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PLANNED EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE — Inmarsat: GSPS Network

03. July 2021 - 05:07:01 CESTVERÖFFENTLICHTMailversand: 2021-07-03 05:10:02

Please be advise of the forth­coming emergency mainte­nance on the APAC GSPS Network. During this period, Inmarsat engineers will perform verifi­cation and validation test of the new Warkworth antenna with the Auckland GSPS NCC-GW and Beijing NGW where all APAC GSPS traffic will be routed through the Warkworth antenna.

Activity APAC GSPS Verifi­cation Test with Warkworth antenna
Services affected GSPS
Regions/Spots affected APAC
Date of outage 06 July 2021
Start of Mainte­nance period 18:00 UTC
End of Mainte­nance period 20:30 UTC
Single or Multiple Outage(s) and duration(s) This mainte­nance includes four service outages of up to 20 minutes each during the RF cable re-patching, stop/start of the GSC process and up to 40 minutes of service degradation. 
Outage Impact APAC GSPS Service will be interrupted
Actions needed by user None

Abbreviations and their meaning

  • Americas I-4 = Satelite responsible for the region of North- and Southamerica
  • APAC = Asia Pacific
  • BGAN = Broadband Global Area Network. Inmarsat service for BGAN devices
  • CDR = Call Detail Record
  • EMEA = Satellite responsible for the region of European Middle East Africa
  • FB or FBB = FleetBroadBand. Inmarsat service for FBB devices
  • GSPS = Global Satellite Phone Service. Inmarsat voice service for IsatPhone
  • IRIS = Remote monitoring and control system
  • SB or SBB = SwiftBroadBand. Inmarsat service for SBB devices
  • TBC = To be confirmed
  • UTC = Universal Time Coordinated

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