Pacific Dataport is a space-based telecommunications company focused on bridging the digital divide in Alaska by delivering affordable broadband using satellite technology. As a satellite service provider, they offer wholesale middle-mile backhaul services using GEO HTS and LEO satellite networks to various enterprise customers. Key partners include OneWeb and Astranis, with services aimed at telecoms, nonprofits, healthcare facilities, schools, and tribal organizations in Alaska. The company launched its Aurora 4A satellite in 2021 to improve connectivity for rural Alaskan communities.
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Pacific Dataport signed in January 2019 to lease 7.5 gigabits per second of capacity on Astranis’s satellite to provide internet service to Alaskans.
Pacific Dataport, an Alaska-based company, is one of OneWeb’s first customers and expects to start offering OneWeb satellite internet in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Pacific Dataport is the anchor customer for the first of a new class of small geostationary satellites being built by Astranis.
The first Astranis satellite for Pacific Dataport is expected to provide 7.5 gigabits per second of capacity after launching late 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 to geosynchronous orbit.
Pacific Dataport plans to have a second satellite in orbit in 2022.
Pacific Dataport seeks 40 to 50 gigabits per second of capacity in Alaska but has not decided how to obtain that larger amount of capacity.
Astranis’ first satellite will offer 7.5 gigabits per second of capacity for Pacific Dataport to use.
Pacific Dataport intends to ultimately provide 40 to 50 gigabits per second of dedicated bandwidth to Alaska.
Pacific Dataport will start service with Astranis offering 25 megabits per second downlinks and plans to increase that to 100 megabits per second as it orbits more satellite capacity.
Pacific Dataport will initially offer Alaskan consumers a broadband service delivering 25 megabits per second downlink and 3 megabits per second uplink.
Pacific Dataport intends to use the Astranis satellite as the first element of a planned Aurora system that would eventually provide 40 to 50 gigabits per second of capacity to Alaska.
Pacific Dataport is the third company in five months to purchase a small geostationary telecom satellite, following GapSat of Hong Kong with GapSat-1 from Terran Orbital in September and Ovzon with Ovzon-3 from SSL in December.