Sat-Space Africa and Gazprom Space Systems are expanding their business over Yamal-402 for their new satellite HUB in South Africa

Sat-Space Africa, a leading IP connectivity company, has signed with Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) to provide space segment for their new hub in Johannesburg.

During December last year, Sat-Space Africa has launched a new service over iDirect Hub from Johannesburg, South-Africa. Sat-Space are using Yamal-402 satellite over 9m antenna located in the Telemedia teleport in Rivonia. The new hub using Yamal-402 space segment, complimented with Sat-Space MPLS network offer a full solution for corporates who have their head offices in major cities in the SADC region and need to link to their remote branches.

“The commitment, flexibility and good service of Gazprom enable us to continue our expansion towards new markets and new services in Africa” said Shimri Lotan, Managing Director of Sat-Space Africa.

“We are happy to continue to develop our cooperation with SatSpace. Within a year the amount of the capacity Sat Space leases on Yamal-402 has grown 5 times. The area of end users has expanded as well: Also 5-10 new VSAT terminals are deployed in Africa every week, which in turn means constant upgrade of used capacity. We intend to further develop our cooperation in even more different applications”, Dmitry Sevastiyanov, Gazprom Space Systems CEO says.