Norwegian telecom supplier Nera and Spanish Satellite service provider Hispasat has signed a contract for the establishment of a new broadband satellite IP network. From its 30¢ª West orbital position near the Brazilian coastline, the Hispasat satellites provide broadcasting and data services for the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.
The new SatLink System will be used to offer new broadband IP services in Spain, Portugal and North and South America.
With the Nera DVB-RCS SatLink System, Hispasat will be able to offer cost-effective networking for low-rate services as well as bandwidth-intensive applications, such as digital media streaming, video, broadcasting, multicasting over IP and high-speed file transfer. The Nera SatLink terminal receives through a broadband digital video broadcasting (DVB) outbound channel of up to 60 Mbps and provides satellite return channels with demand assigned bit rates of up to 2 Mbps.
"There is growing interest world-wide for IP-centric applications. Nera is pleased that Hispasat, with its strong market position in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, has chosen to base its services in this important market segment on our products", says Kjell Nohr, president of Nera Broadband Satellite, fully owned subsidiary of Nera ASA.
"Nera decided early on to focus on DVB-RCS products because we saw that this could provide customers with very efficient and affordable broadband solutions. Since DVB-RCS is an open standard for two-way communication over satellite, service providers have a choice of equipment from different vendors. Nera will cooperate with several vendors of DVB-RCS equipment to ensure interoperability between different systems¡±, added Kjell Nohr and states:¡±It is very promising that the standard now is gaining foothold, and we strongly believe that both suppliers and customers will benefit from a widely agreed standard.¡±
Source:
www.hispasat.es 
23-03-2003
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