[SatNews] ViaSat is set to discuss several key market opportunities during CommunicAsia2013. The company's Stefan Jucken, Director of Strategic Development, will be participating on a panel titled “Reinventing’ The Satellite Business by Commercializing Ka-band Satellites—Examining the Outlook, Opportunities and Implications in an Asia Context” at CommunicAsia 2013. Stefan will join other industry experts to discuss new service and market opportunities with the recent move to Ka-band, the enabling network architecture and backend systems for Ka-band communications and where the industry stands on launching Ka-band satellites, as well as the implications of “closed” and “open” systems models.

The panel will occur at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, in Basement 2 (Level 1 & 3), on June 18, 2013 at 2:40 p.m. (Singapore Standard Time)

ViaSat is differentiating itself with new transformational broadband services enabled through the use of and commercialization of Ka-band satellites. Recently, ViaSat announced that Boeing will build ViaSat-2, which is based on the Company’s next generation, Ka-band satellite technology and architecture. This new satellite marks the first major advancement of satellite broadband technology since the initial development of ViaSat-1, which recently earned a Guinness World Records title as the highest-capacity communications satellite in the world.

ViaSat-2 is expected to be the world’s highest capacity satellite at the time of launch (scheduled for mid-2016), achieving not just an increase in capacity vs. ViaSat-1, but an unparalleled mix of capacity and coverage. ViaSat-2 is anticipated to approximately double the bandwidth economics of ViaSat-1 while simultaneously increasing its coverage footprint by seven-fold, covering North America, Central America, the Caribbean, a small portion of northern South America as well as the primary aeronautical and maritime routes across the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe.