NewSat and the 2012 APSCC Satellite Conference & Exhibition

The APSCC 2012 Satellite Conference & Exhibition is an international gathering for the executives in the satellite and the space-related industries held at the COEX Convention Centre, Seoul Special City, South Korea, September 5-27.

The 15th installment to the flagship event of the APSCC is back in Seoul, the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea, a sovereign state in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, and is a key opportunity to discuss strategic partnerships and generate new business opportunities.

David Ball, Chief Technology/Technical Officer (CTO) of NewSat, to date, Australia’s largest satellite communications provider, is joining the other satellite operators on the “Leading the Satellite Evolution” panel, discussing the following:

First, they want to know where in the continent of Asia, the world’s largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres, in which regions, or for which types of capacity is the issue of oversupply or growing demand most important. They also want to know the pricing trends expected. Second, they want to know how will the competitive dynamic between global and regional operators play out. Third, they want to see know if partnerships are the most effective route for growing regional operator supply. Fourth, they are seeing the bright spots and trouble spots for satellite operators in Asia in the next few years. Lastly, they want to know how will new the high throughput satellites (HTS), a classification for communications satellites that provide at least twice, though usually by a factor of 20 or more, the total throughput of a classic FSS satellite for the same amount of allocated orbital spectrum thus significantly reducing cost-per-bit, affect the market in Asia.

Ball is in an executive-level position in NewSat focusing on scientific and technological issues within an organization; that is, satellite communications/communications satellite (COMSAT), an artificial satellite sent to space for the purpose of telecommunications.

NewSat, although located in the “Commonwealth of Australia,” a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, provides coverage to 75% of the Earth’s surface, through its satellites, VSAT, and teleports--a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) is a two-way satellite ground station or a stabilized maritime VSAT antenna with a dish antenna that is smaller than three meters, while a telecommunication port, or more commonly, teleport, is a satellite ground station with multiple parabolic antennas (i.e., an antenna farm) that functions as a hub connecting a satellite or geocentric orbital network with a terrestrial telecommunications network.

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