The rollout of its LinkStar®S2 satellite networking system to ELIOP S.A. (Spain) for data collection, monitoring, and control of drinking and waste water operations for the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration General Directorate (ISKI) has been completed by ViaSat Inc. To gather information on water reservoir levels, pipeline integrity, water quality, and drinking and waste water distribution management for a community of 15 million customers, ELIOP has integrated its own “SHERPA” supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technology with LinkStar terminals. Including the antennas, satellite transmission electronics, LinkStar hub, and 300 network terminals, ViaSat supplied the complete satellite communication network.

Director of sales in Europe for ViaSat Commercial Satellite Networks, Guillermo Bosch, declared: “This ISKI network is mission critical in the monitoring and control of the quality and distribution of drinking water to one of the most populous cities in the world.” He continued: “We have a long-standing business relationship with ELIOP, the ISKI local representative for business and support in Turkey, and our LinkStar system has proven to be very efficient for this SCADA application.”

Compared to the previous generation DVB-S standard, the DVB-S2 waveform integrated into the LinkStarS2 offers up to 30% greater bandwidth efficiency, substantially reducing network operating costs or increasing network capacity. Enabling powerful and flexible hybrid star/mesh network configurations, ViaSat hub-based LinkStar S2 and mesh architecture LinkWay®S2 VSAT systems are interoperable as well.

ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. For enterprise IP applications the company provides networking products and managed network services and is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies to the U.S. government; and is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services.