Orbit Research Launches New VNO Service in Africa

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Orbit Research is pleased to announce the launch of a new VNO service in Africa.

Ciscon Nigeria Ltd, an oil industry servicing company, have launched a network using the new Amos-5i satellite which has excellent coverage in C-band over the whole of Africa. The network is hosted on our iDirect Evolution hub at Rugby and employs a 9.1 metre Vertex antenna. The network is managed remotely by Ciscon with network management support provided by Orbit Research. The equipment installed at the customers’ sites comprises a 1.8m C-band antenna and an iDirect X3 Evolution satellite router.

Services on this network are available through Orbit Research, to request further information, please go to our contact page.

For more information regarding Virtual Network Operator services, see here.

The coverage area of this network can be seen here.

Virtual Network Operator (VNO) Hosting Services

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Orbit Research are pleased to announce that we are now offering Virtual Network Operator (VNO) hosting services.  Any company that wants to start up a new satellite network faces the cost of buying a hub, a large earth station antenna and all of the associated infrastructure.

Another possibility is to start with a Virtual Network Operator (VNO) option within a larger, shared hub hosted by a Host Network Operator (HNO) like Orbit Research. With the VNO capability, customers are in full control of their own networks and remotes. The customer needs to purchase only a VNO license, dedicated line cards, protocol processors and NMS servers. The hub itself and the entire supporting infrastructure can be shared transparently with the HNO. The infrastructure at the Rugby teleport offers access to satellites covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa and America and has dual gigabit fibre connections to the internet backbone.

The VNO functionality provides lower cost of ownership for customers entering new markets.

See here for more details.