Wi-Fi hot spots via satellite bring broadband Internet to hotels

Hotel guests at the Athena Grand Hotel in Athens and the Gelina Village Resort & Spa in Corfu can now surf the Internet high-speed, thanks to Video & Suono, a Skylogic distributor in Greece.

Using a D-STAR antenna and a wireless gateway, these hotels now offer clients a true broadband Internet experience both at fixed terminals and at wireless hot spots, via the EUROBIRD™ 3 satellite at 33 degrees East.

Skylogic wins the Satellite News "Golden Orbiter" Best new product rollout award during Satellite 2005 in Washington DC.

With its 'seeing is believing campaign' Skylogic, Eutelsat's broadband affiliate wins the best new product rollout award during satellite 2005. The award recognizes the efficiency of the product roll-out campaign that exhibited real-life examples, case studies and key demonstrations of Skylogic broadband services during year 2004 and illustrated the successful use of the services in different countries and markets. The jury was also particularly impressed by the validation of Skylogic's solution through the participation, together with its sales channel partners, in high profile events around the world such as MTV awards in Europe, Formula 1: Renault F1, Minardi F1.

Together with its strong sales channel partner network, Skylogic has deployed more than 3000 two-way terminal systems within the first year of launch, serving broadband needs of many corporations, industrial conglomerates, public administrations and humanitarian organizations around the globe.

Blu Hotels, the Italian hotel chain, choses D-STAR for its administration network

Blu Hotels, the Italian hotel chain, switches its administration network over to satellite using the D-STAR service, via Skylogic, Eutelsat's Italian subsidiary. The hotel chain has chosen Icarusnet, a Skylogic distributor specialised in network engineering, system integration and project management. The satellite network, carried on Eutelsat's D-STAR broadband service, links the chain's headquarters in Salò, in the Garda Lake area, to all its 19 hotels situated throughout Italy, as well as to partner travel agencies.

CSI-Piemonte and Skylogic offer broadband internet by satellite for the whole province of Turin

Thanks to the use of satellites, even the most disadvantaged local organizations in the Turin region in terms of connectivity can soon have permanent high-speed network connections.
At the initiative of the Province of Turin, CSI-Piemonte and Skylogic (a Eutelsat company providing IP services) have signed a contract to provide a digital satellite network, to replace conventional narrow-band connections where necessary.

Advantix Presentation: Bayer chooses the satellite route
An interactive meeting for the whole of Italy facilitated by Feedback Italia and Skylogic

A grand presentation of a new product from Bayer: veterinarians attend "conventions" in their own cities, linked to scientific advisers by satellite in 26 cities.
After signing the distribution contract, Feedback Italia and Skylogic launch their partnership with the gratifying success of an advanced satellite application for corporate communications

D-STAR service used to broadcast weather programmes

As part of the Météo Montagne event at the French ski resort of Alpe d’Huez, the 5th-7th December, a video camera was installed to stream back live pictures of prevailing weather conditions to the Paris-based broadcasting centre of the Météo weather channel. The service was carried via D-STAR.

Eutelsat takes satellite broadband and Wi-Fi to new heights for the 100^TH Tour de France at Alpe d'Huez -
combining two-way satellite broadband with Wi-Fi for wireless Internet access at an altitude of over 1,800 metres

Six PCs have been installed at the Alpe d'Huez Tourist Office, 'le Sporting' restaurant and the ski resort's Internet Café. Eutelsat's D-Star service is being used to provide a two-way satellite broadband connection at 2 Mbps with no need for a connection to a local terrestrial network.

Eutelsat, with the support of France Telecom, is demon-strating the full capabilities of secure wireless access by combining satellite Internet and Wi-Fi technologies. With the service demonstrated in Alpe d'Huez users can establish a broadband Internet connection with their laptop or PDA without having to plug it in.