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Who we work for

Where the network is the operation

An aircraft that has to be talked to. A vessel that has to be found. A payment that has to settle. A distribution that has to go out on time. These are the places where a connectivity failure is not an inconvenience — it is the incident, and somebody has to answer for it.

Where it is sharpest

Two sectors where the outage has a name

Every sector on this page works to the same method: find the one failure the operation cannot absorb, then design against that rather than against a bandwidth figure. It is easiest to see in these two.

01 — AVIATION

An aircraft that has to be talked to

Air navigation is the clearest case there is of a network that cannot be best-effort. The communications, surveillance and data links behind a control position are safety systems, and they are judged on the day they fail rather than the day they are installed.

The failure that mattersLosing the ability to talk to an aircraft, or to hand it over
Aviation
Safety system An operations engineer at the Dalkom Somalia compound on Airport Road, Mogadishu
02 — MARITIME & FISHERIES

A vessel that has to be found

Beyond the coast there is no terrestrial network, so vessel connectivity and coastal awareness both run over satellite. The same teleport that keeps a ship in contact also carries the observation data behind licensing and enforcement — which is why we would rather you bought both from whoever answers for the dish.

The failure that mattersNot knowing what is in your waters, or losing contact with what is
Maritime & fisheries
Our teleport A satellite earth station antenna at the Dalkom Somalia teleport, Mogadishu
Since 2003Carrying Somalia’s international traffic
7Sectors where we design against a named failure
24/7Operations centre in Mogadishu, staffed in country
1Company answering for the whole path
The other five

Same method, different failure

03 — FINANCE

Financial Services

Connectivity and hosting for banks, mobile money operators and payment processors, sized for a settlement clock rather than for email.

The failure that matters
A settlement window missed, or records held outside the jurisdiction
What we bring
In-country hosting and committed paths with a diversity story you can verify
Financial services →
04 — CARRIERS

Operators & ISPs

Wholesale capacity, backhaul and colocation bought directly from the landing station rather than through an intermediary.

The failure that matters
A cable cut that turns out to share a path with your “diverse” route
What we bring
Four submarine systems and a diversity story you can verify
Operators & ISPs →
05 — PUBLIC SECTOR

Government & Public Sector

Ministry connectivity and sovereign hosting, with the compliance position documented rather than asserted.

The failure that matters
Citizen data sitting somewhere you cannot point to on a map
What we bring
In-country hosting and a residency position you can put in writing
Government →
06 — HUMANITARIAN

Humanitarian & Development

Field connectivity that deploys in days, and observation data for drought, flood and displacement response.

The failure that matters
Arriving somewhere with no way to report, coordinate or pay
What we bring
Rapid satellite deployment plus EO analysis of the same area
Humanitarian →
07 — MEDIA

Broadcast & Media

Contribution and distribution paths over satellite and fibre, sized for live output rather than best effort.

The failure that matters
Dead air, at the one moment the audience is actually watching
What we bring
Committed capacity and a satellite path that is genuinely separate
Broadcast & media →

Naming the outage you cannot absorb is the whole of the design work. Everything after it is procurement.

How we scope every engagement
What they have in common

Three things every one of them asks us for

Accountability

One company for the whole path

Landing station, backbone, teleport and data centre are all ours. There is no point in the chain where the answer becomes “that is the other provider”.

Proximity

Engineers in the same city

Restoration does not wait on a flight, a visa or a regional hub’s office hours. The people who fix it live where the equipment is.

Commitment

Dates you can plan against

Every service comes with a delivery date and a service level in writing. Where capacity is still being commissioned, its in-service date goes into the contract — so your programme plans against a commitment, not an assumption.

Start from the failure

Tell us what cannot go down

Describe the operation and what failure looks like for it. We will come back with a design and a delivery date, or say plainly that we are not the right party for it.