Managed service solution delivers critical weather alerts and seismic data throughout the Pacific Region. SES Government Solutions (SES GS) and O3b Networks announced today that the companies have jointly completed the first O3b managed services installation for NOAA’s National Weather Service Office (NWSO) at Pago Pago, American Samoa.
This remote station is responsible for providing critically important tropical weather alerts and cyclone warning information to a large part of the Pacific. An uninterrupted high-speed data connection between the Pago Pago NWSO and the primary Pacific National Weather Service (NWS) centre in Hawaii is essential for NOAA to update forecast models and issue safety warnings in near real-time.
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