Singapore June 2012

Meet Eutelsat in Singapore at the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum
and CommunicAsia 2012
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CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum - June 18, Shangri-La Hotel
9.25am Opening keynote, Michel de Rosen, Eutelsat CEO
4.50pm – Damien Garot, Eutelsat Director of Corporate Development in the
panel ‘Demand, data, execution – the real world via satellite’
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CommunicAsia -19-22 June, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre,
Level 4, Stand: 1U03-1
18-22 June, Singapore - Industry players that include Eutelsat are assembling in Singapore
from 18 to 22 June at two major events addressing the critical issues surrounding Asia’s vibrant
marketplace for satellite-based services.
The CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum on June 18 will be followed from June 19 to 22 by
CommunicAsia, Asia’s largest global ICT, digital multimedia and entertainment exhibition.
Eutelsat representatives at both events will be presenting the features of upcoming satellites
specifically designed to serve Asia, and the latest solutions to support markets for broadcasting,
GSM backhauling, IP trunking, VSAT networks and broadband access.
In the video market, Eutelsat’s connectivity solutions and strong video neighbourhoods enable
Asian broadcasters to reach viewers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Key
broadcasters already selecting Eutelsat include CCTV, CNC, StarTimes and TVB from China,
and Sun TV and Zee Group from India.
Most recently, Phoenix Chinese News & Entertainment Ltd (PCNE) selected the EUTELSAT 9A
satellite and services provided by GlobeCast to deliver Info News - one of the broadcaster’s
premier news channels - to continental Europe. The channel launched in the European market on
June 1, with access to a potential five million homes in the footprint of EUTELSAT 9A.
EUTELSAT 9A also enables Info News to tap into the significant Direct-to-Home audience
watching channels from Eutelsat’s popular HOT BIRD video neighbourhood. To optimise reach,
Info News is proposing reception from both neighbourhoods using the Eutelsat-developed ClipSat
add-on to a satellite dish.
New satellites designed to enhance connectivity between the Middle East, Europe,
Africa and Asia
Three highly flexible satellite programmes designed to provide telecom operators, ISPs,
broadcasters and government service providers with regional coverage and connectivity between
Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and as far as Australia and South America will be
showcased in Singapore. EUTELSAT 70B and EUTELSAT 21B are due for launch in fourth
quarter 2012. EUTELSAT 3B will be launched in early 2014.
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Unique of its kind, EUTELSAT 70B is configured to optimise resources from a single
orbital slot at the crossroads between Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. With high
frequency reuse, four powerful regional beams connected to 48 Ku-band transponders
will be located on a single platform. EUTELSAT 70B will more than double current
capacity at 70.5° East for data and government serv ices, broadband access, GSM
backhauling and professional video exchanges.
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EUTELSAT 21B will be launched to a core neighbourhood anchored for data,
professional video and government services across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East
and Central Asia. It will offer high flexibility via an enhanced footprint sweeping across
Europe into North Africa and Central Asia and two high-power beams with regional
coverage of North Africa and the Middle East. Designed for data and government
communications, video file exchanges, GSM and Internet backhauling, the satellite’s 40
Ku-band transponders will increase capacity at 21.5° East by 50%.
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EUTELSAT 3B is a tri-band satellite (C, Ku, Ka) designed to increase and diversify
resources for markets in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and South America.
Users will select the most relevant frequency band for different types of service. Ku
and C-band capacity will further consolidate response to broadcast and data markets.
High throughput beams in the Ka-band will be individually steerable to regional and
national markets and operated with scalable allocation of power and spectrum to
support innovative applications in bandwidth-demanding markets.
About Eutelsat Communications (www.eutelsat.com)
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is the holding company of Eutelsat S.A.. With
capacity commercialised on 28 satellites that provide coverage across Europe, as well as the Middle East, Africa and significant
parts of Asia and the Americas, Eutelsat is one of the world's three leading satellite operators. As of 31 March 2012 Eutelsat’s
satellites were broadcasting more than 4,250 television channels, of which 1,100 broadcast via the HOT BIRD video
neighbourhood at 13 degrees East which reaches more than 120 million cable and satellite homes in Europe, the Middle East
and North Africa. The Group’s satellites also serve a wide range of fixed and mobile telecommunications services, TV
contribution markets, corporate networks, and broadband markets for Internet Service Providers and for transport, maritime and
in-flight markets. Eutelsat's broadband subsidiary, Skylogic, markets and operates high speed Internet services through
teleports in France and Italy that serve consumers, enterprises, local communities, government agencies and aid organisations
in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Headquartered in Paris, Eutelsat and its subsidiaries employ just over 750
commercial, technical and operational professionals. This culturally diverse staff comprises employees from 30 countries.
For information during CASBAA and CommunicAsia: Vanessa O’Connor + 33 685 81 60 08 [email protected]