08 November 2018

A new partnership between SatADSL, iSAT Africa and APT Satellite promises to offer affordable broadband across Africa.

Under the deal, VSAT services provider SatADSL will provide its Cloud-based Service Delivery Platform (C-SDP) to enable iSAT to offer new products including voucher services, VNOFlex and congestion-based services.

APT will provide capacity via APSTAR-7 located at 76.5ºE.

This covers Africa and the Middle East with C- and Ku-band services, and also includes Asia, Europe, Australia and China in its footprints.

iSAT is the latest service provider to connect to the C-SDP which, says SatADLS, is now being used by 77 Africa-based partners.

In a separate deal, Marlink will also use the platform to extend voucher-based and congestion-based services to customers.

For SatADSL, the agreement enables it to link directly to Marlink’s technology platform to provide high bandwidth C- and Ku-band VSAT services across its coverage footprint. 

“By securing this partnership and combining our C-SDP with Marlink’s expertise, we will be able to provide our breadth of services worldwide for the first time,” says Michel Dothey, CCO and co-founder of SatADSL.

“This will open up our services to new markets, helping to bridge the digital divide by providing cost-effective satellite solutions in areas currently underserved by terrestrial networks.”

These latest signings for SatADSL’s cloud platform follow agreements with Global Telesat and RascomStar announced earlier this year.