Stratos Reaches New Milestone with its AmosConnect Maritime Email Service: 250 Million Messages Sent

Stratos Global, the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, announced it has reached a milestone of 250 million messages sent via its AmosConnect maritime satellite communications service.

The vessel transmitting the milestone message was the Crown Garnet from Wallem Shipmanagement. Wallem deploys AmosConnect on more than 100 vessels.

"Over the years, AmosConnect has proven to be an easy-to-use, robust application that has provided a solid foundation for Wallem Shipmanagement's business and crew communication needs," said Ian Parkes, Wallem's Group Information Systems Manager. "As we continue the transition from telex, fax and email to IP data, GSM and VoIP, the ability to integrate these solutions within a single messaging system will be increasingly important. The facilities being introduced with AmosConnect 8 also will support further integration between vessel and shore at the application level."

Stratos President and CEO Jim Parm said, "We reached this milestone quicker than anyone expected. This is further proof of our commitment to meet the maritime industry's need for integrated communications services that help ensure both corporate productivity and crew satisfaction for an ever-growing global population. Today's news also is testament to our engineers who design and deploy our AmosConnect service, as well as to our customer-service professionals who consistently ensure end-user satisfaction."

The latest version of AmosConnect from Stratos, AmosConnect 8, was introduced last month. It enhances new broadband IP-based maritime satellite services which include FleetBroadband, Iridium OpenPort and the VSAT solutions OceanVSAT and StratosITek. Integration with these broadband services enables users to control their sessions and ensure optimal airtime use directly from AmosConnect.

The AmosConnect 8 portal brings all ship-relevant data to one central information page. Also, all service settings are remotely configurable from a central office - thus greatly reducing implementation and support time.

With AmosConnect 8, Stratos expands upon its popular application by delivering StratosNet Accelerator, extended remote configuration, cost allocation and extended message filtering - in addition to enhancing its current features of email messaging, automatic file transfer and data synchronization. These improvements help ensure streamlined operations, cost efficiency and optimization of available bandwidth.

The new AmosConnect 8 optimizes the use of satellite airtime by automatically compressing and caching all transfers. AmosConnect 8 also supports all narrowband satellite connections. Stratos' new AmosConnect hub platform, featuring ultra-modern hardware technology, has been extensively tested and began operation last month

IsatPhone Pro - Stratos

Stratos has started to fill thousands of orders from customers eager to deploy the new, IsatPhone Pro device, Inmarsat's new handheld satellite phone, with The Stratos Advantage self-provisioning, monitoring and control capabilities. In fact, the company it has now managed its first activation of the IsatPhone Pro.

 

Stratos is now fulfilling more than 2,000 advance orders worldwide for the IsatPhone Pro, which is the first product in the Inmarsat Global Satellite Phone Services (GSPS) family. The first IsatPhone Pro activation was managed for the Colorado Division of Emergency Management (CDEM) by Outfitter Satellite (outfittersatellite.com), a Stratos Channel Partner based in Nashville, Tenn.

 

Customers using the IsatPhone Pro from Stratos benefit from The Stratos Advantage which offers a wide range of value-added services that ensure optimal communications performance and cost efficiency. The foundation of The Stratos Advantage is Stratos Dashboard, which enables customers to manage their use of satellite airtime by providing real-time information on voice and data traffic used, with associated costs. Stratos Dashboard further enhances the user experience of the IsatPhone Pro by providing instant provisioning, as well as rebilling and reporting options to minimize unexpected invoices and potential financial risk. Stratos Dashboard supports postpaid and prepaid rate-plan options.