Marlink reports a strong
close to 2020 as Land VSAT traffic volume and
installations spike
26 January 2021
Marlink saw traffic from
Enterprise customers increase by 68% between
January and December, with new customer
contracts driving record installation numbers.
The 185 new VSAT sites
installed in the fourth quarter for major
operators in IGO, NGO and energy sectors
included provision of high capacity, lower
latency services from Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
and stationary GEO satellite constellations. The
growth in the installed base brought to more
than 1500 active Land VSAT installations
provided by Marlink and through partners.
The installations last year
alone represented data traffic of more than 3.2
Gbps from VSAT including a 200mbps MEO-based
installation for a large energy customer
operating onshore Mozambique, installed in
fourth quarter 2020.
After a significant drop in
installations in the spring, Marlink Field
Engineers together with the company’s extensive
network of Field Service Partners were once
again active from June 2020, observing local
health restrictions to work through the backlog
of deliveries and installations.
“The delivery delays,
increased shipping expenses and higher travel
costs caused by COVID meant we had to change the
way we work. A prompt adaption by our teams was
made to overcome the situation by re-organising
and structuring our projects for a more
efficient delivery and the results are clear to
see,” says Alexandre de Luca, President,
Enterprise, Marlink. “Our committed people in
delivery and operations functions, project
management, logistics, operations and field
engineers, network operations and service desk
have all contributed to these remarkable
milestones which demonstrate Marlink’s
commitment to business continuity and customer
satisfaction.”
Marlink’s leading position
in design, delivery and management of Smart
Network Solutions, is based on its intelligent
hybrid network, combining global satcoms and
terrestrial connectivity technologies with
software-defined routing (SD-WAN) and optimised
cloud access. With its Managed Services
approach, Marlink proactively takes
responsibility for integrating everything, from
handling customers’ critical connectivity and
data, to IT, IoT and OT services including the
most advanced Cyber Security and Network
Services.