[SatNews] This new agreement finds the Company ready to become an initial distribution partner...

Stratos Global has entered into an agreement with SkyWave Mobile Communications to serve as the first Inmarsat Distribution Partner for IsatData Pro products and service. SkyWave and Inmarsat jointly announced the global availability of IsatData Pro on August 4, 2011. IsatData Pro uses the global Inmarsat satellite constellation to provide remote management and communication with mobile and fixed assets worldwide. It delivers up to 37 times the data capability of competing services. Near real-time messages of up to 10,000 bytes to the device, and up to 6,400 bytes from the device, meet the increasing demand for higher data speeds in machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions.

The new IsatData Pro service supports a wide range of security and location-based services in the fast-growing M2M market. These include: tracking and in-cab messaging for commercial transportation and government fleets; transmitting telemetry information from oil & gas distribution equipment; and remote management and control of fixed assets. Stratos will market IsatData Pro to users in the government and land-transportation markets, and as a Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) solution to oil & gas and utilities sectors. For the oil & gas and utilities sectors, Stratos will integrate IsatData Pro with StratosiWare, an IP-based fully managed end-to-end SCADA solution. At any desired polling interval, the scalable StratosiWare service automatically interrogates SCADA field devices and transmits data via satellite, radio or microwave across the global StratosNexus telecommunications infrastructure to Stratos Data Centers worldwide.