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a high availability satellite link for both voice and data .
The Iridium Low Earth Orbit ( LEO ) satellite constellation is a system of numerous active satellites ( including spares ) that provide worldwide voice and data communication from hand-held satellite phones and transceiver units .
By leveraging Iridium Satellite Push-to-Talk technology , VIDL provides situational awareness ( SA ), data , and voice in a sin- gle product , continuous Glob- al & Polar Region Coverage with short transmission paths , strong signals , low latency .
And , despite being a thorough- ly modern , up-to-date technol- ogy , VIDL is easy to use .
Disaster response and re- covery operations are unpre- dictable . Resilient communi- cations and real-time SA are critical for incident managers to make timely and informed decisions during an incident response where lives are at stake .
Current communications ar- chitectures are often antiquat- ed and limited primarily to voice-only communications , which often suffer from insuf- ficient cell coverage , lacking or damaged ground infrastruc- ture , or human transcription error .
Incident management teams and frontline responders re- quire close coordination and collaboration among all field assets , making the network busy with calls that can de- grade communications during a complex incident response .
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