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KenCast Newest Member of SIA

KenCast Becomes the Newest Member of the Satellite Industry Association

Washington, D.C., November 26, 2018 – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) is pleased to announce that KenCast, is the Association’s latest member.  Founded in 1993, KenCast provides reliable and secure information solutions using hybrid satellite, terrestrial wire, and wireless networks. The Company’s Fazzt content delivery platform with innovative forward error correction (FEC) software provides customers with the ability to prioritize, schedule, queue, limit, slow or pause content flow to avoid oversubscribing customer bandwidth. It can also make simultaneous use of multiple diverse channels (satellite, terrestrial and LTE cellular) to reliably deliver content and maximize throughput.

“SIA is pleased to announce that KenCast has joined the Satellite Industry Association,” said Tom Stroup, President of SIA.  “For more than 20 years, KenCast has been providing secure FEC satellite data throughput solutions to its customers and we welcome the Company’s satellite and hybrid terrestrial data management expertise to SIA.”

“KenCast looks forward to participating in SIA Events to continue advancing the goals of the satellite industry, as defined collectively under the leadership of SIA, in this exciting next generation of High Throughput GEO and NGOS constellations,” said Bill Steele, Chairman & CEO, KenCast, Inc.  “KenCast has enhanced its Fazzt content delivery platform with many new features to provide the high reliability and secure delivery required to ensure flawless performance for many new applications that will be enabled by these constellations.”

About KenCast

For more than 25 years, KenCast has been a pioneer in the secure, reliable and efficient delivery of valuable content. With an extensive patent portfolio, we have been innovating from the very beginning, and continue to prepare and aggressively develop delivery solutions as this dynamic market evolves. Our list of long-standing marquee customers includes the U.S. military, leading motion picture studios, major global corporations and cutting-edge solutions partners. If you want end-to-end control to send and stream content to any number of sites – using a single system for both satellite and terrestrial networks – talk to us at www.KenCast.com

About The Satellite Industry Association

SIA is a U.S.-based trade association providing representation of the leading satellite operators, service providers, manufacturers, launch services providers, and ground equipment suppliers. For more than two decades, SIA has advocated on behalf of the U.S. satellite industry on policy, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting the satellite business. For more information, visit www.sia.org.

SIA Executive Members include: AT&T Services, Inc.; The Boeing Company; EchoStar Corporation; Intelsat S.A.; Iridium Communications Inc.; Kratos Defense & Security Solutions; Ligado Networks; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Maxar Technologies; Northrop Grumman Corporation; ; SES Americom, Inc.; Space Exploration Technologies Corp.; Spire Global Inc.; and Viasat, Inc.

SIA Associate Members include: ABS US Corp.;  Airbus Defense and Space, Inc.; Analytical Graphics, Inc.; Artel, LLC; Blue Origin; DataPath Inc.; Eutelsat America Corp.; ExoAnalytic Solutions; Globecomm; Globalstar, Inc.; Glowlink Communications Technology, Inc.; HawkEye 360; Hughes; Inmarsat, Inc.; Kymeta Corporation; L3 Technologies; Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Peraton: Planet; Telesat Canada; TrustComm, Inc.; Ultisat, Inc.; and XTAR, LLC.

SIA Affiliate Members include: The Aerospace Corporation; AQYR Technologies; COMSAT; KenCast; Newtec; ; RUAG Space; and Wiley Rein LLP