Pactel International Complements Bluesky Samoa’s Existing
Fibre Infrastructure
20 November 2012
Pactel International
commissioned a contract to supply a large-scale satellite
back-up link for Bluesky Samoa’s existing international
submarine fibre network, covering two islands of Samoa and
American Samoa. The new link enables better diversity
allowing to support automatic redundancy of the most
critical applications of IP traffic in case of a fibre
network failure.
Based on the DVB-S2
C-Band Platform, the service is directly connected to
Pactel’s Australian backbone via the IS-18 satellite and
provides unprecedented performance and low latency.
In a case of a fail
event, the switch to the satellite gateway would be instant
without human intervention, and once the primary connection
returns, the satellite connection will automatically revert
back to sleep mode.
The service is
supported by 24/7 network monitoring and support from
Pactel’s Network Operations Centre and, if required, field
technician support.
Adolfo Montenegro,
CEO of Bluesky Samoa commented: “We again turned to Pactel
to upgrade our satellite redundancy solution and they
delivered beyond our expectations. The
solution combines improved consolidated design and advanced
Pactel services yielding a more robust solution for our
customers. We are very satisfied with the
recent failover test, managed by Pactel’s satellite
engineers onsite, which confirmed seamless performance of
the backup solution. I congratulate and thank the Pactel
team for their expertise throughout the design,
implementation and control stages of this project.”
“Satellite backup
services are becoming very common amongst service providers,
said Steffen Holzt, Executive Director at Pactel
International. “Using
satellite as their secondary network enables service
providers to maintain uninterrupted network connectivity in
case of a primary network failure. We are very pleased to
implement this service for the largest telecommunications
provider of Samoa and American Samoa.”
