TELEXPO'99: The Market Of Transmission Via
Satellite Achieves Greater Participation In The
Marketplace And May Stimulate Business
Transactions Of Up To R$1 Billion This Year
SAO PAULO, Brazil, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The following press release was issued
today by TELEXPO'99:
The market of communications via satellite is prone to get a greater boast with players exhibiting new solutions. Check out the
main innovations exhibited at TELEXPO, which will take place from March 23 through 26 at the Expo Center Norte, in Sao Paulo.
With the aperture in telecommunications, all attentions are turned to the segment of transmission via satellite, considered one of the
most efficient and reliable means of communication. It is a market with great growth potential, forecasted to stimulate business
transactions between R$500 million and R$1 billion a year.
This explains all the investments from providers who were granted a license to explore the service by the National Agency of
Telecommunications (Anatel-Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes). They will be expanding the infrastructure to provide
shared communication services, interlinking several clients simultaneously into one satellite network alone, based on technologies
such as VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal), SCPV (Single Channel per Carrier) and TDMA (Time Division Multiple
Access), among others.
Communication via satellite is contained into the ''specialized limited services'' category and before the privatization, Embratel,
acquired by MCI WorldCom, had the monopoly to allocate spatial segment. This restriction does not exist anymore, which means
that grantees also received the right to do it directly without third parties involvement.
The expectation is that an ever-growing number of companies will provide communication via satellite, thus increasing competition
and, consequently, reducing costs to users. ''Perspectives are promising since this market is more alive than ever,'' affirms Lincoln
Antunes de Oliveira, in charge of Embratel's satellite division, responsible for four speeches on the subject at TELEXPO'99.
According to Oliveira, with the trend of optical fiber installation in the country, the belief that wireless communication, where
satellite fits, had their days numbered. ''Experience is demonstrating the contrary, since even with large investments that are being
done in fiber, satellite has its space guaranteed,'' he says.
The providers that were granted with the license by Anatel are participating at TELEXPO'99 to demonstrate to the public how
they are assembling the communication infrastructure to provide transmission via satellite.
During TELEXPO, Impsat will exhibit to the public its traditional line of services for the telecommunications area, such as
broadcasting, education-at- far, video-conferencing, high capacity private network via satellite, terrestrial looping, radios and optical
fiber. However, Impsat will also exhibit two innovations. One of them is Philips's CleverCast, hardware and software platform,
which the company represents with exclusive rights in the Brazilian market. It is a solution that assures corporations and providers,
a high speed Internet access, via satellite. Conexia is the other innovation from Impsat, for the healthcare market, which provides
an automation of transactions for medical insurance plans and remotely perform all duties, from authorizations, lab work and
purchase of medication, to payment to service providers.
With a participation of great distinction in the telecommunications segment is Nera, a Norwegian company, bringing to Expo
Center Norte last generation equipment for communications via satellite and broadcast. Differentiation is extended to the release
of a new version of Nera WorldPhone Liberator, their mobile telephone via satellite, for fixed installation in cars, boats, in airplanes
or in places, where there is no communication infrastructure. This product has the capability of storing up to 99 telephone
numbers. The other innovation from the company will be CityLink, their most recent model of SDH radio to interlink ATM
corporate networks in urban perimeter, cellular infrastructure, high-speed access to optical fiber rings and LAN/WAN
connections.
Comsat, one of the first companies to be granted with Anatel's license to provide communications services via satellite through
shared network, will come to the Fair armed with new services. One of them is Comsat Link, for long distance point-to-point
connections. Other attractions will be: Comsat Net, point-multipoint to be used in private or shared networks, Comsat DV Net, a
wide bandwidth service for LAN and WAN connections, and Comsat Web and Comsat Cast, the latter for video, audio and data
broadcasting.
Vicom, the new name for Victori Comunicacao, also authorized by Anatel to explore communication services via satellite in
shared network, will exhibit two releases to the public. One of them is Vicom Easysat, a new concept in data transmission via
satellite, which remotely connects LAN networks and sends data, images and voice with speed and safety. The other release will
be Telecorp, teleport, which sends voice, data, image and fax worldwide, as well as video conferencing. Vicom is a company
specialized in the implementation of telecommunications corporate networks, using several technologies via satellite and terrestrial.
Nec do Brasil will exhibit several innovations in its stand, covering from radio-base station for cellular digital service to automatic
finger printing identification system, besides digitation communication equipment via satellite, and solutions for access networks in
DLC platform. Two releases will be part of the set of products that Brasmell will be exhibiting at TELEXPO. Telsat,
communication system via satellite and a filter of high profitability. Also as part of the line of products to be exhibited are
container, tower, pole, and xDSL equipment and multipoint system.
Globalstar will demonstrate communication via satellite services that the company is planning to offer to the Brazilian market, such
as SMGS, a mobile world telecommunications system, based in CDMA technology, which assures superior quality of voice,
allowing the transmission of calls from multiple satellites, simultaneously. For that, the company is assembling an infrastructure
placing four additional satellites in orbit, in a total of 12. The target is to maintain 52 satellites in orbit until the end of the year. The
company will install three gateways in Brazil, with investments of US$180 million.
SOURCE: TELEXPO'99
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