For many people one of the numerous frustrations of the last two years has been being “grounded”. Travel was one of the hardest hit sectors during Covid.  Not only did many countries close their borders, in many parts of the world local restrictions, coupled with fear of catching the virus, kept people close to home, so similarly impacting domestic and international travel.

XipLink Inc., the technology leader in Wireless Link Optimization, is pleased to announce a successful collaboration with GTD in Chile to support the government project Conectividad para La Educación 2030 in that country. The solution utilizes XipLink’s XipOS version 6 software and XA appliance technology, allowing the intelligent aggregation of several VSAT Links into one single bandwidth pool for remote sites requiring higher capacity and always-on connectivity.

XipLink, Inc., the technology leader in Wireless Link Optimization, is pleased to announce a successful collaboration with Telenor Satellite that has further enhanced their Anker Managed Service offering. The Anker Managed Service, delivered over an iDirect Technologies Velocity platform, provides Ka connectivity over the THOR 7 satellite to clients requiring higher bandwidth capacity and always-on connectivity in the maritime mobility sector.

WORK Microwave will demonstrate its latest space technology solutions at SATELLITE 2022, a key event for the space and satellite industries. Using WORK Microwave's solutions, operators can cross the edges between space and ground, RF and digital, optical and digital, and virtual and hardware on ground stations.

Three years ago I had the privilege of visiting an exceptional teleport in the English countryside, a teleport with state-of-the-art facilities laid out in beautiful, well-landscaped gardens and bucolic surroundings.  This teleport located in Rugby, England and operated by Satellite Mediaport Services (SMS) was featured in this magazine's May 2019 issue ("A Beautiful Setting for a State-of-the-Art Teleport").  A lot has happened over those three years - not the least of which is the global COVID-19 pandemic that catalyzed a satellite industry already seized in the grips of profound transformation.  So we thought to revisit and check up on this teleport located in its pastoral retreat for a live update. 

HISPASAT, the Spanish operator and satellite solutions and services provider of the Red Eléctrica Group, has reached an agreement with NAGRA, the world's leading independent provider of streaming, content protection and monetization solutions for digital television, to develop a wholesale OTT (Over-The-Top) television solution. While its launch is planned for Spring of 2022, a demonstration is now available for interested clients.

Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC, announces that it has reached a milestone in the manufacturing of more than 10,000 Solid State Block Upconverters for their customers.  The company was founded in 2014 to bring advances in Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors to the satellite terminal business. The majority of the 10,000 units manufactured since inception were built and shipped over the past 2 years and have supported the rapidly growing SATCOM Mobility market in X-, Ku- and Ka-band at power levels up to 400 watts.

INTEGRASYS has developed a solution, FWSEC, to protect critical infrastructures from potential cyber-attacks. Nowadays, securing supply chains against imminent cyber-attacks has become a challenge, especially in Europe. The battlefield extends to the online field, which is the engine of the current intelligence.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today announced the finalists for its 2022 Teleport Awards for Excellence. From this group of finalists, WTA will name the winners at the 27th annual Teleport Awards for Excellence Luncheon on March 22 during the SATELLITE conference in Washington, DC.

INTEGRASYS has joined the Mobile Satellite Users Association community, a non-profit association dedicated to promoting satellite innovations globally. For 30 years MSUA has been representing the interests of mobile satellite service providers and users universally.