Hughes Network Systems, a provider of broadband satellite services, products and managed network solutions, has announced a major sale involving Saudi Arabia.
Luna Space Telecommunications, a Saudi Arabian service provider under the Skyband Holding company, has purchased a Jupiter System Gateway as well as 1,200 Hughes Jupiter Terminals to transform its VSAT network.
A very small aperture terminal (VSAT) platform for broadband satellite service on both conventional and high-throughput satellites (HTS), Jupiter is described by Hughes as the most widely used VSAT system in the world.
Hughes says that by leveraging the latest Jupiter technology, Skyband can provide customers with higher speeds and throughput, reach even more of the kingdom’s unserved and underserved areas, and introduce a new mobility offering.
Skyband provides the latest satellite network infrastructure through multiple hubs to enable the corporate and government sectors in Saudi Arabia to increase their productivity and help achieve their digital transformation goals.
By migrating its existing network to the more efficient Hughes network, Hughes says Skyband will expand into new government, financial, and oil and gas markets and offer new features such as software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN).
Describing it as the leading ground platform across the industry, Hughes says the Jupiter System meets operator requirements with bandwidth and cost efficiencies.
The latest Jupiter technology incorporates software-defined satellite networking and dynamic in-route reconfiguration for the highest possible efficiency. Additionally, the Jupiter terminal has a new ‘system on a chip’, which supports higher speeds and more services.
