Wednesday, March 6, 2013

ViaSat earns Guinness World Record Title as highest capacity satellite

ViaSat reached another milestone as the company’s ViaSat-1 satellite, which runs the Exede Internet service, earned the Guinness World Record title as the highest-capacity communications satellite in the world. When ViaSat-1 satellite was launched in October 2011, the spacecraft had more capacity than all the other communication satellites covering North America combined.

The world record proves that ViaSat-1 satellite provides 100 times the capacity of a typical Ku-band satellite and ten times the throughput of any Ka-band satellite launched before it over Canada and the United States.

In a statement, ViaSat Chairman and CEO Mark Dankberg said in a statement: “The Guinness World Records title is an important recognition of our breakthrough technology and a testament to the work done by our team of innovators. Best of all, it’s allowing us to deliver on our commitment to provide a high quality customer experience for satellite broadband service.”

The new system of ViaSat is a great breakthrough in the economics and quality of satellite Internet service. Aside from powering the 12 Mbps Exede Internet service, ViaSat-1 satellite is also expected to provide the bandwidth for a new generation of enterprise services, which includes in-flight broadband for commercial aviation.

The Guinness World Record title is the second major recognition that ViaSat-1 satellite earned in the past month. The first one was an indirect indication, when in the FCC’s annual benchmarking report “2013 Measuring Broadband America,” ViaSat’s Exede Internet service was ranked as number one among DSL, cable, fiber and satellite providers in surpassing advertised speeds.

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