Archive for January 2010
JABIRU SATELLITE
Jabiru-Sat is a subsidiary of NewSat Limited a leading, independent, satellite services provider in Australia with major teleport installations in Perth and Adelaide.
For further information concerning NewSat and its service provision from telemetry, tracking and control to broadband connectivity for rural farms, please see www.newsat.com
Jabiru is the name of the initial satellite planned to launch and be operative in 2011. The Jabiru is the only indigenous stork in Australia and the bird imagery is appropriate for the Australian satellite.
Australia is one of only two nations in the OECD top 25 countries, along with Mexico, not to have its own space programme. Jabiru-Sat seeks to be a major start and part of an Australian-owned satellite quest.
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Optic Fibre
Whenever people talk about the internet, the cable television system or the telephone system it is very likely that you hear about cables that are fiber optic. Fiber optics
will carry digital information over long distances through a strand of optical thin glass. Mostly used in communication mediums due to the availability of a higher bandwith, these fiber optics will carry the light far longer than many other forms of electrical signal carriers.
Fiber optics communication systems have certainly developed the telecommunications industry and because of its advantages over electrical transmission, copper wire communications in core networks have been replaced by optical fibers. How it works is fiber optics are long, thin strands of pure thin glass that are arranged in bundles referred to as optical cables that are used to transmit light signals over long distances. Consisting of three layers, the inner core will carry the light from the sender to the receiver, while the next level of layer reflects the light back on to the core to make sure none is lost and finally an outer layer will protect the light signal from environment.
In general fiber optics is recommended for systems that require higher bandwidth across longer distances because it accommodates smoother than electrical cabling. With minimum number of amplifiers these fiber optics calbles can carry the amount of data carried in many electrical wires. When fiber cables run alongside each other for long distances, they don’t experience crosstalk unlike some types of electrical transmission lines. Several miles of optical cable could be cheaper than copper wire saving your provider and you money. Fiber optics is thinner which is why unlike electrical signals in copper wires; light signals from one fiber do not interfere with those of other fibers in the same cable which results in clearer reception. The loss of signal is also less in fiber optics than in electrical copper wires which is why lower-power transmitters can be used instead of the high-voltage electrical transmitters.
Since its suitability to be used in digital signals, optic fiber are mostly used in the telecommunication aspects. Due to the flexibility of fiber optics usages today it is often seen in almost any industry.
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Ten Communications Trends for 2010
In the past decade, a sea-change has taken place in the way voice and data communications are structured, delivered and used by businesses around the world. As we kick off the second decade of the New Millennium, what’s in store for the brave new world of communications? Here are the top 10 areas we expect to see action in 2010:
#1 The next-generation user experience. The communications industry will provide much more consistency across multimodal interfaces, whether through iPhones, standard telephones or the Web. Businesses, while still respecting privacy standards, will track phone calls, instant messages and emails of their employees in a way that allows prediction of work needs and behaviors.
#2 Analytics and contact center process reengineering. Contact centers will have the ability to track customer interactions across a range of media, both to analyze what has happened and then make real-time decisions about adapting solutions to those trends. They’ll even be able to react to customer and call center interactions in real-time with both dialogue in the self-service applications and instantaneous coaching of call center agents.
Australia set to launch new satellite to plug digital blackspots
Satellite provider NewSat has welcomed a $160 million federal cash injection to supply remote areas with digital television and highlighted its plans to launch Australia’s 
first locally-owned satellite as a possible solution.
The project, dubbed Jabiru, has been in development since 2007 and is spearheading the company’s move to cash-in on the government initiative.
Company CEO Adrian Ballintine said the satellite will be able to serve the 247,000 homes identified by the government as located in digital TV blackspots.
“The satellite designed to provide ‘Ka band’ coverage across Australia will have a payload that accommodates the distribution of live broadcasting to the [blackspots],” Ballintine said in a written statement.
Under the plans, blackspot areas will be served via improvements to existing terrestrial broadcasting facilities, installation of repeaters to extend signals, and the addition of satellite services.
Broadcasters will spend some $18 million to upgrade 100 analogue transmission relay towers to digital.
Consumers receiving digital television signals will need to shell out about $300 for new satellite dishes, alongside a $300 government subsidy.
Layer 10 analyst Paul Brooks said the provision of satellite services is an issue of footprint, rather than capacity to supply digital television, and suggested the government may consider launching a new satellite to serve blackspot areas.
Telsyte analyst Greg Tsang said it may be more economically feasible to launch a dedicated satellite to supply broadband and digital TV, than to install terrestrial repeaters to geographically-dispersed areas.
“[The government] might find it cheaper to launch a satellite to supply a footprint to these areas rather than installing repeaters,” Tsang said.
Tsang said it is “not unreasonable” to expect a government tender for the supply of new satellite services, adding IPStar, AusSatCom, ITC Global Orion.
A spokesman for the communications department had not responded at the time of writing.
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