COMSAT Digital Teleport Wins Internet Contract in Turkey.Business Editors BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2000 COMSAT Comsat: see Communications Satellite Corporation; communications satellite. (COMSAT General Corporation, Bethesda, MD) Formerly Communications Satellite Corporation, COMSAT was a private company that was created by the U.S. Corporation today announced that it has reached a three-year agreement with DEXAR Multimedia & Telekom of Istanbul, Turkey, to deliver 90 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. of Internet access from the COMSAT Digital Teleport, Inc. (CDTI CDTI Centro Para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (Spain) CDTI Cockpit Display of Traffic Information CDTI Common rail Diesel Turbo Injection CDTI Commercial Driver Training Institute (Pakistan) ) facility in Clarksburg, Md. Service recently commenced under the contract that is valued at approximately $9 million. Each megabit equates to approximately 500 pages of computer text transmitted per second. DEXAR is a communications subsidiary of Vestel Electronics and specializes in Internet delivery via Very Small Aperture Terminal (communications) Very Small Aperture Terminal - (VSAT) A kind of ground station used to contact a communications satellite such as INMARSAT. (VSAT (Very Small Aperture satellite Terminal) A small earth station for satellite transmission that handles up to 56 Kbits/sec of digital transmission. VSATs that handle the T1 data rate (up to 1.544 Mbits/sec) are called "TSATs. ) satellite communications throughout Turkey. CDTI is providing DEXAR the space segment, transmission services and Internet access as part of a complete end-to-end solution. DEXAR will be distributing the Internet content to ISPs and business customers across the country. With this agreement, DEXAR can provide Internet access to customers while bypassing network congestion in Turkey caused by limited fiber capacity into and within the country. "COMSAT's ability to install quickly a highly reliable Internet solution at a competitive price was instrumental in the awarding of this contract," said Sinan Terek, general manager of DEXAR. "This contract for broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a has become the prototype for COMSAT's teleport business, combining space segment, uplink and interconnection to the U.S. Internet backbone," said John Mattingly, president of COMSAT Satellite Services. "COMSAT combines leading edge ground and space technology with superior performance to meet the growing demand for data and Internet applications around the world." COMSAT Digital Teleport operates earth station facilities in Clarksburg, Md., and Santa Paula, Calif., providing Internet, voice, video and data and networking services to customers around the world. COMSAT Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CQ) is a global provider of satellite services and digital networking services, products, and technology. |
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