Their coverage areas include North America, including the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Canada.ĬrunchBase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Spacenet offers a complete product and services portfolio for applications ranging from primary communications for corporate applications and secure data transfer, to hot stand-by solutions for continuity of operations and network backup, to field deployable solutions for disaster recovery and emergency management.Spacenet manages a self owned and operated multi-million dollar end-to-end services infrastructure including network management, field services and carrier class teleport facilities in Virginia, Georgia and Illinois. In March 2005, Spacenet acquired its former sister company, StarBand, the first two-way consumer satellite ISP in the United States. In 1998, GE sold Spacenet's North American operations to VSAT terminal manufacturer Gilat Satellite Networks, and spun the satellite assets off into GE Americom. In 1994, the company was sold to General Electric Capital Services. It went through several acquisitions over the next 15 years, absorbing AT&T Tridom and Contel ASC. The company was acquired by GTE in 1983 and grew into a worldwide satellite operator and services provider.
The company was founded in 1981 as Southern Pacific Communications Corporation, a sister company to Sprint, providing satellite links for voice connections. Spacenet is headquartered in the Tysons Corner CDP of unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
is a provider of VSAT satellite-based data network services as well as hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks and network management services.
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