In what has been a challenging year for broadcasters, operators and service providers, demand for satellite based services has remained high even as operators look to improve their bottom line. Satellite service providers, broadcasters, telcos and ISPs are facing the need to diversify their service offering, delivering content to consumers via a range of platforms from IP to mobile.

 

Thanks to our technological innovations, Newtec has strengthened its leadership position in the broadcast and IP markets, showing that we are clear market leaders when it comes to TV and IP applications over satellite. FlexACM helped Newtec penetrate the IP trunking market as well as winning us a WTA Technology of the Year Award, and in the broadcasting world we scooped the Innovation Award with ASBU and Arabsat for MENOS at this year’s IBC. Newtec also strengthened its position as European market leader in the Internet consumer business with 65.000 Sat3Play terminals shipped through offerings by SES (News - Alert) Astra and expansion into Africa, while our new modulation and coding technology 4CPM enabled us to start accessing the business market.

 

Thanks to our customers providing us with more business, we have been able to increase our revenues to end our fiscal year with a revenue increase of about 15 percent, breaking the barrier of 50 million Euros, even in this tough economic climate.

 

Let’s look back on the achievements of this exceptional year, 2009.

 

 

Newtec launched a new revolutionary, highly advanced modulation and coding scheme called 4CPM at IBC09. The coding scheme increases the speed and bandwidth efficiency of the return link of the Newtec Sat3Play system.

 

The development of this new modulation scheme started back in 2006, and was developed by Newtec in cooperation with the France’s Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST) and the Italian universities of Parma and Bologna. TurboConcept (News - Alert), Newtec’s subsidiary in Brest (France), designed and implemented the core 4CPM algorithms.

 

4CPM enables return rates of 1Mbps and higher making the terminal not only a perfect fit for the consumer market, but also suitable within the professional market. In addition to the increase in the return rate, 4CPM also boosts return link bandwidth efficiency resulting in significantly lower cost satellite capacity.

 

IP over satellite networks based on Elevation equipment can start as basic IP trunking networks and easily be upgraded at a later stage with the “Variable Coding” and “Modulation” technology to save more on bandwidth. On top of that, Newtec has added a revolutionary capability that allows our customers to benefit from our cutting-edge and award winning FlexACM technology, with which they can double their data throughput and provide 100 percent link availability, something that was just impossible up to now.

 

The additional data throughput made available by using FlexACM technology can either be used to increase the data throughput of the network or to add more remote sites to the network within the same satellite capacity. It’s even possible to provide fixed speed services to the end users, while still enjoying all the advantages FlexACM offers.