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Changes to Americas and Asia Pacific IP Address Ranges for BGAN, FBB and SBB

What changes are being made?

On Monday, February 16, 2009 Stratos will add a new range of IP addresses for the I-4 Americas and I-4 Asia Pacific satellites. For terminals in the Americas/AsiaPac footprint we are replacing European IP addresses with American IP addresses to meet customer requirements. While customers will not have to make any adjustments in the short term, it is important that they are aware of these changes.

How does this impact me?

Users in the EMEA region will not be impacted as their IP addresses are not changing.

For users in the Americas/AsiaPac regions, Stratos will implement a new range of IP addresses for RegularAccess and TransparentAccess. The current range is 212.165.64.0/20 and the new range will be 216.86.240.0/20. The immediate impacts for users in the Americas/AsiaPac regions are:

• RegularAccess: The User Terminal will receive a private dynamic IP address. This is automatically translated into a public IP address which is shared by all users of RegularAccess. This public IP address will change and will be from the new range.
• TransparentAccess Dynamic: For users that use a public dynamic IP address, new data sessions will automatically get a public IP address from the new range.
• TransparentAccess Static IP:
  • Users with an existing static IP address in the Americas/AsiaPac regions will keep their current IP address. There is no change at this stage (see below for more information).
  • Users who require a new TransparentAccess public static IP address will automatically receive an IP address from the new range when they provision this in Stratos Dashboard.
    

Mandatory Changes for Users in the Americas/AsiaPac Footprint (Longer Term)

Stratos will continue to support the current European IP address range for 12 months for customers that use existing static IP addresses in the Americas/AsiaPac footprint. It is important that you change these IP addresses within the next 12 months using the steps listed below. Stratos will send out reminders in the final 6 months.

Also, customers that use their terminal in the Americas/AsiaPac footprint and have a static IP address from the European range can change to an address from the US range via Stratos Dashboard by going through the following steps on or after February 16:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.    <!--[endif]-->Retrieve the details of the User Profile for which you would like to change the IP address

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.    <!--[endif]-->Change "static" into "dynamic" in the drop-down list for Americas/AsiaPac IP address

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.    <!--[endif]-->Click OK and confirm the Order

<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.    <!--[endif]-->Once the order is completed, retrieve the details for the User Profile again

<!--[if !supportLists]-->5.    <!--[endif]-->Change "dynamic" into "static" again in the drop-down list for Americas/AsiaPac IP address

<!--[if !supportLists]-->6.    <!--[endif]-->Click OK and confirm the Order

Note: IP-ranges given here are valid now. Stratos reserves the right to change and expand public IP ranges for the BGAN family of services.