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Airbus Signs Contract with SES
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irbus Defence and Space has
won a contract with satellite
operator SES for the design and
construction of the latest addition
to its satellite ﬂeet, the SES-10.
The new satellite will be based
on the ultra-reliable Eurostar
E3000 platform.
"This new contract is a signiﬁcant
win for Airbus Defence and Space
and further reinforces our longstanding relationship with SES,
which has today asked us to
build their tenth Eurostar satellite,"
said François Auque, Head of
Space Systems.
"This order also demonstrates our
customers' faith in our electrical
propulsion technology for stationkeeping - a technology that we
are among the few in the world
to be able to demonstrate in orbit,
something we have now been doing
for ten years."
Romain Bausch, President

SES-10 based on a Eurostar E3000 platform

and CEO of SES, stated: "We
are pleased to work once again
with our longstanding supplier
Airbus Defence and Space on the
SES-10 mission.
"SES-10 will provide our customers
in Latin America with fresh, high
power satellite capacity for multiple
applications at an established
orbital slot."
SES-10 will be placed in

geostationary orbit at 67 degrees
West, where it will provide SES
with additional capacity for directto-home TV broadcasting and other
telecommunication services for
Mexico, Caribbean, Central America
and South America.
Designed for a nominal in-orbit life
of more than 15 years, it will carry a
payload of 50 high-power Ku-band
transponders.

IMT Revs Up TV Tribuna's Mobile HD Coverage
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W

hen TV Tribuna was looking
to enhance its mobile
broadcasting capabilities, the
Brazilian afﬁliate of Rede Globo

turned to Integrated Microwave
Technologies.
TV Tribuna, worked with Videodata,
a Brazilian systems integrator and
equipment supplier, to outfit its
smaller sized vehicles, such as
motorcycles, with IMT's Nucomm
CPTx-II Compact Portable
Transmitters, enabling the station
to broadcast from remote and harder
to reach locations.
TV Tribuna also added RF Central
VClip microLite HD Transmitters to
its ENG gear in order to give its
reporters the ﬂexibility and mobility
needed to more thoroughly cover
local sporting events.
"IMT is excited to announce this
key sale of our state-of-the-art
equipment to TV Tribuna in Brazil,"
Jose Meneses, TV Tribuna Diretor de
Operacoes; Cicero Assis, VideoData; and said IMT Divisional Chief Executive
Elizeu Moraes, Director of Sales IMT
Stephen Shpock. "We share in TV

Tribuna's commitment to providing
its viewers with the best coverage
possible by helping the station
improve its mobile capabilities
through our compact and portable
transmission technologies."
TV Tribuna becomes the first
Brazilian broadcaster to purchase
and deploy IMT's Nucomm CPTx-II.
As a result, TV Tribuna's improved
mobile capabilities gives the station
a competitive advantage in the
Brazilian broadcast market, as
it can now provide TV Tribuna's
viewers with unprecedented onlocation coverage.
The station also incorporated
IMT's RF Central VClip microLite
into its arsenal of gear, which will
be used in TV Tribuna's coverage
of the Santos Futebol Clube games.

Collaborative
JPEG 2K Demo
NOR: Nevion was among the
ten companies that participated
in a live JPEG 2000 crosssupplier
interoperability
demonstration at VidTrans14.
The first demo of its type
saw JPEG 2000 broadcast
profile streams delivered via
SMPTE 2022 transport links
This represents the combined,
ongoing standards development
efforts of leading technology
suppliers, the VSF and SMPTE,
including the VSF Technical
Recommendations
TR101 for JPEG 2000 over IP.
Nevion's Ventura VS902 multiformat contribution codec was
utilised for the demo.

ASC Signal
Kuwait Deal
KUW / USA: ASC Signal Corporation
has been awarded a contract from
Kuwait-based Al-Rashed Holdings
to provide gateway satellite antennas
and equipment for the State of
Kuwait's Ministry of Information.
The equipment will be used
for the distribution of television
and radio content throughout
the Middle East and Africa.
ASC Signal will provide transmit
and receive fully-redundant Kuband and DBS-band, 5.6-metre
antennas to access both Nilesat and
Arabsat satellites.

Thuraya Vehicular
Broadband Terminal
UAE: Thuraya Telecommunications
has launched its first dedicated
vehicular IP broadband terminal
- the Thuraya IP Voyager.
Designed and manufactured by
Hughes Network Systems, Thuraya
IP Voyager enables remote users to
collaborate reliably and efﬁciently
using video, data and VoIP services.

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