I thought these guys went belly-up a couple years ago...
AlphaStar Starts Deployment Of The First Residential Two-Way Broadband Network Integrating Satellites With Wireless Local Access.
GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000
AlphaStar International announced today that the company started the deployment and marketing of two-way satellite broadband network targeting the residential Internet users. The new network is launched under the name www.telecrossing.net. AlphaStar is one of the original four Direct To Home (DTH) satellite Television broadcasting networks (including Direct TV, Echo Star, PrimeStar and AlphaStar)
TeleCrossing technology is based on a hybrid two-way Internet broadband network integrating the global coverage of satellite with the local access of wireless hubs. The result is the first end to end all wireless residential broadband network. TeleCrossing offers point to multipoint, two-way high Speed Internet dedicated access up to 32 Mbps in an increment or fraction of 2 Mbps, symmetrical or asymmetrical, always on, reliable, fully interactive, and global. Before the end of the year 2000, TeleCrossing is planning to connect via satellite 400 wireless hubs in several US markets and offers high-speed access to several hundred thousands of residential subscribers. The deployment will accelerate in the following years and will expand to global markets. According to Mahmoud Wahba, the president of TeleCrossing "The hybrid technology makes it possible to deploy the first two-way broadband satellite network immediately for residential Internet users in urban, suburban and rural markets. The network can be deployed quickly, flexibly, easily and affordably. TeleCrossing has already negotiated several distribution agreements and seeks to enter into additional national and international relationships with Wireless Tower Operators, ISPs, wireless and hand held devices manufacturers, cable MSOs, Telecommunication companies and other strategic partners"
TeleCrossing hybrid technology combines satellite global coverage and wireless local access to meet a void created by the limitations of DSL and Cable modem. Unlike terrestrial backbone satellites can reach everywhere regardless of geographical and regulatory boundaries. They can be deployed over-night and bypass the congested Internet terrestrial backbone. Satellites allow a dedicated and secure Internet and intranet access; they also use multicasting technology to deliver streaming media. Meanwhile, wireless local access offer local and public access content. Also wireless access offers mobility, flexibility, affordability, ease of installation and the ability to use handheld wireless devices. The dramatic advances of wireless technology within the last few months made it possible to develop TeleCrossing as hybrid network taking advantage of wireless hubs as access to the last mile.
TeleCrossing is ready now to compete with both cable modem and DSL. TeleCrossing broadband network is designed to serve Internet subscribers who are currently unserved or unlikely to be served by Cable systems or DSL. Cable systems cannot reach 35% of US households, meanwhile DSL cannot reach 66 millions of US households. Add to these figures Internet users who are underserved, disenfranchised or dissatisfied with their current cable or DSL services. These figures are even more pronounced in other world countries due to the lack of fiber and HFC cable networks. TeleCrossing unique and extensive satellite DTH/Ku video based Teleport offers a more robust, dedicated and affordable broadband high-speed alternative to cable and DSL Cable suffers from bandwidth sharing and potential security breaches among subscribers community, while DSL suffers from distance limitations beyond the phone company central offices and the entanglement with the phone companies' requirements. TeleCrossing hybrid technology avoids the need for co-location with phone companies and related regulations. TeleCrossing network is deployed without the financial cost or time required for digging the land to lay down fiber cables or coaxial wires or even using a dish at residential households.
While TeleCrossing is deploying the broadband network immediately, other satellite companies are waiting periods ranging between 1-to-3 years before they can offer broadband services. All the announced plans require a two-way dish at the residential household which will increase the cost of installation and maintenance at the subscribers homes, limit the local and public access content, maintain the current immobility, waste satellite bandwidth and pose a real or imaginary microwave danger at the subscriber's homes due to the nature of the two-way dish.
During the last year, TeleCrossing focused on developing the necessary hybrid technology and infrastructure to offer two-way broadband high-speed intranet and Internet access. Early this month TeleCrossing announced the launch of point-to-point two-way broadband satellite intranet and Virtual Private Networks targeting business and institutional broadband applications. Many successful tests and demonstrations of TeleCrossing broadband applications were conducted with the technical assistance of national and international strategic partners and the cooperation of residential and business subscribers of TeleCrossing associate ISPs. We extend our appreciation to all and will reveal their identity at the proper time.
About AlphaStar International
AlphaStar International (Greenwich, CT. Phone 203.531.5555. Fax 203.531.6903.
E-mail teleport@telecrossing.net ) is one of the original four DTH (Direct-To-Home) satellite broadcasting companies, including DirecTV, Echo Star, and PrimeStar and AlphaStar. The company now specializes in Internet and intranet Broadband content aggregation, origination, storage,streaming and distribution via fiber and satellite live 24/7 or on demand. Alpha Star's teleport, located in Oxford, Connecticut, on twelve campus-like acres is one of about a dozen Ku-band facilities in the world specializing in video and multimedia with extensive capacity and scalability. It allows the downlinking and uplinking of satellite feeds using Ku, C bands and Vsat connections and the reception by users via a small dish. Additionally, the teleport is connected by 24 dark fibers to the terrestrial backbone of the interment allowing multiple terabit and beyond. The Teleport is fully licensed by FCC since 1996.
The teleport cannot be replicated without spending tens of millions of dollars and considerable time to obtain zoning permits and construction, creating immediate barrier to entry. Built on a mountaintop as part of President Reagan's "Star Wars" program, it was intended originally to protect the US by tracking the former Soviet Union's satellites. As a result the teleport is geographically located where it can down link and up link feeds from most countries around the globe. The Teleport is capable of broadcasting and streaming thousands of TV channels and Radio stations and providing all teleport services and broadband applications. (See; About Us, www.telecrossing.net ) |
