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December 2011 15 years gcs GmbH We are pleased to announce that gcs celebrates its 15th anniversary! The Salzburg-based company gcs Global Communication & Services GmbH was founded in 1996 focussing on product research and commercial technology development. The aim is to combine the Internet world with DVB based broadcast and multicast transmission systems. November 2011 Launch of the new product HTV120 - HbbTV Playout
In the course of the CoTV project (Community TV Content Making), funded by ESA, enabling TV viewers to collaborate with TV producers for generating
mixed "user" and "professional" content, gcs developed an HbbTV capable playout system.
October 2011 gcs received the order to supply ODG200 systems ESRIN, the centre for earth observation of ESA (the European Space Agency), awarded a contract to gcs Global Communication & Services GmbH
to upgrade the IP Encapsulator/ Modulator systems of the DDS-Data Dissemination System with the new ODG200.
September 2011 Launch of new website We are proud to announce the launch of our new website. Introducing our brand new products in the categories transmit, receive, measure, optimize and distribute. Feel free to surf around and discover our new range of services and products! gcs presents solutions for interactive television on the 8. media day in Salzburg The 8. media day, hosted by the association Plattform Digitales Salzburg, was held on the 16. of September in Salzburg. gcs was invited to present its solutions for interactive television (iTV) and social TV. Besides its brand-new HbbTV playout HTV120, gcs also presented the outcome of a project funded by ESA called Community TV (CoTV). CoTV is a social TV service with the aim of merging interactive user contributions with classic broadcast programmes and create new television formats, thereby also attracting the generation youTube. August 2011 gcs welcomes new managing director We are pleased to announce that on August 25, 2011 Prof. Dr. Horst D. Clausen took over the management of gcs Global Communication & Services GmbH from Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker. Prof. Dr. Clausen will be supported by two long-serving and experienced colleagues, Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Peter Höller and Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Würflinger who were given power of attorney with collective signing power. They will be responsible for technical development and sales activities. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker withdrew from his position as managing director and remains a shareholder of gcs GmbH. January 2011 gcs provides its Quality Measurement System to Eutelsat
gcs delivers its well-proven QMS (Quality Measurement System) to Eutelsat for automated measurements of key parameters of the
transponders of its satellite fleet including an automated scanning function to identify DVB carriers. The measurements range
from in-depth TR101290 analysis, measurement of carrier parameters (center frequency, symbol-rate, Eb/No values),
examination of DVB table information, measurement of BER values up to fill factors and idle rates. In addition the QMS is
furnished to report IP relevant parameters for measurement of transponders carrying Internet services.
June 2010 gcs receives order for delivery of IP/DVB encapsulators for DVB-T
gcs delivers equipment of the new generation of its ODG - Open DVB Gateway product-line for a pilot trial proving the
usability of the digital dividend for providing Internet access in rural areas. The pilot trial will be conducted in 4
villages in Niedersachsen, Germany. The base technology will be a bi-directional symmetrical radio system, a separate
DVB-T based channel will be used as a downstream booster.
February 2010 gcs received order for exchange of receivers for Esrin's Data Dissemination Service
ESRIN, known as the ESA Centre for Earth Observation awarded a contract to gcs Global Communication & Services GmbH for exchange
of its existing receivers for the DDS - Data Dissemination System with receivers of gcs BSR - Broadband Satellite Receiver series.
The ordered BSR200-DDS will support all current and future modulation, coding and encapsulation techniques like DVB-S/S2 up to 32APSK
and the new GSE encapsulation thus guaranteeing a future-proof configuration of the DDS.
Salzburg, September 2009 gcs received ISO 9001:2008 certification
gcs Global Communication & Services GmbH is pleased to inform about the company's certification according
to ISO 9001 by TÜV Austria
(a member of TÜV-CERT) at September 2009.
This certificate acknowledges that we have implemented a quality management
system according to the provisions of the European norm ISO 9001:2008. We can thus assure that the
requirements of our customers as well as customer satisfaction with regard to our products and the
order processing will be fully met. Quality needs standards and measures to be comparable.
Salzburg, December 2008 gcs new Applicance consumes less than 1.5 Watt - in full operation! gcs provides a new DVB/Internet Appliance, based on their BSR100-CE product, with the lowest energy consumption in market. The appliance has two different operational configurations. In the Internet only configuration, it requires less than 1.5 Watt electrical power in full operation. This value is already lower than the 2.0 Watt which are foreseen for the stand-by mode of consumer devices in the new EC directive 1275/2008 which comes into effect at 2010. In DVB-S/Internet configuration it requires less than 5 Watt (plus the power required for the used LNB, if used). At such a lower power consumption, the appliance provides two 100MBit/s Ethernet interfaces, a DVB-S /DVB-S2 receive interface, one ASI output interface, more than 200 MIPS processing power and 4 GByte non-volatile storage. It runs Linux 2.6 as operating system and can be adapted to our customers needs both in terms of hard- and software. gcs uses only high-efficiency switching power supplies and energy optimized circuits in order to provide the markets best energy efficiency. In addition to the ecologically advantages, this energy efficiency leads to a very low heat dissipation of the device. This allows a highly-reliable, fully cased design without moving parts and reduces the costs for cooling.
Consumer device power-off according to new EU directive starting 2010: <1 Watt
Salzburg, September 2007 gcs launches QMS, the IP/DVB Quality Monitoring System The QMS is a compact solution for monitoring DVB based IP networks.
Based upon a custom-designed high-performance receive
hardware together with a sophisticated software system, the QMS provides
IP/DVB de-capsulation, dissection and storage of meta-data of IP
data-flows (source and destination IP-address, service type,
transmitted bytes and packets, ...) as well as storage of MPEG
transport stream meta-data (PID, PSI/SI).
Salzburg, April 2007 gcs launches the BSR-100 - DVB broadband satellite receiver
The BSR-100 is a small, ruggedised, and powerful solution for reception of a DVB-S downlink as input
and a standard Asynchronous Serial Interface (DVB-ASI) as output.
Salzburg, December 2006 ULE approved by IESG
The IESG Salzburg, September 2005 ENVISAT DDS
ENVISAT DDS transferred more than 50 terabytes, having a mean reliability of
above 99%. ENVISAT DDS is based on data dissemination technology from gcs.
Salzburg/Ireland, June 2004 gcs has participated in SchoolCast
Goal of the project was to plan, design, implement, and bring
to pilot utilisation a content delivery system, whereby a variety of
multimedia files is multicast to Irish schools using a 2-way satellite
infrastructure, and cache the files at the school server for fast local
access. SchoolCast is based on gcs SiMPLE technology for this project.
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(Internet Engineering Steering Group) has approved the new ULE standard (Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation.
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