New portfolio will offer a faster and more
intelligent airborne ISR solution with guaranteed availability and
scalability to meet mission demands anywhere in the world
CARLSBAD, Calif. and
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat
Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite
communications, today introduced Air-IQ, its new, upcoming
connectivity solution designed to deliver faster, smarter
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) communications
for government and military missions globally.
Air-IQ will help strengthen military situational awareness,
ensuring users have access to reliable, real-time intelligence to
make fast and dependable battlefield decisions. Robust ISR
connectivity offers a 360-degree understanding of the battlefield,
giving military users a critical advantage where and when it
matters most – reducing risk and increasing mission success, while
aligning to support the highest security standards.
The new Viasat solution is designed to meet the intense
requirements of crewed and uncrewed ISR missions for governments
around the world. Available in the coming months, Air-IQ will
provide users with the ability to dynamically shift from
low-throughput to high-throughput connectivity based on mission
needs. This automated capability is designed to eliminate friction,
optimize bandwidth and cost efficiency, and deliver significantly
higher uplink speeds, with uplink data transfer prioritized up to
and above 10Mbps, where required.
To meet complex mission demands, Air-IQ will deliver resilient
multi-band connectivity for operations in congested areas across
Ka-band (commercial and military), Ku-band, and L-band, allowing
customers to access different services and move between frequencies
as needed.
"We wanted to take the complexity out of ISR connectivity, so
that users can focus on what really matters – enhancing situational
awareness and gaining advantage on the battlefield. Air-IQ will
offer a robust, reliable, and flexible connectivity solution that
is designed to adapt to the needs of the mission on the fly. We
built it to deliver the speed and performance to act as a force
enabler for real-time mission communications," said Todd McDonell, President, Viasat International
Government. "Our consistent focus on innovation and customer needs
is the driving force behind Air-IQ, offering a balance of
flexibility and reliability for operations in any environment."
Air-IQ services will be highly flexible to meet the widest range
of customer needs and allow interoperability with sovereign
networks. Operators will also be able to manage multiple aircraft
across a fleet, and seamlessly switch networks as mission
requirements change, all within a single Air-IQ capability.
Additionally, Viasat will continue to maintain the high reliability
of its services with committed information rates and service level
agreements.
This seamless and resilient experience will be delivered by
Viasat and its partner networks, leveraging software-defined wide
area network (SD-WAN) applications to intelligently route or even
split traffic to the most appropriate band and network to avoid
failover. This capability will help deliver the assured data
transport that is mission critical for warfighter operations and
safety.
Viasat's current fleet of satellites – along with its future
satellites anticipated to come into service in the next four years
– are designed to provide global coverage and deliver greater
capacity wherever it's needed, including offering polar coverage in
the Artic region to meet emerging government and ISR mission
demands.
Please visit our website to learn more about the new Air-IQ
offering.
About Viasat
Viasat is a global communications company
that believes everyone and everything in the world can be
connected. With offices in 24 countries around the world, our
mission shapes how consumers, businesses, governments and
militaries around the world communicate and connect. Viasat is
developing the ultimate global communications network to power
high-quality, reliable, secure, affordable, fast connections to
positively impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground,
in the air or at sea, while building a sustainable future in space.
In May 2023, Viasat completed its
acquisition of Inmarsat, combining the teams, technologies and
resources of the two companies to create a new global
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors
created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include,
among others, statements that refer to the features, benefits
and performance of the Air-IQ intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance (ISR) solution. Readers are cautioned that
actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any
forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual
results to differ include: our ability to realize the anticipated
benefits of the Viasat global GEO satellites and any future
satellite we may construct or acquire; risks associated with the
construction, launch and operation of satellites, including the
effect of any anomaly, operational failure or degradation in
satellite performance; our ability to successfully develop,
introduce and sell new technologies, products and services; changes
in the global business environment and economic conditions; changes
in relationships with, or the financial condition of, key customers
or suppliers; our reliance on a limited number of third parties to
manufacture and supply our products; the effect of adverse
regulatory changes (including changes affecting spectrum
availability or permitted uses) on our ability to sell or deploy
our products and services; changes in the way others use spectrum;
our inability to access additional spectrum, use spectrum for
additional purposes, and/or operate satellites at additional
orbital locations; competing uses of the same spectrum or orbital
locations that we utilize or seek to utilize; introduction of new
technologies and other factors affecting the communications and
defense industries generally. In addition, please refer to the risk
factors contained in our SEC filings available at www.sec.gov,
including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of
the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to
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