Intelsat Provides Key Satellite Services for SPACECONNECTION and GlobeCast
Intelsat 9 series satellite. (ILS image)
WASHINGTON DC, April 17, 2007 - Satnews Daily - The SPACECONNECTION, Inc., a provider of occasional use (OU) space segment capacity, and GlobeCast, a content management and worldwide transmission services provider, have signed major deals with Intelsat in support of their worldwide operations.
Intelsat and SPACECONNECTION entered into a definitive agreement for global OU space segment capacity. SPACECONNECTION is extending its relationship for space segment capacity to support satellite newsgathering and TV production services worldwide. SPACECONNECTION is a leading independent provider of C-Band and Ku-Band satellite space segment. With a satellite transponder inventory assembled from capacity from all the major satellite operators, SPACECONNECTION offers space segment, both analog and digital, in time increments from five minutes to 15 years and in increments from 100 KHz to 36 MHz or greater.
Mike Antonovich, SPACECONNECTION President and CEO, said they are pleased to continue building their relationship with Intelsat. “We are especially pleased to be able to ensure our continued preferential access to the Intelsat global fleet for the benefit of all our global news, sports and entertainment customers.”
“We believe our commitment to the occasional use services business is unmatched and Intelsat continues to invest in this vital sector,” said Kurt Riegelman, Intelsat Senior Vice President, Americas Sales. “Extending our relationship with The SPACECONNECTION further speaks to our commitment to provide the ubiquitous global coverage, time-sensitive response and high level of support that the world’s broadcasters and programmers have come to expect from Intelsat.”
In the highly competitive OU market, Intelsat continues to offer what is probably the largest OU inventory in the world, packaged with an extensive stable of teleport gateways and an enhanced fiber optic network to support the needs of television programmers, news agencies and broadcasters worldwide.
GlobeCast has selected Intelsat’s IS-9 and IS-904 satellites for contribution and distribution of the Cricket World Cup 2007, including all 51 matches. GlobeCast selected Intelsat’s satellites for their wide coverage of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions. In all, more than 600 hours of Cricket matches will be delivered.
GlobeCast’s ad-hoc special events group was contracted by the Global Cricket Corporation, on behalf of the International Cricket Council (ICC), to provide SNG services and distribution of the event worldwide. Matches are carried from the venues via the IS-9 satellite to GlobeCast’s teleport in London for turnaround onto Intelsat’s IS-904 for global distribution to broadcast rightsholders.
“Reliability is the most important aspect of providing coverage for any live sporting event to our clients’ viewing audiences,” said Alan Hird, head of Global Contribution Services, GlobeCast. “We are utilizing Intelsat satellites to deliver this content and we’re confident that, during this exciting event, our clients’ programming is benefiting from Intelsat’s experience and reputation for unmatched satellite service.”
“The Cricket World Cup is an important event and extraordinarily popular among populations from South Asia, West Indies, Africa and many other parts of the world. Intelsat is proud to play a key role in making that happen by enabling quality video distribution around the globe,” said Jean Philippe Gillet, intelsat’s regional vice president, Europe and Middle East Sales. “Providing transmission services for this event speaks directly to Intelsat’s commitment to special event services. This also is a testament to Intelsat’s post-merger strength, for both legacy PanAmSat and Intelsat satellites are used providing more robust transmission services for our customer.”
A subsidiary of France Telecom, GlobeCast marks its 10th anniversary this year as a leading global provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. The company operates a secure global satellite and fiber network to manage and transport 10 million hours of video and other media each year, providing ingest, aggregation, transmission and repurposing of content for delivery to DTH satellite platforms; cable, IPTV, mobile and broadband headends; as well as corporate and digital signage networks.
Intelsat is a leading provider of fixed satellite services (FSS) worldwide and is the leading provider of these services to each of the media, network services and government customer sectors, enabling people and businesses everywhere constant access to information and entertainment.
