The New Brunswick satellite Internet provider claims it will have 20 times the Ka band capacity once Loral Space and Communications Inc. launches ViaSat-1 and it leases capacity on a Hughes satellite. Barrett Xplore plans to offer voice and data plans for enterprise customers.



Barrett Xplore Inc. of Woodstock, N.B. announced Thursday it plans to lease the ViaSat-1 satellite when it’s launched next year and offer networking services for large companies.



He was comparing the company’s current capacity with the capacity it would have if it launches ViaSat next year and Hughes Network LLC launches its Jupiter satellite in 2012. Barrett Xplore inked a deal with Hughes in October agreeing to lease 10 Gbps from the Jupiter.



ViaSat-1 is under construction by New York-based Loral Space and Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LORL) and is scheduled for launch in early 2011. It will have 15 Gigabits per second of throughput.



A spokesperson for Space Systems/Loral said the ViaSat-1 will be in a geosynchronous orbit, about 36,000 km above the earth’s surface at 115 degrees West Longitude.

Both the Loral ViaSat-1 and the Hughes Jupiter use Ka band communications.



Carlsbad, Calif.-based ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT), which has agreed to provide gateways and other infrastructure to Barrett Xplore, claims ViaSat-1 is designed to host more than a million subscribers, will have “more capacity than all current North American satellites combined” and has 10 times the throughput of any other Ka band satellite.

Barrett Xplore provides broadband Internet services to residential and small business customers in remote areas using both fixed wireless and satellite. Maduri said once ViaSat 1 is ready, the firm will aim its services at large enterprise customers.