Earth Stations

Avanti's state-of-the-art Ka-band earth stations are located at Goonhilly and Lands End in Cornwall, UK. Both sites are equipped with Hughes Network Systems hubs, building upon the extensive Ka-band experience gained by Hughes from its American operations.  Hubs from other vendors will be added in due course.  The two sites have fully diverse and redundant fibre optic links to the Internet through London's Telehouse East.

GOONHILLY

Goonhilly holds a unique place in satellite telecommunications history. On 11 July 1962 Goonhilly received the first live transatlantic television broadcast from the USA via the Telstar satellite. On 16 July the first transatlantic telephone call over a satellite was made from the UK public network and the first colour pictures were transmitted from Goonhilly to the USA.