PARTNERS
The European leader in satellite systems and a major player in orbital infrastructures, Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between Thales (67 per cent) and Finmeccanica (33 per cent). Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio embody the two groups’ “Space Alliance”. Thales Alenia Space sets the global standard in solutions for space telecoms, radar, optical Earth observation, defense, security, navigation and science. Thales Alenia Space is one of the world’s leading space telecom players, with orders from the United States, Russia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, and growing business with Asian customers. Thales Alenia Space is also the worldwide leader in telecommunication payloads with over 200 payloads ordered (i.e. 30 per cent of market share). In addition, we are among the world leaders in space borne microwave equipment, with products integrated in 50 per cent of all satellites built worldwide. The company has a total of 7,200 employees and 11 industrial sites, with design and manufacturing facilities in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. For more information, please visit www.thalesaleniaspace.com
Arianespace is the world’s leading launch Service & Solutions company, delivering innovative offer to its customers since 1980. Backed by its 23 shareholders and the European Space Agency, Arianespace proposes an unrivalled launcher family, comprising Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega, and an international workforce renowned for their culture of commitment and excellence. As of February 1, 2010, Arianespace had launched a total of 277 payloads, including more than half of all the commercial satellites now in service worldwide. It has a backlog of more than 20 Ariane 5 and 15 Soyuz launches, equal to three years of business. www.arianespace.com
Advantech Satellite Networks (formerly EMS Satellite Networks) is the world’s largest provider of DVB-RCS hubs and terminals. With more than fifteen years’ experience in digital communication networks and systems, Advantech has been a pioneer in advanced satellite networking. In fact, Advantech was the original company commissioned in 1994 to develop an architecture that later became the DVB-RCS standard. Advantech maintains more than 70 per cent of the world’s DVB-RCS market share and is the only company to have a successfully deployed DVB-RCS compliant hubs. For more information, please visit our website: www.advantechsatnet.com
Gilat Satellite Networks is a leading provider of satellite communications products and services. For more than 20 years, Gilat has been at the forefront of VSAT technology and services and continues to be an innovator and developer of new satellite technologies. With over 750,000 VSATs shipped to more than 85 countries, Gilat’s solutions serve the communications needs of carriers, enterprises, governments, service providers and consumers around the globe. Gilat’s VSAT platforms and VSAT-based solutions provide added value to operators and service providers through better performance, integration and easy deployment, enabling the efficient delivery of broadband data, voice and video services. Gilat also offers WiMAX and broadband wireless access products and solutions for licensed and license-free bandwidths. Gilat’s experience and expertise includes the delivery of turnkey projects in addition to outsourcing for cost-effective network operations. For more information, please visit our website: www.gilat.com
iDirect is transforming the way the world gets and stays connected. The company’s satellite-based IP communications technology enables constant connectivity for voice, video and data applications in diverse and challenging environments. These include extending private networks to remote offices; supporting mobile connectivity across land, sea and air; providing rural telephony and Internet broadband; and maintaining communications in the wake of disasters and network failures.
The iDirect Intelligent PlatformTM integrates advanced technology into iDirect’s portfolio of hubs, routers and network management software to address the growing complexity of deploying and managing global IP networks. With more than 13 years of global satellite communications experience, iDirect serves customers in 50 countries through a diverse network of channel partners, including some of the largest satellite providers, operators and carriers in the world and seven of the World Teleport Association’s Global Top Ten. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, iDirect has offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.idirect.net
MDA is a pioneer in the development of systems to transfer massive amounts of data to and from remote or underserved locations. MDA’s Cascade Data Services (CDS), in a strategic alliance with O3b Networks, brings together two powerful, unique and highly complementary systems.
This network of networks features high data transfer rates at Ka-Band, using small ground terminals. CASCADE delivers true 100 per cent global coverage via scalable store-and-forward LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites, with instantaneous data rates of 1.8 Gbps. O3b Networks’ equatorial constellation of 16 MEO (Medium Earth Orbit) satellites provides real time, continuous data transfer capability up to an aggregate rate of 10 Gbps from each satellite, between latitudes 45º N and 45º S.
CDS combines these massive data delivery capabilities to provide unparalleled transfer rates and coverage on a global scale. CDS is working with potential customers to demonstrate how this new communications paradigm can create exceptional operational value to their business. For more information, contact us at www.spacecourier.ca
