Basic
SWANsat™ Services
 WANsat™
will provide
state-of-the-art two-way interactive video, audio, data, fax, Internet, educational, and
conferencing services in the requested spectrum for public, private, business, non-profit,
educational, and other information dissemination purposes.
SWANsat™
will facilitate
creation of world-wide tele-classrooms without walls that can optimize provision of
instruction from pre-school through the graduate level in public, private, and home school
environments. When not being utilized for educational services,
SWANsat™
will also
accommodate operation of traditional video and audio conferencing as well as telephony data
and voice services in the requested frequencies.
SWANsat™
will provide its services in
digital form only, thus effectively creating a telecommunications superhighway capable of
providing video, audio, data, and other information services at high transmission rates
denominated in formats familiar to the existing terrestrial communications infrastructure.
Accordingly,
SWANsat™
will provide a low-cost alternative to many existing
terrestrially based telecommunications services by establishing what will essentially be a
digital capacity-on-demand service.
SWANsat™
will establish a
true, ubiquitous, on-demand, point-to-point, seamless integration of two-way audio, video,
data, fax, DBS programming, retail end user sale and PPV, and other services through one
comprehensive system.
SWANsat™
will be able to offer free two-way voice-grade service
anywhere in the
SWANsat™
service area when any other SWANsat™
service is
subscribed to by an end user. A unique onboard digital switching system linked to a
high-powered downlink broadcast signal will completely eliminate any need for or dependence
upon terrestrial television or radio broadcast stations, cable television service providers,
public switched local telephone service providers, long distance telephone carriers,
Internet service providers, cellular telephone service providers, or other
telecommunications networks. Traditional distribution methodologies employed by the
entertainment industry for motion picture viewings, sale of video tapes or disk recordings,
television and radio programming, and CD entertainment will be vastly revolutionized by
direct delivery to the end user of single play and/or single record capability on a direct
video dial tone basis.
We
will implement what it calls a proprietary “Digital Telesthetics™” approach to
telecommunications for its users.
Telesthetics
is
the ability to receive information at a distance without utilizing the traditional
organs of sense. When applied to the telecommunications
industry, Digital Telesthetics (abbreviated as “DT™”) is the utilization of
geosynchronous telecommunications spacecraft in order to facilitate interactive
reception and transmission of digital video, audio, graphics, fax, Internet, text,
telephony, and other information communication products and services, completely
eliminating traditional land-based media such as telephone wires, fiber optics,
microwave, public switched networks, cellular wireline services, or cellular
non-wireline services that are dependent upon traditional Public Switched
Telephone Network
(PSTN)
systems.
SWANsat™
will employ
proprietary technology that will allow communications services to be digitally received by
and transmitted from end users directly, without using a PSTN provided by a local or long
distance telephone company. A sophisticated signal processor aboard the
SWANsat™
spacecraft will track transmission differentiation dynamically, channeling signals to and
from specific area spot beams. The Applicant’s innovative Digital Telesthetics™ approach to
doing telecommunications will thus eliminate dependence upon sublease of a third party
company’s transmission and switching system in order to do telecommunications.
The
SWANsat™
Digital
Telesthetics™ approach to communications services will provide innovative and affordable
satellite services throughout the world. Each spacecraft that comprises the space segment of
the
SWANsat™
constellation will utilize an on-board switching system and processor
that will provide individual end user customers immediate access to the space segment,
immediately routing transmissions within the downlink beam as needed. Because the design
will avoid the use of dedicated access facilities,
SWANsat™’s “on demand” satellite
services will be price competitive with terrestrial alternatives. As an added benefit, the
Applicant’s end user customers will be able to enjoy access to high quality, two-way
interactive video telephony service.
SWANsat™
will provide a wide variety of supplemental telecommunications applications, including
personal video telephony, high-speed personal computer access to the Internet, as well as
interactive access to the wide variety of multimedia services developed for the “information
superhighway”. Electronic CD-Rom imaging, video, text, graphic, and audio databases from
magazines, encyclopedias, museum and art collections, catalog shopping stores, etc., will be
available via
SWANsat™. Other applications and services will include video telephony
and video conferencing services that will allow multiple meeting sites and inter-connection
with the end user’s video conferencing equipment. Telecommuting hookups from home computers
to school, college, university, office, car, recreational vehicle, airplane, or boat will be
possible through
SWANsat™. Local Area Network connections and intranets will also be
configurable. Medical and technical tele-imaging, CAD/CAM data and image transmission, and
other services now being provided by VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) networks will also
be provided. Incorporation of on-board satellite switching and processing technology, when
combined with our “Digital Telesthetics™” approach to doing
digital information, will significantly truncate the time needed to transmit time-sensitive
data.
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