Pactel Delivers Enhanced Corporate and Welfare Solution to emerging iron ore producer- Macarthur Minerals

 

16 July 2012

 

Pactel International has designed and deployed a scalable communication solution for Macarthur Minerals Limited, an Iron Ore exploration and development company operating in Western Australia.

 

The end-to-end, managed satellite service installed at Macarthur Minerals exploration camp, a remote location that is 240km north west of Kalgoorlie, is designed to meet both the business needs of the company and the personal needs of its staff living onsite. The service supports simultaneous, but separated, corporate voice and data applications and recreational traffic; and is designed to allow for future growth and expansion as required.

Supporting both the needs of the site and the needs of the site staff leverages Pactel’s bandwidth management capabilities. Pactel’s engineers adopted the latest Quality of Service (QoS) technology to prioritise voice telephony and corporate data over personal traffic. The QoS component ensures that Macarthur’s  day-to-day work and communication remain uninterrupted by the worker welfare traffic that is able to use remaining satellite capacity.

 

Pactel also deployed acceleration technology to enhance and optimize the satellite link. The acceleration platform speeds communications with both Macarthur’s corporate network and the public Internet, with local caching of internet content and rich media, in one device at the remote site.

 

Pactel deployed wireless coverage throughout the camp, supporting staff’s personal devices via a locally-managed portal with user login control.

“Handling corporate data while also providing direct access to the Internet for on-site workers helps keep them in touch with friends and family, and improves their quality of life during deployment,” said Dr Lloyd Wood, Engineering Manager for Pactel International.

“We are grateful to Pactel’s engineering team for designing a well-balanced service, allowing us to consistently maintain daily site operations and keep our workers content –all without putting a strain on available bandwidth”, said Suzy Phillips, Corporate Services Manager, Macarthur Minerals.

Steffen Holzt, Executive Director of Pactel added further: “We are extremely proud of supplying a fully customised, integrated network that worked so well for our customer. Projects like these are Pactel's future – thanks to the customers like Macarthur Minerals who appreciate our value add.