AP upgrades its satellite network
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Associated Press, a market leader in the field of news communications equipment since 1948, has gradually upgraded and expanded its satellite network since employing in 1980 satellite-delivery technology for its operations. Associated Press at present provides news services to 16,000 clients and affiliates worldwide using an international network for satellite communications. The firm started with one analog audio service over the Westar 3 satellite, after which it equipped itself with a network for satellite-photo applications. Associated Press was the first in its business to operate a satellite transponder and the firm also relocated its service to the new Spacenet 3 satellite.
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Gradually upgrades & expandes its satellite ntwk since employing in 1980 satellite-delivery tech for its operations
Publication Name: Satellite Communications
Subject: Telecommunications industry
ISSN: 0147-7439
Year: 1998
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Content distribution in a one-way satellite environment
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StarBurst Communications and Microspace Communications have combined efforts to investigate a potential layered corporate Intranet environment. The two companies are also trying to prove if MPEG2-DVB satellite network can offer reliable multicast and if the layered network topology to handle bulk content distribution together with interactive traffic was feasible. They also want to determine if the content could be transmitted, one time, from any remote site over a WAN medium to a Microspace network control center in North Carolina and that an independent back channel could maintain reliability.
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Has combined efforts with Starburst Communications to investigate a potential layered corporate Intranet environment
Publication Name: Satellite Communications
Subject: Telecommunications industry
ISSN: 0147-7439
Year: 1998
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Success on a modest budget
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Network planners of smaller firms from remote locations can provide a solution for their cost-efficient-network requirements through the use of frame-relay technology on their remote-communications networks. Frame relay enables remote-site interlinking at greater delivery-throughput and bandwidth levels. The use of very small aperture terminal, or VSAT, systems can enable smaller firms to limit their costs for their communications-network-infrastructure needs, with annual expenditures for the use of VSAT system to link 30 sites amounting to as low as $184,320.
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Network planners of smaller cos from remote sites can provide solution for cost-efficient-ntwk needs through use of frame relay
Publication Name: Satellite Communications
Subject: Telecommunications industry
ISSN: 0147-7439
Year: 1998
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