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.
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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
Consumer device stand-by according to new EU directive starting 2010: <2 Watts

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).
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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.
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Salzburg, December 2006

ULE approved by IESG

The IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group) has approved the new ULE standard (Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation. ULE has been published as IETF RFC 4326. We are proud to inform that gcs has actively participated in the open source development to integrate ULE decapsulation code into the latest Linux 2.6.x kernel, and as an IP core for FPGAs.
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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.
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Salzburg/Ireland, June 2004

gcs has participated in SchoolCast project

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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Salzburg, May 2004

gcs participates successfully in the SILK project mainly funded by NATO.

The aim of the SILK Project is to increase significantly the exchange of information with, and between, academic and educational institutions in the Caucasus and Central Asia with highly cost effective, global Internet connectivity through state-of-the-art satellite technology. gcs deliveres IPv6 IP/DVB encapsulator.
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