16 April 2000

Satcoms

ATC Teleports Implements Biggest Asymmetric Satellite Service
ATC Teleports has successfully completed the implementation of the world's first commercial OC-3 asymmetric satellite service for direct Internet backbone access.

ATC Teleports is currently providing OC-3 service to Embratel - Brazil, the international telecom provider for Brazil, via Intelsat 805 at 56° W. With an outbound data delivery rate of 155.5 Mb/s and a return rate of 34 Mb/s, currently no service provides a larger commercial asymmetric Internet satellite link. Due to ATC Teleports' proprietary design, this service offers the most efficient Internet over satellite service to date with effective IP throughput measured at greater than 99%. The OC-3 connection to Brazil meets ISP requirements in Brazil for both business and home users of the Internet. ATC Teleports is Embratel's single largest provider of international satellite Internet access.

The OC-3 network is incorporated as part of the direct high-speed multiple OC-12 Internet backbone that was developed by ATC Teleports and its partners. The Satellite International Private Line (SIPL) hub for the network is collocated at ATC Teleports' Holmdel, New Jersey facility. This new technology is providing the fastest and most direct service to the US Internet backbone for International ISP's, with only 500 milliseconds of delay. This network connects the customer directly onto the backbone at the teleport, as opposed to utilising fibre connection from the teleport to a local Internet POP, offering more flexibility in data rates, bypassing the need for local loop connections and greatly reducing the costs for bandwidth. ATC Teleports has a second SIPL hub at the Glenwood, New Jersey facility, offering customers a wide range of satellite options. IP Platforms are available at the Dallas and Washington DC facilities.

Canada's Broadband Satellite Announced
The Canadian Space Agency, in collaboration with Telesat Canada and its partners, COM DEV International Limited and EMS Technologies will develop, deploy and operate an innovative Ka band high-speed, multimedia communications payload.

The multi-media payload, a key part of the $600 million ANIK F2 satellite, to be launched in 2002, will commercialise the use of the Ka band. This payload offers the promise to deliver cheaper, faster and more highly effective communications services and expand access to telemedicine, tele-learning, teleworking, e-commerce, high-speed Internet and government services to citizens living in urban, rural and remote communities throughout Canada.

The agreement includes an $80 million investment from the Canadian Space Agency and an additional $29 million contribution by Canadian industry bringing the total value of the project to $109 million. Com Dev International Ltd and EMS Technologies will receive a total of $20M in non-repayable contributions to undertake research and development. In exchange for its portion of the investment, Telesat Canada will provide the Government of Canada with an equivalent value in multimedia satellite services. These services will support important initiatives such as telemedicine, telelearning and the SchoolNet.

Direct economic benefits from the Anik F2 Ka band multimedia satellite services are projected at over $1 billion with an additional $550 million to be generated in the initial seven years from spin-off opportunities resulting from the export of payload technologies and products.

Funding for the agreement announced today is provided under the Canadian Space Program which is administered by the Canadian Space Agency. The Agreement will be jointly managed by the Canadian Space Agency, and the Communications Research Centre, an agency of Industry Canada.

Globalstar Demonstrates Internet Access
Globalstar has successfully carried out test transmissions of Internet data through the Globalstar satellite network via Qualcomm s Globalstar tri-mode telephone.

This service, which was demonstrated at the ITU America Show in Rio de Janeiro, will be introduced by Globalstar on a commercial basis later this year.

This Internet demonstration, conducted by Globalstar and its technology partner, Qualcomm, proved that the Globalstar system, which already provides voice communications from virtually any point on earth, will also be able to support data and Internet connectivity as part of its overall range of services.

A standard laptop computer was connected to a Qualcomm tri-mode telephone that operates in AMPS (analogue), CDMA (digital cellular) or over the Globalstar satellite network. E-mail messages and other data traffic were then transmitted and received through the Qualcomm telephone to the Globalstar satellite network and across the Internet at rates of up to 9600 b/s. Globalstar's system design, based on Qualcomm s CDMA technology, also has the capability to provide significantly higher data rates in the future.

Hughes Global Services Provides Direct Access to Intelsat
Hughes Global Services Inc (HGS) has been authorised direct access to Intelsat in accordance with the Federal Communications Commission's direct access order, and can now provide Intelsat services to customers without going through an intermediary.

HGS' current General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service (GSA-FTS) contract provides government customers one-stop-shopping for satellite-based products and services in an e-commerce-like environment online.

This Intelsat direct access agreement expands the HGS GSA-FTS offerings for government customers, providing more options, thus fostering a more competitive environment for users of satellite-based services.

Domestic and international bandwidth from multiple service providers, offering mobile satellite telephony and data messaging, VSAT networks, video teleconferencing, access to the HGS-1 satellite's bandwidth, and the DirecPC data delivery capability, are available through the HGS GSA-FTS contract.

Hughes Global Services is a unit of Hughes Electronics Corporation and was created to provide local, state, and federal agencies, as well as commercial organisations, with access to satellite communications services.

SES Leases Eutelsat Transponders
Société Européenne des Satellites (SES), the operator of the Astra Satellite System, and Luxembourg's national telecom operator P & T Luxembourg, have signed an agreement enabling SES to use six 72 MHz transponders on Eutelsat's "Eurobird" satellite to be positioned at 28.5° E. The agreement provides additional transmission capacity to SES to be used by its customers in conjunction with SES' second orbital position at 28.2° E.

The transponder capacity on Eurobird was attributed to P & T Luxembourg, the Grand-Duchy's signatory to Eutelsat, which will make this capacity available to SES.

Eurobird, is due to become operational in February 2001 and will be positioned at 28.5° E, in the immediate vicinity of SES' satellites at 28.2° E. The use of adjacent frequency bands on Eurobird will provide for reception on dishes pointed at 28.2° E.

The additional transmission capacity will be made available to SES' customers for digital direct-to-home services in particular in the UK and Ireland. The transponders can also be used for single or multiple channel per carrier services (SCPC - MCPC) for data, audio, and video or as an Asia-Europe turnaround for up-linking signals transmitted by AsiaSat.

SES' development plans for 28.2° E continue to be based on three additional satellites (Astra 2B, Astra 2C and Astra 2D) which will be co-positioned with the existing Astra 2A at SES' second orbital location over the coming 18 months.

Streaming Media at 1 Mb/s Demonstrated
Akamai Technologies, CyberStar and Sonic Foundry have showcased live broadcast-quality Internet streaming capabilities, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference, over a hybrid satellite and terrestrial network.

This live streaming from Santa Monica showed for the first time that video streams can be delivered seamlessly from satellite to terrestrial networks with real-time decision and performance monitoring. Using Akamai's FreeFlow) Streaming service, the 1 Mb/s streams were delivered with unmatched quality across Akamai's globally distributed network.

Each stream was captured and encoded by Sonic Foundry Media Services and then sent to an entry point in Akamai's network. Once at an entry point, Akamai's proprietary SteadyStream technology split the signal into multiple streams and sent them across the Akamai network by dynamically determining the optimal route using any combination of both (or either) the terrestrial Internet and the CyberStar satellites. Akamai's advanced algorithms calculate the optimal route as often as necessary to deliver the cleanest stream possible. Akamai's SteadyStream technology can enable any number of satellites to be used simultaneously.

The streams are recombined into their original high-quality format at an Akamai server at the edge of the Internet. Akamai's EdgeAdvantage technology then maps each Web viewer to the optimal server for that broadcast content.

Akamai intends to use this world-class streaming technology to support all major formats. Akamai has previously announced support for Apple QuickTime, Microsoft Windows Media Technologies, and RealNetworks RealSystem G2. Akamai's hybrid satellite and terrestrial Internet delivery network also supports other multimedia applications such as software downloads.

Akamai is a leading provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services, serving over 550 of the Web's most popular properties including over 125 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2,750 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 150 different telecommunications networks.

CyberStar is a leading global Internet and infomedia business providing Internet Protocol (IP) broadband data, Internet and multimedia services, business television and private managed networks to businesses and Internet Service Providers throughout the world. Applications include virtual multicast networks, data networking, high-speed file transfer, distance learning, and audio and video streaming services.

Sonic Foundry is a leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems.

Telstra Reaches Agreement with EBU on Olympic Broadcasts
Intelsat and Telstra Corporation Limited have concluded a major agreement with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for coverage of the upcoming Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

This new agreement brings to 40,000 the number of program hours that have been booked through Telstra on seven different Intelsat satellites - for broadcast to a global Olympic audience estimated at up to four billion people.

The EBU, the largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world, has signed eight short-term leases with Telstra on the Intelsat 804 satellite at 64° E and on the Intelsat 704 satellite at 66° E for the broadcasting of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

The EBU transmissions will include more than 25 full-time program channels to over 30 broadcasters, and will be received at 42 locations. These broadcasters include the BBC, TVE of Spain, ZDF of Germany, and RAI of Italy. The channels will use a combination of MPEG-2 and ETSI digital transmission formats.

World's Largest Video Transmission Network
Teleglobe and Television New Zealand (TVNZ) Satellite Services, two of the world's leading providers of broadcast transmission services, have announced that they will deliver the first globally-integrated fibre and satellite video transmission network.

Through an alliance that combines the respective video networks of each partner, the companies will offer cost-effective, one-stop-shop global transmission solutions to broadcast television networks, Internet content providers, film studios, sports rights holders and syndicators of programs around the world.

Teleglobe owns and operates the world's first MPEG-2 4:2:2 fibre optic video network, while TVNZ operates an extensive MPEG-2 4:2:2 satellite network. By combining the two networks, the companies are able to transport rich media content originating from International Television Access Centers (ITACS) in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, DC, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Paris, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Bangkok, Jakarta, Beijing, Perth, Hong Kong, Sydney and Auckland. Additional ITACs will be added this year.

The Teleglobe/TVNZ network is built on the MPEG 2 4:2:2 international standard for broadcast quality transmission of content for post production and repurposing of content to other distribution means, such as the Internet. The network is supported by two round-the-clock program booking centres based in Auckland, New Zealand and Montreal, Canada. Staff at these centres can handle customer orders in over eight languages, including English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish.

In addition, the Teleglobe/TVNZ network has over 300 receive-only sites throughout the world to facilitate final distribution to the end recipients, be they a telecommunications hub, television network, direct-to-home satellite provider or webcaster.

Earth Observation

SM&A Awarded US$ 10.3 Million EOSDIS Contract
SM & A Corp has been awarded a US$ 10.3 million subcontract from Raytheon Systems Co for the NASA Earth Observing System Data & Information System (EOSDIS). This award brings SM & A's total participation since 1993 to US$ 28 million.

SM & A's Systems Solutions Group (SSG), Space Sciences Division will support the EOSDIS program in three areas:

• Development of software tools to map satellite measurements to geographic co-ordinates, format data for users, and provide access to data for scientists using Web searches
• System integration of software for processing data from US and Japanese instruments on the NASA Terra and Landsat 7 remote sensing satellites
• Technical operations at data archive and distribution centres at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD), NASA/Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA), the US Geological Survey EROS Data Center (Sioux Falls, SD), and the National Snow & Ice Data Center (Boulder, CO)

EOSDIS captures and processes telemetry data, generates standard data products, and performs mission operations for instrument and spacecraft control. Data products from EOS and other NASA Earth science missions will be stored at several Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) to support interactive and interoperable retrieval and distribution of data products.

Manned Space

Spacehab Launches Space Media Inc
Spacehab Inc has launched Space Media Inc (SMI), a wholly-owned subsidiary and media corporation, which will create proprietary content from the International Space Station for broadcast and Internet distribution.

Spacehab is building the first commercial broadcasting studio and multimedia production facility in space, the Enterprise. SMI owns the exclusive multimedia rights to the content produced on the Enterprise. Spacehab, builders and owners of the first and only private laboratories, research and stowage facilities used in space by NASA as well as space agencies from Russia, Europe and Japan along with several aerospace companies, has partnered with Rocket Space Corporation (RSCE) Energia of Russia to build, launch and deploy the module christened Enterprise on the International Space Station as a commercial multimedia broadcast studio facility.

SMI is currently developing content and is seeking distribution deals and strategic alliances with news organisations, networks and cable organisations through which to release this original programming.

Shelley A Harrison will head SMI as the Chairman and CEO. Other staff will include John Getter, who will serve as Senior Vice President of Creative Services and will develop content and intellectual property for SMI, and Chris Petersen, who will serve as Senior Vice President of Business Development.

Enterprise, the first space habitat offering commercial real estate in space, will be docked at the Russian side of the International Space Station (ISS) and equipped for research, stowage, and television and Internet broadcasting.

In a related move, SMI will develop content based on Spacehab's exclusive rights to extensive RSCE archives of the Russian space program. RSCE built and operated Russian spacecraft from Sputnik to the Mir Space Station. Available now, these never-before-seen archives will be the basis of news, educational and other reality-based content, and serve as a supplement to the highly successful S*T*A*R*S* (Space Technology and Research Students) program. S*T*A*R*S*, which will now operate under SMI, is a commercial education initiative designed to engage students in science and technology, and enable them to share in the excitement of space research and exploration. New York based Xceed Inc, which develops e-business solutions for a multitude of clients including HBO, Pitney Bowes and US Chamber of Commerce, is currently spearheading the learning component of S*T*A*R*S* by creating a web portal.

The broadcast studio on Enterprise will be the first of its kind, dedicated to producing original informational, educational, and entertainment programming live from earth orbit. Enterprise will extend Spacehab's traditional businesses of microgravity research support and space station services from the Space Shuttle ISS and initiate its long-term strategy of addressing mass markets through broadcasting from space. The development and distribution of programming, in addition to the Enterprise module, will create large Internet and broadcast audiences ultimately converting audiences to revenue through advertising, sponsorship and e-commerce.

Jointly developed by Spacehab and RSC Energia, the Enterprise is about the size of a small school bus. It will be approximately 10 feet in diameter and 25 feet in length, and will provide an on-orbit broadcast studio from which high definition television will originate. Enterprise is targeted for completion in 2002. Once completed, Enterprise will serve as the first celestial entertainment venue capable of hosting concerts, special events or production facilities from space.

White Pine Software Wins Voice over IP Contract for ISS
White Pine Software Inc has announced that its CU-SeeMe Web and MeetingPoint products have been selected by AZ Technology, under a contract with NASA, to provide a `voice over the Internet' solution for NASA's International Space Station (ISS) program.

In addition to providing for communication between NASA sites and the Space Station, the project also does significant public outreach through an educational program which allows science and math students in middle schools and high schools around the United States to interface with NASA researchers. White Pine's technology is providing the voice conferencing capabilities that facilitate the interaction between students, teachers and researchers.

White Pine Software develops, markets and supports multi-platform browser-based internetworking software that facilitates worldwide video and audio communication and data collaboration across the Internet, intranets, extranets and other networks that use the Internet Protocol. White Pine's videoconferencing software products, CU-SeeMe and MeetingPoint, create a client-server solution that allows users to participate in real-time, multi-point video, audio and data conferences over the Internet and intranets.

Launch Vehicles

Brazilian Launches Go Commercial
The Brazilian government will sign an agreement with the US that will enable the CLA (Centro de Lancamento de Alcantara) site in Maranhao to host satellite launches

The Centro de Lancamento de Alcantara hopes to have 14 launches per year, which would generate US$ 300 million. The Brazilian government has budgeted R$40 million for CLA to operate on a commercial basis. Construction costs for the launch site are reported to be US$ 130 million.

Kelly Scraps Astroliner
Kelly Space & Technology Inc has dropped plans for its flagship space vehicle, the Astroliner, as the result of the loss of a US$ 89-million launch contract with Iridium. Kelly now intends to concentrate on a next-generation space shuttle.

Kelly's new space shuttle will use much of the technology developed for the Astroliner, such as a tow launch. The Astroliner was to be towed from the runway to the launch point as a glider, using a modified Boeing 747 as the tow aircraft. This would have allowed the Astroliner to be launched from an altitude of 7 km and at a speed of 0.8 Mach. At an altitude of 130 km it would have released its payload, which would have been put into final orbit using an upper stage. The Astroliner and the towing aircraft, both reusable, would return to the ground.

The current generation of space shuttles is to be replaced in 2010. Five aerospace companies, among them Kelly, are doing early-stage design work. NASA would like to have two viable concepts by 2005. For the next five years, the agency has earmarked about US$ 4.5 billion for the development of a reusable launch vehicle.

Sea Launch Moves House
Sea Launch has announced plans to move the company offices from the Cayman Islands to downtown Long Beach, California.

Sea Launch plans to begin occupancy in Long Beach in the third quarter of this year with about 30 people working in the new Long Beach offices. Depending on the particular requirements of the launch schedule, there are approximately 100-400 people working at the Home Port, including employees from partner companies: Boeing (US), RSC Energia (Russia), KB Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash (Ukraine) and the Anglo-Norwegian Kvaerner Group (Norway).

The Sea Launch Home Port facilities cover 16.5 acres on the Navy Mole in Long Beach Harbour, housing offices, warehouses, a payload processing facility and a pier that is home to two ocean-going vessels - Sea Launch Commander, a command and assembly ship, and the Odyssey Launch Platform.

Business

Echostar Invest US$ 50 Million in Gilat-to-Home
EchoStar Communications Corporation has announced an investment of US$ 50 million in Gilat-To-Home Inc.

Gilat-To-Home, a joint venture whose partners now include EchoStar, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd and Microsoft , plans to provide the US's first consumer, two-way satellite, broadband Internet service later this year. With the investment, EchoStar will hold approximately a 17.6 % stake in Gilat-To-Home.

EchoStar and Gilat previously announced an agreement to jointly offer consumers two-way, Ku-band, high-speed satellite Internet access along with hundreds of channels of EchoStar's DISH Network satellite television programming via a single small consumer dish.

Under the terms of the agreement, EchoStar will distribute the Gilat-To-Home broadband satellite Internet service powered by MSN along with DISH Network satellite TV service through its more than 23,000 retailers nationwide. DISH Network customers will have the opportunity to purchase "always on" access to the Internet with an MSN-Gilat-To-Home co-branded portal.

Intersat Changes Name
Interprovincial Satellite Services Ltd (Intersat) has announced several corporate and organisational changes.

The Intersat's Board has approved a change of name to Wireless Matrix Corporation, subject to the approval of shareholders at a Special Meeting of Shareholders to be held May 1, 2000. The name change is intended to reflect the expansion of the Company's business and technology focus and to better express its leadership in the industrial wireless data market, as well as reflect its current mission to address this market across various industries on a global basis.

A number of executive appointments and Board amendments have been made:

Ward Garven has been appointed Vice President, Marketing of the Company. Mr. Garven was previously Vice President of Interfax Communications Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Mr. Garven will oversee the development of new markets for the Company's industry-leading IP Anywhere wireless data service, driving growth through alliances in new geographic and vertical markets.

Mark Weder has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Mike Neudoerffer, has moved to the position of Vice President, Systems Development. Mr. Neudoerffer will be responsible for the critical and continuous growth and migration of the Company's technology into additional geographic and vertical markets.

Dan Fehr has resigned as a member of the Board of Directors the Company. Mr. Fehr had been a director of the Company since 1995 and was instrumental in the growth and development of the Company's core IP Anywhere products suite.

The Company's Interfax Communications Ltd subsidiary will transfer its business and operations to a newly created US-based subsidiary. The new subsidiary will be named Telemerge Inc and will be based in the communications tele-corridor of Reston, Virginia. Mr. Thomas Frederick will be the President of Telemerge Inc.

News Corp to Float Satellite Arm
British newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, has said Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation intends to combine its satellite and investment businesses in a single company which will be floated in July flotation for US$ 49 billion.

A few weeks ago News Corp announced plans to combine its satellite and digital interests in a company called ``Platco.'' Platco's satellite holdings would include BskyB (40%), Star TV, Foxtel and Sky Latin America. Yahoo, Microsoft, Nokia and Vivendi are reported to be interested in taking strategic holdings in the new company.

Skybridge Signs with Starsem
SkyBridge LP and Starsem have signed an agreement under which Starsem becomes equity partner and launch service provider for the SkyBridge constellation.

Alcatel, prime contractor for the in-orbit delivery of the SkyBridge constellation, has contracted Starsem to launch 32 SkyBridge satellites on 11 Soyuz/ST-Fregat launch vehicles, each able to carry three satellites, beginning in 2002. Also included in the contract are options for additional launch services as required by SkyBridge.

Starsem and its European and Russian partners will manage all tasks associated with launch services on Soyuz vehicles from development of a customised SkyBridge satellite dispenser to final satellite separation.

Starsem's shareholders are Aerospatiale Matra (35%), Arianespace (15%), the Russian Aeronautics and Space Agency (25%) and the Samara Space Centre (25%) It commercialises and provides launch services for the Soyuz family of launchers. In 1999, over a 10 month period, Starsem launched twenty-four satellites, including 50 % of the Globalstar constellation. This year, Starsem has already qualified the Fregat upper stage, which will be used for the deployment of the SkyBridge satellites, with two successful flights.

SkyBridge will provide telecom operators and service providers, from 2003, with broadband capacities, enabling them to offer business and residential users access to high-speed, highly interactive multimedia services anywhere in the world via an 80 low Earth orbiting satellite constellation.

Products and Services

Cidera's Big File Mover
Cidera Inc (formerly SkyCache Inc) has announced the release of its Cidera Big File Mover broadband content delivery service, designed to broadcast video, audio and data files, from a few megabytes to many gigabytes, quickly and accurately to multiple locations.

Cidera Big File Mover service was designed to serve the needs of companies moving content files to many distribution points on the web, including content providers, aggregators and distributors. Customers will provide Cidera with one copy of the file, and Cidera will then broadcast the file to any number of desired locations. The received audio/video or data files will be immediately available for use at ISP POPs, customer LANs, or other servers, as required.

In addition to Cidera Big File Mover, Cidera's portfolio of satellite transport services also includes Cidera Streaming Media Service, Cidera Usenet News Service and Cidera Cache Turbocharging.

Comsat Adds linkway.IP
Comsat has added linkway.IP to its Linkway family of broadband satellite VSAT networking products.

The Internet Protocol (IP) based product is designed for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to connect local Points of Presence (POPs) and for multinational corporations to create Intranets or Extranets, connecting offices over an IP network regionally or globally.

linkway.IP provides transmission of information to many locations simultaneously using a new IP Multicasting feature. The multicasting feature, combined with Linkway's Bandwidth-on-Demand capability, will benefit customers who typically need to send information to multiple network locations. This new IP-networking product is ideally suited for such applications as video over IP, routine catalogue or database updates, inventory management, software distribution, digital publishing and IP content distribution as well as Web caching and related applications.

linkway.IP works with Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) size antennas, typically 1.2 to 1.8 m in diameter. The product operates at data rates between 300 kb/s and 4 Mb/s and applies asymmetrical connections, ideal for Internet applications.

Foxcom Expands Satellite Product Line
Foxcom, a division of OnePath Networks, has announced the expansion of their SAT-LIGHT product line. SAT-LIGHT solutions are designed to transmit satellite signals effectively over varying distances.

New offerings include cost-effective solutions for middle to low end applications, and enhancements include higher frequency range, higher optical budget and increased reliability.

SAT-LIGHT is a point-to-point professional broadcast fibre-optic interfacility transmission system that connects large satellite ground station's antennas to gateway's control rooms and broadcast studios to satellite uplink facilities. All SAT-LIGHT solutions are protocol transparent, which means that they transmit all video, audio, and data modulation formats.

The enhanced SAT-LIGHT 7000 and 7225 Inter Facility Links (IFL), for L-Band fibreoptic applications, now have an increased frequency range that goes up to 2500 MHz. The increased frequency range allows for TT&C (Telemetry, Tracking and Control) applications. The new version of the SAT-LIGHT 7225 IFL- Long Distance Fiberoptic Interfacility Link has an enhanced optical budget which allows transmission up to 80 km, (an increase of 50 km over the last version) while preserving signal quality.

The SAT-LIGHT System 7320 L-Band Fiberoptic Interfacility Link is a new cost-effective link designed for middle to low end applications. The 7320 transmits an entire L-Band polarisation over singlemode fibre from a satellite antenna to reception equipment up to 2 km away. The product provides an affordable alternative to purchasing unnecessary features as a part of a higher end comprehensive package.

The 7370, an IF Fiberoptic Interfacility Link, was designed with the same cost efficiency goals in mind.

People

Fantastic Corp Names David Wilf President, US And Americas
The Fantastic Corporation has named David Wilf as President, US and the Americas, based in New York, to accelerate Fantastic's expansion in the region.

Wilf joins the Company from the law firm of Chadbourne & Parke where he was involved in a wide range of transactions in the high technology and communications industries as a partner in the Firm's corporate finance department.

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