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Satellite broadband internet at schools in Albania via HELLAS SAT 2
OTE announces that its subsidiary company, HELLAS SAT, provides broadband internet at 300 remote schools in Albania via Greek satellite HELLAS SAT 2.
The installation of 300 satellite broadband connections HELLAS SAT NET! at 300 schools in Albania respectively is under completion these days. These are installed by the subsidiary company of OTE, HELLAS SAT, and the company STARSAT of Albania. This project, which is coordinated by the Prime Minister’s Office of Albania, concerns the installation of computer networks and broadband connections at all the schools of primary and secondary education of Albania. Main contractor of the project is the Albanian Telecommunications Organization, Albtelecom, with subcontractor the company STARSAT, which installs the broadband connections HELLAS SAT NET! at remote Albanian towns, such as Argyrokastro, Tepeleni, Avlona, Dyrrachio, Korytsa, as well as at villages around the capital city Tirana.
CETel Upgrades Trunking Service to Africa and Middle East With Newtec FlexACM(R) Technology
Global provider of teleport and satellite services CETel has enhanced its IP trunking services to Africa and the Middle East with Newtec Elevation modulators, shapers and encapsulators. CETel has upgraded its DVB-S2/SCPC links from Ruppichteroth, Germany to seven remote sites in Somalia, Sudan, Cape Verde, Ghana and Iraq, together with other point-to-point and point-to-multipoint networks from Germany to Africa and the Middle Eastern region.
CETel has also installed Newtec’s EL170 IP Satellite Modulator, EL970 IP Satellite Demodulator equipment based on FlexACM(R) technology enabling advanced and most efficient output for broadband Internet services for a major telecommunication provider in Africa. CETel chose Newtec’s DVB-S2 FlexACM technology to reduce bandwidth costs and increase revenue.
“The installation of the Newtec infrastructure has been the culmination of our drive to deliver higher quality and greater efficiency in our services,” says Sergey Raber, Director Operations, CETel. “With the implementation of FlexACM, we can now achieve far more with our bandwidth, and guarantee availability of the link under conditions that would otherwise have caused a service failure. This increased efficiency has resulted in a return on investment within a few months of operation.”
45th anniversary from launching the first Russian communications satellite Molniya-1 is celebrated
In 1961, the Korolev prototype design bureau started research & development of the satellite Molniya-1, which had to transmit one TV program and to provide multi-channel telegraphic and telephonic communications. The General designer of the satellite was M.P. Kappanov. On April 23, 1961 the third in succession and the first successful launch of the soviet communications satellite Molniya-1 took place.
The next day after delivering the satellite into orbit, the communication session via space between Moscow and Vladivostok was performed in the Soviet Union for the first time. B.E. Chertok, one of the immediate participants of developing the satellite, recalls in his book “Rockets and people. Hot days of the cold war”. “W
e checked the operation of the whole communications complex on the Moscow – Vladivostok line with the passion of gamblers that were lucky after a streak of bad luck. We so much wanted to show the 1st May demonstration and the parade on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Great victory in World War 2 to the Far East and the marine parade of the Pacific navy in Vladivostok to Moscow. And we made it!”
Since 1967 the TV signal translations via Orbita system using the domestic spacecraft of Molniya-1 series became regular. To meet the tasks of establishing communications channels and distributing the state TV&Radio programs through the satellite communications satellite systems, the Union’s TV&Radio Communications Center No.9 was founded in February 1968. With the time it became the main state operator of the space constellation of communications satellites – the Russian Satellite Communications Company.