KeySat Systems Inc.
Richmond, ON
Company Overview
KeySat Systems Inc. is a versatile and experienced team of technical specialists providing systems integration expertise in the development and implementation of DVC Earth Stations and Terrestrial Headends.
Its core professionals have more than 50 years of combined experience in the telecommunications field, and launched KeySat to meet the global demand for digital headend restructuring and advanced DVC engineering solutions in DTH, MMDS, MDU and SMATV operations.
KeySats turnkey approach is to provide innovative, technologically advanced and financially competitive solutions to new installations, refits, and upgrades. The company achieves this combination of price competitiveness and technical excellence by utilizing an international network of industry professionals and suppliers.
Through this use of specialists to address each layer of site- specific tasks, and its unique multi-vendor supplier relationships, KeySat is a market leader in providing the best solutions at the best prices.
KeySats core professionals are experts in managing projects of any scope or size, from planning through implementation, and are the key to successful turnkey satellite solutions.
Company Information
Physical Address
22 Fowler St
Richmond, ON K0A 2Z0
CA
Mailing Address
P. O. Box 1120
Richmond, ON K0A 2Z0
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: KeySat Systems Inc.
CA
BTV+
Built eleven business television studios equipped with three and four cameras, digital production switcher, character generator, etc for Canadian Business Television and their customer, General Motors. These studios are used for dealer training (both sales and mechanics), product introduction, corporate message, etc.
JVC
Provided Harmonic test bed headends in Yokohama City. Japan and Tijuana, Mexico using a Broadcast Network Gateway to provide two QAM outputs to enable testing for Open Cable compliance. The Broadcast Network gateway is fed by two ASI streams from a transport streamer.
Mitsubishi Digital America
Provided a Harmonic test bed headend using a Broadcast Network Gateway to provide two QAM outputs to enable testing for Open Cable compliance. The Broadcast Network gateway is fed by two ASI streams from a transport streamer.
ATI
Installed an antenna farm on the roof of the building of C-band, Ku-band and DBS satellite antennas as well as UHF and MMDS antennas to provide analogue, digital, high definition video and other signals to a headend room. Installed the headend equipment including Motorola and Scientific Atlanta equipment as well as extensive patch panels and distribution amplifiers. Five cable distribution networks were provided from the headend to 100 locations comprised of office cubicles and laboratory positions. One network is a fixed network comprised of various television signals derived from the satellite feeds and local cable. Two networks are individual ASI networks, which can be set up with appropriate signals, required by the software developers and two networks are trunks or tie lines that allow any signal to be patched to any location. The developers of chip sets for set top boxes use the signals.
LinCsat
Developed and conducted a test plan to determine antenna sizes required in various regions of the Canadian Arctic to provide two-way internet service via satellite. Much of the area in question was located at the beam edge of the satellite footprint. Performed antenna testing to evaluate the suitability of a new antenna product for the LinCsat service.
Cancom
Designed, provided and installed an eight channel Ku-band multiplex combiner. An additional feature of this multiplex is that a 1: 2 antenna redundancy waveguide network was incorporated in the design allowing for ease of maintenance and emergency service restoration of the two main antennas. The multiplex is also designed to allow ease of expansion for future services.
Saskatchewan Communication Network
Provided an IP gateway and receiving terminal consisting of antenna and receiver/routers for the delivery of IP over satellite as part of a distance education network. The transmit gateway is multiplexed into an existing video compression multiplex transmitting from Regina.
ATI Research
Installed an extensive cable distribution network including nine satellite receiving antennas to provide analogue, digital, high definition video and other signals to thirty offices and sixteen laboratory positions. There were two separate networks originating from a headend and each of the offices and laboratory positions were equipped with both network feeds. One satellite antenna is steerable and able to receive both C and Ku band signals from any satellite in the arc. The headend includes patching facilities to allow any signal to be patched to any office or laboratory position.
Star Choice Buffalo
Designed, installed and commissioned a redundant satellite uplink in Buffalo to transmit a multiplex of digital video compression services using General Instrument compression technology to the Anik E2 satellite as part of the overall First Choice direct-to-home satellite service providing service throughout Canada.
Saskatchewan Communication Network
Designed and installed a redundant Ku-band satellite earth station in Regina, SK to transmit a DVB signal containing video, audio and IP data over Anik E1. This system replaced two independent uplink systems, combining the services from the previous uplinks into one transmission thus providing greater efficiencies of bandwidth allowing for the addition of new services within the original allocation of bandwidth.
Teleglobe
Installed a redundant IP gateway system at Teleglobes Munich satellite earth station facility to provide wideband IP over satellite to India via the LMI-1 satellite.
Star Choice
Designed, installed and commissioned two redundant satellite uplink sites. Each site uplinks a multiplex of digital video compression services using General Instrument compression technology to the Anik E2 satellite as part of the overall First Choice direct-to-home satellite service providing service throughout Canada.
TV2GO
Designed, installed and commissioned a satellite uplink site in Toronto capable of providing either analogue or digital transmission of video signals to various satellites, either domestically or internationally. The station employs a steerable 4.6m antenna that is capable of transmitting to Atlantic Ocean satellites and satellites in the North American arc.
Cancom Star Choice ATI Technologies Saskatchewan Communications Network ABS-CBN Look Communications Interlink Corp Mitsubishi JVC BTV+
Provide a MMDS headend for Rahuna Multivision in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Provide the first mult-vendor digital video headend employing Tandberg, Divicom, TV/Com, and Barco encoding and multiplexing equipment for Aurora Media Technologies in Luxembourg to provide digital video via hybrid fibre coax to cable company headeneds.
Provided a multi channel digital video encoding system for ABS-CBN in Manilla to provide direct-to-home video services via sattellite.
Contacts
Pat Keeffe
Title: President
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
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Services
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Digital Video Compression Systems Integration
KeySat personnel have the experience and ability to integrate multiple vebdor DVC products in the same DVC system or network. In this way Keysat can offer the best price versus product to provide the system best suited to customer requirements. Keysat works with the customer to develope an integrated approach that is both effective and competitively priced.
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Earth Station Design
KeySat designs earth stations with operations as its focus. Our goal is to provide our clients with earth station facilities designed with the operating staff's ongoing requirements in mind. This turnkey approach results in a fully integrated facility, system or network that is operationaly functional and task specific.
- Satellite Network Design
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Systems Integration
Keysat has the proven ability to provide project management, installation, testing and commissioning of satellite earth stations from small non-redundant uplinks to major earth stations facilities.
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