Infrastruktura TK has been signesd by ViaSat to become a “ViaSat Authorized Repair Center” for satellite communication system service, repairs, and spares in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). An in-country source for fast turnaround of service and support requests for their ViaSat LinkStar® and LinkWay® satellite systems is given to the service providers in the region by the addition of the ITK service center gives.

Managing director for enterprise VSAT sales at ViaSat, Robert Feierbach, declared: “Gaining the expertise of ITK for our repair center will increase the service quality and really cut response time for our Russian customers”. “With the vast size of the CIS, ITK will reduce the time for customers to get replacement terminals, spares, parts, or repairs by eliminating the need for lengthy import or export procedures in each case.”

Based in Moscow, ITK, has years of experience in servicing all hub-based, mesh, and single-channel-per carrier satellite systems in the Russian Federation.

ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other digital communication products that enable secure, fast, and efficient communications to any location. The company provides networking products and managed network services for enterprise IP applications; is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services and is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies to the U.S. government. The company has five subsidiaries: Intelligent Compression Technologies, Enerdyne Technologies, Efficient Channel Coding, US Monolithics, and JAST. These companies design and produce complementary products such as video data link systems, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, data acceleration and compression products, and mobile satellite antenna systems.