Maritime

Make every ship a smart ship

Whether you operate merchant shipping vessels or cruise ships, your digital future relies on secure, ultra-fast, and responsive satellite connectivity.

Telesat Lightspeed brings secure broadband connectivity to every ship in your fleet, whether they’re in remote seas, busy shipping lanes, or congested ports.

You have the guaranteed, high-performance LEO satellite services you need to reliably connect people, devices, and systems to achieve your smart ship goals.

You can’t afford to compromise on connectivity

Only a maritime connectivity solution powered by an enterprise-class LEO satellite network can deliver the capabilities you need to use cutting-edge digitalization and automation solutions across your merchant shipping fleet.

Learn what makes a LEO satellite network enterprise-class. Download our Maritime Buyer’s Guide.

Rely on mission-critical application delivery

Telesat Lightspeed is engineered to reliably deliver enterprise-class LEO satellite services in any environment, all the time.

Global Coverage

Services can be delivered anywhere with adjustable beams that dynamically concentrate coverage and capacity to maintain service quality in every location.

Always-on connectivity

Network redundancies and path diversity mechanisms in space and on the ground create a resilient, self-healing network with outstanding reliability.

Always-On

Built-in cybersecurity at every level

Our Secure by Design approach encompasses every network component, from the spacecraft to user terminals and the IT infrastructure used to manage the network.

Security

Guaranteed performance
with traffic prioritization

Telecom-grade service level agreements mean your service provider can guarantee data rates as well as network availability, latency, packet loss, and jitter.

Your service provider can also prioritize network traffic to ensure that mission-critical and delay-sensitive applications always receive the network performance they require.

Performance

Multiple antenna providers

You and your service provider are free to choose antennas from our ecosystem of manufacturers.

You always have the right antenna for each ship, and you’re never locked into a single antenna vendor.

User Terminals

Flexible traffic delivery

Your service provider can hand-off your data at commercial ground infrastructure or at private facilities owned by their company or yours.

Interconnect

Live support

Your service provider can speak with our LEO satellite experts anytime, day or night.

What can Telesat Lightspeed do for cruise ships?

With Telesat Lightspeed LEO satellite services, you can finally meet the insatiable demand for broadband on your cruise ships.

Wow them
with Wi-Fi

Give everyone onboard Wi-Fi that supports the most demanding interactive and real-time applications.

Differentiate with
digital experiences

Provide next-gen digital services that leverage your superior internet connectivity.

Streamline operations

Extend access to centralized smart ship solutions to every vessel in your fleet.

Take your corporate network to sea

Create a single, “invisible” network that reaches every corner of your operations.

Telesat Lightspeed will be certified to MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet standards so it will function like a seamless extension of your corporate telecom network, taking it wherever needed.

Now all of your people, applications, and systems can communicate and share data in complete alignment with your corporate IT and security policies.