Maritime Connectivity

Airbus provides managed satellite services using both military and commercial satellite bandwidth. Your operational success is what drives us. We focus on delivering the right solutions to meet your operational needs for today and tomorrow. You can rely on our proven experience and expertise in managing everything from network operations to in-field support services and training. 

We’ve been delivering communication whilst on the move at sea for our customers for 50 years. To be effective and safe in theatres of operation, ships of all size and classes need to be visible on the communications net. Navies are now supporting large coalition forces, anti-piracy operations and peace keeping missions’ far away from home waters. Airbus provides robust, secure communications services to navies of the world. 

These services meet the requirements of multi-national maritime operations, including:

• Multiband connectivity 
• Bandwidth managed services 
• Voice, data, broadband 
• Welfare communication services 
• Command and Control (C2) and situational awareness 
• High data rates to submarine vessels 
• Mastering interoperability of NATO STANAG and US MAC 1 compliant networks, services and infrastructure. 

The Maritime Welfare (MW) Service is a fixed and mobile voice, text, email and Internet service for Naval crew when at sea. It provides those services already available to land based troops to the sea environment. Our services include X, C and Ku-band VSAT solutions and the whole range of Inmarsat, Iridium, Thuraya and UHF maritime solutions. Our value-added services and applications further reduce complexity, optimise communications and save your time and money.