{"id":66095,"date":"2018-02-14T17:03:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T09:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iridium-reveals-first-maritime-partners-for-certus-service\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T09:03:33","slug":"iridium-reveals-first-maritime-partners-for-certus-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iridium-reveals-first-maritime-partners-for-certus-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Iridium Reveals First Maritime Partners for Certus Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iridium Communications<\/strong> announced that <strong>Marlink<\/strong>, <strong>Speedcast<\/strong>, <strong>Applied Satellite Technologies<\/strong> (AST), and <strong>Satcom Global<\/strong> are the initial global maritime launch partners for Iridium Certus, a global L-band satellite network.&nbsp;The first regional maritime launch partner, <strong>Arion<\/strong>, will focus on delivering Iridium Certus to the Asian market .<\/p>\n<p>According to Iridium, Certus is designed to meet the needs of the \u201cconnected ship.\u201d Operating on small form-factor terminals with solid-state, active-array antennas, the service will enable more efficient business operations, cost-effective crew welfare solutions, and safety communications, while providing a pole-to-pole, global grid for Internet of Things (IOT) smart ship applications, the company stated. Already undergoing live testing, Iridium Certus terminals built by <strong>Cobham<\/strong> and <strong>Thales<\/strong> will debut at speeds of 352 Kbps, later upgradable to 704 Kbps through a firmware update. With eventual speeds reaching approximately 1.4 Mbps, Iridium Certus will also enable multiple streaming classes and safety services designed to provide reliable connectivity even in harsh environments.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the $3 billion Iridium Next satellite constellation, Certus aims to provide high-definition voice capabilities, alongside enterprise-grade broadband functionality, covering all of the Earth\u2019s oceans, according to Iridium. The company plans to make Certus commercially available in mid-2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium Communications announced that Marlink, Speedcast, Applied Satellite Technologies (AST), and Satcom Global are the initial global maritime launch partners for Iridium Certus, a global L-band satellite network.&nbsp;The first regional maritime launch partner, Arion, will focus on delivering Iridium Certus to the Asian market . According to Iridium, Certus is designed to meet the needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66096,"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-66095","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\/66095"}],"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=66095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}