{"id":82303,"date":"2012-10-16T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T11:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/wta-suggests-operators-provide-third-party-capacity-to-combat-ou-delays\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T11:29:29","slug":"wta-suggests-operators-provide-third-party-capacity-to-combat-ou-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/wta-suggests-operators-provide-third-party-capacity-to-combat-ou-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Suggests Operators Provide Third Party Capacity to Combat OU Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-16-12] A <strong>World Teleport Association (WTA)<\/strong> survey of teleport operators and satellite operators found that more than half experienced four or fewer unexpected occasional-use (OU) delays per year, with 39 percent of the sample calling these instances a \u201cserious problem\u201d and 61 percent considering delays only \u201csomewhat serious\u201d or \u201cnot a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tWTA published its \u201cDelays in Occasional-Use Satellite Access\u201d report Oct. 16 to investigate problems reported by its members in gaining timely access to OU satellite capacity. The report cited the two biggest causes of delays in cross-pol isolation and testing signal power procedures as interference on the transponder caused by a third party and an attempt by the end-user to use capacity that had been scheduled, typically for full-time use, by a third party.<br \/>\n\tWTA Executive Director and report author Robert Bell said that WTA-member teleport operators began reporting issues with gaining timely occasional-use access to satellite capacity at the end of 2011.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\u201cThere are clearly issues, and for a minority of teleport operators, they are serious,\u201d said Bell. \u201cBut respondents believe that only a relatively small percentage of such issues relate directly to the performance of satellite operator staff or systems \u2026 In the television business in particular, OU access is time-critical. WTA set out to learn how frequent and serious the issue was for teleport operators providing OU services, and what the root causes might be.\u201d<br \/>\n\tBell added that member teleport executives reported increasing delays in completing access procedures, which they felt were putting at risk their ability to meet the needs of their customers.<br \/>\n\tThe WTA study suggests three specific areas that could be addressed between teleport operators and satellite operators: better expectation-setting for OU end-users; examining procedures for providing access to capacity leased through third parties; and addressing satellite interference.<br \/>\n\t\u201cAll the satellite operators contacted for this report appear eager to better understand OU-related concerns and to work collaboratively on improvements,\u201d said Bell.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-16-12] A World Teleport Association (WTA) survey of teleport operators and satellite operators found that more than half experienced four or fewer unexpected occasional-use (OU) delays per year, with 39 percent of the sample calling these instances a \u201cserious problem\u201d and 61 percent considering delays only \u201csomewhat serious\u201d or \u201cnot a problem.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}