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 Panasonic Aviation’s in-flight broadband service has been in high demand since its introduction two years ago. Faced with the challenge of quickly accelerating the deployment of its global network to meet demand, Panasonic recently turned to the IntelsatOne terrestrial network to complement its satellite service. The company is now leveraging IntelsatOne to aggregate TV channels and data, and move content between teleports in the United States and Europe. Panasonic is the latest in a growing cadre of providers to choose Intelsat’s global fleet and IntelsatOne, including Intelsat’s teleports, to enable a wide range of applications, from Internet trunking to cellular backhaul to international private lines. Other customers leveraging Intelsat’s hybrid solution include AT&T, Vodacom, MTN and KDDI. Intelsat’s teleports in Atlanta, Georgia, and Fuchsstadt, Germany, serve as collection points for content and data that are downlinked from satellites or carried via fiber links from various locations, such as Intelsat’s point of presence (PoP) at London’s Telehouse colocation facility. Starting in early 2013, Intelsat’s teleport in Hagerstown, Maryland, will become part of the network when the Intelsat 27 satellite begins providing connectivity over the northern Atlantic Ocean. “We chose Intelsat because it was able to provide a reliable, cost-effective platform capable of meeting our high-throughput requirements,” said David Bruner, Panasonic’s vice president of global communications services. “The IntelsatOne hybrid satellite and terrestrial solution has brought us to market far quicker than what others were capable of providing, and provides Panasonic broad overlay beams which enable us to better serve our aircraft customers.” Panasonic’s Global Communications Suite leverages Intelsat’s Ku-band satellite capacity to provide high-speed wireless Internet, mobile phone and television services to commercial airline crew and passengers. It is currently in service on nearly 130 commercial aircraft, and Panasonic has commitments to serve more than 1,600 aircraft in the coming years. Intelsat’s Galaxy 17 satellite provides capacity for the service over North America, and Intelsat 14 is enabling services over Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa. The Global Communications Suite joins capacity from several satellites to create a network that covers virtually the entire globe. Delivering a seamless global broadband service that combines IP data, voice and television programming to users flying 35,000 feet in the sky is no easy task. It involves a complex web of terminals, teleports, fiber links and network operations centers to uplink, downlink, package and move content to and from different sources. “Intelsat has played a key role in the success of Panasonic’s Global Communications Suite,” added Bruner. “As we increase our television channel offering and handle an increasingly large amount of IP data and voice traffic, we are benefitting greatly from the simplicity and flexibility of Intelsat’s hybrid satellite terrestrial solution.” Earlier this year, Panasonic contracted with Intelsat for up to 1 Gbps of capacity on the next generation Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, which will deliver high throughput, high efficiency capacity starting in 2015. Using a combination of wide beams, spot beams and frequency reuse technologies, the first Intelsat EpicNG satellite, Intelsat 29e, is designed to deliver up to 80 Mbps per aircraft over air routes between the United States and Europe. |
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