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SkyPort is a licensed provider of managed, secure, broadband satellite
communications services.
The IA-7, which is one of four recently acquired satellites in
the Intelsat Americas fleet, is providing SkyPort’s customers with
IP-based connectivity in C and Ku-band across the continental US
plus Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Caribbean region.
SkyPort is accessing IA-7 via its strategically located teleport
at Ellington Field, Texas, a state-of-the-art facility built to
Secure Compartmentalised Information Facility (SCIF) specifications,
says the release.
"Partnering with premier service providers such as SkyPort,
and backed by our 40 years experience in global satellite operations,
Intelsat is enabling a variety of applications for the converging
voice, data and IP requirements of the oil and gas, maritime and
financial industries, in addition to the government services market,"
said Intelsat regional vice president North America sales Mark Rasmussen.
Additionally, Intelsat also announced that in a strategic win for
the company, it has signed a new long term contract for capacity
on the IA-6TM satellite with CapRock Communications, a leading satellite
communications service provider focused on remote industrial markets
- including oilfield, construction, maritime, mining, and disaster
relief.
CapRock has over two decades of experience delivering business
class communications, including secure corporate networking and
telephony services to companies with operations in hard to reach
places, informs the release.
CapRock will provide access to the IA-6 satellite via one of their
six international teleports, with fully managed services controlled
through their 24/7 global network operations center headquartered
in Houston, Texas. While Intelsat is a major global provider of
satellite services for the oil and gas industry, the signing of
this contract marks its first penetration into the North American
energy market.
"It has been our strategic goal to expand that relationship
by offering them excellent North American coverage using our new
Intelsat Americas fleet. As an industry-leading provider of advanced
corporate networks, CapRock brings an outstanding portfolio of services
to the exploration and production industry and it’s our role to
help them make that happen," said Rasmussen.
"Our advanced VSAT based networking services enable customers
to extend their corporate telephone and data networks to their outer
most points of operation- be they in the jungle, desert, or open
ocean. Intelsat’s robust space segment services help us to provide
the advanced communications companies have come to expect, in places
that they might not ordinarily expect to find them," said CapRock
vice president marketing David Myers.
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