iDirect announced that SIGNIS, the non-government World Catholic Association for Communication with members from 140 countries, has invited iDirect to participate in its 2009 World Congress event in Chiang Mai, Thailand, during October 17-21. SIGNIS and iDirect will demonstrate the capabilities of satellite communications for efficiently distributing and sharing media content to developing nations to encourage social development and growth.

SIGNIS evaluates, promotes and provides communication technologies for use in the spreading of faith and human values, especially in developing countries. Today, the organization has more than 1,000 VSAT stations in operation for missions, hospitals, dioceses, nunciatures and non-government organizations, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. SIGNIS Services Rome (SSR) recently upgraded its network infrastructure to the iDirect platform to maximize bandwidth efficiency and reduce the cost of sharing capacity among its large deployment of stations. iDirect's IP-based satellite platform can support significantly higher traffic over conventional video broadcasting networks, providing a more cost-effective system for SIGNIS to

During the 2009 World Congress, SIGNIS will use the iDirect network and capacity provided by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) on the ABS-1 satellite to exhibit live broadcasts of SIGNIS radio programs streamed over the Internet. SIGNIS and iDirect will showcase several advanced media applications including video broadcasting, Voice over IP and IP radio, and multicast content distribution.