Kingston Inmedia, the satellite-centric broadband solutions provider of Kingston Communications has signed an agreement with global satellite communications company New Skies Satellites to offer highly competitive range of communications services using New Skies' network and Kingston's fully integrated media facility at Gerrards Cross, northwest of London.

Under the terms of the new agreement, Kingston Inmedia and New Skies will expand the range of satellite communications services offered to customers throughout Europe, the Americas, India, the Middle East and Africa. Specifically:

New Skies and its customers will have access to Kingston's state-of-the-art digital media facility, which includes satellite earth stations, a secure data centre for colocating equipment, three fully equipped broadcast studios, and advanced digital playout suites.

Kingston and its customers will have access to New Skies' global satellite network, which consists of six geosynchronous spacecraft and offers connectivity virtually anywhere in the world.

Kingston will add telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) and carrier services monitoring (CSM) for New Skies' newly-launched NSS-7 satellite to those services already being performed for the NSS-703 and 806 satellites.

New Skies' communications hardware will be consolidated at a single, secure location within Kingston inmedia's facility, along with colocation space for customer equipment.




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