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June 13th, 2010

PolarSat... Pipeline Performer


[SatNews] PolarSat Inc., offering full mesh hubless VSAT communication equipment, has successfully completed their VSATPlus 3 system testing and certification for the product's immediate use in PetroChina's network. This concludes more than seven months of live operation of PolarSat's VSATPlus 3 VSAT equipment in support of PetroChina's Lan-Cheng-Yu pipeline.


The VSAT network has expanded beyond just emergency response to support ongoing pipeline operation and equipment monitoring and control. This network is a key element in the overall system that delivers constant communications to the most remote locations. The VSATPlus 3 provides a predictable response time that supports Voice, SCADA, Video monitoring applications. The certification process ran a wide variety of concurrent applications in a variety of environmental conditions.

Pipeline communications have unique communication requirements that include extremely high network availability in demanding environmental conditions. The VSATPlus 3 performed extremely well under these challenging conditions and had virtually a 0 percent packet transfer loss rate. The VSATPlus 3 provides integrated support for a wide range of applications through multiple networks connections, mesh connectivity, built-in QoS to ensure mission critical SCADA data always gets through, along with geographic redundancy to automatically route traffic to an alternate gateway. The VSATPlus 3 system provided effective communications links from the remote locations to the main station as well as between the remote locationss and demonstrated hub-less full mesh connectivity of user traffic including; Voice over IP, IP Video distribution, Data file transfers, Internet/Intranet and email. The VSATPlus 3 will be displayed at the PolarSat booth located in the Canadian Pavillion # 3H1-12 at the CommunicAsia 2010 exhibition being held at the Singapore Exposition Center, Singapore June 15th-18th 2010.