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HUGHES HX Hub in Moscow |
News 30Jan 2008:
| IPNet, satellite telecom operator, will build a new teleport
based on the HUGHES HX platform. The new teleport will be located close to
the company’s current Central hub in the MGU technopark. Total investment in
this project will be around 50 million rubles. The company plans to have the
new teleport up and running by the second quarter of 2008.
IPNet is the one of the first satellite telecom operators to use the latest generation satellite technologies HX in its service offerings. The system HX, developed by the HUGHES company, is the latest generation of VSAT systems and has been specifically created and optimized for small and medium-size networks that have high traffic and rigid requirements for width of the wave range and service quality QoS. The HX technology is represented by the terminals series HX50, HX100, and HX150. |
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The HX system has a number of unique characteristics such as an integrated accelerator TCP and improved IP characteristics. The HX system is associated with lower operating costs due to more efficient use of satellite resources than the SCPC system. The HX system is also very scalable and flexible, thus can be used in a whole range of latest IP applications and services.
The HX system can be characterized by the high rate of downlink (satellite to earth) – up to 120 Mbit/sec. The system has all capabilities associated with the new DVB-S2 standard.
The new Adaptive Code Modulation (ACM) technology is used in the system’s high-speed return channels (earth to satellite) that have speed up to 3.2 MBit/sec. Another significant advantage of using the HX system in the satellite telecom networks is the ability to build “Full-Mesh Networks”, which substantially increase operating capabilities of satellite terminals. This capability is increasingly demanded by IPNet’s customers in Russia.
The new teleport will have the latest antenna system produced by the Dynamics SATCOM Technologies, Inc. (earlier “Vertex- RSI”). This multifunctional antenna has four ports, 9.3 meter diameter, and a transmitter of 750 watt. It is also equipped with the anti-freezing and auto-pointing systems as well as the system of hot and cold back-up of the main active equipment.
To offer services based on the HX technologies, IPNet plans to use the satellite segment of the space satellite series “Express-AM” -- one of the latest satellites “Express-AM33” -- which belongs to the national satellite communications operator of Russia FSUE “Russian Satellite Communications Company” (RSCC). “Express-AM33” is to be sent into space by the end of January 2008 and will be placed into the orbital position 96.5ş eastern.
The adding of new transponder on Expess-AM33 will dramatically increase IPNet’s available satellite resources, which will allow the company to continue its rapid increase in client base and installed base of the satellite terminals.
“Building a second teleport in Moscow will allow us to offer more and higher-quality services to our current and future clients. In this project, IPNet continues its productive collaboration with our partner HUGHES. In 2007, our company bought 1,100 satellite terminals (HN 7x х 0) from HUGHES and now with this new agreement in hand, we can see a deepening cooperation with one of leading providers of satellite equipment – the HUGHES company. The value of such deep relations for the development of the satellite telecom market in Russia is evident”, -commented IPNet’s CEO Murad Sofizade.
Founded in 2000, JSC “IPNet” built and operates its own Central Control Satellite Station in Moscow. IPNet offers a wide range of licensed telecommunication services in all regions of the Russian Federation by utilizing a wide range of the HUGHES VSAT equipment -- satellite terminals HughesNet (HN7700, HN7000, HN7740, HN6000, and HN6040.) For stable satellite connections, JSC “IPNet” leases satellite resources of “Yamal-201” satellite (by contract with OAO “Gaskom,” satellite department of OAO “Gasprom.”) IPNet is actively expanding its dealers network to various Russian regions and CIS countries and invites all interested parties from the regions to partner with the company.
Questions and applications for partnerships can be sent to dealers@zaoipnet.com .
For more information, please contact Irina Gorbunova or Ekaterina Loshkareva at +7 (495) 540-1280, email: press@zaoipnet.com, or visit www.zaoipnet.ru
Best regards, Ekaterina Loshkareva, PR-Manager IPNet
1 Zagorodnoe Road, Moscow, 117152, Russia
+7(495) 540-12-80 ( *129 )
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