Quantis connects 4,000 schools in Morocco through the Newtec Dialog platform

Coinciding with IBC, a new hub installed in Morocco by Nortis, the Moroccan subsidiary of Quantis, has been presented, from which Internet access will be offered to 4,000 Moroccan schools.

How many has acquired the multiservice platform Newtec Dialog to complement its current satellite infrastructure and provide its clients with more advanced services.

Quantis is a long-standing customer of Newtec's broadband solutions covering Africa, Europe and the Middle East, including a broadband hub (Sat3Play) installed in Arganda (Madrid).

This new hub will allow Nortis, a subsidiary of Quantis in Morocco, to offer satellite broadband services throughout the country. The hub will be installed on the outskirts of Casablanca.

Thanks to this technology, a project will be developed that will connect 4,000 schools in Morocco, following a contract awarded to Nortis by the Moroccan Ministry of Education as part of the Genie project.

This project includes three phases in its development. The first began in 2009 when the Moroccan Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) awarded Nortis the satellite connection of 600 schools of the total of 2,000 contemplated in this phase. In 2011, the second phase was launched, with a total of 400 schools, of which 112 have a satellite Internet connection through Nortis. The third phase includes the Internet connection of 7,854 new schools, of which 4,000 will do so via satellite through Nortis.

This service will provide Internet access for students, while teachers will be able to benefit from courses through distance education. The new multi-service platform will also allow Quantis to enter high-heat markets, such as maritime, cellular backhaul, enterprise and M2M.

The Internet connection through satellite uses a small satellite dish, similar in size to those used to watch television, and a router similar to that used in cable connections. As it is a satellite signal, access is assured at any point in the territory. The 4,000 schools in the last phase of GENIE to which Nortis will provide access will have bandwidth of up to 20 megabits of upload.

As a multi-service platform, Newtec Dialog guarantees optimal modulation and bandwidth allocation according to each application, even in mobility, in traditional networks such as HTS. The center also has Newtec return link (Mx-DMA) or Cross Dimensional Multiples Access technology that allows satellite services to operate more efficiently and reliably by combining the best features of MF-TDMA and SCPC technologies.

As Newtec CEO Serge Van Herck highlighted in this IBC, “one of the areas that Quantis will be able to address immediately and profitably with Newtec Dialog is the deployment of 3G and 4G infrastructure by mobile operators, which is proving difficult in many regions due to the lack of fiber or terrestrial infrastructure for the backhaul of thousands of base stations to cover the population.”