Swe-Dish Suitcase Breaks New Ground in Africa

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 16, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — The South African Broadcasting Corp. (SABC) has selected satellite communication systems from Swe-Dish Satellite Systems in their expansion into Africa. The chosen IPT Suitcase has also been awarded a type approval by the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa (ICASA).

Swe-Dish said its IPT Suitcase has been chosen to expand SABC’s coverage in the African SADEC countries (Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Mozambique and Malawi). SABC will use the IPT Suitcase systems to strengthen their satellite newsgathering operations, to cover national breaking news as well as overseas news and coverage of major events.

Chosen for its portability, bandwidth efficiency, and ease of use, the Swe-Dish IPT Suitcase will allow the SABC news teams to do live broadcast video transmissions up to 5Mbps, IP based intercom, Voice over IP and Audio broadcast as well as store and forward of video and audio files from virtually anywhere in the world.

In conjunction with the expansion in Southern Africa, the Swe-Dish Suitcase has also been granted a “radio equipment type approval certificate” (TA-2005/574) by the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa (ICASA), which regulates the telecommunication and broadcasting sectors.

Lars Jehrlander, CEO of Swe-Dish, said the launch of the IPT suitcase concept proves that small Ku-band earth stations may very well be operated in the African region.

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