Facility:

Location:

Ironlink Communications, Inc.
277 South West 33 rd Street
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315

(954) 463-9003

Iron Link Communications is a full service teleport and collocation facility – our facility utilizes an auto switching 180KVA generator with 450 gallon diesel tank. All our equipment runs on UPS 24/7. We house spare UPS, antennas and RF components for emergency situations. All our UP and DOWN converters are fully auto redun dant. All our TWT and SSPAs are fully auto redun dant – with multiple 3Kilowatt linearized TWTs, we are ready for practically any size service. Our Internet access is primary connection through UUNet (B.S. interconnect) and Sprint as secondary – BGP backed at our Edge router (7507 – this is a router that is built around redun dancy). The serial links reside on our multiple 7206VXR routers, or through our true catalyst switches. Iron-Link communications prides itself on Service and instills it's strong service policies upon all employees. We have also partnered with John Spade of WebVoip for our 3rd level router support. John is very well know in the industry as an extremely accomplished routing engineer. Iron-Link also works closely with Tracy Schwenk of TRS Engineering. Tracy is responsible for all/any custom engineering designs that Iron-Link may require for such items as Auto Switching, Remote Access, etc. With this combination of people all teamed together, it is obvious as to how Iron-Link is developing a very positive repertoire concerning it's high level of SERVICE given to all of it's teleport customers. 

Iron Link is currently providing coverage directly from our facility to North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa as well as many other destinations all over the world. Currently we are pointing our antennas to Pas1r, SatMex5, IS805, and IS907 for C-band coverage as well as SatMex5 for KU-band operation. Iron Link has the capacity to point to many other satellites due to our full Domestic and International FCC licensing. Iron Link is expanding its coverage areas aggressively through the buildup of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida location as well as through partnering with teleports looking at different satellites. Iron Link is constantly reinvesting to keep our teleport up to date with current standards and customer needs.

Key Personnel

Daniel P. Fallon Donna Fallon:

Daniel originally started Iron-Link Communications, Inc. in 1995 with his wife Donna. The business originally focused on performing test and repairs of various manufacturers Earth Station Equipment to include Vitalink, Vitacom, SSE, Varian, Comstream, etc. While Daniel did all the troubleshooting, Donna performed all assembly/replacement functions.

Daniels experience in the Satellite Communications industry began with the United States Air Force in 1984 where he spent 1 year in Basic Electronics study and then went on to a 6 month course on Satellite Communications equipment, specifically the ANFSC-78 Heavy Terminal. Throughout his 4 years of service to his country, Daniel’s responsibilities were to troubleshoot, repair, align and test heavy earth terminal equipment to include:

Frequency Up/Down Converters Frequency Synthesizers

High Power Transmitters Parametric Amplifiers

Cryogenic Equipment Antenna Tracking Systems

Digital Mux/Demux Equipment Modulators/Demodulators

Analog to Digital Converters Time Division Multiplexers

Spread Spectrum Multiple Access Equipment Systems - ECCM Qualified

Donna went into the electronics industry at age 17 working in the shipping/receiving department of National Semiconductor. She took courses on Soldering/Assembly/Blueprinting and eventually moved to the Design Assembly Division. Donna moved on with other companies and has 20 years experience in assembly of Satellite Communications equipment. She also recently became a licensed Dental Hygienist, however, she chooses to continue with Iron-Link to further the company development.

After performing electronic repairs together for approximately 2 years out of their garage, they expanded into equipment sales and Earth Station engineering. They moved the business out of their garage into a warehouse of approximately 1200 square feet. After building teleports for various customers throughout the Americas, Iron-Link made the decision to build their own teleport. They re-located to a 3500 square foot facility to accommodate the growth. Iron-Link has been operating their teleport successfully since 1999.

Bart Leichardt:

Bart joined Iron Link in 2000 as a part time repair technician and then came on full time in January 2002 as Teleport Manager. After graduating with a bachelor degree in California, Bart worked for a large transceiver manufacturer and was responsible for the RMA department as well as Quality Assurance and customer training and presentations. This position gave Bart extensive training with various test equipment as well as transceiver and amplifier knowledge. Bart then took a position as a Lead Technician working on Stabilized Antenna platforms in the Cruise Line industry and for oil rigs and military vessels. This position enhanced Bart’s experience to include network and terrestrial architecture.

Cesar Rodriguez:

Cesar (Tony) is the newest member to join Iron Link Communications in 2003. Cesar was hired to help in all aspects of the operation, but specifically to help support our customers here and out in the field. Cesar’s telecommunications experience began when he enlisted in the US Navy as an Electronics Technician. After almost 7 years of service, he was honorably discharged and quickly enrolled himself in the telecommunications industry by joining with Bellsouth. After a year, Cesar left Bellsouth to work for MTN to provide telecommunications onboard cruise ships. After a few years of heavy traveling all around the world, Cesar came to work for Iron Link. With Cesar and Bart’s stabilized antenna platform experience, Iron Link is able to expand its service line to include communications onboard ships as well as land.