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SES BU Y S IN TO SL I N GPA T H

I n January the major satellite operator SES World Skies joined Intelsat in endorsing and

recommending the SlingPath training program for their SNG customers.

Like Intelsat, SES bought a considerable number of seats as an initial stage in using SlingPath to reduce the incidence of interfer-ence by ensuring SNG operators are trained to a recognized standard.

The move by SES is part of part of the satel-lite industry’s Satellite Interference Initiative to reduce satellite Radio Frequency Interference (RFI).

As discussed in previous issues of Line Of Sight, interference is a continual problem in the satellite community, globally affecting broad-casters and viewers alike, and a key compo-nent of the Satellite Interference Initiative is increasing SNG uplinking expertise through more training and certification.

SlingPath (slingpath.com) is BeaconSeek’s innovative competency-based online SNG train-ing and certification program.

For those readers who are not aware of the program, the SlingPath presentation of the material is highly graphical, interactive and user-friendly, with potentially complex subjects presented in a fashion that makes it approach-able to even the most techno-phobic partici-pants.

It’s used by a number of broadcasters in-cluding Fox News, ABC News, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera, and Nine Network Australia, as well as by many freelance SNG operators.

Stewart Sanders, Senior Vice-President Customer Service Deliv-ery at SES, said “SES regards quality technical training of the type that BeaconSeek provides as a key tool in our efforts to continually improve our industry’s management of the shared RF spectrum resource.”

“BeaconSeek has produced a technically excellent and accessible product which we are eager to take advantage of. We consider the use of such training as key in the ongoing cross-industry Satellite Interference Initiatives that SES and other major operators have been actively involved in.“

“This training will be used in concert with other training packages to continue the educa-tion and abilities development of our technical

staff and thereby improve the Quality of Service provided to SES’s customers.”

The SlingPath course is aimed at the abso-lute beginner to intermediate level, taking the student through the basics of satellites, how they are used in newsgathering, the various key technical parameters and critical component parts of an SNG system, and how to work with satellites.

Jonathan Higgins, Managing Director of Bea-conSeek, said “We are especially pleased that SES has come onboard after their valuable in-volvement in the original beta-testing of the SlingPath online training program.”

“We are very proud to be attracting the world’s leading satellite operators to use our innovative online training program. We whole-heartedly support SES and all the other satellite operators involved in the Initiative to tackle the increasing problem of satellite interference and the inconvenience caused to broadcasters and viewers worldwide”

In particular, the program has been de-signed for those who are required to operate the latest generation of ‘auto-pointing’ SNG systems, which enable operators with negligible training to access satellite capacity, but in doing so masks a significant amount of the technical aspects of the actions being undertaken.

SlingPath was launched in 2007 by Beacon-Seek in collaboration with e-Blended Learning Solutions of New Zealand, specialists in design-ing web-based training for remote learning ap-plications.

SlingPath has been endorsed by both SUIRG (Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group) and WBU-ISOG (World Broadcasting Union – International Satellite Operations Group) as meeting their high standards for the training of operatives in SNG. ◙

SLINGPATH EN ESPAÑOL

F ollowing the success of Slingpath amongst English language speakers, the next phase

of its development has been started. This is the translation of the entire course

into Spanish, including all the administrative functions available to customer managers. This follows requests to cater specifically for the Latin-American market.

This will take several months to complete and test, but we are hoping that we can launch the new Spanish version of SlingPath at IBC in September. ◙

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T he demise of Galaxy 15 is not primarily an “SNG story”, but I think it’s of interest in

understanding the spacecraft we rely on for our businesses are while in many ways very powerful and strong, yet remain very vulner-able to uncontrolled events.

Who would have thought that the disrup-tion that an active spacecraft could cause once it is no longer under control from the ground? The immediate cost to Intelsat is as yet unknown, and by the time G-15 ceases to be an active threat to other satellites in the arc, it could be very well be even greater.

We’re obviously delighted that SlingPath continues to grow in importance in the sphere of training for the industry, and we are in vari-ous stages of ongoing discussions with other satellite operators who are planning to imple-ment the use of SlingPath as part of their overall anti-interference strategy. I’ve been asked by a number of people if satellite op-erators will make training of operators manda-tory before being allowed to access their ca-pacity.

We remain neutral on the subject, as this is entirely in the control of the satellite opera-tors, but if it were to happen, it would proba-bly need to be a collective decision by the industry to ensure that no operator loses out commercially.

Still on training, the month of May saw yet another highly successful SNG course held here in Luton, UK. What a fantastic three days we had, and everyone both thoroughly en-joyed themselves and got a lot out of it. These twice yearly courses are now a permanent fixture in the SNG calendar, and we look for-ward to our next course on 5-7 October.

News crews are of course often threat-ened, injured or even occasionally killed in the course of their work, but the burning of an SNG truck in Greece was a very public demon-stration of anger at the media — or was it just a result of mob rule?

Finally, a tranche of company mergers and acquisitions sees parts of our industry consoli-dating — which while maybe good for some companies bottom line, is it good for custom-ers in the long run?

So, I hope you enjoy this edition - feed-back is always welcome. ◙

Jonathan Higgins

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“ What a fantastic

three days we had,

and everyone both

thoroughly enjoyed

themselves and got a

lot out of it. ”

L I N E-U P

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“ … while still

fully operational, G-

15 started drifting

beyond the bounds

of its slot ... a

nightmare for any

satellite operator.”

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I n early April, Intelsat lost control of Galaxy 15 at 133°W, which provided coverage over

North America. And what headlines this has generated in

the industry press in the last few months – “As Zombiesat Approaches, Other Satellites Have to Flee Along Intricate Paths”; “Crunch Time For Colliding Satellites”; “Wayward 'Zombiesat' Poses Risk To Other Satellites”, “Zombie Bird Threatens Nets” … and so on. Dramatic, and somewhat overstated.

G-15 did not provide any facility for SNG, but primarily provided capacity for TV & radio distribution to cable head-ends using 24 C-band transponders with coverage of the U.S. and Alaska. In addition it had an L-band pay-load used for the GCCS (Geostationary Commu-nications and Control Segment) service oper-ated for the U.S FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) as part of its Wide Area Augmentation Service (WAAS) to help provide improved flight naviga-tion capability across the U.S.

On April 5 at 09:48 UTC, Intelsat lost TT&C (telemetry, tracking and control) with the satel-lite. Without station-keeping manoeuvres being maintained, and while still fully operational, G-15 started drifting beyond the bounds of its orbital slot at 133°W, moving in an easterly direction, directly towards its neighbour SES AMC-11 at 131ºW - a nightmare for any satellite operator.

Station-keeping is the process by which satellite operators maintain a satellite within a very specific part of the geostationary arc (also known as the Clarke Belt). Satellites are typi-cally spaced at a minimum separation of 2º around the arc, and satellite operators maintain a satellite’s position to within 0.1º.

This 0.1º dimension creates a “box” which

is 75 km high, 75 km wide, and about 30 km deep, and the satellite operator always ensures that a satellite remains within the bounds of this box.

According to Intelsat there was no immedi-ate service interruption to the cable head-end customers on G-15, and predicted that there would be no service interruption for their cus-tomers. Intelsat relocated Galaxy 12, Intelsat’s designated in-orbit spare for the North Ameri-can region, to the 133° slot and moved G-15’s C-band traffic to G-12.

Launched in 2005, G-15 is an Orbital Sci-ences Star 2 bus satellite, designed to be op-erational until 2022. Intelsat and Orbital Sci-ences have conducted an investigation and the initial conclusion is that G-15 was hit by a solar storm which had been forecast by NASA.

Meanwhile, scarily, the payload is still fully operational with full ‘earth lock’ (antennas pointed correctly towards Earth), so if any sig-nals within the transponder frequency bands are received, they are relayed back to the ground. This is plainly a nightmare scenario for

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The station-kept “box” visualized in space

G-15 before & during launch in 2005

jects in geostationary orbit will over time drift to either of these positions, which are termed ‘points of libration’ – akin to gravitational ‘wells’ or ‘dips’.

The current rate of drift of G-15 is 0.06º per day, but this will have tripled by the end of Au-gust, cruising past by other satellites faster and faster. In addition, the inclination of the orbit is

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satellite operators, who have never experienced this type of anomaly before.

After repeatedly trying to regain contact with G-15 throughout April, finally, in early May, Intel-sat aimed a strong and critical signal at the satellite designed to permanently shutdown the payload.

Unfortunately this last ditch attempt failed, and the satellite continued to drift very slowly around the geostationary arc heading to-wards AMC-11.

Meanwhile Intelsat continued to make thousands of attempts to re-establish control of the satellite.

It’s drifting in this particular direction because it’s heading to-wards 105º West, one of two key locations in the geostationary arc. The Earth is slightly flattened at two points around the Earth longitudi-nally.

This flattening effect – termed ‘oblate’ – is centred on 75ºE and 105ºW and creates a variation of the Earth’s gravitational field, even all the way out to the geostationary arc. This alteration in gravitational pull affects the geostationary arc out at 36,000 km from Earth, and the result is that uncontrolled ob-

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Points of liberation effect on geostationary orbit

“ It’s drifting in this

particular direction

because it’s heading

towards 105º

West ...”

“ … the rioters

then poured the

petrol onto the truck

and set it alight.“

“ … a fine example

of how competing

operators work

together to solve

potentially very

commercially

damaging issues…”

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T he conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have obviously put news crews in harms way, but

there is an increasing tendency for crews in-volved in covering civil disturbances to become targets, and hence became part of the story itself.

In an incident in May in Athens, Greece, the crew of an IHA news agency SNG truck narrowly escaped injury when rioters petrol bombed the

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LO S T IN SPA C E also increasing, which maximises the separa-tion from the other satellites and therefore minimizes interference.

In preparation for the flyby of AMC-11, the first satellite to be affected, Intelsat and SES devised a joint strategy to minimize disruption to services on AMC-11.

So as G-15 drifted slowly on, and it passed through AMC-11’s slot in late May into early June, SES orchestrated a dance between AMC-11 and SES-1 with G-15 so that there was nei-ther any collision – impossible since a minimum separation of 100 km was maintained, despite the scaremongering headlines - or, of much more concern, signal blockage.

SES-1 was brought in as a back up for AMC-11 so that if there were interference from Gal-axy 15, customers could switch to SES-1. SES drifted AMC-11 satellite as far to the east as 130.7º, at the very edge of its box while at the same time re-positioning SES-1 at 131.3º, the westernmost point of the box, and then ‘leapfrogged’ AMC-11 back to its correct posi-tion when the danger passed.

During the transition period SES increased the gain of AMC-11’s transponders while at the same time advising its customers to reduce uplink power, so further ‘desensitizing’ the po-tential effect of G-15 on AMC-11 bound traffic.

Meanwhile on the ground, Intelsat used a 19 metre tracking antenna at its Clarksburg, Maryland, teleport to provide turn-around ser-vices for SES customers from other SES satel-lites to AMC-11. The benefit of the large uplink antenna was that, due to its narrow beamwidth, less than 0.2º, it provided SES customers added protection against multi-path interfer-ence during the fly-by of G-15, compared with the 9 - 11 metre uplink antennas commonly

used. The end result was that were no reported disturbances to any customer’s traffic — much to the relief of all.

Having passed AMC-11 without incident, Intelsat have a while until they face another such a series of manoeuvres, as the next few satellites G-15 will pass by are either Intelsat birds (G-13 at 127ºW and G-14 at 124ºW) or have no C-band payloads.

As the orbit inclination increases, the risk of interference will reduce significantly. Mean-while, once the satellite is clear of other satel-lites, Intelsat will repeat its high power attempt to completely shutdown the payload.

G-15 is expected to eventually lose earth lock (due to the loss of its internal inertial stabil-ity system). Once it loses earth lock it is ex-pected to lose power and the payload shut down as a result.

At this point, there is a remote possibility that control of the satellite can be re-established – but if not, without power, the satellite will no longer be able to cause interfer-ence with other satellites. Then over time the satellite will oscillate in a simple harmonic mo-tion every 2.6 years around 105ºW.

This whole episode has demonstrated two things. Firstly, that Intelsat has thrown all its efforts into minimizing both effects on both on its own customers as well as other satellite operator’s customers to an equal degree.

Secondly, it has been a fine example of how competing operators work together to solve potentially very commercially damaging issues, which while caused by one operator, are han-dled in a sympathetic and co-operative manner by other satellite operators. After all, this could happen to any of them. ◙

truck. Public sector workers were holding dem-onstrations but then protests turned violent with clashes between rioters and the police.

A spare can of fuel for the generator had been left at the rear doors of the truck, and the rioters then poured the petrol onto the truck and set it alight.

Fortunately the uplink engineer, camera-man, and reporter escaped unhurt. ◙

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I n May we held another of our popular Basic SNG Operations courses — we hold these

every year in May and October. As usual the course was held in the delight-

ful surroundings of the postgraduate campus of the University of Bedfordshire on the outskirts of Luton in the UK, some 30 miles (50 km) north of London.

Unusually we had three fabulously sunny and warm days — we even had lunch one day al fresco. The follically-challenged amongst even had to apply sun cream — in May — in England!

And once again we had an international mix with six students from the UK, Netherlands and Turkey, from a variety of backgrounds.

The students underwent three days of very focussed training, starting with a very intensive day of classroom training on satellite principles covering generally and specifically SNG uplink-ing theory — it was early evening before we finished.

This was followed by two days of practical exercises, including learning how to use a Suunto Tandem compass/clinometer, what to look out for on a site survey, and rigging and using a flyaway as well as a small SNG truck. The exercises on the flyaway took up much of these two practical days.

By the end of the course all the students

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were able to competently assemble and oper-ate the Advent 1.9m Mantis flyaway system kindly provided by Vislink News & Entertain-ment. Students carried out a number of trans-missions and routine operational checks on both Telesat and Eutelsat satellites—many thanks to the NOC staff at Telesat and Eutelsat for their patience. In addition students were shown an SNG truck provided by Spectra TV.

The photographs show the students as they progressed through the course, during which they were all assessed, both practically and with a multi-choice written theory test.

Instruction is carried out on a completely manual flyaway system with a comparatively large antenna so that the students fully experi-ence the hands-on reality of critical adjust-ments and measurements.

They have to accurately and consistently point the antenna at the correct satellite and deal professionally with satellite operations centres. We limit numbers to only six partici-pants so that everyone has the opportunity of using the system and talking to the satellite operator.

The next course will be on 5-7 October 2010 (see back page) - so if you’re interested in attending, please get in touch with us soon. You’ll enjoy it. ◙

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BE A CO NSE E K — MAY 2010 SNG CO U R S E

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TE L E C A S T BO U G H T BY BE L D E N

SA T-CO M M SO L D TO OM N I G L O B E

S at-Comm, the UK SNG manufacturer, is being bought by OmniGlobe Networks, a

Canadian technology company. OmniGlobe Networks EMEA is to acquire the

entire issued share capital and assets of pri-vately-held Sat-Comm Ltd for a combination of ordinary shares in OmniGlobe Networks Inc and an undisclosed amount of cash.

The deal, announced in March, should be finalised by August. Sat-Comm founder and controlling shareholder, Tim Williams, will be-

come a minority shareholder in OmniGlobe Networks Inc. and retain his title and role of Managing Director of Sat-Comm Limited.

Tim Williams will also join the board of Om-niGlobe EMEA, and Sat-Comm will form part of OmniGlobe’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business. Sat-Comm was founded in 2000. ◙

T elecast Fiber Systems, the giant in fibre-optic in broadcast location operations, was

acquired by Belden, the giant in cable, in a deal finalized in December 2009.

Privately-held Telecast was acquired for an undisclosed figure by Belden, but will remain trading as Telecast under the umbrella of Belden Inc.

Richard Cerney (seen opposite on the right ) and Gene Baker (left opposite) who founded the company in 1991 will be staying with Telecast.

Belden has a long history in the cable indus-try, founded in 1902 by Joseph C. Belden. ◙

CPI ME RG I N G WI T H CO M T E C H

I n a surprise announcement on 10 May, it was revealed that Comtech Telecommunications

had made an offer for the CPI (Communication & Power Industries Inc.) group, which includes the CPI Satcomm division.

Comtech will purchase CPI in a cash and stock transaction for approximately US$472 million. Comtech previously acquired Xicom, CPI Satcom’s principal competitor, and it will be interesting to see how the overlap of the two businesses are handled by Comtech.

It’s believed that Comtech’s primary interest

in CPI was for its penetration into the military and medical markets for vacuum tube devices rather than specifically its satellite communica-tion interests.

Comtech claim that they plan no interrup-tions in any scheduled or committed rollouts, and intend to continue to support all existing Comtech and CPI products and services as well as honour all existing agreements with custom-ers.

But only time will tell … ◙

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TA N D B E RG NA M E DI S A P P E A R S

T andberg has been a name synonymous with MPEG since the mid-1990s. But three years after Ericsson bought

Tandberg Television from the parent Tandberg company, the Tandberg name has disappeared from front panels of encoders and decoders as well as other MPEG processing equipment.

The Tandberg brand was iconic, symbolising a pinnacle of MPEG technology. Although it is understandable that Ericsson wants to make its mark, it will take some time for the name to

achieve the same reputation associated with the Tandberg logo. ◙

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“ The SNG

services sector is

often ‘feast or

famine’ - and in

you’re in a famine,

you can’t chose your

clients.”

BA D CL I E N T S EX P O S E D

E verybody in business experiences people and companies who don’t settle their in-

voices in time, or sometimes never at all. But in the world of SNG operations, where

the pace of events is such that often jobs are undertaken before the conventional business processes have taken place, the potential for ending up not being paid is a much higher risk.

In a difficult economic environment, and in the scramble to get the truck or flyaway to the job, for a micro-business such as a single per-son owner operator, the burden of making sure an unknown client is creditworthy can get over-looked.

The SNG services sector is typically ‘feast or famine’ - and if you’re in a famine, you can’t chose your clients.

One such owner operator is so angry about not getting paid that he has started a web-site that lists alleged “bad payers” — or more pre-

cisely, non-payers — and is inviting others to post their non-payer details as well.

The website is www.blacklist-sng.org, and it's already attracting attention in the SNG com-munity. It was first announced on LinkedIn, and at the time of writing five alleged “bad payers” have been listed.

Potentially the site owner is opening him-self for legal action, but has made it clear that he would gladly face his own non-payers in court as he has not been able to meet them face-to-face anyway. Some debts date back years and despite all the usual actions taken to recover the money, payment is still due.

So if you’re owed money for job successfully undertaken, and you’ve exhausted all other means of getting paid, then maybe this is a way of at least getting some satisfaction — though of course you may not get paid! ◙

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V islink News & Entertain-ment launched its latest

vehicle-mounted satellite antenna, the NewSwift LT120, at NAB in April.

This is a vehicle-mounted uplink with a high perform-ance 1.2 metre Ku-band aluminium reflector — offer-ing carbon fibre performance at aluminium cost.

NewSwift LT comple-ments the existing NewSwift range of high performance vehicle mounted carbon-fibre antennas.

It has the same mount-ings to attach it to the vehi-cle, a pod which houses a redundant pair of up to 200W HPAs, and uses the same antenna controller.

Like the established carbon-fibre NewSwift range, the new antenna also offers the advan-tages of a fully integrated RF system and is integrated with the Vislink 5000 Series elec-tronic sub systems.

Vislink has designed this new antenna to tackle the growing market for low-cost SNG, as well as the general data and mobile broadband markets.

It’s intended for applications which require high speed data connections at a lower cost, but which also require a higher quality reflector than the standard VSAT antennas due to the superior sidelobe and cross-polar performance required at higher transmit EIRP levels.

The innovation has been to develop their own aluminium construction reflector with sur-face tolerances that virtually match the their high-precision carbon-fibre reflectors – but at a lower cost.

“NewSwift LT benefits from the very latest precision vacuum formed aluminium reflector techniques” commented Ashley Dove, Director of Product Marketing at Vislink “Providing an alternative to carbon fibre construction, Vislink has been able to deliver a complementary an-tenna with the same finely crafted reflective surfaces, in aluminium, with a lower manufac-turing cost and only a small trade off in weight”.

This development by Vislink is plainly going to set them up against the lower cost VSAT antenna derivatives. ◙

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A D V E N T ’ S N E W A L U M I N I U M AN T E N NA

FU J I T S U NE W SNG EN C O D E R

A t the beginning of the year, Fujitsu launched its first SD/HD encoder with an

optional built-in modulator. The IP-9400 is an “economically priced” (in

Fujitsu’s words) MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0 encoder squarely targeted at the SNG market, with an integral DVB-S/S2 modulator available.

It offers HD and SD simulcast capability, with “Region of Interest Processing” along with low latency of 280ms — of significance for live two-ways.

A near unique feature is an IP return path

available to the uplink, which offers full duplex VOIP connectivity for studio — remote communi-cations.

In separate news, Vislink News & Entertain-ment have announced a tie-up with Fujitsu. They will not only implement Fujitsu MPEG-4 AVC technology in their DVE5000 and IRD51000 series, but will also act as a reseller of Fujitsu equipment. ◙

Fujitsu IP-9400 — front & back panel views

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IN M A R S A T IS A TPH O N E PRO LAU N C H

A fter almost two decades of anticipation, Inmarsat has finally launched a hand-held

satphone. Having been widely expected to offer an

alterbnative to Iridium and GlobalStar, Inmarsat launched the IsatPhone Pro in June at CoommunicAsia in Singapore.

Weighing 280g, (less than other satphones) its dimensions are 170mm (6.7”) long,, 54mm (2.1”) wide, and 39mm (1.5”) deep.

With near global coverage using the Inmarsat 4 satellites, the ISatPhone Pro has the longest battery life on the satphone market, with up to 8 hours talk time and up to 100 hours on standby. It has a high visibility colour

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screen and GSM-style usability, capable of operating at temperatures ranging from -20º to 55ºC and an ingress protection rating of IP54.

Inmarsat highlight that it’s the only global satphone to support Bluetooth, with the ability to place the handset on its side by rotating the anntenna by 90º for easy handsfree use.

ISatPhone offers all the essential services - satellite telephony, voicemail, text and email messaging, GPS location data. This last feature, GPS location data, is configured so that the user can both view their position and send it as text or email. Inmarsat are also offering a free web messaging service to handsets.

Hardware pricing is set below US$700, with a contract rate of about US$15 per month, and call charges of less than $1 per minute. It’s a serious challenge to Iridium and GlobalStar on all fronts. ◙ Inmarsat 4 coverage for ISatPhone Pro

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Web Index of Organizations Mentioned

BeaconSeek www.beaconseek.com Belden www.belden.com CPI www.cpii.com/satcom Comtech www.comtechefdata.com Ericsson [Tandberg] www.ericsson.com Eutelsat www.eutelsat.com Fujitsu www.fujitsu.com Inmarsat www.inmarsat.com Intelsat www.intelsat.com SES www.ses.com Sat-Comm www.www.sat-comm.com Sematron www.sematron.com SISLive www.sislive.tv SlingPath www.slingpath.com Spectra TV www.spectratv.com SUIRG www.suirg.org Telecast www.telecast-fiber.com Telesat www.telesat.com Vislink News & Entertainment www.vislinknews.com Wavestream www.wavestream.com WBU-ISOG www.nabanet.com Xicom www.xicom.com

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