Central Library Access

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• Sat-Ed
• Access to Education, anyone, anywhere
• Digital Libraries for Schools

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What we Do

• Bring access to digital content for education in
  rural and remote areas
• Sat-Ed Digital Library for Schools
• Launched Friday 2nd November 2007
• 10 schools,
• 9 in Red Zones Southern Thailand
• Sat-Ed Learning Cafe's
• Launched Songkran April 2007 - 2 Sites 500
  planned
• First IPTV Video on Demand in rural and regional
  schools
• Ghana, South Africa, Vietnam and Cambodia

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E-Learning fails - why

• Access to Broadband Infrastructure
• Costly and prone to failure in remote areas we
  love iPSTAR
• 80 a site sustainable
• 800 a site - unsustainable
• The nature of the Internet - Never enough!
• Bottlenecks every where
• Leaving the school
• Across the network schools run 8 4 HOT
• At the servers of education web sites
• you wouldn't hire a teacher who stopped . . .
  start . . stop . . .
• but we accept that from e-learning

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• Sat-Ed has developed a technical solution that
  allows Universal Access to Digital Content by
  PC's and TV's, called the Sat-Ed Digital
  Library

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Sat-Ed Digital Library Concept

• The Digital Library
• Content repository ON SITE
• A site exactly like a normal library, except all
  content is digital - AVAILABLE
• Like a normal library, INSTANT access to content
  regardless of Internet connection
• A school with minimal Internet access can have
  ultra high speed access to content
• Digital Library Management Control System
• Pushing, pulling, and security of content
• The Librarian, removes old content,
• Sends new content to all sites

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Sat-Ed Not just technology

• Content is King
• Over 2000 hours of VoD content for Thai schools
• Thai content in Thai
• VoD in Classrooms is radically changing how
  lessons are conducted
• Caching important web sites locally
• There is no ONE solution, TV's and PC's both will
  play important rolls in the future to access
  digital content, as will other devices

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The power of Video on Demand

• Teachers are scared technology will replace them.
  The Sat-Ed Digital Library makes them BETTER
  teachers
• The graph shows how VOD 4 x 1 minute sessions
  in a class, greatly improved the students ability
  to understand and use maths
• Video used as a Teachers tool in the USA, showed
  remarkable improvement in students ability and
  DESIRE to learn.
• DOES IT WORK?

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Introducing a new dynamic in teaching students
and teachers working together rather than 1 way
communication
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Sat-Ed Learning CafeIncome generation from

• Internet Access
• PC Sales,
• PC Training and Support
• TV Based Training
• VOIP (Local calls to Bangkok 40 Baht!)
• E-Cinema
• Local Pay TV
• Legal and Health services
• Provides e-government
• A luxury in the City,
• A necessity in the rural ar

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Sat-Ed Learning Cafes - serving Farmers,
Children, young adults, everyone in the community
with ICT services
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How we do it!The Digital Librarian
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Sat-Ed's Central Library

• The Central Digital Library contains
• Over 2000 of hours of video material
• Ever changing web sites to upload to all sites
• managed by the librarian at the central library
  (Head End)

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Content Distribution from International
Datacasting
Many Other Applications and Models

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example application NPRs ContentDepot
NPR affiliates request file based audio content
over the Internet and Datacast XD delivers to
stations over satellite via XD File Server Client
on SFX2100 appliances
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example application Vyvx video distribution

• Datacast XD is used for distribution of broadcast
  quality video files (25 Mb/s MPEG-2 TV ads)
• XD Client integrated on Vyvx Catch Server
• Large files (100 MB to 6 GB) transferred to Catch
  Server, for remote distribution and playback
• ADS service delivers 3 million ads per year

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example application Hearst Argyle/Tribune

• Distribution of syndicated TV programming
  advertising
• Typical 4 Gbyte files per half hour digital TV
  program
• 1000s distributed per week
• Fully automated from ingest to delivery
• XD File Server Client uses FTP push to deliver
  files to station automation and storage systems

SFX2100MR
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example application Best Buy

• large High Definition file and PC software
  upgrade distribution to 1400 stores across North
  America
• integration with existing authoring/playback
  systems
• satellite overlay to existing network for content
  distribution and congestion offloading curse of
  the internet again
• integrated web reporting administration using
  Datacast XD .Net/XML interface

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The Pendulum Swings to Warning
Two uplinks for redundancy and 1700 locations
of warning towers