Hughes Net

Tout à propos de Hughes Net.

Hughes Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar, headquartered in Germantown, Maryland. It provides satellite-based internet and television services under the HughesNet brand through satellites and satellite dishes it designs and manufactures. Hughes Communications was founded in 1971 in a garage in Rockville, Maryland. The company was sold to Microwave Associates in 1977, forming a combined entity called Macom Technology Solutions (MA/COM). MA/COM was then sold to Hughes Aircraft Company, which spun MA/COM off as a public company called Hughes Communications in 2007. EchoStar acquired Hughes Communications in 2011 for about $2 billion.

Contents

1 People

2 Places

2.1 Antarctica

2.2 Australia

2.3 United States

2.4 Other

3 Businesses

4 Airports

5 In the military

6 In education

7 Other uses

8 See also

People

Hughes (surname)

Hughes (given name)

Places

Antarctica

Hughes Range (Antarctica), Ross Dependency

Mount Hughes, Oates Land

Hughes Basin, Oates Land

Hughes Bay, Graham Land

Hughes Bluff, Victoria Land

Hughes Glacier, Victoria Land

Hughes Island, Victoria Land

Hughes Peninsula, Ellsworth Land

Hughes Point, Ellsworth Land

Australia

Division of Hughes, an electoral district

Hughes, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra

Hughes, Northern Territory, a rural locality

United States

Hughes, Alaska, a city

Hughes, Arkansas, a city

Hughes, Iowa, a ghost town

Hughes, Wisconsin, a town

Hughes County, Oklahoma

Hughes County, South Dakota

Hughes Lake (California)

Hughes Mountain, Missouri

Hughes River (Virginia)

Hughes River (West Virginia)

Other

Hughes, Santa Fe, Argentina, a town

Hughes Range (British Columbia), Canada

Hughes Reef, South China Sea

1878 Hughes, an asteroid

Businesses

Hughes Aircraft Company, a former major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes, acquired by General Motors in 1985

Hughes Electronics, created from a merger by General Motors

Hughes Communications, a provider of satellite-based communications services

Hughes Dynamics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Tool in the computer services business in the early 1960s

Hughes Helicopters, a major manufacturer of military and civil helicopters from the 1950s to the 1980s, initially part of Hughes Aircraft

Hughes Network Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications

Hughes Software Systems, established in New Delhi, India, in 1991, acquired by Flextronics in 2004

Hughes Supply, a former wholesaler of construction supplies in the US and Canada, acquired by Home Depot in 2006

Hughes Systique Corporation, an American provider of software R&D services

Hughes Television Network, a defunct American television network

Hughes Tool Company, purchased by Howard Hughes, Sr., later owned by his son Howard Hughes

Airports

Hughes Airport (Alaska)

Hughes Airport (California)

In the military

USS Hughes (DD-410), a World War II US Navy destroyer

Fort Hughes, a former part of the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in the Philippines

Hughes Airfield, Northern Territory, Australia, a Second World War airfield

In education

Hughes Hall, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, informally called Hughes

Hughes School District, Hughes, Arkansas

Hughes High School (disambiguation), several US schools

Hughes Middle School (disambiguation), several US schools

Hughes School, near Hamilton, Ohio, on the National Register of Historic Places