Disaster Recovery Communications

During the Atlantic Hurricane Season in 2021, many organizations had to enact their disaster or emergency response plans.

Speedcast supported Hurricane Ida response efforts and deployed communications systems for the well-known ‘Cajun Navy’ volunteer organization that stepped in to conduct rescue and recovery efforts on the ground in Louisiana.

When a 2022 volcanic eruption cut off all communications for the remote pacific island of Tonga, Speedcast was the first connectivity provider to restore services, providing critical support to the country’s major communications company.

Speedcast worked quickly to established satellite connectivity in support of the island’s restoration efforts, delivering a rapid response by local in-region teams, coupled with disaster recovery and remote engineering expertise. The Speedcast team worked around the clock to enable quick restoration of service within just days of the disaster, including connectivity for the island’s major banking services.

In the wake of 2020’s Hurricane Iota, Speedcast was selected by Colombia’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (MinTIC) to design and install a satellite connectivity solution on the islands of Providencia and San Andrés, after the islands were devastated by the hurricane’s impact.

The service supported ongoing recovery efforts on the islands, where 98% of housing was destroyed.

After supporting disaster response communications during flooding and a subsequent train derailment in New South Wales, Australia, Speedcast disaster response connectivity continued to play a role in clean-up efforts at local staging areas for more than a week following the incident.