Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Schlumberger Deploys IPoVSAT Technology

Schlumberger Information Solutions has deployed IPoVSAT (Internet Protocol over Very Small Aperture Terminal), to support communications for Newfield Exploration Company's offshore oil and gas exploration and production operations in the Gulf of Mexico. IPoVSAT optimizes the amount of bandwidth being used by sharing capacity among other remote users through an advanced Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) based architecture. http://www.slb.com