Dear Listmembers -
As a periodic contributor to this list and early evangelist for IP over
satellite (beginning in my prior life with PanAmSat), and having survived
the 'original' January Cleveland meeting several years ago (much relating
to a certain sceptical LA Times article), I am imploring you to please
indulge the following off-topic request with a minimum of flaming.
Last May I joined New Skies Satellites in Den Haag, Netherlands. It is/was
a spin-off from Intelsat, and we currently operate 5 C- and Ku-band
geosynchronous satellites. One new satellite is on order (with Lockheed)
and two more are in planning.
We have the usual mix of customer IP traffic -- some asymmetric SCPC
between the US and elsewhere, a few DS-3 links, and some innovative
customer services invluding VOIP.
We have just bought our first US Teleport (in the Dulles corridor), and
expect to have a site on the West Coast shortly. We are also working with
several non-US teleports to also provide facilities. Our second
initiative is the procurement of multiple DVB/IP 'media platforms'. A lot
of our efforts are to make it easier for remote ISPs and networks to get
linked via satellite, and to find better ways to aggreggate traffic through
the teleports. We are pursuing open, non-spoofed, systems and
architectures and we are having a lot of fun.
Now the shamelessness (besides the brief infomercial above). We have two
people (including myself when not working on the satellites) who are trying
to pull all of this together. We really, really need to find someone who
understands the hardware and protocol aspects of satellite IP links, who
likes a start-up atmosphere (yeah, there is decent pizza delivery here) and
wants to help build out our IP business. The position is here in Holland,
with travel back to the US on a regular basis. Someone with an engineering
degree and 5-7 years experience is desired but can be more or less.
OK, consider this my one get-out-of-jail-free pass. I'll try to reserve
further contributions to the topics at hand.
Regards,
Chris Schram
VP Satellite Plans & Procurement
[email protected]
Tel: +31 70 306 4100
Fax: +31 70 306 4285
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