[SatNews] Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has acquired STM and its affiliate entities Global IP and Vodanet Brasil.
Global IP is a global satellite connectivity services provider, specializing in the mobility, maritime and oil and gas markets. Vodanet serves as an operating company in Brazil and is fully licensed to provide VSAT services both onshore and offshore. STM is a leading hardware manufacturing company for the satellite industry with proven experience developing high quality and bandwidth-efficient, VSAT products based on the DVB-RCS2 standard. The combined organization has over 20 years of industry experience in 150 countries with over 150,000 VSAT terminals deployed in to service.
EMC’s unique satellite connectivity offering now includes a global C- and Ku-band footprint for high availability enterprise networks with the largest number of wholly-owned field support locations in the industry. EMC owns and manages 32, in-country field support centers worldwide. These support centers are staffed with EMC-certified engineers, spare parts, test equipment and manage all logistics in deploying, maintaining and repairing services for onshore and offshore customers.
Additional mobility customers include fishing boats, ferries, high-speed trains and helicopters. These customers leverage EMC’s wholly-owned support centers and global Ku-band and C-band networks to maximize their business performance on land, in the air or at sea. EMC’s additional geographic locations broaden its reach in servicing customers worldwide. In addition to being the largest VSAT provider in Africa, EMC now has a solidified presence in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Indonesia, creating a complete global network with 32 wholly-owned support centers worldwide.
In Brasil, a key market for oil and gas, EMC is now one of the only global providers with a direct, Anatel-approved, VSAT license for delivering services in the country, both onshore and offshore. EMC also has in-country teleport infrastructure and field support offices in Rio, Sao Pablo, Brasilia and Bello Horizonte, equipped with engineers to quickly respond to customer demands. In Brasil, EMC has approximately 8,000 VSAT terminals in service for the oil and gas, telecom, and government industries.
Technology Leader EMC’s research and development facilities in United States and India, and its 18 patented technologies, combined with STM’s research and development facilities in Norway and innovative design and manufacturing of high quality, bandwidth-efficient satellite systems, positions EMC as a leading provider of the DVB-RCS2 standard.
EMC’s patented bandwidth technology will optimize the SatLink™ networking system in providing IP-based voice, data, interactive video, mobility and Coms-On-The-Move (COTM) solutions for mobility customers and SatLink™ users in general.
