{"id":71242,"date":"2016-04-27T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T12:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/facebook-buys-capacity-on-three-ses-satellites-gilat-providing-ground-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T12:51:37","slug":"facebook-buys-capacity-on-three-ses-satellites-gilat-providing-ground-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/facebook-buys-capacity-on-three-ses-satellites-gilat-providing-ground-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Buys Capacity on Three SES Satellites, Gilat Providing Ground Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 04-27-2016] <b>Facebook<\/b> has signed a satellite broadband deal with <b>SES<\/b> for high-speed connectivity services in Sub-Saharan Africa. This agreement will support Facebook\u2019s Express Wi-Fi program, which is part of the company\u2019s Internet.org initiative to connect the world.<\/p>\n<p>SES will supply capacity from three satellites \u2014 Astra 2G, Astra 3B and Astra 4A \u2014 as well as customized SES Enterprise+ broadband services. The operator has designed a highly tailored service using its satellite, data center and implementation services with integrated features such as security, protocol enhancement, and hosting. The solution includes <b>Gilat Satellite Networks<\/b>\u2019 X-Architecture platform, a distributed VSAT ground segment architecture based on a cloud design and Software Defined Networking (SDN) to support fixed and mobile satellite communications. X-Architecture will enable Facebook\u2019s local African partners to deliver Internet services to communities with limited or no Internet connectivity using the social media network\u2019s Express Wi-Fi access product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 04-27-2016] Facebook has signed a satellite broadband deal with SES for high-speed connectivity services in Sub-Saharan Africa. This agreement will support Facebook\u2019s Express Wi-Fi program, which is part of the company\u2019s Internet.org initiative to connect the world. SES will supply capacity from three satellites \u2014 Astra 2G, Astra 3B and Astra 4A \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71243,"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-71242","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\/71242"}],"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=71242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}