[SatNews] Stratos Global has reached a milestone of 5,500 FleetBroadband activations.

Stratos is the first Inmarsat Distribution Partner to reach this FleetBroadband sales milestone. This announcement coincides with Inmarsat reaching its sales plateau of 12,000 FleetBroadband activations worldwide. Stratos’ milestone of 5,500 FleetBroadband activations encompasses all major geographic regions and vessel types, from customers including Wallem Shipmanagement, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, Varun Shipping Co., MISC Berhad, Albacora Group, MPC Steamship and the Royal Netherlands Navy. A significant portion of Stratos’ first 5,500 FleetBroadband activations were sold via Stratos Channel Partners.

As the world’s leading FleetBroadband distributor, Stratos understands the need for reliable maritime communications and the increasing demand for higher volumes of data to support critical applications and business communications onboard, along with the increasing need to support crew with Internet-based services. To meet its customers’ demanding networking requirements, Stratos continues to develop innovative packages — including maritime hardware bundles and global fixed-fee broadband options up to 432kbps. Looking ahead with these developments, Stratos is perfectly positioned to expand its customers’ communications capabilities to take advantage of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress 50Mbps services which will be commercially available in 2014. Global Xpress, using the Ka-band spectrum, will provide the maritime industry with the trusted high performance and reliability for which Inmarsat is renowned. Stratos also recently introduced AmosConnect 8. Integration of AmosConnect 8 with Stratos maritime broadband solutions enables users to control their sessions and ensure optimal airtime use directly from AmosConnect.