History

• 2011
  • Installation of the QMS - Quality Measurement System at Telekom Austria Satellite Earth Station premises in Aflenz/Austria
  • Celebrations for 15 years of gcs GmbH
• 2010
  • gcs deploys DVB-T Encapsulators of their new 1 RU-based ODG product line
  • gcs wins Eutelsat S.A. as customer for their QMS - DVB-S/S2 Quality Measurement System.
• 2009
  • ISO 9001 Certification of gcs by T†V Austria
  • Project start of CERT in the domain of civil protection in cooperation with the Bundeskanzleramt Austria (BKA, Austrian Government)
• 2008
  • Inauguration of gcs PCB reflow and assembly facility which allows us to manufacture hardware prototypes in-house and quickly response to our customers needs.
  • gcs deployed the third generation of the DVB PCI interface hardware
  • Hosting the DVB Meeting in Salzburg/Austria (May)
  • Expanding the company with two new development offices
• 2007
  • Hosting the DVB Meeting in Salzburg/Austria (May)
  • Start of the new 1 HE product line with the first product, the BSR-100
  • Start of the new QMS product line
• 2006
  • Expanding the company for 3 new production and test offices
  • Hosting the DVB Meeting in Salzburg/Austria (May)
  • Celebrations for 10 years of gcs GmbH
  • Standardization of ULE as RFC 4326 through IESG with participation of gcs personnel
• 2005
  • Hosting the DVB Meeting in Salzburg/Austria (May)
• 2004
  • The 2004 ENVISAT & ERS Symposium was held at Salzburg Congress Hall with support from gcs
  • gcs started the SchoolCast ESA Project together with ATIT, WebSat, Intel, NCTE and HEAnet as follow-up to School-Sat
• 2002
  • gcs contributed to the ESA project School-Sat to deliver broadband Internet access for Irish schools
• 2001
  • gcs wins ESA as customer for the development and deployment of the satellite-base Data Dissemination System for the ENVISAT environmental monitoring satellite
• 2000
  • Expanding the company for 4 new offices for development and administration
  • Product "SiMPLE" was launched
• 1998
  • Official start of the uplink ground station located at the Techno-Z in Salzburg/Austria
• 1996
  • July 1996: Formation of gcs GmbH based at the Techno-Z in Salzburg/Austria
  • Start of collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA)