Skyband, a leading Saudi Arabia-based service provider, is expanding its broadband satellite services business with an order for over 2,000 additional HX satellite terminals from US-based Hughes Network Systems.

"Skyband continues to grow our enterprise and government business and we are pleased with the quality of Hughes products and support, which have been key to our expansion plans,” said Osman Oueida, general manager of Skyband.

“We evaluated other vendor offerings and chose Hughes because of technology, quality, price, and the consistent level of support they have provided our company."

In 2009, Skyband purchased a multi-satellite HX Gateway which is designed to unlock the maximum value from high-quality, IP broadband networking, including specialized applications such as mobility.

It makes it easy for operators to expand broadband services across virtually all multi-satellite coverage situations, while maintaining the powerful network management, extensive diagnostics and scalability of the HX System.

"We are proud to continue to provide Skyband with quality products and services," said Soheil Mehrabanzad, assistant vice president for Middle East/Africa region at Hughes.

"Skyband has been a valued customer of Hughes for several years and we congratulate them on their successful expansion plans."

Based on the industry-leading Internet Protocol over Satellite (IPoS) standard, the HX System can be readily configured to provide a specified Quality of Service (QoS) for each link to a particular terminal, enabling operators to provide services tailored to a customer's specific requirements.

An optimised bandwidth allocation scheme is employed which mitigates cost of space segment, whereby idle terminals release their bandwidth assignments to a shared pool.

HX remote terminals utilise FDMA/TDMA channels to communicate with the HX Gateway in star mode, or simultaneously to other terminals in mesh mode, with each channel supporting high-speed data rates. – TradeArabia News Service