Case Study: Globalstar achieves 50% lower monthly costs and resilient lifesaving satellite connectivity with Flexential colocation

Providing Lifesaving Services Where Cell Towers Do Not Reach

Globalstar, a satellite communications provider that powers emergency S.O.S. transmissions and remote voice/data services, needed to replace aging, self‑hosted data centers near San Jose and Sacramento with a more geographically dispersed, secure and highly resilient infrastructure. The company required near‑100% uptime and enhanced security controls to support lifesaving services and meet stringent regulatory requirements for U.S. government customers.

Flexential provided colocation and data‑protection services, migrating 600+ virtual and roughly 75 physical servers to Dallas–Plano and Las Vegas–North with N+1 redundancies, high power density, 100% SLAs, and multi‑zone/biometric security to satisfy ITAR/EAR. The move cut monthly power costs by about 50%, eliminated customer‑impacting outages, enabled rapid provisioning (a new circuit in 24 hours), and freed Globalstar to focus on product and IoT growth.

Globalstar

Tim Calamari

Vice President of Network, IT and Applications