The company was acquired by GTE in 1983 and grew into a worldwide satellite operator and services provider (including launching the first North American K u band satellite, Spacenet 1). The company was founded in 1981 as Southern Pacific Communications Corporation (SPCC), a sister company to Sprint, providing satellite links for voice connections. As of 2007, Spacenet equipment and services were in use at about 100,000 enterprise, government, residential and small office sites. It held around 25% market share in the enterprise VSAT marketplace, according to the Comsys 2005 industry study. Beginning in 2006, it partnered with Cisco Systems as the service provider for the Cisco IP VSAT Satellite Network WAN Module in the United States. Spacenet's enterprise/government VSAT services are used for a wide range of applications such as primary broadband or narrowband networks, disaster recovery/backup networks and multicast file delivery. Spacenet's primary business was providing VSAT and hybrid/terrestrial data network services to government and enterprise customers under the Connexstar brand. Spacenet was headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia in the United States. was a provider of VSAT satellite-based data network services as well as hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks and network management services.

Wireline/Wireless Connectivity Options, Satellite Connectivity - Ka and Ku, Integrated Network Appliance – PrysmĪcquired by SageNet in 2014, Spacenet, Inc.

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