Liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-127 mission has been now rescheduled for Wednesday, July 15 at 6:03 p.m. EDT. Today's attempt (Monday, July 13th) was canceled due to poor weather conditions within the launch area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Anvil clouds and storm cells containing lightning flared up toward the end of the countdown, violating stringent launch safety rules. Can you imagine the frustration for the folk at the launch center and the astronauts? Let's us truly hope Wednesday offers a clear launch window.
At T minus 9 minutes for the launch and holding and weather is not encouraging. The poling continues by Mission Control - Houston is a NO GO for weather - SRO is also a NO GO. Launch Director is receiving reports T-Storms progressing toward the Cape and weather not getting any better for a launch. The team is ready but the weather is not, meaning a weather violation, and once again, not going to launch. Endeavour launch director informed that the vehicle is ready and receiving request for a scrub and another try tomorrow (Monday). Window open for launch at 1846 EDT. Lightning and cumulus clouds now within 10-mile radius of the Cape. Optimum window is 6:51:24 p.m. EDT for the launch on Monday.
Now at 7:54 p.m. EDT, a T-Storm with a preponderance of lightning is now making its was from the 20-mile position to the east and is now considered a real threat to the launch. Mission control is now stating it's a "no go" for launch—they are not optimistic for the event to occur.
As the launch time approaches for the Endeavour space shuttle and the STS-127 mission, all of the previous "challenges" regarding leaks and so on have been ameliorated. The launch team continues to keep any eye on the weather. At the time of this writing (6:47 p.m. EDT), a line of thunderstorms marches toward the 20 mile ring and, if they continue eastward into the 10 mile ring, such becomes of concern and could impact the launch. A number of poles are being taken from Firing Team 4, Mission Management Team, and others, to ensure all is in readiness should a launch OK be given.
Will The Weather Ever Cooperate With NASA For Endeavour Launch??
Baikonur Puts Out Welcome Mat for Asia Sat 5
They have arrived and now AsiaSat 5, a new communications satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), has settled in at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch by a Proton launch vehicle currently scheduled for early to mid-August. Right: Loading the AsiaSat 5 spacecraft into the container at SS/L‟s manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California, USA: Photo courtesy of Space Systems/Loral
AsiaSat 5 is a replacement satellite for AsiaSat 2 at the orbital location of 100.5 degrees East. The spacecraft, based on Space Systems/Loral's 1300 satellite bus, is designed to provide advanced satellite services including television broadcast, telephone networks and VSAT networks for broadband multimedia services across Asia Pacific. Left: Offloading the AsiaSat 5 spacecraft container at Yubileiny Airfield in Baikonur Photo courtesy of ILS International Launch Services
“AsiaSat 5 will become the newest member of the AsiaSat fleet to help us continue our mission of providing first-class regional satellite services to Asia Pacific. Equipped with the latest but proven technologies, improved and new beam coverage on AsiaSat 5, we look forward to serving existing and future clients with enhanced power, connectivity and network flexibility,” said Peter Jackson, Chief Executive Officer of AsiaSat.
AsiaSat 5 will carry 26 C-band and 14 Ku-band transponders, and has an estimated operational life of 15 years. It will offer an enhanced pan Asian C-band footprint that covers more than 53 countries spanning from Russia to New Zealand and from Japan to the Middle East and parts of Africa. Its Ku-band coverage will consist of two high-power fixed Ku-band beams over East Asia and South Asia, and an in-orbit steerable Ku beam. The three Ku-band beams are designed with switching capability to switch any uplink to any downlink beam to meet specific application requirements.
SpaceX' Successful RazakSAT Send Off
Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 1 rocket lifted off from Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Western Pacific at 11:35 p.m. EDT/0335 GMT on Tuesday carrying the 400-pound (180-kg) RazakSAT satellite, designed and built by ATSB of Malaysia. The spacecraft has black-and-white and color cameras to take high-resolution pictures of agricultural lands, forests, urban centers, and other targets in Malaysia for commercial and government customers. This was the fifth flight for Space Exploration Technologies, a privately funded California firm founded by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk. SpaceX's first three launches in 2006, 2007 and 2008, fell short of reaching orbit. The Company's fourth launch last September successfully placed a dummy payload into orbit.
In addition to its Falcon 1 rocket, which can put a half-ton payload into orbit for about $8 million, SpaceX is developing a heavy-lift Falcon 9 rocket that can carry 11 tons to low-Earth orbit, or four tons to an orbit 22,300 miles above the planet, for about $40 million. The firm's biggest customer is NASA, which has reservations for more than half of SpaceX's two dozen upcoming missions. The company has contracts to develop and deliver a space station cargo vehicle. It also is petitioning for a $300 million contract addition to upgrade its Dragon capsule to ferry astronauts to and from the space station after NASA retires its space shuttle fleet next year. Falcon 9's debut flight is scheduled for October from a new launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Thrane & Thrane Sponsors Critical Communcations to Télécoms Sans Frontières
A sponsorship agreement signed June 15 between the satellite communication terminal manufacturer Thrane & Thrane and Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) will assist the high profile humanitarian NGO in providing a year long telecommunications training program for emergency responders from 40 international NGOs. The sponsorship involves the donation of Thrane & Thrane EXPLORER BGAN terminals for training courses, which start at the end of July at the TSF bases in Bangkok and Managua.
"In any emergency response situation, quickly establishing reliable communication is a high priority, so the right training is essential," comments Jean-François Cazenave, President, TSF. "The EXPLORER terminals supplied by Thrane & Thrane will support our forthcoming courses for NGO emergency responders, allowing us to offer the most effective training possible." Photo on right: EXPLORER 700
To ensure that TSF training program covers all aspects of emergency communication, the sponsorship scope of supply covers the core of the EXPLORER portfolio: EXPLORER 300, EXPLORER 500 and EXPLORER 700. All EXPLORER models are already vital for emergency responders and NGO personnel, and have been proven to offer effective communication for disaster and emergency management from anywhere on the planet.
"This partnership is a great opportunity for Thrane & Thrane," says newly appointed Market Development Manager for the Land Mobile Business Unit at Thrane & Thrane, Morten Rishøj. "BGAN and emergency communication are closely connected so it is important for TSF to have access to the latest and most up-to-date equipment available, especially as it is highly likely that they will be using EXPLORER terminals in the field."
The TSF emergency telecommunications training courses will be split between one session in Bangkok covering the South-East Asia region and one in Managua, Nicaragua, which covers Central America and the Caribbean. The training includes a five day initial course and a three day refresher in addition to ongoing support. The aim is to reinforce emergency responders' capacities in the area of satellite and IT technology in order to establish quick and reliable Internet connections, phone and fax lines. TSF technicians will train participants in how to use and trouble-shoot various equipment and help each organization find the most suitable and cost-effective solution to meet their needs.
"The TSF training program will create an in-depth knowledge that can secure communication and save lives, whilst at the same time, through this sponsorship we are able to ensure that first responders and the NGO community are well trained in the use of BGAN and EXPLORER terminals," adds Rishøj.
No Road Rage Here — GMV To Bring Financial Accuracy To Road Charges
GMV is leading a team of 12 European-based companies to develop a road sector project called GINA for the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA).
GINA involves using EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service and GALILEO, the European satellite-navigation program, to ensure the highest degree of accuracy of vehicle positioning and position integrity to prevent drivers from incurring inaccurate road or "toll-like" charges. Road transportation is currently used by more than 70 percent of commercial operations at the intra-community level and this has led to increased traffic congestion, pollution and road accidents. The European Union is considering updating the toll-type application to be based on actual road use. The future Dutch ABvM system (Anders Betalen voor Mobiliteit), is the first and only nationwide, all-vehicle, GNSS-based road pricing system. The requisites defined by the Dutch Government for this kilometer-price scheme and its characteristics will be used as a benchmark for setting up GINA’s large-scale road-pricing trial. The consortium partners representing end users will also provide their knowledge and expertise to help define the technical and commercial requirements of other value added services that may be provided by the same technical infrastructure (onboard equipment or OBU and central platform). It is expected to take 24 months to develop and test GINA.
SATCOM Comes To Multiband FM Radios, Courtesy Of Latitude
Technisonic Industries Ltd. and Latitude Technologies Corporation have announced that Technisonic’s TDFM 7000/7300 series multiband FM radios will have a new software option capable of controlling the Latitude Satellite Gateway S200-SG11.
The new S200-SG11 will provide SATCOM, flight tracking (AFF) and messaging capability using the TDFM controls and display. The marriage of these products will provide the most comprehensive communication package in the industry while at the same time alleviating the need for additional panel space required by multiple radio controllers. This product union will finally cure the age-old problem of communicating in disassociated operating regions.
Iridium Imbued Milestone For U.S. Naval Research Lab GPS Program
Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) announces that, in conjunction with Boeing (NYSE: BA), the companies have achieved two major milestones to further develop and demonstrate capability enhancements to the High Integrity Global Positioning System (GPS) program for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
The first milestone, completion of an Enhanced Narrowband (ENB) software modification to computers on Iridium satellites, enables 2G GPS-aiding signals to be broadcast through the entire Iridium constellation. These broadcasts will enable rapid, more accurate GPS position fixes than are available with current technology. The GPS-aiding signals will provide appropriately equipped warfighters significantly improved capabilities for quickly locking on and maintaining a GPS signal, even while operating in restrictive environments such as urban areas, forests, mountains and canyons, as well as under enemy jamming attempts or amid battlefield radio frequency noise.
The second milestone was a demonstration of the acquisition of a GPS signal under substantial jamming while moving in a vehicle. The principle behind High Integrity GPS, also known in government circles as “iGPS,” uses satellite signals from the Iridium low-earth orbiting (LEO) satellite communications system and the U.S. Air Force-operated GPS mid-Earth orbit navigational satellites. Iridium provides a high-power signal and rapidly changing ground track to accelerate an initial position fix by users. The GPS system provides navigational data in time, location and velocity. The result is an augmentation to GPS that provides iGPS receivers with improved navigation, higher signal integrity, precision accuracy and more jam-resistant capabilities. High Integrity GPS also has the potential to provide geographic positioning data to within centimeters, a vast improvement over current standalone GPS, which provides data within meters. The team completed the ENB software upgrade on schedule and within budget, and will support a system-level demonstration later this year. The team includes Iridium, Boeing Phantom Works’ Advanced Network and Space Systems, Rockwell Collins, Coherent Navigation and experts from academia.
A Moving Event For MTN Satellite Services
MTN Satellite Services, a SeaMobile Company and global service provider of at-sea communications, connectivity and content services, is relocating its Caribbean Ku-band services from the Atlanta, Georgia, teleport to Steele Valley, California.
The Atlanta area, known for severe weather conditions in the summer, has occasionally caused degradation of MTN’s Ku-band services in the Caribbean. To reduce signal attenuation and improve service, MTN has migrated its uplink facility to the Steele Valley teleport near Los Angeles, due to its naturally dry climate. In addition to relocating services, MTN will continue to use Automatic Uplink Power Control (AUPC) systems to maximize quality of service. In the presence of signal variations due to weather degradation, AUPC systems increase transmitter power levels to maintain signal quality.
ISS To Go Bye-Bye in 2016?
The de-orbiting of the International Space Station (ISS) is in the plans for NASA. Yep, such a statement is of some interest to many folk, especially after more than a decade of time and money has been invested in upgrading the ISS... in fact, more energy has been spent in improving the station than the time the ISS has operated as a completed space entity. $100+ billion has been pumped into the ISS, and such could be a fairly good reason for cries of outrage should the space station be allowed to de-orbit and then tumble to destruction in the Pacific Ocean in 2016. Certainly, many of the experiments are scheduled to end next year, as well as the program itself, but NASA has now indicated the agency is going to conduct a study that could find the ISS lifespan extended into the 2020's... seems as though waste and overspending and lack of foresight continue to plague government programs. And let us not forget the ISS has already cost more than just monetary expenditures — seven astronauts have lost their lives in pursuit of the ISS spatial dream.
Lights, Camera — Action! Iridium's OpenPort® Opens High-Speed Communications in the Arctic
The real star of a six-month Northwest Passage Filming voyage appears to be Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium) and Telaurus Communications LLC (Telaurus) which have teamed to provide satellite communication equipment and services for the six-month filming excursion. The voyage got underway from Rhode Island on June 13 and will end in Seattle on October 31.
The voyage’s vessel, the BAGAN, is equipped with an Iridium OpenPort®high-speed maritime communications terminal and Telaurus Se@COMM software. Iridium OpenPort enables the BAGAN to transmit critical voice and data communications in the Arctic Region where no other service is available, including services based on geostationary satellites. So, the captain and crew of the BAGAN are able to speak on the phone at the same time, even during data transmission. The Se@COMM communications software by Telaurus provides real-time messaging, and advanced compression and file transfer capabilities, giving maximum flexibility and control to both operators and crew.
“For maritime vessel operators, Iridium OpenPort is easy to install, simple to operate, reliable and efficient with three voice lines and a data port,” said Greg Ewert, executive vice president, Global Distribution Channels, Iridium. “And, of course, Iridium OpenPort was the natural choice due to its coverage over 100 percent of the Earth’s surface, including Polar waters. Though competitive service providers like to say they provide ‘global’ coverage, users such as the BAGAN crew are beyond the reach of geostationary satellite systems and, once again, Iridium is the only network capable of providing communications service to those operating in this region of the world.”
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sprague Theobald has assembled this team of sailors, divers and filmmakers uniquely suited to not only take on the challenges of an Arctic expedition, but to capture it on film in dramatic and compelling ways that highlight environmental and political issues surrounding the passage. Theobald’s documentary objective is “to show what’s at stake and what we risk losing if we don’t take action now to preserve what’s left of the Arctic frontier.” In addition to preserving the Arctic’s natural beauty, Theobald will also use his Northwest Passage documentary as an educational piece encapsulating maritime history and Arctic environmental conservation opportunities.
“As the story of this epic voyage is documented, it is critical for the crew to be able to communicate it back to headquarters, as well as to stay in communication with family and friends,” said Malcolm McMaster, president, Telaurus. “We are pleased to be providing the hardware and software to enable communications in such a far northern location, where the crew would have otherwise been out of touch.”
Theobald will publish daily photographs, audio/video, and daily reports to the film’s Website, access this direct link. He hopes that, by making such live broadcasts like this to the Website and through TV and news partners, he will continue to generate support and awareness for the Arctic people, wildlife and habitat.
THE MOVIE
Over 100 years after the Northwest Passage was finally transformed by Roald Amundsen from the realm of legend, it is once again being viewed as a gateway to riches. According to the U.S. Geological survey, the Arctic contains 1/4 of the world's undiscovered energy resources. The sovereignty of the Arctic is in dispute, with five countries — Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway and Denmark — being recognized under international law. A race among these nations is underway for the Arctic's fish, diamonds, shipping routes and oil.
THE MISSION
Hole in the Wall Productions has assembled a team of sailors, divers and filmmakers uniquely suited to not only take on the challenges of an Arctic expedition but to capture it on film in dramatic and compelling ways that highlight environmental and political issues surrounding the Passage.
Two Eutelsat Transponders Top Off Total TV Delivery
Serbia Broadband (SBB) has expanded the Company's Total TV platform with new multi-year contracts with Eutelsat Communications for two transponders at its 16 degrees video neighborhood.
SBB and Eutelsat have also agreed to a long-term extension of contracts for the two transponders that have been in use since 2006 to broadcast Total TV from Eutelsat's specialist video neighborhood for central European digital TV markets. The boost to digital broadcasting in central Europe has been made possible by Eutelsat's decision to significantly increase capacity at 16 degrees East. In addition to the W2 satellite, 16 degrees East now hosts the EUROBIRD 16 satellite which was redeployed from 7 degrees West. Both satellites at 16 degrees East offer high-power coverage of Europe, enabling DTH reception with small antennas. Both satellites are also equipped with steerable beams which are oriented to serve video clients operating in Indian Ocean islands. SBB's additional capacity will be used to support a number of new channels in all of Total TV's markets, including Cinemax 2, MGM, Discovery ID, Disney and two new channels from Pink Media Company. It will also support expansion to additional regional markets including Macedonia, as well as further improve signal quality. Channels are uplinked from the company's own teleport in Belgrade and the new teleport facility operated by STN near the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana.
Flying This Beer Keg In Iraq Requires Licensed Sober Soldiers
CAMP TAJI, Iraq — It starts with a pull cord, sounds like a high-powered weed whacker and looks like a motorized bucket with legs. Teri Weaver / S&S Staff Sgt. Todd Patterson, a member of the Pennsylvania guard's 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, sets up a GMAV -- a gas micro air vehicle -- at Camp Taji in Iraq. This small, unmanned aerial vehicle lets one soldier carry, assemble, fly and monitor an area individually. These prototypes, made by Honeywell, cost about $400,000 per system, which include two vehicles.
Soldiers in the field have already given it a nickname — the "flying beer keg."
But this keg dispenses something more valuable than frosty ale, even for thirsty troops in Iraq. The Gas Micro Air Vehicle gives an individual soldier a view around corners and on the roofs of buildings without having to call back to headquarters for help.
"The soldiers who are beating the dirt are the ones who are able to fly it," said Kevin Bogert, a field service engineer and instructor with Honeywell who is training Pennsylvania guardsmen at Camp Taji on the new equipment.
Bogert and other Honeywell staff are training and supplying prototype GMAVs for soldiers with the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, part of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
As of late June, they had issued nine systems in an area north of Baghdad.
The GMAV is meant to supplement the Army’s Raven, another small unmanned aerial vehicle that also can quickly scan an area.
But where the Raven makes sweeps across streets and fields, the GMAV can hover, Bogert said.
"This thing is your big brother," said Staff Sgt. Todd Patterson, a member of Headquarter and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment with the brigade.
"It just cuts down on the number of things a soldier has to worry about."
The one thing it doesn’t cut down on, however, is the number of things a soldier has to carry, added Patterson, who was training on the system a couple of weeks ago.
One flying kit — with the vehicle, fuel, a monitoring system and launch system — weighs about 45 pounds.
Patterson said it would be unlikely anyone in his unit would actually hump it out to the field.
But he said there was room for the unit in a truck, and he could preassemble much of it to work for a group in a convoy.
The GMAV can fly for about 40 minutes, as fast as 45 mph, at heights reaching 300 feet, Bogert said. It has a stationary camera that gives real-time footage. It is loud, but it wasn’t created as a stealth asset.
Its whirling engine, in fact, could chase the enemy away, Patterson said.
Honeywell produced 16 of these prototype systems, which include two vehicles, for about $400,000 each.
Newer ones are about to come off the factory floor in Albuquerque, N.M., that have an adjustable camera and run on a fuel injection engine, Bogert said.
By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Article can be found at this direct link.
Ikhana Can Help Fight Fires — UAV To Support U.S. Forest Service
For the first time, firefighters will have radical new technology developed by NASA to help them fight forest fires — an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The UAV is a modified Predator B obtained by the space agency from its manufacturer, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, three years ago. The aircraft, designed for long-endurance, high-altitude flight, has been modified and instrumented for use in multiple civil research roles, including firefighting. In the past, firefighters used imaging satellites that required precious hours to pin-point a respective fire and then transmit back the images. But Popular Science reports that as the height of the fire season approaches, the U.S. Forest Service plans to use Ikhana as part of its emergency backup to supplant satellite images and scan through smoke to send live information back to crews on the ground. UAV flights will be coordinated with the FAA to ensure the safety of other aircraft.
NASA developed the Predator to use a variety of atmospheric and remote sensing instruments, including duplicates of those sensors on orbiting satellites. Flights can last up to 30 hours. The Ikhana has a wingspan of 66 feet and is 36 feet long. More than 400 pounds of sensors can be carried internally and over 2,000 pounds in external under-wing pods. Ikhana is powered by a Honeywell TPE 331-10T turbine engine and is capable of reaching altitudes above 40,000 feet. The Ikhana is the first production Predator B equipped with a digital electronic engine controller developed by Honeywell and GA-ASI that will make Ikhana five to 10-percent more fuel efficient than earlier versions of the aircraft.
Moving On Up... @ Alliant Techsystems...
Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) has appoinetd Dave Wise as the Company's Vice President of International Operations, reporting directly to ATK Chief Financial Officer, John Shroyer.
The establishment of an international operations function at the corporate office in Minnesota reflects a growing demand for ATK products and services by the international customer community, and the company's intent to expand in the international marketplace. Dave Wise is currently the Vice President, General Manager of ATK's Advanced Weapons division. He has more than 20 years of leadership experience in division, group and corporate-level operations. He has led international development efforts such as the company's Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile program, and he brings a wealth of Foreign Military Sales experience to the position. In his new capacity, Mr. Wise will oversee a multi-functional, multi-group effort charged with expanding ATK's international presence.
Solar Cells Are Dye-Sensitized To Empower UAVs For USAF
From Science Daily, with a nod to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, information has been gleaned that dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future as they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without the need for refueling. The University of Washington's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) project team, with lead researcher Dr. Minoru Taya, is working on airborne solar cells by using a flexible film and a thin glass coating with transparent conductive electrodes. He has found that DSSCs made from organic materials, which use (dyes) and moth-eye film, are able to catch photons and convert them into synthesized electrons that can harvest high photon energy. A few years ago the team mounted dye-sensitized solar cells on the wings of a toy airplane. The propeller was effectively powered, but the plane was not able to become airborne because the glass based solar cells they were using were too heavy. Upon experimentation, they decided to use film battery technology, which worked and in fact, enabled the plane to fly.
"These kinds of solar cells have more specific power convergence efficiency (PCE), very clean energy and easy scalability to a larger skin area of the craft, as well as, low-temperature processing, which leads to lower costs overall," said Taya. The team is currently working on DSSCs with higher PCEs using bioinspired dyes, which are installed in the wings of the UAV (airborne energy harvesters). "Any airborne energy harvester must satisfy additional requirements, like weight and durability in airborne environments. If those are met, then there may even be longer UAV flight times," said Taya.
In the meantime, the engineers are researching the challenges of DSSCs' technology and are seeking to learn how durable they are and how well their technology may integrate with other Air Force vehicles. The team is also trying to determine how to build the solar cells in the wing surface of the aircraft and how to store energy harvested from them. "Some of these challenges will be overcome by the researchers working under this AFOSR MURI within the next two years. In order to make the DSSCs' solar energy harvester transferable to the wings of an UAV, additional engineering tasks remain, which may require another project to be funded for five additional years," Taya said. In the end, the team hopes to reach their goal of developing large, flexible DSSCs with higher energy conversion efficiency. Generally, solar cells that are larger have decreased efficiency. Therefore, the team is using a metal grid, which has high surface resistance and can accelerate electron transport for larger-sized flexible DSSCs while maintaining high efficiency.
digiGO! — Paid Web Video Will Increase In User Access Over Free Web Video
In a webinar presentation to leading global media and technology companies, Strategy Analytics' digital media analyst, Martin Olausson, predicted that the global paid online video segment will reach $3.8 billion in 2009, and exceed the free online video segment, which is expected to reach $3.5 billion this year.
The total online video sector is predicted to grow 38 percent annually until 2012, with the paid video segment growing faster than the free video segment in the coming years. While the free web video segment — consisting of web video ads and public broadcasting web video — is expected to continue to show rapid growth at 37 percent compound annual growth rate in the next four years, the paid online video segment, including download-to-own, rental and subscription services, is expected to grow even faster, at 39 percent annually, during the same period according to this latest Strategy Analytics research.
“The economic downturn and diminishing advertising budgets have increased the focus on consumer paid content on the web in the last six months,” said Martin Olausson, Director of Digital Media Research at Strategy Analytics. “Increased consumer awareness and uptake of services, such as Netflix WatchNow and Xbox Live Video Store, in combination with new services such as the TV Everywhere initiative announced by Comcast and Time Warner Cable will also help drive the paid online video segment in the coming years.” The webinar, 21st Century Consumers & the Future of Digital Media, may be found by selecting the graphic above.
digiGO! — Harmonic @ IBC2009
Harmonic Inc. will introduce new products and feature its range of solutions at IBC2009, in stand 1.C61, Sept. 11-15 in Amsterdam — the key solutions Harmonic will be showcasing at IBC2009 include:
