{"id":55787,"date":"2022-03-14T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/intelsat-orders-gilats-skyedge-iv-taurus-modems-for-ifc\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T19:54:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:54:51","slug":"intelsat-orders-gilats-skyedge-iv-taurus-modems-for-ifc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/intelsat-orders-gilats-skyedge-iv-taurus-modems-for-ifc\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelsat Orders Gilat\u2019s SkyEdge IV Taurus Modems for IFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intelsat <\/strong>has placed a multimillion-dollar order for <strong>Gilat Satellite Networks<\/strong>\u2018 SkyEdge IV Taurus modems to expand its capabilities the in-flight connectivity (IFC) arena, the companies announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>SkyEdge IV Taurus is an ultra-high-performance modem for IFC designed to provide Wi-Fi and IPTV for passengers on commercial airlines, regional aircraft, and business jets. Taurus is backward compatible, preserving past investments with the proven SkyEdge II-c platform, already deployed globally. SkyEdge IV, launched earlier this month by Gilat, is a scalable, next-generation software-centric satcom ground system optimized for multi-orbit constellations and very high throughput satellites (VHTS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiving our customers the ability to provide air travelers the ultimate in-flight online experience is very important to us here at Intelsat. That\u2019s why we continue to work with Gilat and are embracing their Taurus aero modem solution as a key element in our IFC offering. With Taurus enhancing our in-flight capabilities, we stand ready to capture a larger share of the resurgent IFC market,\u201d Dave Bijur, senior vice president of Commercial Aviation at Intelsat, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat has placed a number of orders with Gilat this year for technology to enable IFC services. Intelsat announced plans to use Gilat\u2019s SkyEdge II-c system to expand commercial and business aviation services in Asia and to use the new SkyEdge IV platform to provide expanded capacity from the Intelsat IS-40e satellite for in-flight connectivity and cellular backhaul services in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat has placed a multimillion-dollar order for Gilat Satellite Networks\u2018 SkyEdge IV Taurus modems to expand its capabilities the in-flight connectivity (IFC) arena, the companies announced Monday. SkyEdge IV Taurus is an ultra-high-performance modem for IFC designed to provide Wi-Fi and IPTV for passengers on commercial airlines, regional aircraft, and business jets. Taurus is backward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}