{"id":57379,"date":"2021-06-04T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-taps-avanti-for-additional-capacity-over-the-middle-east-europe\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T20:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:14:05","slug":"viasat-taps-avanti-for-additional-capacity-over-the-middle-east-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-taps-avanti-for-additional-capacity-over-the-middle-east-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Taps Avanti for Additional Capacity Over the Middle East, Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viasat<\/strong> has taken steps to improve its position in Western Europe and the Middle East ahead of the launch of its ViaSat-3 constellation. The company has reached a deal with <strong>Avanti Communications<\/strong> for additional coverage and capacity across the Middle East and Western Europe. Viasat announced the deal June 3, but did not disclose the financial terms, or the length of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The deal with Avanti will help support Viasat\u2019s expanding global mobility and enterprise businesses, specifically across aviation, maritime, and energy. This new agreement augments Viasat\u2019s KA-SAT satellite coverage and capacity and will initially be leveraged to serve new mobility customers in the region. Viasat plans to leverage Avanti\u2019s HYLAS 4 and HYLAS 2 satellites&nbsp;beginning in October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn working with Avanti, we can bring additional short-term capacity to the mobility and enterprise markets, enabling us to&nbsp;serve more customers, win new business and&nbsp;establish deeper market&nbsp;presence and penetration ahead of our ViaSat-3 satellite launch aimed over Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA),\u201d Jimmy Dodd, president of Viasat Global Enterprise and Mobility said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat has taken steps to improve its position in Western Europe and the Middle East ahead of the launch of its ViaSat-3 constellation. The company has reached a deal with Avanti Communications for additional coverage and capacity across the Middle East and Western Europe. Viasat announced the deal June 3, but did not disclose the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57380,"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-57379","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\/57379"}],"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=57379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}