Olympic Medal Count Contest Winner!

ITC Global is proud to announce the winner of our Olympic Medal Count Contest. In our August newsletter, we challenged our readers to guess the total Olympic Medal Count for the countries where we operate. The winner of round-trip airfare to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics or the London 2012 Summer Olympics was Neville Miller. He is a VSAT Engineer with Advanced Projects International.

Neville has worked as an engineer in the satellite ground station field for over 30 years, starting his career in England working for the Marconi Company on 30m Intelsat Standard A stations. He moved to Canada in 1982 and worked for Telesat for 11 years, working on installations in the far North and managing their VSAT program.  After that he worked as a consultant for HNS on VSAT systems in Malaysia and the Philippines, before getting involved with Iridium and commissioning the Gateways in Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan.  Most recently he was the chief engineer for the Andrew Corporation on the iPSTAR project for Shin Satellite Public Company Ltd of Bangkok, Thailand.

Neville's experience in the far North made him a good candidate to help ITC Global with the Agnico Eagle Mines installations in Nunavut, Canada, this past winter. His expertise with the Prodelin 3.8m antenna will be invaluable when he travels on behalf of ITC to the Kinross Gold sites in north eastern Siberia this fall.

Africa Downunder Conference, Sept 4-5
Sheraton Perth Hotel, Perth, Western Australia

Just like last year, the Africa Downunder Conference was a great success, reflected from the positive feedback from everyone in attendance. ITC Global would like to thank everyone that stopped by our booth and congratulate the winners of our drawing!

Peter Canturbury, CFO, Sundance Resources
Bruce Franzen, Company Secretary, DMC Mining

Asia Downunder Conference, Sept 30-Oct 1
Sheraton Perth Hotel, Perth, Western Australia

The flood of Australian exploration and mining expertise to the Asia region continues unabated. While many perceive Australia as a mature exploration environment, this is not the case with many of the south Asian countries. Modern geophysical and geoscientific techniques which, for many years, have been applied and perfected by Australian explorers on their own turf, will continue to find the multi-commodity orebodes which lie within the Rim of Fire and central Asia.

One of the most important objectives of the Asia Downunder Conference, this year to be held at the Sheraton Perth, is to bring together all the players, from Asia and Australia to share their stories and to network. The event takes place from September 30 to October 1 and should not be missed.

ITC Global Sponsors Satellite Laboratory
at RMIT

ITC Global is proud to sponsor RMIT's Satellite Communications Laboratory. This laboratory provides RMIT students with real-world, hands-on experience of setting up and operating a live satellite link, and enhances RMIT’s capability to carry out commercial communications and R&D projects.

RMIT University is one of Australia’s original and leading educational institutions, producing some of Australia’s most employable graduates. As an innovative, global university of technology, with its heart in the city of Melbourne, RMIT has an international reputation for excellence in work-relevant education and high quality research, and engagement with the needs of industry and community. It has built a worldwide reputation for excellence in professional and vocational education and research.

VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELTS
The Van Allen radiation belts are two belts of radiation outside the earth's atmosphere. The inner belt is centered approximately 3,000km above the earth’s surface, and the outer belt of maximum density is centered at an altitude of about 15,000-20,000km. The belts were named for James A. Van Allen, an American astrophysicist who first predicted the belts’ existence and then proved his theory with the findings of the Explorer satellite, launched in 1958. The Van Allen belts are the single largest determinant of why earth orbiting satellites are split into two major categories; Low Earth Orbit (LEO) exists below the Van Allen Radiation Belts, and Geosynchronous Earth Orbits and GPS exist above them.

Satellite Capacity Available over Australia on NSS-6

NSS 6, a Ku-band satellite with Ka-band uplink capabilities, will provide fully interactive access to high-speed Internet and other multimedia communications. Additionally, it will provide direct-to-home broadcasting services as well as the full complement of traditional enterprise telecommunications services across a large the whole of Australia. ITC Global now has available capacity on NSS-6. Please contact us for your communications needs over Australia!