Horizon Global Electronics Ltd was established in the UK in late 2001. The company is a world leader in the design and manufacture of hand held test equipment for use in the digital broadcast and Vsat market.
With its headquarters in London and offices in the USA and India the company recorded annual turnover of over £2 million for the year 2004. Exports contributed to more than 70 percent of this turnover, with product now in over 58 different countries around the world. The company has a target of £4 million for the year 2006 with new target markets opening such as Brazil and Russia during this year.
The original HDSM meter was developed for use by BskyB installers in the UK and is now used by the BBC, BT, Hughes, Bentley Walker, SCC, Aramiska, Onstar Beam, SIS and many more.
Horizon OEM meters for the USA under the brand BIRDOG for Perfect10 a $400 million turnover organisation. In excess of 15000 satellite meters have been supplied into the USA since 2001. End users of the Birdog include DirectTv, DishNetwork, DirectPC, Directway, Starband and US airforce this market continues to be Horizons strongest sector.
Horizon OEM meters for Germany under the brand MSK15 for satellite and MFK16 for terrestrial for Kathrein, a 1 billion euro company. In excess of 3000 meters have been supplied to them since 2003.
Other markets include Scandinavia by Canal Digital and Viasat, in Benelux by Canal Digital Satellite, in Poland by Cyfra + in Australia by Foxtel, Austar. In South Africa by Multivision.
The HDTM meter was developed for use by Ondigital (ITV Digital and now Freeserve in the UK) for the rollout of DTT programmes in the UK. In Sweden it is used by installers for Boxer, The HDTM is the preferred meter for installing DTT systems by Sony in Australia
In Italy a special version the HDTM Si was used by the RAIWAY during their rollout campaign for monitoring purposes. It is also being used in Germany and France to assist in their respective rollout campaigns.
Horizon is working with other large OEM opportunities around the world and expects to finalise these during 2005. Horizon looks to partnership with professional organisations that can take the opportunity and market and sell its products in their logistical area. To support this we are able to lock the software for each product to protect that market.
Horizons Strengths lie in the ability to find innovative solutions to leading technology issue in the broadcast sector. The company has to date designed and developed 5 meters for use in these sectors
HDSM V2.5 digital satellite meter
HDTMV2 digital terrestrial meter
HDSM Si professional as HDSM but with serial interface for monitoring and or control of movable dishes
HDTM Si professional as HDTM but with serial interface for monitoring and or control of movable dishes
MiniSAT low cost RF strength meter with DiSEqC read and transmit
A high percentage of the turnover is reinvested into product development for the future. To this end Horizon is developing a low cost solution for the VSAT market of a self deploying, self seeking dish system using hardware from the HDSM meter and can be adjusted automatically on the Skew for optimised alignment via the BER.
The future for Horizon looks bright with much of the world going form Analogue to digital and further developments with KA band in the offering and digital cable.
This on top of markets which are going straight into digital means Horizon has placed itself well with a philosophy for developing niche leading edge technology solutions, the world is our oyster.
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