CARLSBAD, Calif. and FARNBOROUGH, UK., July 23, 2024 – Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, today introduced Air-IQ, its new, upcoming connectivity solution designed to deliver faster, smarter intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) communications for government and military missions globally.
Air-IQ will help strengthen military situational awareness, ensuring users have access to reliable, real-time intelligence to make fast and dependable battlefield decisions. Robust ISR connectivity offers a 360-degree understanding of the battlefield, giving military users a critical advantage where and when it matters most – reducing risk and increasing mission success, while aligning to support the highest security standards.
The new Viasat solution is designed to meet the intense requirements of crewed and uncrewed ISR missions for governments around the world. Available in the coming months, Air-IQ will provide users with the ability to dynamically shift from low-throughput to high-throughput connectivity based on mission needs. This automated capability is designed to eliminate friction, optimize bandwidth and cost efficiency, and deliver significantly higher uplink speeds, with uplink data transfer prioritized up to and above 10Mbps, where required.
To meet complex mission demands, Air-IQ will deliver resilient multi-band connectivity for operations in congested areas across Ka-band (commercial and military), Ku-band, and L-band, allowing customers to access different services and move between frequencies as needed.
“We wanted to take the complexity out of ISR connectivity, so that users can focus on what really matters – enhancing situational awareness and gaining advantage on the battlefield. Air-IQ will offer a robust, reliable, and flexible connectivity solution that is designed to adapt to the needs of the mission on the fly. We built it to deliver the speed and performance to act as a force enabler for real-time mission communications,” said Todd McDonell, President, Viasat International Government. “Our consistent focus on innovation and customer needs is the driving force behind Air-IQ, offering a balance of flexibility and reliability for operations in any environment.”
Air-IQ services will be highly flexible to meet the widest range of customer needs and allow interoperability with sovereign networks. Operators will also be able to manage multiple aircraft across a fleet, and seamlessly switch networks as mission requirements change, all within a single Air-IQ capability. Additionally, Viasat will continue to maintain the high reliability of its services with committed information rates and service level agreements.
This seamless and resilient experience will be delivered by Viasat and its partner networks, leveraging software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) applications to intelligently route or even split traffic to the most appropriate band and network to avoid failover. This capability will help deliver the assured data transport that is mission critical for warfighter operations and safety.
Viasat’s current fleet of satellites – along with its future satellites anticipated to come into service in the next four years – are designed to provide global coverage and deliver greater capacity wherever it’s needed, including offering polar coverage in the Artic region to meet emerging government and ISR mission demands.
Please visit our website to learn more about the new Air-IQ offering.
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Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. With offices in 24 countries around the world, our mission shapes how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate and connect. Viasat is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, reliable, secure, affordable, fast connections to positively impact people’s lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea, while building a sustainable future in space. In May 2023, Viasat completed its acquisition of Inmarsat, combining the teams, technologies and resources of the two companies to create a new global communications partner. Learn more at www.viasat.com, the Viasat News Room or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X or YouTube.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include, among others, statements that refer to the features, benefits and performance of the Air-IQ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) solution. Readers are cautioned that actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include: our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the Viasat global GEO satellites and any future satellite we may construct or acquire; risks associated with the construction, launch and operation of satellites, including the effect of any anomaly, operational failure or degradation in satellite performance; our ability to successfully develop, introduce and sell new technologies, products and services; changes in the global business environment and economic conditions; changes in relationships with, or the financial condition of, key customers or suppliers; our reliance on a limited number of third parties to manufacture and supply our products; the effect of adverse regulatory changes (including changes affecting spectrum availability or permitted uses) on our ability to sell or deploy our products and services; changes in the way others use spectrum; our inability to access additional spectrum, use spectrum for additional purposes, and/or operate satellites at additional orbital locations; competing uses of the same spectrum or orbital locations that we utilize or seek to utilize; introduction of new technologies and other factors affecting the communications and defense industries generally. In addition, please refer to the risk factors contained in our SEC filings available at www.sec.gov, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason.