...NATO’s Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), formerly the NC3A Agency. The agreement allows NATO Command agencies and NATO Member States to request pricing and place orders using pre-agreed terms and conditions and pricing tables. NATO has recently acknowledged the importance of Ka-band in its future commercial satellite communications requirements. Ka-band provides extremely cost effective satellite bandwidth to support the higher data throughput requirements of operational and welfare applications for NATO and National deployments. Avanti’s areas of coverage include Europe, the Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa.