Satnews Daily
February 16th, 2009

MSS Costs Reduced By Stratos Global


Stratos Global Corporation has announced the commercial availability of StratosNet Accelerator, a free Internet-optimization application that helps customers reduce airtime costs required to operate BGAN, FleetBroadband and SwiftBroadband mobile satellite services.

Stratos Global homepage banner StratosNet Accelerator is the latest addition to The Stratos Advantage, a suite of value-added services that, once downloaded, operates transparently on the customer's personal computer. By using the latest data-compression techniques, it reduces by more than 80 percent the amount of email, web, and FTP data transmitted between terrestrial and mobile terminals. This functionality significantly increases transmission speeds and reduces airtime costs. Stratos is one of the world's largest distributors of Inmarsat's BGAN, FleetBroadband and SwiftBroadband mobile satellite offerings, which use portable, lightweight terminals to provide simultaneous, high-speed data and voice connectivity anywhere in the world.

StratosNet Accelerator is the ideal companion to ChatCard Data, which enables BGAN and FleetBroadband end users to expand the use of their prepaid ChatCard calling card to include Internet access. StratosNet Accelerator helps end-users get the maximum value for their ChatCard allowance. BGAN from Stratos (with data speeds up to 492 kbps) is ideally suited to enable land-mobile communications in areas where terrestrial or cellular networks are damaged, congested, non-existent or too difficult to deploy. Stratos now boasts more than 10,000 BGAN activations for military & NGO agencies, media organizations, first responders and professionals in many other industries in 185 countries worldwide. For the maritime market, FleetBroadband from Stratos provides on-demand guaranteed IP data rates (up to 432 kbps), regardless of the vessel's location. Stratos has activated hundreds of FleetBroadband terminals for commercial, military and leisure vessels. For the aviation market, SwiftBroadband from Stratos provides high-performance (up to 432 kbps), secure and reliable access to command-and-control information resources on the ground, facilitating situational awareness. The service enables commercial and private jet passengers to stay in touch with high-speed Internet, email and voice connectivity.