Private company

Vizada

Worldwide satellite communications service

Vizada was a Norwegian firm and later subsidiary brand of EADS and Marlink providing satellite communications services. It operated stations that connected satellite communications to terrestrial telecommunications and IP networks. Vizada's services covered maritime, land, and aeronautical services.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

  • Industrysatellite telecommunications1
  • HeadquartersParis1

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Vizada Aussaguel Land Station
Photo: Vizada Group, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Vizada was a Norwegian firm and later subsidiary brand of EADS and Marlink providing satellite communications services. It operated stations that connected satellite communications to terrestrial telecommunications and IP networks. Vizada's services covered maritime, land, and aeronautical services. In 2011, the Vizada Group was acquired by EADS and integrated as a subsidiary of Astrium.2

The story

Vizada was formed in 2007 when private equity firm Apax Partners acquired France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications (FTMSC - a division of France Telecom) and Telenor Satellite Services (a division of Telenor) and merged their operations. Apax sold Vizada to EADS for 673 million euros in 2011. EADS would go on to merge Vizada with EADS Astrium, its space subsidiary.

While operative as a firm, Vizada acquired and reorganized several global telecommunications entities including FTMSC and Telenor Satellite Services, as well as vertically specialized companies such as Sait Communications and TDCom. At the time of its acquisition by EADS in 2011, Vizada provided both mobile and fixed satellite telecommunications to markets including merchant shipping, defense and government, fishing and yachting, oil and gas, mining, and non-governmental organizations.

In 1998, one of Vizada's precursor firms entered into partnership with the Télécoms sans frontières (TSF), which was renewed in 2010.

In 2016 an EADS subsidiary, reorganized and renamed as Airbus Defense and Space, consolidated several products including Vizada under the brand name Marlink. Airbus Defense and Space then sold its Marlink business and services back to Apax Partners for an undisclosed sum. As of 2024, Marlink no longer uses the brand name Vizada in any of its products or services.

From Wikipedia’s article on Vizada, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

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