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West Bengal launches third earth station

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Radhika Bhuyan

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KOLKATA: The government of West Bengal has launched its 3rd earth station in
Kolkata, which will be inaugurated during the ICE summit on November 18, 2001.
The station is located at the Salt Lake Electronics Complex. It will enable
faster communication, and transmit, emit and receive radio waves for data and
telecommunication purposes.

The station is a satellite-based mode of communication whose features make it
an interesting participant in the telecom arena including terrestrial wireless
and wire line networks.

The setting up of such an earth station in Kolkata will facilitate broadband
enterprise networks where multiple remote sites of various companies could be
connected with high-speed data networks (above 64 kbps). It would also provide
broadband Internet access to both the home and enterprise segment.

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Besides, in remote areas it would mean an access to telephony that lack
terrestrial telecom infrastructure. In these areas satellite telephony stations
could be set up.

The earth station equipment installed handles higher channel densities and
meets a high-availability standard providing uninterrupted service. These
equipment are made flexible enough to handle various air-interface protocols.
Digital signal processing is a means to achieve these improvements that would
allow digital cellular telephones, echo cancellation and many other audio
frequency signal processing functions to be implemented at relatively lower
costs and with very few electronic components.

"We have invested around Rs 5 crore for the earth station project. The
setting up of this would provide basic infrastructure for both existing and
upcoming software firms and spurt IT development within the state," said
Chiranjib Rudra, director, STPI, Kolkata.

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Satellite communication continues to grow, especially in the burgeoning
wireless marketplace. In satellite communication the type of orbits and
frequencies used influence the nature of the communication systems from these
earth stations.

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