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Hughes scored the highest in all five managed network use cases in Gartner’s November 2020 Critical Capabilities for Managed Network Services report.
Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Frost Radar identifies Hughes as one of the largest managed SD-WAN providers in the North American market.
Hughes is deciding who will launch its Jupiter-3 satellite in 2021.
Only Viasat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Hughes have announced plans for geostationary satellites with higher amounts of capacity than 300 Gbps.
Hughes invested $100,000,000 in its first joint venture with Yahsat for a 20 percent stake.
Hughes invested $100,000,000 in the joint venture with Yahsat, and Yahsat contributed $60,000,000 from an insurance claim on Al Yah 3.
Hughes may acquire additional capacity via a hosted payload or a new satellite.
Hughes is expanding in Africa through a joint venture with Emirati satellite operator Yahsat that began operations in late 2018.
Hughes expanded satellite broadband services into Colombia in 2018 and Brazil in 2016 prior to launching service in Peru.
Hughes entered service a leased Ka-band payload on Telesat’s Telstar-19 Vantage over Latin America in 2019.
Hughes made a $100,000,000 investment in an Africa-focused joint venture with Yahsat in 2019.
Hughes and Viasat redefined high-throughput satellites by launching spacecraft with more than 100 gigabits per second of Ka-band capacity over North America around the beginning of the decade.
Hughes shipped the first ground gateway that will work with OneWeb pilot satellites scheduled to launch at the end of the year or early next year.
Hughes is using a hosted payload on Telsat 19 to enhance its coverage of the United States and to move into new areas of South America.
Hughes invested in and is developing the ground segment for OneWeb's low Earth orbit constellation.
On 2018-09-10, Hughes planned to create a joint venture with Emirati fleet operator Yahsat to serve the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia.