The teamwork will supply secure, reliable and highly mobile voice and high-speed data communications to the armed military.

If at any point you need to contact with anyone via phone, you'll see if you try your telephone that you aren't able to get any reception. Because the satellite handsets on powerful satellites in the sky, this isn't a big deal that you will ever own a satellite phone.

Targeted specially at the U.S. and NATO markets, the ViaSat Integrated Terminal will combine Inmarsat's IP-based Broadband World wide Area Network (BGAN) technology with ViaSat AltaSec(R) IP inline encryption equipment to produce a portable, ruggedized BGAN user terminal capable of uplinking IP information entirely compliant with HAIPE (TM) version 1.3.5 Kind 1 security standards. The new terminal takes benefit of ViaSat's long background of supplying robustness gear to tactical warfighters within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

"ViaSat's leadership in manpack MILSATCOM terminal gear makes them an organic partner to manufacture BGAN terminals that may meet the demanding needs of defense agencies and military providers worldwide," said Perry Melton, vice president of sales & marketing for Inmarsat.

Though we are very familiar with cell phones, there is a total different breed of portable handsets some individuals are unaware even exist. While handsets depend on sites to transmit voice signals.

BGAN is the world's primary phone communications service to pass through multiple voice and broadband IP data to an extremely portable device on international basis. It supports mobile broadband information at speeds approximately half-a-megabit every second, as well as guaranteed IP information rates up to 256 kbps.