Suppose you are a higher education institution and you have purchased an uplink facility on your campus.  You provide distance learning classes to many surrounding community colleges, you broadcast your basketball, football and other sporting events to local cable headends, and you receive telemedicine programming from the leading medical institutions of the country for your pre-med curriculum. 

Because you have variable rate equipment and are within the FTI network, you can purchase a 1.5Mbps signal for the distance learning classroom; a 6.0Mbps signal for your sporting events; and a 15Mbps for that tedious medical operation downlinking. 

With Bandwidth on Demand you can send and receive all of these various data rates and save big money doing it!
 
 

Foundation Telecommunications, Inc.. (FTI) announces their Video on Demand (VOD) system is up and running for their client networks. FTI invites interested parties to call and find out how the system works and how it can be installed on your private network or programming service to provide the fullest flexibility and savings for space segment booking. FTI understands that networks may not require a full time channel and that they do not want to pay for a 15 minute feed when they are only using 5 minutes of airtime. Using Wegener’s COMPEL Control System, FTI and the Bonneville Satellite Technical Operations Center (TOC) have the ability to control client uplinks to a specific channel, define timing parameters and bill the client only for the time segment that they use. Eli Lilly Corporation, State of South Dakota’s Rural Developmental Communications Network (RDTN), Satellite Communications for Learning (SCOLA), Northwest Indian College (NWIC) are some of the FTI clients that are taking advantage of the VOD system and are experiencing wonderful results.

Duane Astin, the VOD operator at Bonneville TOC explains, "All the FTI client has to do is log on to the database at our facility and book the time they need, and the VOD system does the rest. The master COMPEL system assigns the frequency for the requested data rate and tunes the uplink to that channel. The receive sites are consequently assigned to the correct frequency and when the broadcast begins, the receive sites are ready for the broadcast. At the end of the broadcast the VOD system returns both the uplink and downlink sites to the home channel. It is that simple and straightforward."

George Livergood, President of Foundation Telecommunications, Inc.. boasts of the advantages that VOD brings to the FTI network of clients, " The beauty of this system is the convenience and savings that our client networks enjoy. Reduced payroll cost for all receive sites on the network, the deletion of human error in tuning receivers and transmitters, instantaneous booking on demand, and of course the savings provided by billing only for actual space segment that is used, are just some of the benefits our clients are receiving. We have the ability to provide the master system operation to any satellite network through the TOC at Bonneville. VOD has almost unlimited capacity as it can support up to one million receivers per network. The only requirements are the Wegener encoding and decoding equipment, the Wegener COMPEL control system at the uplink site and a computer with modem at each downlink site."

Foundation Telecommunications, Inc.. is a rapidly growing telecommunications service provider specializing in state-of-the-art network design, tailored to the specific needs of each client. FTI offers the architectural design of the network, digital satellite equipment, network implementation, space segment capacity, and network control support for its clients. FTI has over twenty years experience in delivering telecommunication systems to the Business Television, Distance Education, Government, and Broadcast & Cable industries.