About Us
SatGate started in November 2001 by provision of the satellite Internet services within territory of Central and Eastern Europe via Sirius-West satellite of the Swedish operator and a satellite capacity owner - Nordic Satellite (NSAB). After Sirius West de-orbiting service has been moved to geostationary NSAB satellites: Sirius-2 and Sirius-3. As a result of the three-year dynamic development as an Internet via Satellite operator SatGate became one of the powerful players on the Eurasian satellite Internet market and worked on its reputation of the reliable partner for its customers, setting main focus on ISPs and corporate market.
By September, 2004 SatGate has served about one hundred Internet providers, many commercial and industrial enterprises as well as scientific and educational institutions in more than fifteen countries of Eurasian continent. Reacting to the market demands and in the move to differentiate services SatGate has developed proprietary technologies to serve SOHO and end-users.
Thus in October, 2004 SatGate has made a new step in its development by extending spectrum of services to the end-user level combined with the possibility of calculating charges depending on the volume of the information obtained. Currently SatGate provides a wide selection of tariff packages for accounts with the Committed Information Rate (CIR) or dynamic bandwidth allocation (CIR/BURST), limited and unlimited accounts.
For more than four years SatGate has been successfully penetrating new markets bringing quality satellite internet connectivity services into different countries. Presently SatGate provides satellite internet connectivity services in over 15 countries selling about 200 Mbit/s of CIR bandwidth. This is done via 5 geostationary satellites operated by Intelsat (Intelsat-702) and Nordic Satellite (Sirius-2 and Sirius-3), Gascom (Yamal 200, 49E) and Eurasiasat (EurasiaSat-1 or Turksat-2A).
The marketing geography is determined by the nominal coverage of the above satellites: Eastern European, CIS, the Middle Eastern, Asian and the Caucasus countries. The service is provided mostly to the ISP and big enterprise target audience with committed information rate (CIR) bandwidth ranging from 128Kbps to 20Mbps.
SatGate main Network Operation Centre is located in Kaliningrad region, Russia (former territory of German Eastern Prussia with Koenigsberg as the capital) bordering Poland and Lithuania.
Lithuanian office is located in Vilnius, Lithuania. At the same place existing SatGate Teleport is located.
Teleports and service platforms:
In October 2001 SatGate’s first POP in Europe was established in Stockholm, Sweden, where with cooperation of Nordic Satellite (NSAB) uplink was set up for running services over two Nordic Satellite (NSAB) satellites (Sirius-2 and Sirius-3) and serving ISPs in Eastern Europe and CIS Countries. IP connectivity is provided via international carriers TeliaSonera and British Telecom, as well as Swedish provider IPOnly.
In March 2003 another POP was established in Europe (the Netherlands) in cooperation with Xantic B.V. with an uplink to Intelsat-601 satellite located at 64E. Since one and a half year of operation satellite was replaced by Intelsat-702. IP connectivity is provided via links to TeliaSonera and KPN Eurorings. Complete equipment set based on Cisco platforms installed is capable to provide up to 800 Megabits of IP service in both DVB-IP and HSSI Frame Relay encapsulations. Terrestrial access is provided by double redundant STM-4 fibre ring. Most customers of this service are ISPs located in CIS, Middle East and Caucasus countries.
In June 2004 third POP was established in Vilnius (Lithuania). Facilities were built and now are being operated solely by SatGate. Teleport has two independent IP carrier connections to TeliaSonera and Level3. At the moment two IP broadband services on transponders of Yamal-200 49E and EurasiaSat-1 42E DBS beam are running. Several SCPC links operated also via Intelsat-704 satellite. These services are dedicated mostly to Middle East and Central Asian CIS republics.
Having its own dedicated developer groups both on hardware and software side allows SatGate to maintain constant development of existing technologies and work on new generations of them. It helps to cover wider customer base with different requirements.