Nera And Hispamar Build Broadband Via Satellite In Latin America

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Satellite is the only way all South Americans will ever get a modern telephone and internet services

Bergen - Dec 02, 2003
Nera, the Norway-based technology provider, has signed a contract with the Brazilian satellite operator Hispamar to build a broadband-via-satellite network that will offer broadband access in a number of Latin American countries. The contract value is NOK 42 million.

The solution is based on DVB-RCS technology. Nera will supply land-earth station, terminals and services in connection with the implementation of the solution. "This contract demonstrates Nera's leading position in the strongly emerging broadband satellite market", says Bjorn Ove Skjeie, CEO of Nera.

The new broadband-based communication solution covers whole Latin-America. For people in remote and sparsely populated areas, this will provide an excellent opportunity to access broadband services, such as voice, e-learning and telemedicine, over the Internet.

The solution will communicate via the Amazon satellite, a new satellite which is operated by Hispasat's Brazilian subsidiary Hispamar. The Nera solution is the first DVB-RCS system on the American continent and the contract shows that DVB-RCS standard is gaining ground as a truly global standard.

"So far, Nera has signed broadband-via-satellite contracts worth NOK 250 million. We have contracts in America, Asia and Europe and are currently building 20 land-earth stations for broadband solutions all around the world.

This market, where Nera is the leading solution provider, is currently very active -- which is good news for us. Due to the broadband development, the market for satellite communication solutions is expected to continue growing and should provide interesting market opportunities in the years ahead. We are positioning for that development", says Nera CEO Bjorn Ove Skjeie.

About 20 MNOK of the contract, including the first stages of the system development, will be registered as order intake in the Nera Group in the fourth quarter of 2003.

The Nera SatLink System, which is based on the DVB-RCS technology (Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel via Satellite) constitutes the technological platform of the broadband-based communication network that will be established in several Latin American countries. DVB-RCS is steadily gaining a stronger foothold as the global standard for two-way broadband communication via satellite.

In the development of this standard, particular attention has been paid to achieving cost efficiency, and because DVB-RCS exploits the network capacity very efficiently, systems based on this standard provide high performance value for money both for services that require large bandwidths and for simpler applications.

The Nera SatLink System is a two-way satellite network based on the DVB-RCS standard. DVB-RCS (Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel via Satellite) is a standard used by service providers to offer broadband access and multimedia services, content distribution and rural telephony and Internet services.

The DVB-RCS standard is able to exploit available satellite capacity extremely efficiently, and can thus offer customers bandwidth at a lower cost.

The SatLink System provides efficient throughput, through TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) acceleration, bandwidth on demand and guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). The low-cost SatLink terminals work with VSAT-sized antennas of merely 0.8 to 2.4 meters diameter, which thus fit on rooftops and walls of buildings.

High bandwidth efficiency and low terminal costs translate into a low entry cost for the end user and provide the operator with the opportunity to offer the entire spectrum of services, from the typical low rate VSAT to true multi-megabit enterprise broadband.

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