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A Provider Of Transportation-Related RFID Technology Has Acquired A Satellite-Communications Firm To Enable New Global Asset Tracking And Security Monitoring Services
White Papers TransCore, a long-time provider of RFID and transportation technology and services, has acquired satellite-communications firm Ottawa-based Telecommunications. The deal echoes other companies' earlier partnerships to link RFID systems with...
[July 1, 2004, 0:00]
Paired Carrier Multiple Access (PCMA) For Satellite Communications
White Papers This paper presents a fundamentally new technique for two-way satellite communications called Paired Carrier Multiple Access (PCMA). The benefit of PCMA is that it may effectively double the throughput of satellite systems in terms of bits/sec/Hz...
[November 22, 2007, 23:00]
Satellite Communications: Strategic Approach Needed For DOD's Procurement Of Commercial Satellite Bandwidth
White Papers DOD recognizes it has an increasing need to supplement its own satellite bandwidth capacity with capacity from the commercial sector. Moreover, though it has become the largest consumer of satellite bandwidth, it still buys its bandwidth on an as...
[May 31, 2005, 0:00]
Satellite Comms May 'connect The Unconnected'
News Dr Hamadoun Touré, the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU's) secretary-general, said satellite communications technology can play a vital role in connecting remote and isolated communities around the world.
[February 29, 2008, 7:45]
Wireless High-speed Access For Everyone?
News Englewood, Colorado-based iSky.net intends to announce early next week plans to put a two-way communications satellite system in orbit by the end of 2001. Already, the company -- previously known as KaStar Satellite Communications -- has signed...
[January 18, 2000, 6:05]
Inmarsat Broadband Satellite Hits Orbit
News The largest ever communications satellite launched by a commercial body was put in orbit on Tuesday. The satellite was launched from a converted oil rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at 1407 GMT.
[November 9, 2005, 16:55]
Wireless High Speed Access For Everyone?
News Englewood, Colorado-based iSky.net intends to announce early next week plans to put a two-way communications satellite system in orbit by the end of 2001. Already, the company -- previously known as KaStar Satellite Communications -- has signed...
[January 17, 2000, 6:05]
MoD Sends Skynet Satellite Into Orbit
News The UK's second military communications satellite has gone into orbit. The latest hi-tech military communications satellite blasted off on an Ariane space rocket from Kourou in French Guiana on Wednesday.
[November 19, 2007, 11:43]
CeBIT: ISDN Goes Mobile With Inmarsat
News Inmarsat, the London-based mobile satellite communications company, is showing for the first time at CeBIT a system which will provide ISDN-compatible data transfers of up to 64 kbits, via new four-kilo portable devices.
[March 23, 1999, 11:57]
Global Sat Phone Service Awaits Launch
News Satellite communications company Inmarsat has taken the first steps towards building a worldwide handheld satellite phone service. It said the market for handheld satellite communications is around $350m per year — and growing.
[September 4, 2006, 16:10]
Dutch Government Acknowledges Echelon Spy Network
News The Echelon network was developed in the 1960s to intercept international satellite communications using bases located mainly in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Dutch government has publicly acknowledged the existence of the...
[January 24, 2001, 16:37]
BT To Sell Eutelsat Stake For £363m
News The UK's biggest telco will sell its entire shareholding in the world's third-biggest satellite communications company, if the sale is approved by the board of Eutelsat, with the deal expected to be wrapped up before the end of the financial year.
[November 26, 2004, 11:45]
France Attacks Britain Over Echelon
News Echelon is the codename for a surveillance network built by the UK and US at the onset of the Cold War in order to eavesdrop on international satellite communications. A French parliamentary enquiry has harshly criticised Britain for its...
[October 13, 2000, 17:05]
BT Gives Fliers E-mail, Net Access
News The service will also allow remote, air-borne workers to dial in to terrestrial computers via BT software and the Skyphone consortium's satellite communications network. BT claims there are more than four billion air travellers per year and over 1...
[November 7, 1996, 16:42]
Frenchelon: First Pictures Of French Listening Post
News Recently, British and American government officials have responded to French accusations of industrial electronic spying by claiming that France also operates a major network spying on satellite communications -- a system they have dubbed...
[June 30, 2000, 9:00]
Echelon: World Under Watch, An Introduction
News They can access and process almost all of the worlds satellite communications, automatically analysing and relaying it to 'customers' who may be continents away. It intercepted satellite communications over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
[June 29, 2000, 10:40]
Photos: Tech Reconnects Earthquake Victims
News This extract from a satellite call made last week using equipment provided by communications charity Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) illustrates what motivates the charity's 13-strong team of mainly French IT and telecoms engineers to rush halfway...
[August 21, 2007, 17:24]
News Schmooze: They're Watching You...
News Actually, the report is more sobering, and points out that Echelon can only grab satellite transmissions, which are just a small part of overall communications. It admits the international satellite interception network exists, they're listening to...
[May 25, 2001, 16:29]
How To Spot Echelon Listening Stations
News Consequently, if they are found on a site [run by the military with no public access], it may be concluded that civilian satellite communications are being intercepted on that site. But only parabolic antennae are used to receive satellite signals.
[May 29, 2001, 16:12]
Echelon: Sigint Under The Spotlight
News According to these official documents, Sugar Grove's mission is "to direct satellite communications equipment [in support of] consumers of Comsat information .this is achieved by providing a trained cadre of collection system operators, analysts...
[June 30, 2000, 9:35]
