Case Studies
Learn how others have used the power of IPSTAR to benefit customer or help their business.
IPSTAR is already helping families, businesses and large corporates throughout New Zealand, Australia and Asia. Through case studies of the services we offer you can learn first hand how satellite broadband adds a new "extra-terrestrial" dimension to communications.
Oil Rig Communications
In conjunction with specialist contractors and Marine Navaid Systems, the SeaTel distributor based out of Sydney, URSYS won the contract to supply and install a 1.2M SeaTel stabilized VSAT platform onto an oil exploration rig currently exploring for oil and gas off the east coast of New Zealand. URSYS chose to use a space segment provided by IPSTAR to directly link the IPSTAR Auckland teleport to the rig and the oil exploration company's production office on the mainland.
IPSTAR enables URSYS to provide four extension phone lines back to the client's head office PBX and facilitates high speed Internet data access for management personnel on the rig.
"The spot beam coverage from IPSTAR is excellent, allowing us to maintain 24/7 VoIP telephony support and unlimited Internet data service to floating oil platforms up to 250 kilometers off shore," said Grahame Cover, CEO, URSYS Pty. Ltd.
Increasing Farm Communication Efficiency
BayCity Technologies used IPSTAR services to provide state-of-the-art remote tools for New Zealand's rural communities via the IPSTAR satellite. Among the solutions developed by BayCity is a remote management tool for farmers, including the ability to manage milk storage on dairy farms.
At the heart of BayCity's innovation, the M3 (Measure, Monitor, Manage) platform provides the structure to enable integrated, scaleable, remote data management solutions. Hardware incorporating M3 connects to BayCity's hosted environment, providing global, secure, real-time access to critical data.
"Farming is big business, yet until recently did not have the communications technologies to allow it to take advantage of modern production information technology. IPSTAR enables us to implement our M3 services on remote farms to provide critical information to farmers and their business partners in a real-time view", says Andrew Plimmer, CEO, BayCity Technologies Inc.
Empowering Rural Communities in Cambodia
A number of rural communities in Cambodia have been benefiting from access to the Internet, made possible by IPSTAR. Requiring a computer and electricity - which are commodities elsewhere, but out of reach for most of the population in remote Cambodian villages - the computers in these villages are connected to a community WLAN powered by solar cells that provide up to six hours of operating time.
The villages, which had no access to any form of Internet previously, are now receiving regular news updates and can benefit from various public sector services, including remote medical diagnosis, distance learning, and e-government services.
"There is no more powerful weapon than the Internet to fight poverty in the developing world. The Internet can reach every corner of the poorest region with information and knowledge, and save lives through medical guidance and diagnostics. It also gives 'a voice' to those who have never been represented before. For us here in Asia, it is all possible because of IPSTAR", said Country Director of Japan Relief for Cambodia, Nuon So Thero.
