Viasat<\/b> is partnering with Australian telecommunications company Telstra<\/b> to build and manage the ground infrastructure and fiber network for the ViaSat-3 satellite system targeting the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n
Under the 16.5-year contract announced Tuesday, Telstra will co-locate Viasat\u2019s Earth stations, or satellite access nodes, at hundreds of its sites across Australia and will build and manage high-speed fiber links to each site. Viasat said the network will connect the sites to multiple redundant data centers that will house the core networking equipment needed to manage the data traffic.<\/p>\n
The announcement did not include a distribution agreement, but David Burns of Telstra Enterprise said discussions are underway about how Telstra might use Viasat\u2019s services. <\/p>\n
\u201c[Telstra has] impressive skills, capabilities, scope, infrastructure, and also an extensive fiber network \u2014 all of which we need to dynamically operate our ground system across the region. To have Telstra as our partner significantly lowers the risk to our deployment of the ViaSat-3 network and ultimately our costs as compared to our alternatives,\u201d Dave Ryan, Viasat\u2019s president of Space & Commercial Networks said on a media call on Tuesday. \u201cBy pairing Telstra\u2019s existing assets with our ViaSat-3 satellite, we can deliver advanced connectivity from mobility and government services, to connecting very hard to reach communities across all of the Asia-Pacific market.\u201d <\/p>\n
The ViaSat-3 satellite system is Viasat\u2019s new ultra-high-capacity terabit satellite constellation. The first satellite, due for launch this year, will focus on the Americas and the second satellite will focus on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. <\/p>\n
Ryan said that the ground network architecture for the third Viasat-3 satellite will be the same as the initial two satellites. But the United States and Europe have fragmented marketplaces, with many fiber providers, and Viasat is working to put together networks in the United States and Europe. Viasat chose to partner with Telstra because it is the largest telecommunications company in the country and has fiber access in areas Viasat needed. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one stop shopping as we work with Telstra. It dramatically lowers our risk going forward, being able to work with one partner over dozens and dozens,\u201d Ryan said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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