Kapolei (MMD Newswire) February 24, 2009 -- Afghanistan Satellite www.afghanistansatellite.org is a new Afghanistan to USA communications service offered by Hawaii Pacific Teleport www.hawaiiteleport.com. The service is provided on the JCSAT 3A satellite at orbital position 128E operated by Sky Perfect JSAT corporation of Japan. The satellite footprint covers all of Afghanistan and adjoining countries including Pakistan and supports two way communications service in excess of 2 Megabits on small c-band antennas with a 2.4 meter diameter.

The new service is unique because it offers the only one hop satellite connection between Afghanistan and the USA through HPT teleport in Hawaii. Most other commercial satellite services in Afghanistan operate on less reliable ku-band spectrum and are typically routed through foreign teleports in Russia, Germany or Hong Kong which may be less desirable for those customers whose traffic may be better served by a teleport based on US soil.

Advantageously the new Afghanistan Satellite service provides the lowest latency communications link from Afghanistan to most of the USA which is important for defense contractors who for security reasons need to use ‘thin client' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client) server based computing to eliminate storing classified information on computers in Afghanistan.

Vince Waterson, VP Business Development at Hawaii Pacific Teleport said "We recently deployed our first 2.4m c-band VSAT antenna at a US military base in Kabul for a ‘thin client' application for a defense contractor in the US mid west where the JCSAT 3A low latency link shaved 200 milliseconds off a service provided by another vendor. Any US company operating ‘thin client' platforms in Afghanistan should consider using the short route home to the US through HPT in Hawaii to improve performance."

The JCSAT 3A satellite is precision operated by SkyPerfect JSAT company http://www.sptvjsat.com/en/ from their Yokohama TT&C in Japan, one of 12 satellites in the JSAT fleet which has in an in-orbit back up satellite. Hawaii Pacific Teleport operates the only US located teleport providing service on this unique satellite. The teleport is based on the island of Oahu, Hawaii and is operated 24x7 by a team of satellite and internet engineers. JCSAT-3A is just one of over 10 satellites accessed from Hawaii Pacific Teleport. The teleport is connected by 300 Mbps high speed fiber across redundant submarine fiber links to the Internet backbone on the US west coast. HPT services customers with mission critical communications in both the military, oil and gas industries.

Contact:
Vince Waterson
VP Business Development
Tel: 808 674 1496
Email: vwaterson@hawaiiteleport.com

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