The new services are the most comprehensive of their kind, the company said in a news release, providing continuity and emergency restoration network solutions. They are designed to ensure the survivability of terrestrial networks via automatic transfer of IP-data traffic to satellite connections.

Skynet's new services include:

SkyReach Ensure: A business continuity network solution designed to provide pre-planned, continuous network connectivity for all vital business and government functions.

SkyReach SAVER (Satellite Access by VSAT for Emergency Recovery): An emergency restoration network solution designed as a disaster recovery option where a rapid response mechanism is built into a network to minimize downtime and loss of production.

Both services are designed to leverage the SkyReach family of IP-based communications services using Skynet's Telstar satellite fleet and a global fiber network.

"The affect of recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina underscores the need for businesses and governments to anticipate and plan for the possibility of significant disruptions to communications networks and services," said Patrick Brant, president of Loral Skynet. "Without a suitable network back-up plan in place, organizations are exposed to potentially irretrievable losses from such unpredictable, yet inevitable, events."

In addition, though natural disasters garner most of the media and public attention, network outages due to human error and terrestrial network vulnerabilities are common - and equally damaging to the bottom line.

"Amazingly, an estimated 80 percent of network downtime today is caused by routine, everyday events," Brant said.

Regarding SkyReach Saver, "Not all organizations need continuous and uninterrupted 24/7 access for all their IP-data network traffic," Brandt said. Network engineers must determine their organization's requirements and tolerance for risk at different locations.

For some types of traffic, Brant said, "It just makes more sense from a cost standpoint to implement a restoration solution as opposed to a continuity solution." This option assures access to the network within a carefully prescribed time frame after a disaster or other interruption has occurred. Typical examples of this type of requirement would be for remote locations with receive-only requirements.

"With SkyReach SAVER," he said, "the key objective is speed." For this requirement, fast recovery is a function of having restoration pre-planned, by pre-deploying a modest amount of equipment and assigning connectivity in advance. The goal is to have complete assurance that an IP-data network will be accessible within hours after an event.

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