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Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 13, 2007 India would launch a satellite in June next year to provide computer connectivity in remote villages, a Space Department official has said. "We are going to launch GSAT-4 which will have digital connectivity on board. It's meant for data transfers from computers at remote villages", Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, told an international conference on e-science and grid computing here on Monday night. ISRO officials said GSAT-4 is a technology demonstrator. Its communication payload consists of multi-beam Ka-band beam pipe and regenerative transponder and navigation payload. Nair said the satellite would initially provide computer connectivity to a few hundred remote villages in the country on an experimental basis. "Ultimately, it has to grow into a national system (an initiative whereby satellite should provide such service to all remote villages in the country eventually)", he said. Nair, also Secretary in the Department of Space, said data transfer through satellites is common, as also high bandwidth, point-to-point connectivity and V-Sat terminals but "reaching out to villages and to make sure that villagers benefit from advanced technology of computers, data base and applications that's going to be unique". "Even today, more than 100,000 villages in the country don't have any form of connectivity". He said GSAT-4 is a "totally different concept". "We are now using transponders for sending up the signals and relaying it... Here (in GSAT-4), it's something like on-board switch which will be able to select the data from one point and distribute to other points depending on the connectivity needed". Source: Press Trust of India Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links VSAT News - Suppliers, Technology And Applications
Hughes Signs Contract To Provide Managed Network Services For UK Lottery Network
Germantown MD (SPX) Nov 12, 2007Hughes Network Systems have announced that UK lottery operator Camelot Group plc has awarded its wholly owned subsidiary, HNS Ltd., a multi-year contract to provide managed network services for over 27,000 lottery sites in the U.K., supporting the cutting-edge lottery terminals Camelot will deploy under its new license. The UK National Lottery Commission recently announced that Camelot has signed the Enabling Agreement which officially appoints Camelot as operator of The National Lottery from February 1, 2009 to January 31, 2019. |
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