EMS Satellite Offers New DVB-RCS System Performance Upgrades

MONTREAL, Sept. 8, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — EMS Satellite Networks, a division of EMS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELMG), said it is offering several new DVB-RCS system performance upgrades designed to lower both operational costs and capital costs for EMS customers, as well as to increase system capabilities.

EMS said available upgrades include: SatNet Virtual Telephony Optimized VoIP System, SatNet NetManager Network Management System, SatNet Virtual Service Provider Overlay, SatNet Clear Sky Rain-Fade Countermeasure System, Multi-Satellite Operation,  1MSym/s Outbound, and 4Mbps Inbound.

SatNet Virtual Telephony Optimized VoIP System offers Voice-over-IP (VoIP) scheduling system for two-way satellite communications. This feature emulates the behavior of circuit-switched telephony using standard, packet-switched VoIP technology. SatNet NetManager Network Management System is EMS’s new and completely re-designed network management system. It includes the Subscriber Manager and Configuration Manager, as well as EMS’s unique SLA Manager and QoS Manager functions, each of which is presented through a user-friendly GUI.

SatNet Virtual Service Provider Overlay is an added feature to EMS’s new NetManager, which allows tens of service providers to securely and independently share the resources of a single hub through remote connections. Hub owners will now be able to offer the industry-leading performance of their EMS DVB-RCS hubs to others at attractive per user/remote capital cost. SatNet Clear Sky Rain-Fade Countermeasure System offers powerful rain-fade countermeasures, designed to support Ka-band services, for the last several years. SatNet Clear Sky extends this capability to the point where operators may now provision networks assuming clear-sky (and/or beam-center performance) link budgets in any frequency band, thereby increasing network capacity, increasing system availability and/or reducing the remote terminal antenna size and/or transmitter power required in many networks.

Multi-Satellite Operation, a single EMS DVB-RCS hub, is now capable of supporting multiple satellites in a range of possible configurations. This feature significantly increases the operational flexibility and coverage of EMS DVB-RCS hubs, providing an even greater return on initial capital investment in a hub. 1MSym/s Outbound offers smaller operators the option of starting with outbound carrier sizes as small as 1MSym/s, thereby reducing operational costs for these smaller operators. 4Mbps Inbound offers the unique capability of supporting very large inbound (or return link) carriers at rates as high as 4Mbps.

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