KVH Debuts Mini-VSAT Broadband 2.0

Posted by Michelle Howard September 9, 2015

Press Release - KVH Industries, Inc., (KVHI) will introduce the second generation of its mini-VSAT Broadband solution at London International Shipping Week.

The new offering is designed to transform the maritime VSAT market with a combination of data delivered at the network’s highest speeds, lower price points than previous airtime plans and the content, tools and support to optimize broadband effectiveness.

The expanded service, mini-VSAT Broadband 2.0, encompasses antennas and other hardware, flexible airtime options, operations and entertainment content, content delivery and support – all available from a single provider.

New features of KVH’s mini-VSAT Broadband 2.0 solution, which will be available on October 1, include:

New Airtime Rate Plans: Usage-based plans, designed around each ship’s monthly requirements for operational and crew data, deliver data at maximum speeds on the network at every price point. In some cases, the top downlink speed of 4 Mbps is 15 times faster than previous plans, while the cost has been reduced by one third.
myKVH Network Management Portal: This secure portal enables a ship operator to manage network usage by vessel or by individual crew members, allocate operational and crew data, and receive customized usage alerts by email and SMS text message.
KVH OneCare: This comprehensive global customer support program covers application engineering, solution deployment, and operating support, with KVH as the single point of contact. The program is designed to minimize lifecycle costs and maximize service availability, and features an enhanced standard warranty covering parts and labor for two years for all KVH mini-VSAT Broadband antenna systems.
News and Sports Content Packages: New entertainment content packages are designed to make news and sports programming more accessible to more subscribers via KVH’s IP-MobileCast content delivery service.

The new features bolster KVH’s solution, which includes: global connectivity from the C/Ku-band satellite network; a global private terrestrial and MPLS network for data security; TracPhone V-IP series systems designed for the mini-VSAT Broadband network; and delivery of gigabytes of the content needed onboard vessels today via IP-MobileCast, KVH’s unique content delivery service. KVH said its IP-MobileCast takes advantage of one-to-many multicast efficiency to deliver up to 500 GB of operations and entertainment content per month to vessels without impacting the vessel’s data plan, bandwidth or network performance.