AlphaStar International Teleport

Broadband Everywhere Unique Teleport Features

Services Offered

Teleport Facilities66 Hawley Road

Oxford, CT 06478

History of AlphaStar

AlphaStar was a Direct To Home Satellite Television Broadcasting Company (one of the four original DTH including DirectTv, EchoStar, PrimeStar and AlphaStar).

A Unique Teleport facility built as part of the “Star Wars” proram. (built to military specs on 12 acres).

Global View (to track enemy satellites in Europe, Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia).

FCC Licensed video based (500 TV channels and thousands of audio channels)

History of AlphaStar (Cont)

• Includes Earth Station, Television and Post Production Facilities (one of about a dozen such facilities worldwide).

• Both Fiber and Satellite Connections.• Completed one year of Testing the Hybrid Network.• Deployed 7 Locations and Contracted with Tower

Management Company for 200 Locations.• Used Loral Satellite Telestar 5, Telestar 7 and 11 to test

European and Asian Coverage

Features of the Teleport

1 of a Dozen World-Wide Global Coverage - Part of

Reagan’s Star War C-band and Ku-band

Uplink and Downlink Connection to Fiber IP

Backbone Climate Controlled Built to Military Specs

Encoding / Decoding / Encryption

Conditional Access Fully Redundant

Operations Center Capable of reaching North

and South America, parts of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa

AlphaStar International TeleportBroadcasting & Broadband

AlphaStar BroadbandBroadcasting & Broadband

Hybrid Network Integration (2 way satellite with WIMAX local access (fixed and mobile) targeting residential, SOHO, telecommuters Internet users, MDU, MTU and the hospitality industry

Point to Point Backbone to Telco, Cable Head-Ends, Fixed Wireless, and other Commercial applications.

Field Test at Cisco’s Campus in San Jose, CA (June, 2000)

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2-Way Satellite Broadband

Point Point

Point Multi-Point

The AlphaStar Way

With the exception of fiber connections at the teleport, totally bypasses all terrestrial links

Able to setup new locations In days as opposed to weeks or months provisioning landlines

Utilizes caching technologies to save 25 to 33% of satellite bandwidth

Cache content is customized based on location

Utilizes WIMAX technologies for the “last mile” which saves on upfront equipment costs and provides easy installation

WIMAX unlike WIFI has a wider broadcast range and is designed to cover large areas with maximum bandwidth