Both services have been designed so that telecommunications companies, service providers, network integrators, ISPs and other resellers can cost-effectively establish integrated networks using the shared hubs to offer high-quality, cost-effective broadband Internet services virtually anywhere within the coverage areas - regardless of the physical terrain or the extent of terrestrial communications networks.

Potential applications include virtual private networks and high-speed Internet connectivity, video conferencing, rural telecommunications, Voice over IP, distance learning networks and telemedicine, etc.

In Latin America, New Skies has launched a new IP broadband network hub provided by Shiron Satellite Communications at the company's state-of-the-art Washington D.C. mediaport to offer Ipsys Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) to customers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean over the NSS-806 satellite.

The service enables the use small C-band antennas throughout the entire region due to NSS-806's high-powered coverage of the Americas.

In Asia, New Skies' Ipsys Broadband features a Newtec DVB-RCS (digital video broadcast-return channel by satellite) hub installed at the company's partner mediaport facility in Hong Kong.

The hub will take advantage of the NSS-6 satellite's powerful Ku-band coverage of South and Northeast Asia. The service is currently undergoing beta testing and will be commercially available in late 2004.

Michael Schwartz, New Skies' senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, said: "In many regions of the world, last-mile terrestrial connectivity cannot support the bandwidth requirements of large corporate enterprises or ISP networks.

Even current satellite solutions typically require extensive terrestrial networks in order to connect remote sites to two-way satellite gateways.

"Using the new two-way hubs, the Ipsys Broadband and Ipsys BoD services will allow our customers to establish two-way networks by directly linking remote sites to the hubs entirely independent of terrestrial infrastructure, while also employing low-cost end-user terminals and small antennas. The new services will bring cost-effective next-generation broadband Internet services to areas where often there are no Internet access options, let alone broadband services."

The new services will significantly expand the broadband reach of New Skies' customers, enabling them to provide an ubiquitous level of service and established cost-effective, two-way networks throughout the Ipsys Broadband and Ipsys BoD footprints.

These capabilities will allow them to develop new market segments where terrestrial solutions are not available and where satellite solutions previously were too expensive.

"Our customers have told us that the biggest impediment to the deployment of two-way broadband services has been the large, up-front investment required for the hub and associated management systems. Ipsys BoD and Ipsys Broadband overcome this limitation by allowing multiple small- and medium-sized regional service providers to aggregate their networks on New Skies' Multi-ISP hubs at our owned and affiliated mediaports," added Schwartz.

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