Forum Archive Index - April 2004

["PC" <sharechat01@acarda.com>]

Greetings All

I asked MultieMedia a few questions so I could try to get my head around the
technology.  Here there are and here is the reply that was sent to me a few
hours later:

MY Question:
... explain the significants of "spot beams".

MUL Answer:
"Spot beam technology is the intensified beam over high traffic areas eg
capital cities, and provides more bandwidth deployment in those areas while
preserving sufficient bandwidth in less populated regions."

MY Question:
"The NewSkies NSS6 that MultieMedia use is that owned by NewSkies and does
MultieMedia just lease use of it (or part of it)?  Is it just one NSS6?"

MUL Answer:
"NSS6 is the most recently launched satellite of NewSkies fleet of 6. It
covers 60% of the worlds population and 50% of land mass and is located
geostationery on the equator at 95degrees east (400 nautical miles west of
Singapore). We lease transponder space on this satellite as we can on other
satellites."

MY Question:
"How does the V-SAT fit into it? And also ViaSat. Your news 19th May 2003
speaks of deployment of its V-SAT technology into 10 commercial sites.  Is
V-SAT the terminal gear that communications with the satelite?  The article
also says ViaSat is on eof Amercia's largest V-SAT organisations."

MUL Answer:
"VSAT stands for very small aperture technology - spot beam - and is the 2
way technology we deploy and buy from ViaSat in the US. You are correct in
that this is the equipment at each of our customers sites which now number
far more than the original 10 we spoke of last year. Sites are now located
in Australia, PNG,Timor, Iraq, Afganistan, Kuwait and Bahrain."

Hope this is helpful to someone

Pete


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