Our northern location and security operators’ needs set special requirements for security-critical data communication. Erillisverkot, Airbus and the Finnish Defence Forces tested the OneWeb satellite service, which is based on the LEO technology and offers broadband capacity and reliable connections, even at Arctic latitudes.
Erillisverkot Group and Airbus Secure Land Communications (SLC) have entered into a renewed Virve maintenance agreement until 2025. The agreement is a continuation of previous maintenance agreements and covers switching and base station technology as well as application maintenance and support services.
Erillisverkot updated its strategy in 2023. The updated strategy was published for the personnel in October and for customers and stakeholders in December. We wanted to analyse the strategy more thoroughly because of the major changes in the operating environment. The changing security context, more stringent economic development and accelerating technological development were important background factors. Finland’s membership in NATO also impacted the company’s willingness to update the strategy.
Finnish authorities’ communications will gradually move towards the broadband and mobile era in the 2020s. The next generation broadband Virve service is an entity coming together like a jigsaw puzzle in collaboration with its users. How is the project coming along?
