MTN Satellite Communications and ERZIA open Santander teleport

MTN Satellite Communications and ERZIA have developed a teleport, located in Santander, which is now officially operative. It now serves as a centralised gateway for MTN’s VSAT communications with coverage over the Americas, Europe and Asia.

The new facility is one of the first in the world to provide C- and Ku-band commercial coverage, as well as secure X-band coverage for government customers, at a single location. The Santander teleport can locate all of the satellites in the GEO orbit from 60W to 65E, thus covering a region from Western Australia to North America, and encompassing the Mediterranean Sea, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Importantly, the new teleport is strategically located in the intersection of the coverage of Xtar satellites, therefore able to uplink and downlink from both X-band satellites.



“The combined resources of MTN and ERZIA within the Santander teleport offer efficient and innovative managed networking technologies from a new and far reaching international satellite gateway,” said Richard Hadsall, Chief Technical Officer at MTN. “Our intent is that this new facility will lift the whole industry to a far more competitive position by creating attractive opportunities for not only MTN but for Spanish and European service providers, enterprise and even consumer subscribers.”
 


The Santander teleport provides a significant improvement in network efficiency, reliability, and customer service that augments the MTN worldwide infrastructure of redundant teleports and dedicated fibre optic links. In addition, it has a fully manned 24/7 network operations centre, providing European time zone coverage, and local language operators to deliver quality service to global customers.

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Related Links

MTN Satellite Communications Profile | MTN Satellite Communications Website

ERZIA Website

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