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\nThe first four O3b satellites took off on June 25, 2013 aboard the Arianespace Soyuz launch vehicle. Only hours following, first contact was made with O3b\u2019s gateway in Hawaii. <\/i>
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[Satellite TODAY 7-1-13] Maju Nusa<\/b>, a Malaysian satellite service provider, has put its faith behind O3b Networks<\/b>, by signing a key contract only days before O3b successfully launched its first four satellites. Shahruddin Salehuddin, managing director, Maju Nusa, told SatelliteTODAY.com,<\/i> that the process of signing this deal took about six months overall.
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\n     In fact, Salehuddin had hinted at a deal with O3b, when Via Satellite<\/i> spoke to him in a separate interview in May. \u201cMore and more, as we look at how things are growing, and the capacity that is required by customers, the issue for us is getting a hold of the necessary capacity,\u201d He had said. \u201cWe need more capacity and we need to have more bandwidth. In Malaysia, there is an issue of lack of capacity. However, I believe that new high throughput satellites will come to the region to alleviate the shortage. We are also looking at O3b as a potential option for us in the future.\u201d
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\n     Salehuddin admits one of the reasons why Maju Nusa signed the deal with O3b was the lack of capacity options elsewhere. \u201cWe needed to expand capacity; the timing was right. If you look at their technology, it is proven technology. It is all very traditional technology. I felt comfortable that it should all be able to work. We think we will need the equivalent of another 160 Mhz,\u201d he added.
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\n     Last week, O3b\u2019s first four satellites were launched aboard the Arianespace<\/b> Soyuz rocket. A few short hours later, first contact was made with O3b\u2019s gateway in Hawaii, another major milestone. Deals with the likes of Maju Nusa will be key to O3b\u2019s future. Maju Nusa is a managed solutions provider based in Malaysia, providing a comprehensive range of broadband networking technologies, solutions and services to customers from various market verticals such as consumers, SME\u2019s, businesses and telcos. It aims to close the digital divide existing between rural and urban Malaysia and is involved in a number of government initiatives providing high speed broadband and 3G mobile voice and data coverage to rural Malaysia.
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\n     In terms of the company\u2019s bandwidth requirements, Salehuddin added, \u201cthe offer from O3b was an eye opener for us, especially because customers want to bring in 3G and 4G services. So, these are the future, and we really have to prepare for them. And, given the fact, we have been awarded a contract from the Malaysian government for backhaul services. That made us to look around in terms of providing the services to these sites. We had just secured a contract for 138 sites for base stations. It makes more economic sense for us to use O3b. The magic number with O3b was 10 Mbps per customer terminal.\u201d
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\n     In Malaysia, Salehuddin said satellite backhaul is \u201cvitally important.\u201d The company works with the government\u2019s Universal Service Provision program (USP) and it had been asked to install 138 sites across the country. \u201cThere is a need for quick broadband. We will be using VSAT backhaul for all of these sites though,\u201d he adds.
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\n     Salehuddin admits Maju Nusa is \u201cquite young\u201d in the industry, and that it has only been offering satellite services for under a year. The company started with around 46 Mhz, which is enough capacity for two VSAT hubs. \u201cRight now [before O3b],we are using 120 Mhz of bandwidth, which is almost 3.5 transponders of capacity. We still believe there is plenty of room to grow especially via high throughput satellites, there is growth to be had in rural areas of Malaysia, and we are finding that 4 Mbps is a common thing. We see demands for capacity to continue to increase, especially as part of the USP requirements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first four O3b satellites took off on June 25, 2013 aboard the Arianespace Soyuz launch vehicle. Only hours following, first contact was made with O3b\u2019s gateway in Hawaii. Image credit: O3b [Satellite TODAY 7-1-13] Maju Nusa, a Malaysian satellite service provider, has put its faith behind O3b Networks, by signing a key contract only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80741"}],"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=80741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}