ViaSat Mobile Broadband Services is at Booth No. 768 displaying what the company calls “the only FCC-approved Ku-band mobile broadband service in the market.” The Carlsbad, Calif.-based company said it can provide airborne Internet services at higher data speeds and for lower costs compared with “other mobile satellite services that bill themselves as broadband,” such as Inmarsat with its SwiftBroadband satellite data service for business jets.
ViaSat Ku-band services cover all of North America, the North Atlantic and Europe and–teamed with retail channel partners Arinc SkyLink and KVH Industries–the company is bringing airborne and maritime communications to more mobile users. ViaSat says the SkyLink global in-flight broadband service provides download rates as fast as three megabits per second (Mbps) and data transmission rates as high as 512 kilobits per second. The KVH Industries maritime miniVSAT link boasts download rates as fast as 2 Mbps and a 512 kbps data transmission rate.
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