Commercial Carrier Grade Satellite VOIP Services

Thanks to our partnership with Gilat and Spacenet, the undisputed leaders in VSAT telephony, Orbital Enterprises is now proud to offer our customers the most reliable and advanced satellite VOIP services available anywhere.

Gilat provides over 90% of the worlds VSAT telephony services in over 85 different countries. Their expertise and leadership in this market segment ensures that you are getting the highest quality, most reliable and consistent VOIP over satellite value for your dollar.

Satellite VOIP Services Over View:

Robust Telephony Over Satellite
• Local, Long distance and international calling
• Up to 6 concurrent calls per VSAT
• 10 digit telephone numbers
• Reliability and service availability comparable to wireline systems
• Voice services matched with full time or part time data services.

Carrier Grade
• Connection into the Public Switched Telephone Network directly at our NOC with no part of your call going out over the public internet.
• Proven telephony architecture
High quality clear calls with the latest generation of advanced protocols and a sampling rate that is 3 times the industry standard provide toll quality voice without jitter or dropped calls.
Local and toll free phone numbers.
• Built in QOS and SAR satellite resource management.

FCC Compliant 9-1-1 Services
• For fixed sites, specialized systems are utilized to provide automatic call routing to your local emergency services.
• For mobile sites, Spacenet provides 9-1-1 services powered by Intrado via a live emergency call relay center that’s staffed 24 x 7 x 365

Fax Services
• Plain paper Fax solutions over satellite
• Will support up to 2 Fax lines per VSAT

Pricing
• Customers pay a flat monthly rate of $99 for each simultaneous phone line plus applicable charges for off network charges.
• On network calls are free of any additional charges ( first 500 min only per month ).
• Customers may also purchase bundled minute packages of 250, 500, or 1000 minutes bringing your per minute cost for off network calling as low as 5 cents per min.
• On net calls include any calls made within the Spacenet Digital Voice Network.
• Off-Net calls include any calls where one end point is not within the Spacenet network
• Connexstar Digital Phone service is very affordable with airtime charges often less than 10 percent of comparable mobile satellite phone services.
• There is a one time $99 set up fee for each line.

Spacenet currently supports the following configurations
• Cisco VSAT Network Module with Cisco 7940 and 7960 IP phones utilizing the Cisco Unity Module for Voicemail
• SkyEdge IP VSAT (stand-alone IDU) with Cisco 7940 and 7960 IP phones.
• Quintum AF Tenor series analog to digital converter boxes that allow a customer to use legacy handset equipment.

Customer premise equipment configuration
• The IP phones will need a specially programmed SIP to be installed on the phone. This will allow the IP phones to register with the soft switch so that the CPE can be authenticated on the network. The analog to digital adapter boxes will need to be configured and also registred to our softswitch at the NOC.
For the Cisco VSAT Network Module configuration, Cisco call manager Express will need to be installed on the customers router

Digital Voice Service Options
Digital Voice - Spacenet Data Service Compatibility
Accompanying Data service	Broadband 512	Performance 256	Performance 512	Performance 1024
Max voice lines	Up to 4 lines	Up to 4 lines	Up to 6 lines	Up to 6 lines
Available Service Plans*	FT and PT 1	FT and PT 10,5,1	FT and PT 10,5,1	FT and PT 10,5,1
*The Digital Voice Service must match the accompanying Data Service Plan Digital Voice Services are not available for use with private or custom networks, legacy 180/360 platforms or with any “shared” connexstar data services below the “Broadband 512” level of service