PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] CFO Joseph Wright said Thursday that the company plans to expand the use of fiber in its satellite-based global network.

Wright said the fixed satellite services (FSS) company is “coupling our satellites with fiber, state-of-the-art routing equipment and ground stations. This will result in increased capacity and reliability to both our private sector and government customers. We’ve already initiated this with Level 3 Communications [Nasdaq: LVLT] and will expand this approach going forward, as we believe that customers will require the redundancy and reliability of a hybrid network and are looking for solutions that use the combined strengths of both satellite multi-point distribution and fiber point-to-point transmission.”