Further expansion for Pactel in PNG: New Partnerships in the Resource Sector

 

 

5 November 2012

 

Recently Pactel International partnered with RuralTech Developments, an existing service provider in Papua New Guinea to supply enhanced satellite communications services to remote provinces of the country. Initially, Pactel designed and provided three corporate links to resource-related companies operating in PNG, with plans to expand into education, finance and other sectors in the near future. All three projects utilise Pactel’s carrier-grade NSS-9 Platform and are optimised via Pactel’s bandwidth management tools.

Earlier this year, Pactel provided separate corporate links to two locations associated with the PNG LNG Project: Red Sea Housing and one of the major contractors of the LNG Project. Both sites are now equipped with access to corporate data, internet and voice applications as well as allowing for the recreational or worker welfare communications.

The latest RuralTech Developments project involved designing a tailored network for High Arctic Energy Services to allow the company to duplicate and migrate their corporate data into the satellite cloud, so it can be securely accessed across four remote locations. Commissioned in May 2012, the cloud-based platform is directly connected to servers co-located with Pactel’s data centre, resulting in minimal latency, and therefore increased reliability and efficiency.

“Pactel International’s unique (satellite cloud) design provided our customer with an end-to-end inherently secure private network, whilst being cost-effective by maintaining a single set of server infrastructure in a centralised location”, said Shahram Honarzad (Shaz), Director at RuralTech Developments. “In addition, High Arctic’s field personnel now have improved accessibility through CITRIX and other RDP application enhancements.”, added Mr Honarzad.

As for Pactel International, the new partnership with RuralTech Developments strengthened the company position as a dedicated service provider to the mining, oil and gas industry as well as allowing further expansion on its capabilities in providing value-added services across satellite networks.

“Satellite communications is an innovation-driven industry”, said Nick Miller, Sales Manager at Pactel International”. “Recent projects with Rural Technologies enabled us to apply latest innovations in satellite cloud computing and bandwidth management combined with our recent ROCK solution to remain on top of our game”.

As a part of its strategy going forward, Rural Technologies is currently expanding into the education and finance markets. Consequently, there are more PNG-based satellite projects in Pactel’s line of sight.