Monday, May 16, 2005

Miraxis -The next great thing?

Miraxis is a little known ka band satellite internet company which is owned by the same company that owns 1/2 of HNS LLC (Direcway)- Sky Terra Communications. They have developed a "next generation" of Ka Band satellites and technology which they maintain will enable their partners to offer TV, bidirectional satellite internet, ultra fast vpn, on demand entertainment and about anything else you may have dreamed of over satellite for a good deal less than what current, as they call them, "generic ka band satellites"(Are they referring to Wildblue?) now provide.
Sound like science fiction? Maybe not. These guys have very strong pedigree's at the top of the company and have ties with SES Astra, which has ties to SES Americom, which has two ka satellites in orbit over the U.S. right now....starting to get the picture? This may be part of what Sky Terra was after with the purchase of Direcway....a customer base of some 250,000 consumer & small business subscribers they can whisk away to this new technology and team up with Intelsat(launching this summer) or SES Americom to deliver a hefty blow to the efforts of some of the other ka band internet efforts. Anything that happens in this industry would not surprise me!
Their site: http:www.miraxis.net/services.html