In from the Outback. Two people approached us with the story we hear a lot.
“We have had trailers built, but at Australian mines they just don’t hold up.”
Our trailers were literally built with direct input from oil, gas and mining customers. We have fixed the weaknesses, and now have a robust trailer that’ll handle every environment you work in.
This guy comes to the booth, and immediately engages me in conversation. He’s based in Florida, but talks of customers in North Africa who could not only use our Mobile Satellite Internet Trailer for disaster response; oil, gas, and mining; etc., but that the Nomad would be very popular there, too.
It makes sense. Around the world, while auto-pointing equipment is much appreciated, the technical staff are quite capable of pointing satellite dishes themselves, and find they can have many fixed dishes for the price of an auto-pointing. A fixed dish mounted on the Nomad Rapid Deployment System, equipped with the Nomad Az/El Cap is fully rigid when well staked, but also eminently portable when folded and loaded in the back of a small truck.
I had a great conversation yesterday with a hub operator in Turkey. He’s really interested in deploying mobile satellite trailers throughout the Middle East for emergency preparedness. We’ll talk about integrating our technology with the various Middle East service providers.
Let me list the countries some of our new Satellite 2011 friends come from:
If any of these customers were to call us a year ago, we’d have referred them to another ISP.
Now with the MST, we can provide customers outside our normal footprint with hardware, and they augment it as they wish.
We’re so pleased to have had the opportunity to make new friends.
Come by booth 342 at Satellite 2011, and we’ll discuss how we can make our new relationship work.
Reporting from the floor of Satellite 2011 here. Frequent questions we’re getting from conference attendees are can we:
So many questions.
1. We’re willing to work with you. If your application requires a dish from another manufacturer, we’ll make sure it is compatible with our teleport, and figure out how to meet your needs.
2. Our teleport provides service to customers through the US, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. We’re willing to sell equipment we manufacture ourselves, such as the MST and the Nomad Az/El cap, anywhere in the world. Give us a call.
3. We do provide our MST with a 1.8 meter dish. No problem!
4. While we can’t do gigabytes of data bandwidth per second, our committed information rates will help you get there faster than other carriers who don’t guarantee bandwidth. So for VoIP, RoIP, video surveillance, cellular backhaul and other communications applications, you’ll have the access to assured bandwidth that will help you get access when you need it.
Brrr….
Well, winter’s coming. No doubt about it. It hasn’t snowed yet here in Akron, but the frost was thick on the car windshield this morning. It’s only a matter of time, I suppose.
Here at Skycasters, the arrival of frigid temperatures can mean only one thing – time for preventative maintenance!
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I wish Arthur C. Clarke could have met Benjamin Franklin. I think they would have enjoyed each other immensely.
Back in the day, when Ol’ Ben was describing the permanency of the United States Constitution, he allowed that while the Constitution should stand forever, the only absolutes were end of life, and taxation.
Welcome to the new age. You throw a few satellites up into the Clarke Belt, and all of a sudden you get a new definition of permanence. (more…)
Phase I: The Proposal
On June 8, 2010 Skycasters submitted a proposal in Washington, D.C., for a $5.1 million in ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funds from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) committee. Project SafetyNet, as we’re calling it, will bring life-saving and economy-stimulating satellite broadband Internet to public safety organizations in unserved portions of rural America. Believe it or not, these police departments, fire departments, EMS and the like are still using dial-up, amateur radio and other last-century technology to access the Internet and communicate with one another. Not good. Here’s how our proposal will change all that.
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Skycaster President Mike Kister visited Satellite 2010 in March, and iDirect captured Mike at his best in this short video.
Those of you who know me (or at least know this blog), are aware that I have a great affinity for BGSU, and regularly assist the business school and the marketing department on various topics. Yesterday I was back on campus for Speed Interviews (spring is a wonderful time at BG, by the way). I had a break during the day, and was asked to speak at Mearl Sutton’s Intro Business Class (comprised mostly of freshmen, completing their first year at BG). The following is an excerpt from that presentation:
One of the questions that the class asked me to cover was about traits and qualities I look for in prospective employees. I’m going to spend the majority of my time today on this question, because I think it will be the most helpful to you in the long run. The future – Where I think we are headed – (and the reason why I value these attributes above all others) will not seem revolutionary to you in this room – It will only seem like the norm. It will be the reality in the only business world you will have ever known…
