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SkyPort Global Communications’ Network Operations Center in Houst...

SkyPort Global Communications’ Network Operations Center in Houston “performed flawlessly” during Hurricane Ike, the satellite integrator said. The center allowed SkyPort to offer continuous services to customers including the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Texas National Guard, the…

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company said. It said FEMA has a contract with mobile communications provider MCS, which uses SkyPort. The contract with the Texas National Guard is also for other ongoing operations and training, SkyPort said. The Texas National Guard will collocate routers at SkyPort’s facility at the Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, SkyPort said. The facility is on high ground and built to withstand category 3 hurricane winds of 130 mph, SkyPort said.