A little DD reading. Why is satellite important?From the ARK Multicasting News Relese.
"The demonstration originated with International Broadcasting Network (IBN) content in Cedar Hill, TX from the AMV Westar master control facility.
Intelsat provided the satellite IP transmission via their gateway and uplink services using Newtec Dialog, a VSAT platform, establishing a bi-directional IP pipe with the reception site. The signal was pulled down into the ARK lab environment at the Hitachi Comark headquarters in Southwick, MA. It was then transmitted through a complete ATSC 3.0 broadcast television stack to a Samsung ATSC 3.0 compatible television. As part of this phase of the proof of concept, DigiCAP also demonstrated their ATSC 3.0 home media gateway by simultaneously streaming four discrete video streams over WiFi to a TV, laptop, tablet and smart phone.
ARK will reduce the cost per GB delivery of Over-the-Top (OTT) video content, software downloads and streamed IP media
by two-three orders of magnitude compared to existing Internet service providers. Media content creators and distributors will benefit from ARK’s end-to-end direct delivery to the mobile and fixed devices of their audiences bypassing all of the existing gatekeepers.
And from the RVR News Release Of April 14, 2020 Rift Valley Resources Corp. Announces Termination of Agreement to Acquire Metrolink Solutions Inc. and Appointment of Director
April 14, 2020, Vancouver, B.C. – Rift Valley Resources Corp (the “Company”) (CSE: RVR) announces the termination of an agreement to acquire Metrolink Solutions Inc., as announced in a news release on March 22, 2017 and revised on September 3, 2018.
Rift Valley Resources has appointed Ward Munsie as a director and CFO of the Company. Mr. Munsie has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science & International Relations from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California and an MBA in International Management from the
Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University.
Craig Robson has resigned as a director and Vice President. Donald Gordon has resigned as CFO, but will remain as a director of the Company. The Board would like to thank Mr. Robson for his dedicated service to the Company and wishes him well in his future endeavors.
Rift Valley Resources is constructing a fixed-wireless broadband network in Crockett, Texas, the first of a proposed 130 regional networks throughout rural United States, representing a market of over 44 million people.
It is estimated that there are over 160 million people, primarily in rural areas in the USA, who have limited or no access to true broadband internet connectivity.
Rift Valley has teamed with ARK Multicasting, Inc. (“ARK”) to create a new Hybrid Broadcast Broadband network. This network leverages the new ATSC 3.0 standard that allows IP-based content to be broadcast over TV broadcast spectrum.
The parties will conduct a two-phase pilot program in Crockett, Texas to leverage the use of licensed TV broadcast spectrum with unlicensed TVWS radio spectrum to create a highly efficient and cost-effective solution providing wireless broadband (“last mile”) internet access in rural areas.
ABOUT ARK MULTICASTING:
ARK is a television-based IP content delivery network operator which controls 280 TV licenses in the US. Of these, 130 television licenses are in rural markets, providing substantial coverage to the residential, enterprise and government facilities in this underserved market.
Rift Valley Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE:RVR)). The Company on January 24 2019 announced the appointment of Vern Fotheringham as its Non-Executive Chairman.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Griffin Jones
CEO
For more information, please contact Mr. Griffin Jones at 604 682 7339 or
visit www.riftvalleyresources.ca
Neither the Canadian Securities Exc
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