News

September 27, 2004

PolarSat appoints new VP Research and Development

PolarSat is pleased to announce the appointment of Gregory Shaw as Vice-President, Research and Development. He will be responsible for the overall direction, planning and leadership of all Research and Development related efforts in PolarSat’s new product development investment program.

Mr. Shaw has held senior management positions in R&D in both small and large organizations such as Spar Aerospace, Nortel and Telesystem International Wireless over the past 20 years. He brings to PolarSat an extensive knowledge of wireless services and networks as well as IP technology. Additionally, Mr. Shaw has been Chairman of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute Workgroup for TETRA High Speed Data.

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ABOUT POLARSAT

PolarSat Inc. is a privately-held company focused on the development and manufacture of satellite communications terminal equipment and systems. The company employs some 94 people.

PolarSat offers three distinct product lines of satellite-based networking products. In addition to the VSATPlus II, PolarSat also offers the FlexiDAMA (TDM-SCPC/DAMA) and NANOOK (DVB-RCS) Product lines. FlexiDAMA uses SCPC-DAMA satellite access technology to provide full mesh circuit and packet switched connectivity with dynamic in-circuit bandwidth-on-demand to provide maximum flexibility and bandwidth efficiency. Further, the company’s SkyIP (IP-based technology) offers remote offices simplicity and scalability across a wide range of telecommunications services, including Internet access, LAN/WAN interconnects, voice, data, and on-demand video teleconferencing. The NANOOK product line, including the family of KODIAK remote terminals is based upon the DVB-RCS open standard. Building upon this published air interface (DVB-S forward link, MF-TDMA return link), the NANOOK product line extends the capability and functionality of this broadband access technology through an elegant integrated suite of IP enhancements. Quality of Service (QOS), TCP Performance Enhancements (PEP), IPCompression, IPSec, Firewall, and DHCP form the core of a robust and extensible product line.

PolarSat’s head office and manufacturing plant is located at 18105 Trans-Canada Highway, Kirkland, Quebec, Canada.

For further information about PolarSat Inc. please contact:

Sandra Frosst
Manager, Sales and Marketing
Telephone : (514) 694-2244
Facsimile : (514) 694-5288
Email : sfrosst@polarsat.com