The Inmarsat Global Area Network (GAN) integrates, for the first time, the corporate IT network with a global, mobile communications network. So business critical information can now be provided at both the bandwidth and speed that enterprises demand.

Solutions such as remote LAN access, e-mail, e-commerce, intranet access, image transfer, and store-and-forward video can now be used wherever they are needed - as well as, of course, high-quality voice and fax.

The Inmarsat Global Area Network offers two powerful and flexible services - Mobile ISDN and newly launched Mobile Packet Data Service. These high-speed services are delivered at speeds of up to 64kbit/s, rapidly extending local and wide area networks (LANs and WANs) to where businesses need information.

Benefits of MPDS and How it Works

FAQs about GAN

All the end-user needs to access the Inmarsat Global Area Network is a mobile satcoms unit (MSU). A range of units is available from various manufacturers, each with generic features and applications. Each manufacturer gives the hardware its own product name, and adds some additional benefits of its own.

The Inmarsat Global Area Network uses the Inmarsat satellite network to provide virtual global coverage, and the land earth stations to interface to the world's telecom networks.

Currently Inmarsat GAN hardware is available in several forms, including:

• hand portable notebook PC-sized terminal
• semi-fixed and permanent antenna options
• vehicular-mounted satellite tracking antenna option for use on the move.