{"id":86578,"date":"2010-07-28T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/q-kon-launches-african-c-band-vsat-service\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:45:12","slug":"q-kon-launches-african-c-band-vsat-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/q-kon-launches-african-c-band-vsat-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Q-Kon Launches African C-band VSAT Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-28-10] South African turnkey solutions provider <strong>Q-Kon<\/strong> has launched its <strong>iDirect<\/strong> Evolution Internet Broadband VSAT Service via satellite to its customers in Africa, Q-Kon announced July 27.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The voice, video and data point-to-multipoint access service is available on C-band beams via the Intelsat IS905 satellite and is aimed at enterprises, ISPs and government bodies. The service is managed from Q-Kon\u2019s network operations center in South Africa and is hosted at its teleport in Mountainside, Wash. The company said the U.S.-based DVB-S2 iDirect hub provides interconnectivity to the U.S. Internet backbone, which will increase the speed of the service.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The iDirect Evolution platform \u201cis centered on an upgrade to new Evolution X3 satellite modem and IP router with an Ethernet interface that maximizes bandwidth efficiencies. It features iDirect\u2019s efficient implementation of the DVB-S2 standard with adaptive coding and modulation on the outbound carrier and iDirect\u2019s patented TDMA inbound channel,\u201d Q-Kon CEO Dawie de Wet said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-28-10] South African turnkey solutions provider Q-Kon has launched its iDirect Evolution Internet Broadband VSAT Service via satellite to its customers in Africa, Q-Kon announced July 27. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The voice, video and data point-to-multipoint access service is available on C-band beams via the Intelsat IS905 satellite and is aimed at enterprises, ISPs and government bodies. [&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-86578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86578"}],"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=86578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}