iDirect X7 Satellite Router. Photo: iDirect

[Via Satellite 06-25-2014] Cobbett Hill Earth Station is upgrading the network for its maritime services unit, International Ocean Services (ION), to the iDirect Evolution 3.2 platform. This is the first of a series of technology investments Cobbett Hill has planned for ION, which it acquired in 2013 to expand into the maritime satellite communications sector.
ION customers will experience better performance under the upgrade on the outbound channel through Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) and on the inbound channel through Adaptive Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). Once this upgrade is complete across all networks, Cobbett Hill plans to implement the iDirect X7 satellite router as well.