…Macarthur Minerals Limited, an iron ore exploration and development company operating in Western Australia. The end-to-end, managed satellite service installed at Macarthur Minerals exploration camp, a remote location that is 240km north west of Kalgoorlie, is designed to meet both the business needs of the company and the personal needs of its staff living onsite. The service supports simultaneous, but separated, corporate voice and data applications and recreational traffic; and is designed to allow for future growth and expansion as required.
Supporting both the needs of the site and the needs of the site staff leverages Pactel’s bandwidth management capabilities. Pactel’s engineers adopted the latest Quality of Service (QoS) technology to prioritise voice telephony and corporate data over personal traffic. The QoS component ensures that Macarthur’s day-to-day work and communication remain uninterrupted by the worker welfare traffic that is able to use remaining satellite capacity. Pactel also deployed acceleration technology to enhance and optimize the satellite link. The acceleration platform speeds communications with both Macarthur’s corporate network and the public Internet, with local caching of internet content and rich media, in one device at the remote site. Pactel deployed wireless coverage throughout the camp, supporting staff’s personal devices via a locally-managed portal with user login control.
