Emergency Services

Emergency Services across Australia depend on communication in order to provide an effective public service, from law enforcement to disaster control. It is not only in remote areas that satellite communications is an ideal solution – during catastrophic events that disable terrestrial services, there is often no other reliable option. For example, the ‘Black Saturday’ fires in early 2009 that ravaged through Victoria destroyed in excess of ten mobile phone base stations, paralysing emergency services and the public alike.

ASC offer a number of turnkey solutions for the emergency response sector, including rapid auto deploy systems and special satellite plans that take into account the infrequent operational requirement, thus reducing the operational cost to cover only the bare essentials to keep the service running, with the capability to burst to maximum data rates and usage at a moments notice. Thus the monthly access plans remain at low manageable level, with a daily rate applied when the system is deployed for an actual event.

In addition to VSAT systems that can handle a full compliment of secure data, voice and video services, ASC also provide mobile satellite phones to Emergency Services, mostly to cater to remote area operations. ASC are able to design, implement and support solutions that can meet all the demands of this sector.