Teleports
Gateways to Satellite Communications
Our teleports offer access to satellites for local, regional, national, and international communications and provides businesses and broadcasters with a multitude of satellite services and applications.
In addition, you gain from the higher redundancy and engineering support that teleports can offer. Telesat provides teleport customers with comprehensive service monitoring, equipment redundancy, standby power, signal protection, and network management.
Since our first teleport was established in 1987, Telesat has kept at the forefront of teleport development. Today Telesat operates teleports throughout the Americas. Our teleports are located in:
- Calgary
- Belo Horizonte
- Detroit
- Edmonton
- Montreal
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Winnipeg
Teleport Features
Telesat’s teleports share some common features:
- Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and back-up diesel generator
- Access to regional communications networks and wide area network connections
- On-premise technologist’s and technicians that monitor and maintain equipment
- Hot standby spares and readily accessible replacement equipment
- Customers who reduce telecommunications expenses by sharing teleport services
- Carrier class hardware engineered to a higher standard than would be practical at single-customer sites
