NSSL Develops An Impressive Voice (This is corrected information from an earlier story…)

NSSL, the international satellite communications service provider, officially launched its toll-quality voice service for its BroadBand land and sea users. At the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show, where it was first aired live at the end of October, Super-yacht captains, crew and owners were encouraged to try out the service and ‘phone a friend over satellite’. The service so impressed them that NSSL found itself, pre-launch, already inundated with inquiries and orders. NSSL’s “Premium Voice” service will be a welcome development for organizations and industries reliant upon consistent and reliable voice and data communications, such as the maritime, oil & gas, mining, media and construction sectors. The service works over NSSL’s Broadband services, but provides a guaranteed and separate toll quality voice service through the satellite and into the terrestrial network. This is distinguished from competitor offering’s of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) systems which are often best effort only and tend to be very variable even over one phone call as the voice quality is affected by data traffic both the specific users and others who all contend for the same satellite and Internet capacity. The new “Premium Voice” service is available to NSSL CruiseIP and BroadIP customers. CruiseIP and BroadIP are low cost alternative to VSAT, uses the latest DVBS2-RCS technology and offers high quality broadband speeds up to 2Mb for maritime and land users respectively—London, United Kingdom