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Satellite Uplinking
October/November 2001

How will tomorrow's consumers get their triple play services, what devices will contain what functionality and were do the technologies divide? advanced-television.com looks at some of the options.

KINGSTON TARGETS 50% GROWTH P/A

The UK satellite uplinker formerly known as Kingston-TLI has just re-branded itself as Kingston Inmedia. The initiative comes from Inmedia's MD for the Gerrards Cross-based company, Nick Thompson, who joined Kingston from Loral Cyberstar.
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Globecast confident of bigger role

France Telecom-owned satellite service provider Globecast says it is now beaming a new digital multiplex of channels to the UK from Eurobird, "And we may be taking extra capacity," says CEO Sarah Williams. Extreme Sports was the first in the bouquet, and is typical of the niches signed up by Globecast.
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SkyStream unveils interactive plans

With the US trailing Europe in the transition to digital and interactive services, Advanced Television asks Bethany Mayer, VP Product Marketing, SkyStream Networks, how broadcasters can re-coup their heavy digitalisation investment?

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NTL - more than just cable

NTL is perhaps best known for its UK and European cable distribution business, bringing cable TV, telephony and the Web to millions of homes across Europe. But NTL is also the distributor of the ITV network's terrestrial programmes and also most of the ITV Digital terrestrial channels. It also has a long history in uplinking specialist signals to satellite.
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New Skies Ready for expansion

Netherlands-based New Skies Satellite (NSS) is a satellite operator which is quite happy to take uplinked signals from any one of the major uplink businesses, but is also seeking to provide its own direct uplink service.

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New player Europe*Star busy with the BBC
Satellite operator Europe*Star, based at Feltham near London's Heathrow Airport, is a new enterprise, established by France's Alcatel Space (51 per cent) and Loral Space & Communications (49 per cent) together with a small interest still held by the Dr Schulte Hillen Group of Germany, which originated the project and made the original satellite filing reservations.
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IP UPLINK TRAFFIC AVALANCHE

BT Broadcast Services is the satellite uplinking division of former UK PTT British Telecom. BT-BS is the official signatory/shareholder of various satellite operators like Eutelsat, Intelsat and Inmarsat. It reserves capacity on satellites such as Eutelsat's Hot Bird and Eurobird and sells this capacity on to broadcasters.
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