March 24, 2015

One of the largest Middle East-based petroleum companies has chosen Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes) to supply its award-winning JUPITER™ System as the foundation network for monitoring oil wellheads across hundreds of miles of harsh desert.

The customer's network will consist of two JUPITER gateways and more than 600 ruggedized SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) satellite terminals developed by Hughes specifically for this application. Hughes was chosen because of its leadership in the satellite industry and proven experience with Ku- and Ka-band technology.

"We are proud to have been selected for this strategic project, which was especially challenging due its sheer size and harsh desert conditions," said Soheil Mehrabanzad, assistant vice president, Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region at Hughes. "It's an excellent example of how we're able to quickly adapt our powerful JUPITER satellite networking platform—in this case for a high security SCADA application—to deliver the most cost-effective solution to satisfy the demanding requirements of coverage, expansion capacity, and security."

The Middle Eastern company is the most recent customer of many leading service providers who have chosen the JUPITER System as the foundation platform for both high-throughput satellite (HTS) and conventional satellite broadband networks. This growing list includes Media Networks Latin America (MNLA), a Telefonica subsidiary in Latin America, Russian service provider Ka-Internet/RSCC, Turksat in Europe, Malaysian operator TS Global Network Sdn Bhd, and Grupo Pegaso in Mexico.