KVH Taps Industry Veteran to Manage Growth of Global Mobile Broadband Satellite Network

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Brent Bruun has been hired by KVH Industries, Inc., Middletown, RI, as its new vice president for business development. Bruun, formerly of SES AMERICOM, is expected to play a key role in KVH's planned worldwide rollout of the mini-VSAT Broadband^sm satellite communications service.

"While at SES AMERICOM, I had the opportunity to collaborate with KVH during the initial launch of the groundbreaking mini-VSAT service and was very impressed with the way they do business," says Bruun.

TracPhone^® V7 and mini-VSAT Broadband service are becoming a vital part of the marketplace. We have a tremendous opportunity to offer affordable broadband communications within the maritime market while also generating airtime revenue from related aeronautical applications."

Bruun will help lead an expansion effort that will include acquisition of satellite capacity from satellite operators as well as the purchase of new regional satellite hubs for the global rollout of KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband service. Together with the compact, 24" TracPhone V7 antenna, the service already offers regional Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone service and Internet access as fast as 512 Kbps (upload) and 2 Mbps (download) to mariners throughout North America, the Caribbean, the North Atlantic, and Europe.

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