Affordable High Speed Internet for Nunavut - Iqaluit

Satellite Internet is solution for "geographically challenged" communities who cannot sustain hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of charges to bring a terrestrial Broadband solution into their area. In some cases, it is virtually impossible. Our iDirect and HughesNet (DIRECWAY) satellite solutions are tailored and proven for remote community high speed access. Iqaluit is only one of many location on the far Canada's North who receives "Broadband from the Sky".

High-Speed Satellite Internet service a new breakthrough leading edge technology that brings affordable High Speed Internet to rural and remote communities! It is powered by Canada's new Ka-Band high-efficiency spot beam satellite. It's fast and affordable. It is available throughout Alberta, NWT and Nunavut for residential and business customers. We provide complete professional installation, good customer service and regionally based technical support.

Satellite technology brings affordable High Speed Internet to areas that were previously unserved. We are excited to be able to use cutting edge technology to help improve the quality of life for people living in remote locations.

Exploration Base - Devon Island:

Queen Elizabeth Islands are situated in northern part of the Arctic Archipelago, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Ellesmere Island (the largest), the Parry group (Melville, Bathurst, Devon, Prince Patrick, and Cornwallis islands), and the Sverdrup group (Axel Heiberg, Ellef Ringnes, Amund Ringnes, and many smaller islands) are found there. The islands are underlain by oil-bearing rock; extensive drilling has been under way since the early 1960s. The British explorer Sir William Parry explored (1819-20) many of the islands, and they were known (until 1954) as the Parry Islands.

The communications array we have on Devon Island is impressive. A large satellite dish and a tent full of gear affords some rather robust communications capabilities. Once the bugs that go with any experimental and expeditionary operation got worked out, we had the capability to interact with the rest of the world little different (often better) than any of us would back home.

This system is not here just for web surfing. Indeed, it is a crucial part of the advanced communications research being conduced as part of the HORSE project by NASA Ames Research Center. During the course of established repeater stations overlooking scientific research sites, the team was able to achieved data throughput rates of 11 mbps. What was impressive about this was that this was achieved without direct line of sight.

from: Keith Cowing's Devon Island Journal - 20 July 2002

Satellite Internet systems provide broadband service to rural communities in two of Canada's northern territories (Northwest Territories and Nunavut). The new service delivers affordable two-way, High Speed Internet service using a small satellite dish. Four service packages will be available, with speeds up to 50 times faster than Dialup Internet. The service was initially launched in July 2006 in Rankin Inlet, Rae-Edzo and along the Ingraham Trail, on the outskirts of Yellowknife. The Internet service over satellite will be expanded to additional communities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.