{"id":81978,"date":"2012-11-29T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hughes-bardo-new-government-broadband-plans-designed-with-budgets-in-mind\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:01:52","slug":"hughes-bardo-new-government-broadband-plans-designed-with-budgets-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hughes-bardo-new-government-broadband-plans-designed-with-budgets-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes\u2019 Bardo: New Government Broadband Plans Designed with Budgets in Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-28-12] <strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong> has released new high-performance broadband plans for government agencies, offering speeds up to 15Mbps and designed to reach remote locations across the United States, the broadband satellite solutions and services company announced Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<p>\tHughes Network Systems Assistant Vice President for Government Solutions Tony Bardo told <em>Satellite TODAY Insider <\/em>that higher performance connectivity is in demand more than ever by government agencies and the new broadband solutions aim to serve the federal, state and local sectors, each with unserved territories. \u201cSatellite can be virtually anywhere. We don\u2019t have any unserved areas, so we can serve the areas that are not served by terrestrial,\u201d says Bardo. \u201cAnd now with this new service, we can offer speeds that haven\u2019t been seen before out of the satellite industry.\u201d<br \/>\n\tHughes is already providing these new services to <strong>FEMA<\/strong>, supporting disaster recovery centers set up in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. \u201cThey are providing direct services to citizens, such as uploading spreadsheets and forms, which would be much harder to do with satellite services of the previous generations,\u201d Bardo explained.<br \/>\n\tThe Hughes Internet Access Solutions utilize high-capacity satellites and on-the-ground equipment with the recently launched next-generation Ka-band EchoStar 17 satellite with Jupiter high-throughput technology\u2014employing a multi-spot beam, bent-pipe architecture designed to deliver high-speed Internet to the industry. The new HughesNet Gen4 Internet service will also use the Spaceway 3, the world\u2019s first satellite with onboard switching and routing.<br \/>\n\tHughes\u2019 plans offer a choice of data allowances customized for government needs with download speeds of 10 Mbps or 15Mbps. Hughes enterprise-grade equipment is offered with all level plans, each with Hughes support and service.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tBardo explained how small- and medium-sized government offices and sites desire more bandwidth, but with the series of difficult budget cuts experienced by the U.S. government market, \u201ccan\u2019t even afford the bandwidth they are paying for now. With the new service offering from Hughes, they don\u2019t have to sacrifice less bandwidth.\u201d<br \/>\n\tIn reference to the future of the government market for satellite, Hughes Network Systems is \u201cupbeat,\u201d aiming to give the government sector a reason to reconsider satellite. \u201cThe market opportunity for the satellite industry and for us in particular, is to continue to debunk the myth that two terrestrial carriers give you diversity and redundancy. [With these services], you can save money, which is necessary with budget cuts, and get the path diversity and resiliency that you want, along with the speed and bandwidth,\u201d Bardo added.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-28-12] Hughes Network Systems has released new high-performance broadband plans for government agencies, offering speeds up to 15Mbps and designed to reach remote locations across the United States, the broadband satellite solutions and services company announced Nov. 27. 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