The SWE-DISH IPT Suitcase approved for co-polar operation on Europe*Star 1
Europe*Star and SWE-DISH Satellite Systems have cross-certified each company's most advanced offers, using a new high-performance co-polar feed designed by SWE-DISH to enable their IPT Suitcase terminal to be optimized for use with the Europe*Star 1 satellite.
During early July the two companies conducted a series of successful tests, including cross-polar discrimination, to confirm that the IPT Suitcase in co-polar configuration is fully compliant with Europe*Star's operational and access requirements. An IPT Suitcase terminal, fitted with the new co-polar feature, was located at SWE-DISH's headquarters in Stockholm, and the test carried out under the control of Europe*Star's MOC in Toulouse. The performance of the terminal, with a 90cm elliptical antenna, exceeded expectations with an Eb/No of 10.5dB.
Richard Ward, Europe*Star's Engineering Sales Support Director, observed "Both companies have complementary offers representing the state-of-the-art for customers with demanding requirements for transportable satellite services. The IPT Suitcase is a uniquely engineered and highly specified satellite terminal that fits in a suitcase, and consequently has a small antenna. The Europe*Star 1 satellite has built a reputation for superior performance, enabling low-power terminals to achieve high data rates and exceptional quality of service, and the satellite also covers some of the more interesting regions around the planet. The development of this new feed by SWE-DISH, means that broadcasters and military customers now have an improved route to using the two together, and we expect considerable interest".
Hampus Delin, SWE-DISH's Marketing and Business
Development Director, comments "We have done this development effort to
meet a general market demand, as well as some very concrete requests,
of customers who want to use the IPT Suitcase together with Europe*Star
1".
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For further information, please contact:
| Hampus Delin, Director Marketing SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB Phone: + 46 (0) 8 728 50 42 Fax: + 46 (0) 8 728 50 50 Mobile: + 46 (0) 70 377 64 16 E-mail: hampus.delin@swe-dish.se |
Lars Jehrlander, President SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB Phone: + 46 (0) 8 728 50 07 Fax: + 46 (0) 8 728 50 50 Mobile: + 46 (0) 70 590 24 32 E-mail: lars.jehrlander@swe-dish.se |
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Laurent Zimmermann |
Irina Petrov |
ABOUT SWE-DISH
SWE-DISH
Satellite Systems is a world-leading supplier of mobile satellite
communications equipment and related services for broadband
applications. The company supplies major broadcasters, armed forces and
disaster relief organizations amongst others, with compact and
quick-to-air satellite terminals for live transmission of video, data,
internet and voice content from anywhere in the world. The customer
base includes broadcasters such as CNN and BBC, disaster relief
organizations and military organizations such as United Nations, NATO,
Danish Defense, the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) and
the US Department of Defense. SWE-DISH was established 1994.
The combat proven SWE-DISH® IPT Suitcase
satellite system is the world's most compact and quickest-to-air
satellite system. It combines easy, one-person operation with
exceptional technical performance to allow live, 2 Mbps broadband
transmission. Broadcasters, military units, government agencies, and
rescue organizations rely on the IPT Suitcase for communications the
world over, and have used it in the humid heat of Equatorial Africa, up
Mount Everest, and under arctic conditions from Northern Sweden.
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ABOUT EUROPE*STAR
Europe*Star is a satellite
owner-operator, offering capacity on its geostationary communications
satellites. The company leases whole and fractional transponders on a
full-time and occasional use basis, for use with a broad range of
satellite communications services including television, Internet,
telephony and corporate networking.
Brought into service at the start of 2001, the innovative Europe*Star 1 satellite has five high-performance beams covering Europe, Southern Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and South East Asia. Its Europe*Star B satellite provides additional capacity for markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
An Alcatel company, Europe*Star is headquartered in London, with regional marketing offices in Cape Town and New Delhi. Europe*Star also operates its own mission control centre in Toulouse, for tracking, telemetry & control of the satellites.
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