National Satellite Telecommunications Network
The development and diversification since independence of our international relations require the availability of a flexible and direct telecommunications network with as many countries as possible.
Furthermore, in accordance with the government policy of harmonious development of all regions of the country, the planned network of earth stations will essentially cover the Saharan zone of the country, thus ensuring good quality telephone and television links with the administrative centers of the South for which traditional systems are difficult to envisage due either to natural barriers or to their excessively high cost price.
This network includes:
- a so-called “standard” station (32 m diameter antenna) intended to strengthen the country's potential in terms of international telecommunications (telephony and television) located in Lakhdaria (80 km from Algiers), an ideal site for such installations. This station will allow direct communications with all countries with similar facilities and located in the satellite coverage area of the Atlantic Ocean region (America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East);
- fourteen so-called “sub-standard” stations (11 m diameter antennas) forming the internal satellite telecommunications network, one of the first in the world in terms of its scale and operational characteristics.
This network is structured around a so-called “director” station also located in Lakhdaria whose role is to serve as relay and control for communications between the 13 other stations covering the main centers of the Sahara.
Schematically, each earth station consists of an 11 m diameter antenna, a low-noise receiver uncooled to obtain a gain of 31.7 db/k and single-channel carrier speech processing (SCPC) equipment with a simplified form of on-demand assignment.
Furthermore, in accordance with the government policy of harmonious development of all regions of the country, the planned network of earth stations will essentially cover the Saharan zone of the country, thus ensuring good quality telephone and television links with the administrative centers of the South for which traditional systems are difficult to envisage due either to natural barriers or to their excessively high cost price.
This network includes:
- a so-called “standard” station (32 m diameter antenna) intended to strengthen the country's potential in terms of international telecommunications (telephony and television) located in Lakhdaria (80 km from Algiers), an ideal site for such installations. This station will allow direct communications with all countries with similar facilities and located in the satellite coverage area of the Atlantic Ocean region (America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East);
- fourteen so-called “sub-standard” stations (11 m diameter antennas) forming the internal satellite telecommunications network, one of the first in the world in terms of its scale and operational characteristics.
This network is structured around a so-called “director” station also located in Lakhdaria whose role is to serve as relay and control for communications between the 13 other stations covering the main centers of the Sahara.
Schematically, each earth station consists of an 11 m diameter antenna, a low-noise receiver uncooled to obtain a gain of 31.7 db/k and single-channel carrier speech processing (SCPC) equipment with a simplified form of on-demand assignment.