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Inmarsat Planned Maintenance activity, APAC region

04. August 2021 - 02:08:02 CESTVERÖFFENTLICHTMailversand: 2021-08-04 02:15:03

We would like to advise you of a planned mainte­nance activity scheduled by Inmarsat on 5th August 2021 on the APAC BGAN/GSPS network.

As part of customer service improvement our engineers will upgrade Beijing MSC to the latest software version. This activity will affect all China Circuit Switched (CS) Mobile Origi­nating traffic and new regis­tra­tions for a period of up to 5 minutes. During this period, mobile termi­nating calls may be affected for up to 48 minutes until re-registrations are complete.

The details and timeline of the changes are reported below:

Start 13:00 UTC, 5th August 2021
End 18:00 UTC, 5th August 2021
Services affected All FBB,SBB,BGAN AND GSPS, APAC
Description All China CS traffic and new registrations

There will be a single outage of up to 5 minutes. Mobile termi­nating calls may be affected fro up to 48 minutes no action is required by users

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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