Company: KVHI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001007587-25-000003
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Company: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 we launched our next-generation, advanced maritime broadband network with Intelsat. The HTS high-speed network incorporates Intelsat satellite services, including Epic satellites, and the IntelsatOne Flex platform, a global managed service designed to optimize bandwidth allocations and provide flexible coverage where it is needed. Our global HTS network also benefits from Japanese satellite capacity provided by SKY Perfect JSAT. Overall, our global HTS network currently uses a combination of 182 Ku-band transponders (5 of which we directly contract for) on 31 satellites to provide Ku-band coverage throughout the northern and southern hemispheres. Of the 31 satellites, 5 are considered high-throughput satellites that provide coverage via overlapping high-powered spot beams. Of the 182 Ku-band transponders, 138 are on high-throughput satellites. Along with our Ku-band HTS network, we offer airtime services via other networks, such as Starlink and Iridium. We began making Eutelsat OneWeb services available for commercial and leisure vessel deployment starting in January 2025.

In May 2023, we announced a new program for leisure and commercial vessels: the KVH ONE OpenNet Program. Vessels equipped with 60 cm to 1 m terminals built by other manufacturers, including Intellian and Cobham, can use their existing non-KVH VSAT antennas to subscribe to KVH’s global HTS network airtime, receive 24/7 airtime and technical support, and make use of KVH’s suite of value-added services. Typically, no hardware exchanges are needed to subscribe to the service.

In October 2023, we signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Kognitive Networks through which we are integrating Kognitive’s diverse suite of enterprise-grade network and bandwidth management tools, private-labeled as CommBox Edge, into our maritime mobile communication service offerings. CommBox Edge is an integral element of our multi-orbit, multi-channel marine communication solutions, enabling more diverse hybrid configurations. The new suite of tools integrates with and manages onboard connectivity with features such as a cloud-managed user interface, real-time data metering and analysis, WAN combination and control with advanced routing and channel bonding, which combines multiple Internet connections for increased speed and performance, network protection and security with deep packet inspection, traffic policies, and VPN. Network and bandwidth configuration are controlled via onboard services and both cloud-based and mobile applications.

Content Services

We offer a variety of value-added services to our maritime customers. The vast majority of these