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Inmarsat: Emergency Maintenance — I6F1 29/08/2023

29. August 2023 - 01:08:02 CESTVERÖFFENTLICHTMailversand: 2023-08-29 01:50:07

We would like to inform you of the emergency mainte­nance on I6F1. As part of Inmarsat’s customer service improve­ments, Inmarsat engineers will perform emergency mainte­nance that will cause traffic inter­rup­tions for terminals in the IOE ocean region. During this period existing channels will not be available, and it will not be possible to allocate new traffic channels.

Activity: 6F1 DSP Restart
Services Affected: BGAN, FBB, SBB, GSPS — I6F1
Start of Mainte­nance period: 29 August 2023 — 12:00 UTC
End of Mainte­nance period: 29 August 2023 — 12:30 UTC
Single or Multiple Outage(s): Single outage of up to 30 minutes.
Outage Impact No traffic over IOE satellite during this period. Terminal should acquire into overlapping satellite.
Actions needed by user: None, new traffic alloca­tions can be made at the end of mainte­nance period

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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