Bangkok--21 Jun--Shin Satellite
Shin Satellite Public Company Limited, the operator of the IPSTAR satellite broadband system, has announced at CommunicAsia 2006 in Singapore, the launch of a new IPSTAR series that is aimed squarely for the consumer market.
The iCON consumer series introduces a sleekly compact satellite modem that can download data at up to one megabit per second (1Mbps) and upload at 512 Kbps. The iCON has an embedded CPU and uses space age technology, such as Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) and Turbo Product Coding.
Besides the indoor segment, the iCON consumer series now comes with a new 84 cm dish with low power BUC. Due to the advances in IPSTAR technology, the uplink transmission requires only 0.25 Watts, thus contributing to the overall lower cost of the whole set.
Head of Marketing for IPSTAR, Mr. Patompob Suwansiri, said, "We are very excited to be able to introduce the new iCON series of IPSTAR user terminals. Demand for IPSTAR has been increasing dramatically since the beginning of the year and in established consumer broadband markets like Australia, we expect to see our products contributing to a more
affordable monthly package for anyone who lives outside of urban areas.
As satellite broadband does not suffer from the same amount of sharing bandwidth among users as terrestrial technologies, we believe the download speed of 1 Mbps is going to prove very popular with anyone who wants to surf, download large files or watch online multimedia entertainment."
The iCON consumer series will be available in Thailand, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Australia and New Zealand in the third quarter of 2006.
For more information please contact:
Shin Satellite Corporate Communications
Richard W. Jones
Tel.: (662) 591-0736-49 ext. 5072
Direct: (662) 596-5072
Fax: (662 ) 591-0724
[email protected]
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