Satcom Direct held its 9th annual conference in early February, bringing together not only its own customers but also a variety of hardware manufacturers and other companies that benefit from and provide services via satcom. The conference grows every year and is evidence that the steady pace of satellite communications development has led to a greater variety of airborne telecom services–and even some reductions in pricing–for aircraft operators.
“We’re in violent expansion mode,” said Curt Gray, Satcom Direct vice president of satcom technologies and development. A service provider for satcom users, the company has grown to more than 100 employees and recently purchased a 13-acre campus where everyone will be working together in one consolidated facility. Next to that, Satcom Direct is building a new 25,000-sq-ft data center that meets compliance standards that apply to highly secure and reliable data centers such as those that underlie Google’s infrastructure. “We’re going from 16 big-rack servers to 132 in phase one,” Gray said. “That’s phase one of four, so huge growth [is coming].”
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