Speedcast Achieves
Provisional Certification for Three Australian Teleports
from the World Teleport Association
March 26, 2018
The World Teleport
Association (WTA) announced that Speedcast has achieved
provisional certification of three teleports in Australia:
Bayswater (Perth, Western Australia), Henderson (Western
Australia) and Mawson Lakes (Adelaide, South Australia)
under WTA’s Teleport Certification Program. Further
certification of Speedcast teleports globally will be
forthcoming.
Since its introduction at IBC 2015, the Certification
program has quickly grown in popularity, with 16 teleports
currently engaged in the quality evaluation process and
certifications already issued to teleports owned by
Eutelsat, du, Signalhorn, Optus, Globecomm, Horizon, Media
Broadcast, Elara Comunicaciones, GlobalSat, Talia, Telenor,
Vivacom, Cyta, Batelco and Arqiva.
To achieve Provisional Certification, a teleport operator
completes a +170-item questionnaire and submits it to WTA.
The Association analyzes the data based on standards
established by its Certification Committee and issues the
Provisional Certification based on the self-reported
information. The teleport then has six months to achieve
Full Certification. To achieve Full Certification under
WTA’s program, an auditor is dispatched to visit the
teleport, provide independent validation of the data
submitted in the questionnaire and identify additional
factors that may positively or negatively affect the score.
Full Certification is issued at a Tier number from 1 through
4, of which 4 represents the highest degree of excellence,
and remains in effect for 3 years.
“As Speedcast continues to expand our global infrastructure
to support customers that are increasingly reliant on
connectivity and higher throughput, we are focused on
becoming the business partner of choice providing the
highest quality of service” said Keith Johnson, COO of
Speedcast. “The WTA certification program demonstrates our
focus on quality by meeting the requirements of the only
certification program for teleports, facilities, and
technical infrastructure in our industry.”
“The teleport industry faces increased competition for
complex managed services, which are the specialty of
operators like Speedcast, from satellite operators and cloud
service providers,” said WTA executive director Robert Bell.
“Certification defines the quality difference that will keep
teleport operators competitive in the market.”
