DirecPC Global Digital Package Delivery
Satellite delivery of Internet services to businesses around the world also is coming our way. A firm with offices in San Francisco, Mexico City, Edinburgh, Tokyo, and New Delhi will soon be able to distribute a large multimedia report containing graphics, video, and animation to each of its remote offices within hours. DirecPC has launched of a new service called Global Digital Package Delivery that will enable users to send any type of data file, from heavy graphics and text to video, from one site to any number of sites, anywhere in the world, that are equipped with DirecPC satellite receiving systems.
HNS has licensed operators to provide service in Canada, Mexico, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, India, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and numerous other Pacific Rim nations. The DirecPC global rollout was to have been complete by the end of 1998.The heart of every DirecPC operation, no matter where it is located, is the Network Operations Center (NOC). From the NOC, all direct communications with the satellite take place. To make Global Digital Package Delivery a reality, each existing and future NOC will be operationally interconnected-that is, they will share common billing and delivery prioritization standards.Through the DirecPC hardware platform, businesses will receive three primary services. Turbo Internet provides Internet access at up to 400 Kb/s. Package Delivery allows point-to-multipoint distribution of data at up to 3Mb/s. DirecPC Multimedia permits point-to-multipoint distribution of full-screen, MPEG-l quality video straight to the computer desktop.