Satellite communications systems provider Antenna Technology Communications (ATCi) and Hong Kong-based co-location facility Solana HK have announced a new cooperation agreement to jointly offer broadband satellite and fibre services to markets through out Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The new partnership will bring ATCi’s ‘Skyway to Highway’ technology to Solana HK’s facilities that offer anywhere-to-anywhere access. The partnership will provide voice, data and video IP services to various government and commercial customers from March 31, 2010.
ATCi will implement DVB S2 ACM-latest generation IP broadcast and signaling with up to 60% more efficiency than previous platforms. The company’s packaged offering coupled with interlaced RF to digital IP optimiser technology is expected to enable GSM operators to reduce their backhaul bandwidth requirements through network optimisation and voice compression methods.
The companies said that the new offering will allow for bandwidth optimisation techniques to eliminate unnecessary data and will suppress silence, compress voice on interfaces that require it, and packetise traffic for transport over the infrastructure, reducing bandwidth requirements across all cellular links.
Gary Hatch, CEO of ATCi, said: “We are thrilled to reunite with John Madsen and his team at their new leading edge facility in Hong Kong. We believe that the Asia region has the most dynamic growth opportunity for voice video and data gateway applications.”
John Madsen, managing director of Solana HK, said: “This is an exciting collaboration. ATCi’s technologies are extremely economical as compared to current broadband and backhaul networks. We are extremely well positioned for growth in this area, the partnership is an excellent fit in that quality of service is a core ethic for both companies.”
