Box 532
Contains 25 Results:
Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 June 4
Includes status reports on technical development issues, including spacecraft and components, TWT production; summary of Requests for Engineering Action [REAs] submitted by OSFT program.
Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 June 18
Includes legal and regulatory issues summary; customer status report and list of current and potential customers; evaluation report on TDMA modems, financial comparisons and recommendations for acquisition of modems from Fujitsu, Ltd.
Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 July 9
Includes evaluation of pre-operational program, with summary of network performance and problems, costs to date and recommendations for program; service availability and transmission quality report; considerations for international marketing; report on feasibility of shared service offering.
Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 July 24
Includes Hughes Aircraft Company presentation to SBS on spacecraft and RF terminals program, with specifications, pictures of engineering models and diagrams of satellite equipment and modules, status report and schedules for delivery; SBS program status summary with technical and delivery problem reports and proposed solutions.
Executive Meeting, 1979 August 15
Includes reports on customer order status; 1980 planning assumptions, with services required to fulfill customer agreements and corresponding scheduling proposals; cost estimates for IBM SCC; background information related to proposals to lease transponder service from Western Union in order to restore service to IBM, due to existing transponder leasing from RCA having been pre-empted; SBS organizational charts.
Executive Meeting, 1979 September 17
Includes LFES business case study; summary of agreements with Bell Canada International for provision of interconnection administrative and technical services; executive summaries of various proposed technical services agreements.
Executive Meeting, 1979 October 11
Includes marketing reports; update on TWT technical problems; executive summaries of proposed agreements and activities, including IBM maintenance of SMF software and for the transition of pre-operational program resources and personnel to OSFT upon IBM's cancellation of pre-operational service.
Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 October 23
Presentations of 1980 strategic and operating plans, including competitive overview, market forecasts and opportunities for SBS; organization charts, goals and schedules for SBS Engineering, Operations and Maintenance; 1980 financial plan.
Partners Meeting, 1979 November 14
Includes approvals for 1980 strategic/operating plan with analysis of risks; competitive overview for SBS services and forecasts for competitive responses by satellite carriers and OCCs.
Executive Meeting, 1979 December 10
Includes summary of order activities and changes; report on proposed U.S. Department of Energy national computer network; requirements for expansion of headquarters facilities; proposal to establish an Application Implementation Service [AIS] to provide project management to SBS customers implementing teleconferencing; proposal to design and install a Teleconferencing Center to demonstrate and test SBS teleconferencing services.
Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1980 January 10
Includes executive summary of agreement with IBM, with related memoranda and financial details, for purchase of SCC units, spares and features by SBS; review of TWT production history, production schedule and recommendations for acquisition; minutes of executive session of the Executive Committee.
Executive Meeting, 1980 January 22
Includes 1979 operational highlights and financial summary; review of U.S. Department of Energy RFP; presentation and review of compensation plan; Draft Report on the Large Network Problem summarizing results of SBS/COMSAT study into solutions available to accommodate customers such as IBM, requiring two or more transponders to service their networks, which requirement was not supported by present SBS systems.
Executive Meeting, 1980 February 21
Includes review of active accounts and presentation on federal government marketing; action plan for international interconnection; engineering status reports, with correspondence concerning production of TWTs by Hughes; SBS Annual Report for 1979.
Partners Meeting, 1980 March 5
Includes presentation on migration of customers from CCSA to SBS network; marketing review with sales and installation schedules, customer and prospect lists; competitive analysis with other satellite companies and common carriers.
Executive Meeting, 1980 April 17
Includes status report on quarterly plan; reports on system testing; customer network installation schedules; discussion of launch services agreement with NASA; discussion of request for a letter of credit from Chase Manhattan Bank for payments related to acquisition of spacecraft.
Executive Meeting, 1980 May 13
Includes agenda and invitee list for launch of SBS satellite; business plan for voice exchange services; review of Southern Pacific Communication Company's application to the FCC for authorization to construct a domestic satellite system; formation of a Data Strategy Task Force to establish SBS strategy in this area.
Partners Meeting, 1980 June 9
Includes discussion of lease program for exchange service facilities locations; Exchange Service business plan and product description; discussion of local data distribution demonstration program, to establish technical feasibility of high-bandwidth local data transmission using CATV and microwave radio.
Executive Meeting, 1980 July 25
Includes report on functional and legal constraints on SBS joint marketing of Applications Implementation Service with IBM; operations and engineering reports on various service, schedule and quality control issues; headcount and personnel reports and reviews; discussion on design and procurement of Data Aggregator device to provide options for multiple transponder use by customer networks and encryption/decryption capacity.
Executive Meeting, 1980 August 21
Includes reports from departments and functional units; review of system testing; schedule and responsibilities for launch and deployment of satellite; financing requirements, summary of financial impacts to plan; presentation on SBS business scope, business focus and list of service offerings no longer under consideration; proposal for development of switched service for digital applications; presentation on satellite interconnected local wideband data networks using Network Systems Corporation 'Hyperchannel' equipment to provide capacity to interconnect multiple data processing systems.
Partners Meeting, 1980 September 5
Includes reports from Data Strategy Task Force, outlining problems and future market requirements; 1981 planning assumptions and financing requirements.
Executive Meeting, 1980 October 16
Includes review of performance to strategic plan; market and revenue forecasts for SBS accounts and proposed services; 1981 financial plan and budget; SBS employee survey results; impact of AT&T WATS rate changes; marketing report with order activity, event timetable and prospect lists.
Executive Meeting, 1980 November 20
Includes business plans for Exchange Services and Teleconferencing; report on launch and deployment of SBS-1 satellite. Also includes materials for government marketing presentation from preliminary meeting minutes.
Partners Meeting, 1980 December 17
Includes 1981 Strategic/Operating Plan; status reports on SBS-1 orbit performance and traffic quality.
Executive Meeting, 1981 January 15
Includes project, systems and account status reports and milestones; summary of recommendations related to incorporation of IBM's 'Piccolo' storage disc to increase SCC systems storage capacity.
Executive Meeting, 1981 February 17
Includes authorizations for technical modifications to spacecraft antenna, SCC systems and earth station sites; authorizations for development of data aggregators; system performance test reports; revenue projection for accounts and criteria for selection of prospects.