Hughes BGAN Terminal Operates With Inmarsat High Data Rate Streaming Service

Hughes’ latest portable broadband global area network (BGAN) terminal received Inmarsat type approval. The 9211-HDR terminal will operate with Inmarsat’s High Data Rate (HDR) streaming service, Hughes said Monday in a news release. The terminal provides data streaming rates of “an average speed of 650 kbps and speeds as high as 800 kbps” over Inmarsat’s BGAN HDR service, it said. It has multi-user Wi-Fi access and an active external antenna port that enables “future optional connectivity of remote semi-fixed and mobile tracking antennas,” it said.