IoStar International uses the teleport of REACH at Stanley, Hong Kong and Arqiva at Chalfont Grove in London for all it's uplinking requirements. The strategic advantage that was achieved using the REACH & Arqiva (iDirect) Teleport facilities was that the IoStar platform could use the Mediaport facilities of REACH & Arqiva and uplink from the same premises to the NSS-6, NSS 703 Satellites of Newskies, SESAT2 of Eutelsat, Telstar 18 Satellite of Loral, ABS1 of Asia Broadcast Satellites and ST1 of Singapore Telecom.

IoStar uses a 13m Ku Band Antenna at Hong Kong and a 7.6m at Lodon for uplinking. The Antennas and the RF power are designed such that the NOC can receive and transmit even under turbulent weather conditions.

As the Internet backbone is locally accessible at the Teleports, the Uplink/Downlink Internet ports are directly connected to a Tier 1 Internet Provider. This avoids all possibility of latency and last mile issues providing the end user a very high level of Internet stability.

Features of the Hong Kong Teleport:

• Largest teleport in Asia with maximum number of 13m antennas.
• Historical service availability of 99.99% and 99.95% for full and half circuit, respectively, with redundant system design and 24x7 operations support.
• One-stop access to robust Internet backbone.
• One-stop access to world-class global fibre network.
• Spare inventory of ground communication equipment.
• Competitive pricing.

Features of the London Teleport:

• Arqiva’s fully managed state-of-the-art data centre offers the very latest and best in co-location and customer equipment hosting with the advantages of exceptional connectivity, full redundancy and the highest levels of online and site security
• A wide range of data transfer rates are available from
  256kbps to 45mbps.
• Arqiva’s direct access to the European Internet Backbones
  of several Tier One providers, peered at the London teleport,
  delivers single hop, low latency connectivity.
• Network is based on Cisco equipment, the de facto industry
  standard, and network operations centre provides 24/7
  monitoring and support for absolute reliability and complete
  peace of mind.
  

Advantages of Uplinking from a Teleport

• Ensures a cost-efficient solution with high reliability.
• Provides VSAT services of the highest quality.
• Delivers the convenience and speed plus Internet access with optimum service flexibility.
• Shortens provisioning lead time.
• Ensures that customers get the best value for money.