{"id":65228,"date":"2018-05-10T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satadsl-global-telesat-rascomstar-to-connect-africa\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:33:49","slug":"satadsl-global-telesat-rascomstar-to-connect-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satadsl-global-telesat-rascomstar-to-connect-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"SatADSL, Global Telesat, RascomStar to Connect Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_285390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285390\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-285390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/The-lift-off-of-RasComStars-RQ1R-satellite-in-2010-Photo-Credit-RasComStar.jpg\" alt=\"The lift-off of RasComStar's RQ1R satellite in 2010\" width=\"560\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/The-lift-off-of-RasComStars-RQ1R-satellite-in-2010-Photo-Credit-RasComStar.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/The-lift-off-of-RasComStars-RQ1R-satellite-in-2010-Photo-Credit-RasComStar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/The-lift-off-of-RasComStars-RQ1R-satellite-in-2010-Photo-Credit-RasComStar-380x200.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lift-off of RasComStar\u2019s RQ1R satellite in 2010. Photo Credit: RasComStar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Professional Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services provider<strong>&nbsp;SatADSL<\/strong>, <strong>Global Telesat<\/strong>, a provider of telecommunication services in rural and challenging locations, and satellite operator <strong>RascomStar<\/strong> have announced a new partnership to offer affordable satellite broadband connectivity across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Global Telesat will manage the services from its teleport facilities in Alicante, Spain. From there, the company can connect its <strong>iDirect<\/strong> Evolution hub to SatADSL\u2019s Cloud-based Service Delivery Platform (C-SDP), enabling it to offer a range of services for communities, businesses, administrations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) \u2014 all without investment in a physical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>RascomStar will supply the capacity over its satellite RQ1R located at 2.9 degrees east, covering the whole of Africa in C- and Ku-band connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Global Telesat is the latest service provider to connect to SatADSL\u2019s C-SDP, which is now being used by 76 Africa-based partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lift-off of RasComStar\u2019s RQ1R satellite in 2010. Photo Credit: RasComStar Professional Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services provider&nbsp;SatADSL, Global Telesat, a provider of telecommunication services in rural and challenging locations, and satellite operator RascomStar have announced a new partnership to offer affordable satellite broadband connectivity across Africa. Under the agreement, Global Telesat will manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65229,"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-65228","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\/65228"}],"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=65228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}