SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has announced Spacenet has signed a multiyear satellite capacity agreement to help meet growing demand for emergency communications capabilities across North America.

As part of the agreement, SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES is providing Spacenet with expanded capacity on its AMC-4, AMC-5, and AMC-6 satellites. This will enable Spacenet to offer reliable anywhere, anytime connectivity to businesses, governments, and law enforcement agencies in the event of catastrophic storms, network glitches, and other unforeseen outages. The Missouri Department of Transportation’s satellite-based continuity solution, winner of the 2009 Innovation and Technology Award at the International Satellite and Communications Exchange (ISCe) Conference, is one of a growing number of emergency networks delivered by Spacenet and SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES. Corporations and organizations of all kinds are joining the Spacenet solution on the SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES platform, which integrates terrestrial communications assets with satellite connectivity to keep operations running when primary networks are affected. The Missouri DOT solution is based on fixed and transportable satellite systems and supports full voice over IP (VoIP), Radio over IP, and Internet access. Seamless transmission and control capabilities enable the satellite system to interconnect with remote tower sites and legacy systems.