ASTA Announce New PoP in Sydney

 6th February 2012

Applied Satellite Technology Australia (ASTA) extends their ability to provide solutions by expanding their network to include a point of presence (PoP) in Sydney, Australia.

The new PoP will allow AST Australia to provide the direct termination of Inmarsat BGAN, FleetBroadband IP, VSAT and VoIP traffic locally, therefore providing the shortest route possible for data transmission. It also offers our customers the ability to connect via a ‘local tail’ such as multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) or virtual private network (VPN) which allows an end to end private network straight into their premises within the Asia Pacific region rather than passing over the public internet. This also allows end to end quality of service (QoS) to be assigned and other value added services such as firewalling as required.

AST Australia’s numerous clients in government, maritime and media rely on the dedicated link for secure, end-to-end data transfer. Due to the addition of force routing, all traffic that originates from Australia must first be routed back to Australia for legal interception before being sent onwards; the PoP in Sydney allows AST Australia to help its clients achieve dedicated secure data transfer whilst providing the lowest possible latency for Inmarsat traffic. Other industries who, over time, have turned to look at requiring a secure data transfer are the military, aid agencies and national government organizations (NGO) who are depending more and more on secure voice and broadband data in remote locations where terrestrial wired and wireless networks are unavailable or unreliable.

The Australian PoP is now fully operational, offering value added services such as user-defined firewall and URL filtering to all our customers and end-to-end direct streaming and hosted VPN connections. AST Australia’s PoP is supported 24/7/365 and is proactively monitored from AST Australia’s network operations center which is located in Perth, Western Australia.