DISH products available on the market. The Two-In-One concept consists of the new FA150K LITE, launched February 7, 2006 and the compact and rugged IPT Suitcase...


SES AMERICOMs new AMC-21 telecommunication satellite awarded to Alcatel Alenia Space
Alcatel Alenia Space today announced that it has signed a contract to build a new powerful telecommunication satellite for the U.S. operator SES AMERICOM...

Radyne reports earnings per share of 13 cents
Radyne Corporation Nasdaq: RADN), today reported sales for the first quarter of 2006 of $31.2 million compared to first quarter 2005 sales of $13.7 million. The increase resulted from both continued growth in sales of the Company's satellite and broadcast business and the addition of sales from recently acquired Xicom Technology, Inc...


Path 1s new Vx8000 3.0 drives perfect video over the public Internet
Path 1 Network Technologies Inc. (AMEX: PNO), a leading provider of IP video gateway products that enable the transmission of broadcast-quality video over IP networks, introduced today the next generation of its flagship product line, the Vx8000 3.0. New to the Vx8000 IP video gateway is a set of sophisticated, end-to-end network diagnostic tools that enables broadcasters to utilize and optimize low-cost Public Internet links to successfully transport a variety of digital video formats including real-time content for SDTV, HDTV and IPTV...

PBS selects SES AMERICOM for next gen broadcast delivery
Building on a long-standing strategic partnership, SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG), today announced that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has signed a major multi-year, multi-transponder agreement tapping its satellites and expertise for PBS' Next Generation Interconnection System (NGIS), which is set to deliver significant content distribution efficiencies and cost savings to public television for the next decade...


International Datacasting receives order for 400 DVB-S2 receivers
International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) announced today that it has received an order for 400 DVB-S2 receivers from Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (AccessIT) (NASDAQ:AIXD), the leading provider of digital cinema software and services...


HiwireTeams with SES AMERICOM for Broadcast Mobile TV Trial
Addressing the mobile generation's expectation for wireless, broadcast-quality programming, SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges: SESG) and Hiwire, a subsidiary of Aloha Partners, today announced they will deliver a Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H) mobile TV and entertainment trial to consumers in Las Vegas this fall...


Globecomm introduces SkyBorne pre-engineered IPTV regional headend
At the 2006 National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, Globecomm (www.globecommsystems.com) is introducing the SkyBorne pre-engineered IPTV Regional Headend (RHE) for telephone companies, broadband carriers, enterprises and other new entrants into video services...

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