{"id":68093,"date":"2017-06-09T22:07:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/globecomm-expands-global-ku-band-vsat-footprint\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T22:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:07:34","slug":"globecomm-expands-global-ku-band-vsat-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/globecomm-expands-global-ku-band-vsat-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Globecomm Expands Global Ku-Band VSAT Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Globecomm<\/strong> announced a further expansion of its Ku-band Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network, serving enterprise, maritime and government markets around the world.&nbsp;Globecomm\u2019s network, which includes a footprint over the Barents Sea, North of Scandinavia, will be extending its coverage by adding the South Indian Ocean passage between the southern tip of Africa and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Globecomm VSAT customers have increased transit to these areas in recent months, leading the company to invest in the extended coverage.&nbsp;According to Globecomm, the expanded network will provide 100 percent coverage of all major shipping routes to address new market demands.<\/p>\n<p>Another factor that led the company to commit to expanded coverage is the growth of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) services through Globecomm\u2019s previously announced partnership with <strong>AT&amp;T<\/strong>, stated Globecomm Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Bryan McGuirk.<\/p>\n<p>Globecomm\u2019s international network consists of multiple teleports connected by high-capacity, redundant fiber to the world\u2019s major telecom points of presence.&nbsp;The company\u2019s C- and Ku-band capacity covers the major land masses and shipping lanes to provide global coverage for media, telecom, government, maritime and enterprise applications.&nbsp;For maritime customers, Globecomm VSAT provides hardware (purchased or leased), systems integration, satellite bandwidth and lifecycle support services.<\/p>\n<p>Globecomm VSAT also integrates with other broadband systems including <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong> FleetBroadband, <strong>Iridium<\/strong> OpenPort and land-based wireless networks. It automatically switches between satellite beams and from VSAT to other services to maintain connectivity without manual re-pointing of antennas or any other intervention by the crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globecomm announced a further expansion of its Ku-band Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network, serving enterprise, maritime and government markets around the world.&nbsp;Globecomm\u2019s network, which includes a footprint over the Barents Sea, North of Scandinavia, will be extending its coverage by adding the South Indian Ocean passage between the southern tip of Africa and Australia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61870,"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-68093","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\/68093"}],"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=68093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}