Grupo Pegaso and Hughes JUPITER™ System Address Digital Divide in Rural Mexico

SCT Mexico Bicentenario Project

The Need

Internet access is a major factor in creating economic and social development in remote areas by connecting people to knowledge, capital, and markets. Yet only 2.7 of the world’s 7 billion people have access to high-performance Internet service, leaving 4.3 billion unconnected to a resource with enormous transformative power, according to a 2014 Deloitte report.

Hughes Network Systems and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Pegaso Banda Ancha, a subsidiary of Mexico’s Grupo Pegaso conglomerate, have teamed up to extend high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi access to more than 5,000 locations in Mexico’s rural areas through a high-performance satellite broadband network. Mexico is one of the countries where the landline Internet infrastructure’s limits contribute to the oft-cited “digital divide” between communities with adequate Internet access and those without. An estimated 26 million people in Mexico’s rural areas have little or no Internet access often because they are too far away from the wired Internet or in mountainous areas that are difficult to reach.

The country’s Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) is attacking the obstacles of distance and terrain through a national satellite Internet program designed to provide broadband access to more than 100,000 people in Mexico’s rural regions. Locations include rural schools, hospitals, universities, parks, and government development and disaster prevention agencies.

The SCT selected Grupo Pegaso’s ISP subsidiary, Pegaso Banda Ancha, from among several Mexican ISPs vying for the job. The SCT needed an ISP with the technical experience to provide the maximum cost-benefit ratio while connecting 5,000-plus sites in remote locations in just four months. Pegaso Banda Ancha

combined a strong commitment to social development with more than 15 years of experience providing satellite connectivity to large companies and government organizations.

Pegaso Banda Ancha operates thousands of remote satellite broadband stations in Mexico and also provides Internet access in the US, Central America, and the Caribbean. The SCT provided Pegaso Banda Ancha with 278 MHz of bandwidth on its Bicentenario satellite to service the 5,000 locations.

The Hughes JUPITER System

Pegaso Banda Ancha chose Hughes JUPITER™ high-throughput to connect government and public facilities at all 5,000-plus locations to Internet. As illustrated below, the public Internet access locations not only serve indoor facilities but can be extended to outside areas of up to one kilometer. The JUPITER system’s modular design offered a cost-effective, future-proof platform that provides high performance on today’s Ku- and C-band satellites plus a migration path to next-generation, high-throughput satellites.

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“Internet access is a basic ingredient for economic and social development,” said Grupo Pegaso chief operating officer Javier Braun Burillo. “The Hughes JUPITER System will enable us to connect remote communities and schools with many of the same economic, governmental, and educational resources available in urban areas.”

JUPITER’s efficient bandwidth use and 20 percent more capacity than competing solutions made it ideal for connecting such a large number of sites over a vast area in a short time window. Other capabilities that helped Pegaso Banda Ancha implement the sprawling project on time and at cost include:

QQ Deployment with minimum configuration

QQ A migration path to next-generation HTS satellite service

QQ Advanced gateway architecture with “lights-out operation” for lower operating costs

QQ High-throughput remote terminals for cost-efficient, high throughput (100 Mbps) leveraging powerful new chipsets capable of supporting many devices simultaneously

QQ Wideband forward channel with Adaptive Modulation and Coding (ACM) that optimizes performance, and cost advantages of Ku- and C-band satellites

Results:

The Hughes JUPITER system has helped the Mexican government toward its goal of providing Internet and Wi-Fi service to 100 percent of the country’s rural schools and municipalities. JUPITER VSAT terminals are currently implemented at 5,062 sites in 362 municipalities in 29 states. They are managed through Pegaso Banda Ancha’s Toluca network operations center.

Students and teachers in the 362 communities now have broadband Internet access through their schools and universities. Doctors and health officials use satellite broadband to connect to clinics and regional medical centers, while libraries and community centers are offering Internet service to the public for personal use.