{"id":86740,"date":"2010-06-29T21:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T13:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/maritime-satellite-competitors-announce-major-vsat-service-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2010-06-29T21:33:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T13:33:25","slug":"maritime-satellite-competitors-announce-major-vsat-service-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/maritime-satellite-competitors-announce-major-vsat-service-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Satellite Competitors Announce Major VSAT Service Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-29-10] <strong>Marlink<\/strong> has teamed up with<strong> Asia Broadcast Satellite <\/strong>(ABS) to extend its Ku-band maritime VSAT services to Hong Kong, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean, Marlink announced June 28. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The coverage expansion follows a virtual network operator agreement between the two companies that enabled Marlink to use the wide southern Ku-band beam on the ABS-1 satellite, located at 75 degrees East, which offers coverage in the Asia-Pacific region extending from Mongolia to the south of Thailand and across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Japan. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Marlink will use the ABS-1 satellite to provide greater Ku-band coverage to its WaveCall and @SEAdirect customers in Hong Kong, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Separately, <strong>iDirect<\/strong>, <strong>SpeedCast<\/strong> and <strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> have expanded the reach and capabilities of their global maritime VSAT broadband service to more than 20 Ku-band beams covering 95 percent of all major shipping lanes and offshore markets, iDirect announced June 28. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As part of the expansion, SpeedCast and Eutelsat introduced a regional service that uses a 60-centimeter Ku-band marine antenna for smaller coastal and regional vessels. Customers of this service will be able to choose from a lineup of fixed-rate service plans for connection rates ranging from 64 kilobits per second to more than 2 megabits per second. The service includes dedicated bandwidth options to share bandwidth reliably across a wide range of applications from email and Internet access to real-time ship management software.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The service network is built on the iDirect platform and leverages technologies such as automatic beam switching across multiple satellite footprints, DVB-S2 encoding for bandwidth optimization and adaptive coding and modulation for optimized power utilization and performance in all weather conditions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-29-10] Marlink has teamed up with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) to extend its Ku-band maritime VSAT services to Hong Kong, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean, Marlink announced June 28. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The coverage expansion follows a virtual network operator agreement between the two companies that enabled Marlink to use the wide southern Ku-band beam [&hellip;]<\/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-86740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86740"}],"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=86740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}