Industry Firsts & Innovations

Since its founding in 1981, Spacenet has been a true innovator in the satellite and specialized communications industry. Over the years the company has launched a number of industry “firsts”, often copied by others, that have become mainstay solutions in satellite and hybrid networking. Just a few of our innovations include:

1982

Pioneered newsgathering by satellite worldwide

1984

First Ku Band satellite in orbitSpacenet I

1988

First to market in US with accelerated TCP & HTTP over satellite

1996

First to market in US with VSAT native telephony solutionGilat Dial-away and Far-away

1998

Deployment of largest VSAT network in the world to dateUS Postal Service 17,000 sites

2000

First two-way satellite based Internet access service for home usersStarBand

2002

First commercial grade “pre-packaged” standard service for entepriseConnexstar

2003

First to market in US with managed hybrid DSL/satellite enterprise networks

2006

First to launch a Cisco-integrated VSAT solution

2007

First standard service with a “Minimum Assured Speed”Connexstar Performance Series