ComStream Wins Contract To Supply VSAT Satellite Network For Argentine Electric Company.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1997--ComStream Monday announced that it is entering the Argentine 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. market with a contract award from SPTI SPTI Sony Pictures Television International SPTI SCSI Pass Through Interface , a branch of the BOLDT group (Grupo BOLDT) of Argentina. ComStream will supply VSATPlus II technology to SPTI, a service provider that will construct a time division multiple access (TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). ) VSAT satellite network for Centrales Electricas de Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. , a regional utility company. The company will use the network for voice and data transmission. Delivery of equipment will be completed within 45 days. BOLDT's core business until now has been production of official documents for the Argentine government (official diaries, checks, and bank notes), and recently its activities have evolved to include the country's lottery business, in which they hold 90 percent of the market share. With deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. of the telecommunications industry in Argentina expected by the end of the year, BOLDT and SPTI expect there will be many large corporations like Centrales Electricas de Santa Fe wanting to build their own private telecom networks. "With deregulation of the telecom sector in Argentina, we anticipate many more companies to become strategic customers," said Carlos Biderman, operations director at SPTI. "And ComStream's VSAT product line is very well suited to these kinds of networks because it creates robust, adaptable, and expandable telecommunications infrastructure for organizations that are just building their communication systems. The Santa Fe company is just one of the many companies in the market." "We are pleased to enter the Argentine market with partners like BOLDT and SPTI," said Hank Macchio, vice president and general manager of ComStream's Satellite Global Access division. "The potential application of our VSATPlus II systems for new private networks is great. VSATPlus II is an advanced multiservice system that lowers complexity and cost." Among its features are a full-mesh, expandable, multiservice TDMA-DAMA capability. This makes it possible for direct connection from any remote site to any other remote site within the entire network, eliminating the need for an expensive central hub and also eliminating any single point of failure that could take the entire network down. The system also offers direct connectivity for a wide variety of data services at a variety of data rates. ComStream is an international provider of digital transmission solutions for voice, data, audio, and video applications. It is world-known for its design and manufacture of satellite communications equipment, such as full-mesh VSATs, satellite modems and earth stations, and broadcast systems for private business and public networks. ComStream is also a producer of digital set-top boxes and the MediaCast satellite PC receiver card. With offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Indonesia, The People's Republic of China, Russia, and the United Kingdom, ComStream is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Spar Aerospace Ltd. Spar, a leading Canadian advanced-technology company, is in the communications, space, aviation and defense, and software industries. Operations are located in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, and nearly 70 percent of revenues are derived outside Canada. It is listed on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges Montreal Stock Exchange See Bourse de Montreal, Inc. (Canadian Derivatives Exchange) . Stock symbol: SPZ SPZ Schützenpanzer (German; armoured personnel carrier) SPZ spätzle (dorsoventral patterning, genetics) SPZ Simplified Planning Zone SPZ Socionet Personal Zone SPZ South Park Zone . Web site URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.spar.ca . CONTACT: ComStream Gwen Carlson, 619/657-5780 Holly Bertz, 619/657-5327 Fax: 619/657-5167 Web: www.comstream.com |
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