MISSISSAUGA, ON – Canadian satellite communications company Galaxy Broadband Communications announced that it will be launching a new Ka band beam on its SkyData enterprise class service for central and eastern Canada.
The new service will launch April 15, 2013 from Galaxy’s facilities in Toronto using Telesat’s Ka band spot beam on Anik F3. The coverage area includes northern Ontario, northern Quebec and the western areas of Newfoundland and Labrador.
“We launched our SkyData platform on 4 Ka band beams last year to that cover the western half of Canada’s north. The service has worked very well so we wanted to expand to the Eastern part of the country,” said Rick Hodgkinson, founder, CEO and president of Galaxy, in the announcement.
“Our customers are seeking more and more bandwidth to support mission critical applications, morale services to work camps and reliable quality VoIP communications. The additional Ka spot beam will expand our coverage area to the resource rich areas of Eastern Canada. We have shown the market that our SkyData Managed Ka service is both reliable and cost effective. Leveraging the cost efficiencies of Ka with some really interesting technology we deliver to our customers a fast, predictable service for an affordable price. Since many remote areas are serviced by only aircraft, transporting a 1.2M Ka VSAT to a remote site is very cost effective.”
Galaxy’s SkyData K service plans will support up to 4/10Mbps speeds on a 1.2M antenna.
