Innovative satellite platforms can help increase bandwidth efficiency by up to 50% to mines in remote areas. Pan African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has deployed its first Mx-DMA® satellite link for a mining company in Africa.

Mx-DMA technology, which is a new and innovative bandwidth allocation technology for satellite developed on the Newtec Dialog® VSAT platform, can lead to bandwidth efficiency gains of up to 50%, providing more reliable and efficient high throughput connectivity for mining operations across the region.

With mines typically located in remote areas where fibre is unavailable, mining organisations are reliant on legacy satellite links that can only be configured to suit one type of traffic – such as bursty or high data rates. Mx-DMA combines the best of these qualities to offer mining customers on-demand variable bandwidth allocation and enhanced efficiencies.

The Newtec Dialog platform is capable of supporting throughputs as high as 75Mbps and can also be customised to withstand the harsh conditions often found at mining operations across Africa, such as heat, dust and sandstorms.

“As more mining companies pursue automation across their operations, greater focus is falling on connectivity. Newtec’s Mx-DMA technology is a unique fit for the sector, offering the reliability, scalability and flexibility required by today’s mining customers,” says Scott Mumford, Group Managing Executive of Satellite and VSAT, Liquid Telecom.

“We are pleased to see Liquid Telecom expand their VSAT service portfolio into demanding VSAT markets like mining using our innovative technologies,” says Pieter Paul Mooijman, Newtec’s Regional Sales Director Sub Saharan Africa. “Liquid Telecom clearly demonstrates the value of the Newtec Dialog multiservice platform to address a vast range of services covering broadband, enterprise, energy and mining and any other VSAT markets.”

Through the largest independent pan-African fibre network, spanning over 40,000 km across 12 countries, Liquid Telecom provides coverage to mining areas across the region, including the entire Copperbelt. Where fibre is unavailable, Liquid Telecom is able to offer its award-winning VSAT, which provides business-speed internet to anywhere in Africa.