Foundation Telecommunications, Inc. Chosen by of The Jicarilla Apache Department of Education To Install Two-Way Digital Video Network in New Mexico.Business Editors/Technology and Education Writers ROGERS, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2000 Foundation Telecommunications, Inc, (FTI FTI Free thyroxine index, see there ) announces the completion of a two-way digital video network located at the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and speak a Southern Athabaskan language. The term jicarilla comes from Mexican Spanish meaning 'little basket'. Tribe in Dulce, New Mexico Dulce (pronounced [ˈdʌlsi] or occasionally [ˈduːsi]) is a town in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. . The installation included both the two-way digital video, audio and data 3.8 meter Vertex uplink together with a 3.3 meter DHSatellite C/Ku band steerable analog downlink capable of receiving signals from the entire domestic satellite arc. The turnkey installation and commissioning of the Vertex 3.8 meter high digital uplink was completed by FTI engineers within a four day period. Following rough alignment of the antenna, the FTI Telstar 5 transponder A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth (uplink), amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency (downlink). A satellite has several transponders. was identified and peaked within five minutes of activation. The MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). based digital broadcast facility is intended to provide supplementary education via distance learning for the 850,000 acre Jicarilla Apache Tribe reservation as well as programming for members of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) was formed in 1972, in order to represent the interests of the newly emerging tribal colleges. One of the most significant achievements of AIHEC was to work with the United States Congress to grant land-grant status to (AIHEC AIHEC American Indian Higher Education Consortium AIHEC American International Higher Education Corporation (South Africa) ) with respect to the local culture and traditions. David Howe, Jicarilla Apache Department of Education (JADE) Applied Video Program Supervisor states, "These big dishes will be used to give the Jicarilla Apache Tribe and surrounding area the chance to take classes that they would normally have to drive 4 to 6 hours to take. The Jicarilla Apache Department of Education is quite pleased with the results". President/CEO of Foundation Telecommunications, Inc., George Livergood, comments on the application, "The use of digital video satellite broadcast technologies to provide equity of services throughout the Apache Reservation is an ideal application. Moreover, the interactive voice, video and data connections with all other AIHEC colleges allow levels of communications never before possible". As with all FTI installed facilities, both satellite antenna installations are completely remote-controlled and status monitored via satellite and dial-up emergency backup telephone lines from the FTI corporate offices located in Rogers, Arkansas and at the FTI Transponder Operations Center located in Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. . Foundation Telecommunication, Inc. ( www.ftionline.com ) provides both one-way and two-way satellite Internet connectivity, as well as, in business TV, video conferencing and distance learning networks for one-way and interactive applications. FTI combines experience and expertise to provide complete end-to-end customized satellite distance education and business networks including network design, digital satellite equipment, electronic origination and remote classrooms, space segment and overall network control. |
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