Services / Connectivity
Aviation · Marine · Remote sitesConnected where the network has to work
Satellite IP, multi-WAN failover, voice, mesh, radio integration and private AI, designed as one system for aircraft operations, vessels and remote sites, and documented so the night shift can run it.
We design and integrate the network, voice and computing side.
- Penton Systems is not a carrier, and claims no reseller, partner or certification status with any satellite provider.
- Work that touches aircraft systems is performed under the approvals it requires. Our avionics integration and installation partner is SouthEast Avionics of Melbourne, Florida.
- Service plans, coverage and airtime are contracted directly with the provider you choose. We design around them and say plainly what each can and cannot do.
Two kinds of sky, one design
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Satellite IP broadband
Low-earth-orbit services such as Starlink give vessels, hangars and remote sites high-throughput, low-latency internet. We design the router, switching, antenna-side cabling plan, power and monitoring around it.
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L-band voice and data
Iridium-class networks use near-polar orbits for truly global reach. Throughput is low, but the path is valuable for voice, messaging, tracking and as an independent backup where broadband cannot go.
The right answer is usually both: broadband for work, L-band for resilience, and a policy that moves traffic automatically when one of them fails.
Three WANs, and phones that never notice
A multi-WAN gateway balances and fails over across three separate paths: different providers, different technologies, different failure modes. Phone-to-phone calls keep working because the PBX lives on the LAN, not on any one link. Choose the technologies, then cut a WAN.
Latencies and bandwidths are typical assumptions for the simulation, not provider measurements or guarantees. WAN technologies are examples chosen per site. Full routing simulator: Break the Network.
Designed by someone who ran a statewide system
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Statewide-scale experience
More than ten years as system manager for Florida’s Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS), a statewide trunked network, gives us a practical view of availability, coverage, capacity and change control at scale.
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Radio meets IP
Gateways, dispatch consoles and voice systems tied into IP and SIP networks, with backhaul that can ride multiple independent WANs, including satellite where terrestrial links are not available.
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Monitoring and operations
Server-side monitoring, logging and AI-assisted alerting for radio infrastructure and the computing around it, designed so a night shift can run it.
Penton Systems is an independent company. References to L3Harris, SLERS and the State of Florida describe Scott Penton’s professional experience; they do not imply endorsement by, or affiliation of Penton Systems with, those organizations. We do not discuss non-public details of any public-safety system.
Mesh that heals, radio that joins the network
Lose a relay and the routing protocol finds the next best chain of radios. When nobody is touching it, the instrument fails a relay on the live route by itself, then restores it. Click any relay to take over.
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Mesh networks
Wireless meshes for ramps, yards, campuses and vessels, planned so that losing any single node reroutes traffic instead of dropping it.
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Trunked radio integration
Bridging trunked and conventional radio into IP and SIP so dispatch, operations and phones can reach each other, designed by an engineer who spent more than ten years managing Florida’s statewide trunked radio system. Licensed radio work follows the applicable rules.
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Cisco SIP and UniFi
Enterprise IP phones on SIP, with UniFi switching, Wi-Fi and gateways designed and managed as one system.
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Offshore and marine
Shipboard networks that survive motion, power events and long gaps in connectivity, with crew Wi-Fi isolated from operational systems.
Local language models, built for one job
A hangar, a vessel or a remote site cannot always call a cloud AI. We deploy private language models on servers you own, scoped to one task, so sensitive data stays on site and the tool still works when the link does not.
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Aviation operations
Search and summarize your own manuals, procedures and logs; draft operational reports; keep a person in the loop for every decision.
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Marine and offshore
Checklists, maintenance records and radio logs made searchable and summarized aboard, even with no satellite link.
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Monitoring that explains itself
Models that watch link health, latency, power and failover events, explain what changed and open a ticket, built on the same monitoring approach as our Aurora dashboard.
These are design capabilities and engineering concepts. Specific deployments are scoped, tested and documented per customer. We state results only when we have measured them.
A system manager’s eye for communications
Scott Penton spent more than ten years as system manager for Florida’s Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System and has worked as an engineer for L3Harris. In those worlds communications are not a convenience. That discipline, combined with hands-on server, network and virtualization engineering, shapes how we design: redundant by default, monitored always, documented so a night shift can run it.