Stanford Telecommunications, Inc. a designer, developer and manufacturer of sophisticated communications systems for both satellite and terrestrial communications applications announced today it has signed a contract, initially valued at $2.6 million, with WorldSpace Corporation ("WorldSpace") to design, develop, implement, and deploy the WorldSpace Business System (WSBS).
The WSBS will be the foundation of business operations for the
WorldSpace network, a digital multi-media satellite broadcasting
service to the emerging and underserviced regions of the world. The
WSBS will offer a complete line of business operations functions:
Advertisement Sales and Traffic Management, Channel Leasing, Marketing
and Pre-sales Support, and Subscriptions Service Management.
The Stanford Telecom team, which includes Sideout Technologies
and Skjei Telecom, will assist in determining the needs of the
WorldSpace Sales and Marketing operations, and developing the business
system to serve those needs. This effort will involve the integration
of commercially available software products with custom-built software
to create a fully functional business system. High reliability and
security considerations are paramount for this internet-based system,
which will serve WorldSpace business sites and remote users worldwide.
"We are extremely happy to have been selected for the integration
of this critical business application," said Leonard Schuchman,
President of the Communications and Navigation Systems (CNS) group of
Stanford Telecom. "The activity of this contract represents an
expansion of our existing business relationship with a valued
customer, WorldSpace, and recognizes STel's outstanding credentials in
business system integration for satellite service providers."
About WorldSpace:
Based in Washington, D.C., WorldSpace was founded in 1990 to
provide direct satellite delivery of digital audio communications
services to the emerging and underserved markets of the world,
including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the
Middle East. By the end of the decade, WorldSpace will have three
satellites in orbit to transmit quality information, education and
entertainment programming to a service area that includes over 4.6
billion people.
