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ST Teleport is
First in Singapore
to Seal Partnership
with Telespazio,
World's
Largest
Teleport Operator,
to Offer Seamless
Global Ku-Band
Connectivity for
Maritime Oil and Gas
Customers
4 June 2015
ST Teleport, a
Singapore-based
full-service
satellite and fibre
communications
solutions provider,
has formed a
strategic
partnership with
Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales),
a global leading
provider of
satellite services
operating the
world’s largest
teleport facility,
to jointly establish
a global Ku-band
communications
network for maritime
oil and gas (MOG)
customers.
Under the multi-year
agreement, ST
Teleport will be
Telespazio's
preferred partner in
Asia Pacific. ST
Teleport is also the
only teleport
company in the
domestic market to
have partnered the
world's biggest
teleport operator to
expand its
international reach.
Telespazio's network
of seven teleports
including the
largest commercial
teleport facility in
the world, the
Fucino space centre
with more than 170
antennas linked to
major fibre point of
presence (PoPs)
around Europe, will
connect with ST
Teleport's earth
station complex
strategically
located at the
centre of major
shipping routes in
Singapore, creating
synergistic business
value to boost their
service offerings to
customers and the
MOG industry. The
companies will
leverage on each
other's extensive
complementary
presence, industry
expertise and
technical resources
to create
cost-effective,
secure and reliable
global satellite
communications
solutions for their
customers across
different vertical
markets.
ST Teleport's MOG
customers can now
enjoy previously
unavailable global
Ku-band coverage,
fast and
uninterrupted data
transmission, and
global technical
support regardless
of where they or
their assets are
located in the
world. A
comprehensive
service coverage
area over seven
continents spanning
Asia Pacific,
Africa, the
Americas, Europe and
the Middle East with
line of sight to
more than 200
satellites will
bring ultimate
connectivity for
mission-critical
operations anywhere
in the world. This
multi-regional
coverage is made
possible by
converging the
companies' Ku-band
beams around the
world with automatic
switching
technology.
Telespazio, being a
major global
provider of
geospatial
application
solutions and
services in all
areas relating to
Earth observation,
will bring new
opportunities for ST
Teleport to enter
the geoinformation
industry to offer
customers services
such as
environmental
monitoring, rush
mapping in support
to natural disaster
management,
specialised products
for defence and
intelligence,
maritime
surveillance,
interferometric
products for
landslide and ground
subsidence analysis,
thematic mapping for
agriculture and
forestry. The two
companies are also
in the initial
stages of jointly
developing other
value-added
satellite
communication
services to enhance
their portfolio and
capabilities which
will be shared in
the near future.
“"We are
delighted to be
the preferred
partner for
Telespazio in
the Asia-Pacific
region.
Telespazio's
strong presence
and coverage in
Europe and the
Americas will
greatly extend
our reach and
increased our
ability to
provide seamless
and integrated
solutions to our
customers. As a
teleport
operator, we
play a vital
role in the
satellite
communication
ecosystem. Being
strategically
located in
Singapore where
the government
has set a vision
to build a
thriving space
industry, this
partnership
comes at the
right time for
us to capitalise
on the
opportunities in
this sector
poised for
growth. Our
existing
collaborations
with other
international
satellite
operators and
communication
service
providers,
combined with
this new global
reach, further
expands our
ability to offer
high performance
global
connectivity for
our customers to
grow their
businesses
anywhere around
the world,” said
Joseph Chan,
Managing
Director of ST
Teleport.
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