{"id":55943,"date":"2022-02-16T21:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-signs-multi-year-global-maritime-ku-band-contract-extension-with-marlink\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T21:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:08:53","slug":"eutelsat-signs-multi-year-global-maritime-ku-band-contract-extension-with-marlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-signs-multi-year-global-maritime-ku-band-contract-extension-with-marlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Signs Multi-Year Global Maritime Ku-Band Contract Extension with Marlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> secured a multi-year contract extension with <strong>Marlink<\/strong> on Wednesday that builds off of a global maritime partnership agreement both companies signed in 2019. The extension will see Eutelsat provide additional Ku-band Geostationary Orbit (GEO) capacity to Marlink\u2019s maritime VSAT platform in Africa, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat said the contract involves, \u201cseveral hundred incremental Mhz on multiple Eutelsat satellites\u201d that will deliver targeted capacity with guaranteed levels of throughput to specific areas where Marlink\u2019s shipping, offshore, cruise\/ferry, yachting and fishing customers sail. The operator also called the deal an example of \u201cthe strong market demand for maritime broadband connectivity across all market segments, driven by a rising number of connected vessels and the surge of the unitary vessel bandwidth and data usage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlink Group CEO Erik Ceuppens said his company has been satisfied with the partnership it signed with Eutelsat in 2019.&nbsp; \u201cWe are delighted to extend our partnership with Eutelsat, which has proven its ability to deliver the right platform and capabilities to suit our target markets and the flexibility to accommodate our high standards with respect to the latency of voice traffic, capacity management and deployment flexibility,\u201d Ceuppens said in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications secured a multi-year contract extension with Marlink on Wednesday that builds off of a global maritime partnership agreement both companies signed in 2019. The extension will see Eutelsat provide additional Ku-band Geostationary Orbit (GEO) capacity to Marlink\u2019s maritime VSAT platform in Africa, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia. Eutelsat said the contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55944,"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-55943","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\/55943"}],"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=55943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}