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Name: ASC Signal
Address: 620 North Greenfield Parkway, Garner, North Carolina 27529, USA.
Tel: +1 919 329 8700
Fax: +1 919 329 8701
Email: jose.perez@ascsignal.com
Internet: www.ascsignal.com
Contact: Jose Perez
Job Title: Global Sales
Formerly Andrew Satellite Communications, ASC Signal is a leading global manufacturer of antennas and RF electronics for enterprise and consumer satellite communication applications. ASC Signal brings a heritage of over 70 years experience in the design and manufacture of communications products. In addition to hardware, ASC Signal provides solutions-based services such as turnkey system design, engineering, installation test and maintenance, product integration and program management. Our customer list reads like a "who’s who" in the broadcast, telecommunications and government communications industries. And with global operations strategically located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and other select regional locations, we will continue to offer exceptional customer support, service and quality.

 

Name: Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited
Address: 19 Floor, Sunning Plaza, 10 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong SAR.
Tel: +852 2500 0888
Fax: +852 2500 0895
Email: as-mkt@asiasat.com
Internet: www.asiasat.com
Contact: Sabrina Cubbon
Job Title: General Manager Marketing
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) is Asia’s leading regional satellite operator providing high quality satellite services to the broadcast and telecommunications industries. AsiaSat’s unique pan-Asian footprints offer unparalleled landmass coverage across more than 50 countries and regions in the Asia Pacific, providing access to over two-thirds of the world’s population. Through its Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong, AsiaSat is also providing additional value-added services to customers including MCPC platform, uplinking and backup services. In April and June 2007, AsiaSat was selected the ‘Best Asian Satellite Carrier’ and the ‘Satellite Communications Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific’ respectively by Telecom Asia magazine and Frost & Sullivan.

 

Name: BT Broadcast Services
Address: PP 3D30, Angel Centre, 403 St John Street, London EC1V 4PL, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 207 843 5344
Fax: +44 (0) 207 843 8939
Email: corporate.front.office@bt.com
Internet: www.broadcast.bt.com
Contact: Renato Goodfellow
Job Title: Manager, Satellite Service Initiative
BT Broadcast Services is a market leader in the provision of broadcast and media services to the broadcast industry and business customers in general. The Company can help you to run a broadcast network, launch a TV channel, cover a global news event, transmit a terrestrial TV network or maximise the revenue from your existing video and audio material. And if you’re in business, it can assist you in delivering attractive and informative messages to desktops throughout your company, streaming business presentations and product launches to specified individuals in every location, establishing interactive training sessions or integrating remote offices into your company. The Company has a wealth of technology, experience and resources, including a terrestrial fibre network covering thousands of kilometres in the UK and overseas and satellite capacity holdings to provide global connectivity and coverage.

 

Name: Cable & Wireless
Address: Wakefield House, 32-43 Chart Street, London N1 6EF, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7315 4762
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7315 5044
Email: john.h.miller@cw.com
Internet: www.cw.com/uk/nss/
Contact: John H Miller
Job Title: Director, Satellite Networks
Cable&Wireless Europe, Asia and US is one of the world’s leading international communications organisations, providing enterprise and carrier solutions to the largest users of telecoms services around the world. Its history stretches back over 100 years, to our humble beginning as a telegraph company. We have seen technology evolve through cable, radio, satellite and beyond, to a new era of international communications. Throughout, we’ve developed our business to suit the constantly evolving global communications marketplace. Our customershave told us that they need to find new ways of working, new ways to engage with their consumers. They need to build better relationships and empower their own organisations to do better. However, they must also be innovative and reduce costs! We understand these challenges and are ready to help them achieve their goals.

 

Name: Eutelsat S.A
Address: 70 rue Balard, 75502 Paris Cedex 15, France.
Tel: +33 1 53 98 47 47
Fax: +33 1 53 98 37 00
Email:infomaster@eutelsat.fr
Internet: www.eutelsat.com
Contact: Vanessa O’Connor
Job Title: Corporate Communications
Director
Eutelsat Communications is the holding company of Eutelsat S.A., the leading satellite operator in Europe and one of the top three global providers of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS). For millions of homes, the Group’s satellites are synonymous with openness and exchange, offering high-speed access to information around the world. They have also become an essential solution for flexibility and top performance for businesses in more than 150 countries. The Group operates a fleet of 24 satellites (19 of which are fully owned) supplying capacity to operators who in turn provide their own customers with radio and TV broadcasting services, professional data network solutions and broadband Internet access. Eutelsat’s satellites provide coverage of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and a major part of the Asian and American continents, from no fewer than 20 positions on the geostationary satellite orbit. The Group is based in Paris and employs 529 people from 27 different nationalities.


Name: Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd
Address: 21 Yegia Kapaim, Kiryat Aryeh Petach Tikvah, Israel, 49130.
Tel: +972 3 925 2000
Fax: +972 3 925 2222
Email:info@gilat.com
Internet: www.gilat.com
Contact: Yoav Leibovitch
Job Title: Executive V.P., Corporate Development
Gilat Satellite Networks is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: GILT. TASE). Gilat designs, develops and markets innovative satellite and hybrid networking products, services and solutions to operators in 85 countries. Gilat provides broadband solutions that deliver efficient, reliable and affordable data, Internet, voice and video. Our solutions help enterprises, governments, carriers and consumers around the globe. We also provide value to our customers through comprehensive end-to-end solutions, turnkey projects, managed network services and network outsourcing.

 

Name: General Dynamics
Address: 1500 Prodelin Drive, Newton, North Carolina 28658, USA.
Tel: +1 828 464 4147
Fax: +1 650 966 3401
Email:info@gdsatcom.com
Internet: www.gdsatcom.com
Contact: Marvin Shoemake
General Dynamics Information Systems & Technology provides defence and select commercial customers with the infrastructure and systems integration skills they need to process, communicate, protect and manage information effectively. It has established a global presence in specialised data acquisition and processing in advanced electronics and in wireless and wireline battlespace information networks and management systems that are key to military superiority in the 21st century.

 

Name: High Capabilities
Technologies (HICAP)
Address: P.O. Box 5857, Riyadh 11432, Saudi Arabia.
Tel: +966 1 466 4666 Ext: 104
Fax: +966 1 466 0066
Email:nkhoury@hicap-telecom.com
Internet: www.hicap-telecom.com
Contact: Nadeem W. Khoury
Job Title: Director Satellite Communications
High Capabilities Technologies Company Ltd. (HICAP) is a Saudi Arabian company established in 1983. HICAP is an affiliate of Farhan Commercial Company (FCC). HICAP was established as part of a Farhan Commercial expansion program and as an answer to servicing the various technical needs of its growing client base. Over the last 20 years HICAP has become one of the leading telecommunication and technology systems integration companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. HICAP’s talented and highly experienced technical engineering staff and management team are capable of executing all parts of the job, from design, installation, testing, to final commissioning and overall project management. In other words, HICAP is capable of executing a project on a total turnkey basis.


Name: Hughes Network Systems
Address: 11717 Exploration Lane, Germantown, MD 20876, USA.
Tel: +1 301 428 5500
Fax: +1 301 428 1672
Email:globalsales@hns.com
Internet: www.hns.com
Contact: Judy Blake
Job Title: Director, Global Marketing Communications
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet® encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies. Hughes has shipped more than 1.5 million systems to customers in over 100 countries. Its broadband satellite products are based on the IPoS (IP over Satellite) global standard, approved by the TIA, ETSI, and ITU standards organizations.


Name: Inmarsat
Address: 99 City Road, London EC1Y 1AX, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7728 1000
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7728 1627
Email:info@inmarsat.com
Internet: www.inmarsat.com
Contact: John Warehand
Job Title: Public RelationsManager
Inmarsat owns and operates the world’s most advanced fleet of commercial mobile communications spacecraft, flying in geostationary orbit, 35,786km (22,240 statute miles) above the Earth. This includes our two latest generation satellites, the Inmarsat-4s (I-4s), which were launched in 2005. Together, they provide coverage to around 85 per cent of the world’s landmass and 98 per cent of the world’s population. Inmarsat is also planning to launch a third I-4 satellite in 2008. This will deliver complete mobile broadband coverage of the planet, except for the extreme polar regions.

 

Name: Intelsat
Address: 3400 International Drive, Washington DC 20008, USA.
Tel: +1 202 944 7326

Email:vevette.husbands@intelsat.com
Internet: www.intelsat.com
Contact: Vevette Husbands
We are the largest provider of fixed satellite services worldwide. We have a global fleet of 53 satellites and seven owned teleports and terrestrial facilities. We supply video, data and voice connectivity in approximately 200 countries and territories for approximately 1,800 customers, many of which we have had relationship with for over 30 years. Our business is diversified by service offering, customer group, satellite and geography, which reduces our market and operating risk. Our customers include some of the world’s leading media and communications companies, multinational corporations, Internet service providers and government/military organizations. We have the largest, most flexible and one of the most reliable satellite fleets in the world, covering over 99 percent of the world’s population. We operate our fleet with a fully integrated satellite operations model which features two control centers connected by redundant fibre, resulting in a robust monitoring and control system that we believe is unrivalled in our industry. Our satellite fleet is complemented by a terrestrial network of teleports, points of presence and leased fibre links that we use to carry traffic and provide satellite access for our customers.

 

Name: SES Astra
Address: L-6815 Château de Betzdorf, Luxembourg.
Tel: + 352 710 725 1
Fax: + 352 710 725 433
Email:info@ses-astra.com
Internet: www.ses-astra.com
Contact: Martin Halliwell
Job Title: Chief Technology Officer
SES ASTRA operates the ASTRA Satellite System, offering a comprehensive portfolio of broadcast and broadband solutions for customers in Europe and beyond. ASTRA broadcasts television and radio programmes directly to millions of homes, and provides internet access and network services to governments, large corporations, small- to medium-sized enterprises and individual households. ASTRA is headquartered in Betzdorf, Luxembourg, from where the company conducts centralised functions such as spacecraft and payload operations, 24/7 technical assistance and corporate activities. In addition, affiliate offices in key markets in Europe provide local sales and marketing support. ASTRA is part of SES, a group of satellite operators and network providers which, combined, offers global reach.

 

Name: Stratos
Address: 6901 Rockledge Drive, Suite 900, Bethesda, MD 20817, USA.
Tel: +1 301 214 8800
Fax: +1 301 214 8801
Email:info@stratosglobal.com
Internet: www.stratosglobal.com
Stratos Global Corporation is a publicly traded company (TSX: SGB) and a leading international telecommunications services provider offering customers operating in remote locations a variety of satellite and microwave wireless technologies to provide Internet Protocol, data, and voice solutions through a range of newly emerging and established technologies such as Inmarsat, Iridium, Globalstar, StratosITekTM, HughesNetTM, VSAT, and others. Stratos serves an array of diverse markets including government, military, oil and gas, maritime, industrial, aeronautical, media and recreational users anywhere in the world.


Name: Streamlink Communications
Address: PO Box 192 Safat, Code 13002, Kuwait. Tel: +965 832 010
Fax: +965 482 9055
Email:info@streamlinkcom.com
Internet: www.streamlinkcom.com
Contact: Jaafar Najdi
Job Title: CEO
Streamlink is an aggressive provider of broadband services to the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. It is a subsidiary of The Securities House K.S.C.C Company. The Securities House Company was established in 1982 as a Kuwaiti shareholder closed Company, and is presently trading on the Kuwaiti stock market. Securities house is a multi faceted organisation that operates in different areas of business such as financial services, trading, heavy machinery, industrial manufacturing, medical instrumentation, hospitals, pharmacies, information technology and communication services. Through its collaboration agreement with ETISALAT in UAE it has co-located its DVB-RCS gateway services at their UAE facilities, to provide high-speed Internet and multimedia connectivity to its clients. This gateway is the first in the Middle East and third in the world to use open standard DVB-RCS technology. It has also established a redundant gateway in Europe to be used as a backup and serve the North African and Eastern European market. The gateways are built around several transponders of space segment utilising the technology implemented by SES New Skies. Streamlink utilises two of the SES New Skies satellites. NSS6 located at 95º east & NSS7 located at 338º east. Streamlink’s gateways are strategically located directly on top of highly redundant fibre rings. This enables Streamlink to provide its customers with the fastest and most reliable connectivity to the global Internet backbone in the USA and Europe.

 

Name: Telesat
Address: 500 Hills Drive, Bedminster NJ 07921, USA.
Tel: +1 908 470 2300
Email:info@telesat.com
Internet: www.telesat.com
Contact: Gail Yamazaki
Job Title: Director, Marketing Communications
Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices and facilities around the world, Telesat is the fourth largest fixed satellite services operator. The company provides reliable and secure satellite-delivered communications solutions to broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers. Telesat has a global state-of-the-art fleet of 12 satellites and three additional satellites under construction, and manages the operations of 13 additional satellites for third parties. Telesat is privately held. Its principal shareholders are Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Loral Space & Communications Inc.


Name: Thales Alenia Space
Address: 100 Bld du Midi-Bp99, 06156, Cannes la Bocca, France.
Tel: +33 4 9292 7000
Fax: +33 4 9292 7190
Email:info@thalesaleniaspace.com
Internet: www.thalesaleniaspace.com
Contact: Nicolas Brun
Job Title: Vice President Communications Thales Alenia Space
Thales Alenia Space is the leading European supplier of satellite-based solutions for Defense and Security, with strong positions in both space and ground segments. In addition, the company is the European benchmark supplier of facility operational services for the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency CNES, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as well as for the French, Italian and German Ministries of Defense, the Defense procurement agency DGA and other major customers. Thales Alenia Space is also active in the civil-military satellite export market, through Koreasat 5 in South Korea, Star One in Brazil and Yahsat in United Arab Emirates. The company strengthened its European leadership in space systems with the provision of seven telecommunication and observation satellites in 2007, and entering new markets (United Arab Emirates, Norway and Indonesia) in telecom domain.

 

Name: Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company
Address: PO Box 33344, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Tel: +971 2 6422222
Fax: +971 2 6418440
Email:info@thuraya.com
Internet: www.thuraya.com
Contact: Abdallah Touhami
Job Title: Senior Manager Marketing & Sales
Thuraya offers cost-effective satellite-based mobile telephone services to nearly one third of the globe. Through its dynamic dual-mode satellite handsets and products, Thuraya enhances freedom of movement and connectivity. Thuraya’s US$1 billion regional mobile telecommunications via satellite (GMPCS) system helps meet the need for affordable, high-quality mobile phone services to urban hubs as well as remote communities. Through partnership with leading national telecom and mobile communications companies, Thuraya provides blanket coverage to more than 110 countries in Europe, North, Central Africa and large parts of Southern Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia: a landmass inhabited by an estimated 2.3 billion people. Subscribers can access Thuraya’s mobile satellite system through service providers, who are either be national GSM network companies or local telecom operators. Thuraya in fact, complements national GSM networks, allowing subscribers to remain connected to their national mobile networks, and to access Thuraya’s system whenever their preferred national network is out of reach. Thuraya offers satellite, cellular (GSM) service and location determination system (GPS) in a single dual mode handset that is lightweight, elegant and easy to use. The dynamic handset offers voice, data, fax and short messaging services.


Name: Verizon Business
Address: 1901 10th Street, Suite 100, Plano TX 75074, USA.
Tel: +1 972 578 7100
Fax: +1 972 578 7187
Internet: www.verizonbusiness.com
Contact: Nancy Gofus
Job Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), is a leading provider of advanced communications and information technology (IT) solutions to large-business and government customers worldwide. Combining unsurpassed global network reach with advanced communications, security and other professional service capabilities, Verizon Business delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world. Verizon Business is the culmination of a series of focused acquisitions of industry leaders, including MCI, UUNET and Digex, that create a company with deep expertise, global capabilities, and a history of innovation.


Name: Verso Technologies
Address: 400 Galleria Parkway Suite 300, Atlanta GA 30339, USA.
Tel: +1 678 589 3500
Fax: +1 678 589 3750
Email:marketing@verso.com
Internet: www.verso.com
Contact: Robin Hanscom
Job Title: Director of Marketing
Verso is a global technology provider of next generation network solutions offering a core-to-edge product portfolio for telecommunications service providers and enterprise organisations. With an integrated portfolio that includes highly regarded brands such as Clarent®, NetPerformer®, and I-Master®, Verso focuses on three high growth market segments: VoIP, GSM, and Prepaid. Today, Verso plays a critical role in delivering voice and data transmission capabilities to millions of people around the world - at home, at work, and everywhere in between. The vision, innovation, and value that characterize Verso products and services are the result of our commitment to building a company that can provide complete end-to-end, next-generation network solutions to service providers and enterprises around the world. We have remained focused on this goal through rapid changes in technology, competition, distribution, service delivery, and end-user demand. Verso NGN solutions are at work in virtually every corner of the globe and have been tested and homologated in the widest possible variety of real-world environments. Time and again, we have demonstrated our ability to support deployments in any location on earth.


Name: ViaSat Inc
Address: 1725 Breckinridge Plaza, Duluth, GA 30097, USA.
Tel: +1 678 924 2400
Fax: +1 678 924 2480
Email:info@viasat.com
Internet: www.viasat.com
Contact: Harry Stribos
Job Title: Regional Director Middle East and Africa
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. The company provides networking products and managed network services for enterprise IP applications; is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies to the US government; and is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services. The company owns five subsidiaries: US Monolithics, Efficient Channel Coding, Enerdyne Technologies, Intelligent Compression Technologies, and JAST. These companies design and produce complementary products such as monolithic microwave integrated circuits, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression products, and mobile satellite antenna systems. ViaSat has locations in Carlsbad, CA, and Duluth, GA, along with its Comsat Laboratories division in Germantown, MD. Additional field offices are located in Boston, MA, Baltimore, MD, Washington DC, Australia, China, India, Italy, and Spain.

 

 

 

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