Kacific has selected ABS for ground infrastructure as it prepares for the launch of its Kacific1 satellite later in the year.
An ABS teleport located in the Philippines’ Subic Bay will host, operate and provide first level support for its gateway hub.
Kacific1 will be a pioneering High Throughput Satellite (HTS) to be located over Asia-Pacific using Ka-band spot beams for extremely cost-efficient broadband delivery. Its 56 high throughput beams will cover select areas over the Pacific Islands and South East Asia, with six beams covering the Philippines archipelago and a further 21 beams covering Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Malaysia.
“Kacific chose to locate its ground infrastructure in the Philippines because it is a priority market for us,” says Kacific CEO, Christian Patouraux. “Our beams will reach 100% of the nation’s population across its many islands, making affordable connectivity available to all those who are currently unserved or underserved.”
ABS has its primary space operations centre for its entire fleet of six satellites in Subic Bay. Its teleport facilities operate with extremely high availability, with triple redundant power supply and fibre connectivity to Tier-1 IP international peering points. In keeping with Ka-band operating norms for tropical regions, ABS has arranged a diversity site to be located nearby at the Clark Freeport Zone.
The teleports will operate on an active diversity basis using state-of-the-art connectivity via a dedicated fibre route to directly optically connect the two gateway hubs. This ensures that commercial traffic would have a reliable transmission from one of the sites if, for example, rain degradation was impairing the functionality of the other.
ABS’ Philippines teleport serves as one of the major satellite hubs over the Asia-Pacific region, hosting more than 50 antennas. As satellites provide a complementary role to 5G connectivity, the Subic facility is poised to be a gateway for future 5G services especially to remote areas.
