US-based ViaSat to strengthen its India presence
The broadband services and technology company opens a research and development centre in Chennai
Chennai: ViaSat Inc., a global broadband services and technology company, on Thursday opened a research and development centre in Chennai to strengthen its presence in India.
“India is a recognized technology innovation hub with highly-sought after engineering talent and business potential," said Mark Dankberg, chairman and CEO, ViaSat. “The new centre in Chennai is a major step in building ViaSat’s footprint in Asia, making India important to our strategic globalization efforts, R&D acceleration initiatives and our ability to bring comprehensive, next-generation cloud, virtualization, networking and sophisticated network management applications to market," added Dankberg.
The 30,000 sq. ft centre is expected to employ over 250 engineers by 2019.
“If Indian government policy allows, a ViaSat-3 class satellite could connect millions of Indians to broadband internet, potentially adding billions to India’s gross domestic product," said Sathya Narayanaswamy, vice president and country manager, ViaSat India.
The NASDAQ listed company, that provides high speed broadband communications in the US launched ViaSat-1 in 2012 and is planning to launch a ViaSat-2 satellite broadband platform in 2017, which will more than double the bandwidth and increase coverage seven-fold over the prior generation, according to the company.
Beginning in 2019, ViaSat will launch the first of three ViaSat-3 class satellite platforms. While the first two satellites of ViaSat-3 will focus on the Americas and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), respectively, a third satellite system is planned for the Asia Pacific region.
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