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Issue 181
November
SAMENA
to hold
Public-Private
Policy Roundtables
Global IT
spending
to plunge
MENA by $210b
in 2020
is home to some of
the most advanced
smart cities
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15 11 November 2020
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Editor’s Note
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the latest edition of Teletimes International.
This edition focuses on the latest developments in the satellite
industry and provides an excellent overview of the ongoing
activities with key executive interviews and focused editorials/
reports.
Featured in this edition is an interview with Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari,
the President & CEO - Es'hailsat which sheds light on the current
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operations in the Middle East and Africa. You will also find an
interview with David Gelerman, President & CEO of SpaceBridge
who talks about the SatCloud offering.
Moving on, I would like to congratulate Alvaro Sanchez, the CEO
of Integrasys and his team on introducing Satmotion Pocket on
the latest Apple smartphones. The solution really brings the VSAT
commissioning process right into the hands of non-skilled operators
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- such solutions will surely drive more adoption in the long term.
Interviews TELECOMMUNICATION Heading into the end of the year, we look forward to the GITEX
Technology Week which is scheduled to take place live in Dubai. This
will be the first mega event to take place (with the right precautions
08 MENA is home to some of the 31 Etisalat Group reports Q3 2020 financial results and safety measures) in almost the entire year of 2020. Teletimes
most advanced smart cities is excited to be a part of the event and we look forward to meeting
Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari, President & CEO - Es’hailSat 32 EITC announces Q3 2020 financial results with our partners and contributors at the event.
18 SatCloud™ offers a game-changing cloud- 33 The Saudi G20 to rally for innovation in digital As always, you will find the latest news and updates from all major
orchestrated solution for service providers education and providing opportunities for women players in this edition of Teletimes. Your feedback is welcome on
David Gelerman, President and CEO of SpaceBridge info@teletimesinternational.com
34 Ooredoo Group announced 16%
increase in Net Profit Enjoy Reading!
29 Digital Operation Support services will
drive tomorrow’s Data-Centric World
38 Smart Dubai to take part in 40th
Alaa ElShimy, SVP& MD & of Enterprise
GITEX Technology Week 2020
Business Group at Huawei Middle East
42 Global IT spending to plunge by $210b in 2020 Khalid Athar
Chief Editor
Events Satellite
12 SATCOMRUS 2020 Conference 14 YAHSAT announces PMO for
Thuraya 4-NGS Satellite Programme
26 SAMENA Council to hold Public
-Private Policy Roundtables 16 Satmotion Pocket for Iphone 12
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30 Accelerating the Region's Digital 24 Gilat Telecom enhances SD-WAN
Economy to be the focus of the system to increase capacity
2nd "SAMENA Accelerator" across Africa
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Follow @TeletimesIntl on Twitter
Interview: Fakher Dawar
Q: Ooredoo had partnered with communications infrastructure can be innovative solutions to our customers in the
Es’hailSat recently for provision of critical challenging, hence satellite communications region.
communication. How important do you think complements the terrestrial networks in
critical communication is in MENA? enabling and managing the communications Q: 2020 was difficult for all. How has
networks within the region. Es’hailSat evolved to cope with the
Businesses, enterprises and consumers challenges this year have brought?
depend on reliable communications for MENA, especially the GCC, has always
mission critical and business critical services embraced and has been early adopters of the The impact of Covid-19 pandemic for
and for their livelihood. These are important latest and most innovative technologies. The businesses in 2020 has been felt across all
region has pioneered the use of advanced industries and the satellite industry was no
technologies for e-commerce and smart different. However, not all segments within
MENA is home to
cities. And with cities growing at a rapid pace the satellite industry has had similar impact,
Es’hailSat’s focus and population increasing rapidly, the need for with the energy, aero IFC and maritime
reliable and secure communication becomes segments having the biggest impact.
over the past few extremely important.
years and this
With majority of the world doing business or
some of the most
We also see a clear convergence taking interacting online, the demand for broadband
year has been to
place between the IT and communications has increased, which has increased the
sectors in this region, and with services like demand for satellite capacity for broadband
support the media
Internet of Things (IoT), Machine to Machine and cellular backhaul to overcome terrestrial
advanced smart cities
(M2M), machine learning and AI, people and network congestion.
industry with things are becoming even more connected.
Data and messaging services are becoming Broadcast segment is expected to increase
satellite capacity as important as voice services in the
communications industry.
in demand over the next few years as
broadcasters consider transitioning from
Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari, President & CEO - Es’hailSat for DTH services. MENA is home to some of the most advanced
a traditional on-premise set-up to a virtual
system such as satellite cloud-based service
smart cities, where having an integrated for content storage and distribution.
communication network is a requirement to
in any part of the world and in any market connect people, machines, transportation, Es’hailSat’s focus over the past few years
segments. And for MENA this is especially infrastructure, logistics, security, etc. All and this year has been to support the media
true given the nature of landscape and terrain, these requirements increase the demands industry with satellite capacity for DTH
and the critical nature of the MENA oil and for satellite bandwidth and communications services. This focus will continue in the mid
gas industry for the world. Vastness of the infrastructure so that people and things to long term, as the DTH market in the
area, combined with the sparsely populated always stay connected. Middle East and North Africa is still a vibrant
pockets, with harsh conditions makes and growing market. Having satellites in the
communication in general extremely critical. Working with Ooredoo is an example of MENA broadcast hotspot of 25.5°E/26°E is an
Implementing and maintaining terrestrial how Es’hailSat is delivering integrated and added incentive for broadcasters to join the
November 2020 9
Es’hailSat neighbourhood to distribute their
channels, as they are instantly able to reach a
wide viewership base.
To enhance our offering to the broadcast
Q: Besides broadcast, what other services is
Es’hailSat providing? We provide a wide
customers, we have been consolidating
and incorporating a suite of services at our DTH broadcasting has been the core business range of services in the
teleport in Doha such as turnaround service,
playout service, colocation service, uplink
from Es’hailSat and will continue to be for
the foreseeable future. We started with telecommunications,
service, hosting service, MCPC bouquet, etc.
In addition to the core business of supporting
raw capacity lease on our satellites to DTH
operators and channel operators to distribute mobility and VSAT segments.
broadcast customers, we have also been their services and reach consumers. We have
implementing services such as connectivity since expanded this to provide value added
services, backhaul, VSAT and other services to and end to end services to DTH and broadcast satellite can connect mobile base stations operator providing world class services to
support telecommunication service providers customers. These services include playout quickly and cost effectively, bringing strategic stakeholders and customers, who
and enterprises. services, encryption, encoding, multiplexing, bandwidth to remote areas reliably. It can value broadcast and telecommunications
transmission, contribution, etc. provide flexible and scalable solutions and independence, high quality of service and
Having the right infrastructure, providing end can seamlessly connect any region within our wide geographical coverage. With an initial
to end and value-added services and being In addition, we provide a wide range of satellite’s coverage area. focus within our base in MENA, we have
responsive to our customers’ needs enable services in the telecommunications, mobility established ourselves as a reliable and
us to provide the best in class service to our and VSAT segments. The advantages of Leveraging on our teleport and working with innovative company supporting the key
satellites are that it offers cost effective, key partners in the region and internationally, broadcast and telecommunications markets
reliable, instantaneous and multi-point we provide customized solutions for the in the region.
customers. Ocean region, Southern and Eastern Europe. telecommunication sector. From small
connectivity. For businesses and corporates
In North Africa, Q: What regions are Es’hailSat covering?
We are also actively working to extend our
own coverage with new satellite programs
with remote offices, it provides the best
way for the HQ to connect, collaborate and
bandwidths for voice, data and internet
services to large bandwidths for images,
Coming out of a difficult year for the industry
in 2020, where we have been consolidating
we cover from What can we expect in the future? and partnerships.
share critical information with the remote
personnel. Corporates use satellites for fast
video and data backhaul. We provide capacity
and customized managed services that cater
our business and services, and putting in
place longer term plans, we see a lot more
Morocco in the Our main area of coverage with our current
two satellites are The Middle East and
We are evaluating other emerging markets
where we believe there is still a lot potential
and reliable connection through a private
network to remote and offshore facilities to
to individual needs of the customer, with
flexibility, speed and high quality of service.
efforts coming in 2021 to bring to fruition
these mid-term and long term plans. We aim
West to Somalia North Africa. In North Africa, we cover from
Morocco in the West to Somalia in the East,
and demands for satellite capacity and
services. Africa, South Asia and South East
monitor remote assets and share important We also provide similar services for the
mobility sector; be it land or maritime.
to roll out new products and services over
the next 12 months to enhance our offerings
information. The nature of the satellite
in the East, and and the regions in the Sahara belt. Although
the coverage with our satellites is currently
Asia are markets where we believe we will see
a lot of growth coming from. We also believe
network is such that, it provides secure
Q: Please tell us about the ambitions
to our customers. From a strategic corporate
perspective, we will also be engaging with
the regions in the
connectivity, with high quality of service and
limited to Middle East and North Africa, we do the MENA region still has a lot of potential and Es’hailSat have for the year 2021. partners in the industry for new satellite
with redundancies within a private network.
cover other regions by extending our footprint will continue to expand our services within this programs to expand our reach beyond the
Sahara belt. working with our partners. Mainly in the Indian region.
Backhauling telecommunication services via As a company, our aim is to be a global satellite MENA region.
November 2020 11
SATCOMRUS 2020 Conference
New Satellite Technologies,
Orbits, and Frequencies
included in the Sfera subprogram of conference was 5G standardization and
the national program “Digital Economy the role of satellite communications As part of the SATCOMRUS 2020 fourth
of the Russian Federation”, will provide in the buildup of the 5G ecosystem. session, Russian and international
almost ubiquitous high-speed access Key speakers from organizations satellite operators and manufacturers
to digital communication services, developing new communication presented their plans for business
including the Internet, throughout the standards - Viktor Strelets (ITU), development in low-orbit satellite
country, including sparsely populated Sasha Sirotkin (3GPP) – described communication systems, and also
areas with less than 250 residents and the current status of developing 5G talked about ready-made solutions
remote settlements of the Far North, communication network standards. and technological innovations in the
Siberia, and the Far East. Andrey Zheglov, Deputy Director of the segment of satellite user equipment.
Department of State Policy in the Field
Yuri Prokhorov, head of the Russian of Communications of the Ministry At the end of the conference, the
Satellite Communications Company of Digital Industry of Russia, also SATCOMRUS AWARDS 2020 industry
(RSCC) spoke in detail about the main presented his vision of the prospects award ceremony and wrap-up of the
focal areas of company activities, for the 5G networks in Russia. marketing campaign "In the Runup to
which in the mid-term will impact the the 75th anniversary of Victory" took
advancement of Russia’s domestic Participants of the third session of place. The campaign was launched by
satellite communications industry, the conference, "Global Restart of RSCC together with partners in high-
Roscosmos State Corporation. Over including completed and planned the Broadcast and Media Industry", speed satellite system access and Ka-
400 specialists from Russia, Great satellite launches. Yuri Prokhorov representing media and IT companies band. The SATCOMRUS AWARDS 2020
Britain, USA, Canada, Israel, Italy, emphasized that “RSCC closely follows discussed the issues of the industry statuettes were awarded to Intersputnik,
France, Indonesia, Nigeria, India, and global trends and duly addresses and changes in the media market, JSC SATIS-TL-94, Azercosmos,
Azerbaijan took part in the digital them in its portfolio of services. including the effect of the Covid-19 State Budgetary Institution RD
conference. They include flexible payloads on pandemic. In recent years, there has RGVK Dagestan named after Garuna
geostationary satellites, projects been a lot of talk about changes in the Kurbanova, National Association of
Welcoming the participants of of multi-satellite communication television and media market. On the Television and Radio Broadcasters
SАTCOMRUS 2020, Deputy- constellations in non-geostationary one hand, experts and market players (NAT), Phoenix Engineering
Minister of Digital Development, orbits, the Internet of Things, and have in one way or another have Bureau LLC, Republican Center of
Communications and Mass Media of provision of communication services recognized that the existing models Infocommunication Technologies - a
the Russian Federation Oleg Ivanov on mobile objects. It is these solutions for promoting content and services State Budgetary Institution of the
stressed the need to develop satellite to move ahead with advancing the are dying out with the advent of new Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Kabelshchik
technologies and telecommunication digital economy that are incorporated technologies and a change in the Internet periodical, as well as Ms
services to eliminate the digital divide into the new RSCC satellites”. Yuri consumption patterns. On the other Yulia Shakhmanova - for her personal
in the Russian Federation. In his Prokhorov also reported on the results hand, large telecom operators and contribution to the advancement of
report entitled the “Role and Place of of RSCC’s development of its own media holdings are refraining from satellite TV and radio broadcasting in
Satellite Communications in the Digital value-added services in broadcasting serious revision of strategies, relying Russia. According to the results of the
Economy of the Russian Federation”, and communications on moving on familiar business models. The special campaign "In the Runup to the
SАTCOMRUS 2020, the XXV event was held with the support of Oleg Dukhovnitsky, Head of the Federal objects, where, despite the pandemic panelists also discussed how the global 75th Anniversary of Victory", the 3rd
anniversary international conference the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications Agency, indicated and the global lockdown, the company economic crisis associated with the place was taken by Raduga-Internet
of operators and users of Russia’s Communications and Mass Media of that the Express-RV project involving a has managed to maintain its leading Covid-19 pandemic has changed the LLC, and the first place, with the largest
satellite communication networks, the Russian Federation, the Federal multi-satellite communication system position in the domestic and foreign balance of power in the media content number of new connections, went to
took place online in October 2020. The Communications Agency and the in highly elliptical orbits, which is markets. Another central theme of the market. operator Ka-Internet JSC.
12 November 2020 November 2020 13
YAHSAT announces PMO for Thuraya
4-NGS Satellite Programme
Yahsat has established a Programme
Management Office (PMO) for Thuraya
4-NGS, its new L-band satellite being built
by Airbus. Thuraya 4-NGS, announced in
August this year, is part of a US$ 500 million
programme that will transform Thuraya’s
space and ground systems and enable its
next generation products and solutions
portfolio.
Yahsat has picked six male and female Emirati
engineers from its Technology Department
to form the PMO, which will oversee the
design, assembly, integration and testing
phases of the satellite subsystems, while Ali Al Hashemi - Thuraya Adnan Al Muhairi - Yahsat
focusing on the timely delivery of the
spacecraft for launch in late 2023. Rashed Al
Hammadi, a seasoned member of Yahsat’s
Space Segment Engineering team, will be
the Programme Manager, supported by Ali
Hasan Banimalek, as Deputy Programme
Manager and Platform Lead. They are
joined by Abdulla Zakaria Alabri - Payload
Lead, Nada Ali Mubarak Obaid - Payload
Engineer, Ahmed Ali Mohammed Almenhali
- Platform Engineer and Launch Vehicle (LV)
Integration Lead and Ibrahim Ali Abdullah
Al Hammadi - Product Assurance Lead. All
of them have played key roles in delivering
Yahsat’s previous satellite programmes
and bring solid, hands-on experience to the
Thuraya 4-NGS PMO team.
Thuraya’s Chief Executive Officer and
General Manager of Yahsat Government
Solutions, Ali Al Hashemi said: “Today, there and satellite-related R&D and industry.” Besides managing different aspects of
is a strong sense of fulfillment; our faith in spacecraft development, the newly formed
our people and their capabilities stands fully Yahsat’s Deputy Chief Technical Officer, PMO will serve as the primary liaison
justified. The young engineers leading this Adnan Al Muhairi said: “The Thuraya between the satellite manufacturer, Airbus,
ambitious programme have shown great 4-NGS next generation programme is not and Yahsat’s headquarters to ensure a
promise in their roles and were chosen only about deploying new technology and smooth on-time delivery. In addition, there
after a thorough analysis of their work expanding our satellite fleet. It is also about will be a separate team of engineers under
history, knowledge and aptitudes. Yahsat’s developing Emiratis and positioning them the supervision of the PMO that will gain
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14 November 2020
Satmotion Pocket for Iphone 12
Satmotion Pocket, the best the commissioning process and
VSAT Auto-Commissioning tool, making possible the installation
developed by Integrasys has been by non-skilled operators in VSAT
updated and it is now available for installations. Also, the field
the new iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone installers do not need to coordinate
12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone Mini. or communicate with the NOC to
finish the installation, which drives
“After days of simulations and a significant time reduction, speed
tests we can firmly confirm that up time to market and save cost.”
Satmotion Pocket newest release Alvaro added.
works on the new Apple product
range. Integrasys priority is to Integrasys philosophy, Building
innovate making available its Success from Innovation, which
innovative technologies always sometimes is, taking advantage
ahead of the curve, taking of new technologies before the
advantages of the partners market has adopted and be ready
innovations and market trends. as soon as our customers demand
The hard work carried out by it. For us customer satisfaction is
developers during the last weeks the most important thing when
made it possible.” we are doing business, also getting
ahead in the new challenges of the
Alvaro Sanchez - CEO of Integrasys industry, renewing our capabilities
and improving the product
Satmotion Pocket is an essential portfolio, always to meet the
tool for an easy, quick, and accurate needs of our customers, who are
VSAT deployment. Simplifying always right.
16 November 2020
Interview: Khalid Athar
running retail. was designed to scale from just a few Mbps
to hundreds of Mbps, measured by remote
Industry focuses on the LEO/MEO satellite terminal throughput. .
will increase the capacity per each satellite by SatCloud™ offers a
manifold. For SpaceBridge in specific, in 2019,
we launched the C7700 cost-effective modem/ cloud-orchestrated SatCloud™ offers a cloud-orchestrated solution
for service providers that want to provide
router for mass broadband access market that
fully meets the current market requirements
solution for service occasional managed high-bit rate and on-
demand end-to-end satellite solutions. This
and price point. We sold it from $250 in small providers that includes teleports, broadcasters, satellite
quantities to $200 in large quantities. We operators, satellite network operators and
entirely redesigned its HTS Platform and want to provide ISPs as well as companies dealing in oil &
introduced to the market the SatCloudTM gas, energy, and maritime satellite networks,
offering which is our SCPC-DAMA high data occasional managed satellite-delivered cloud applications providers
rate managed services platform.
high-bit rate and on- and enterprise networks.
KA: Can you give us a quick overview of the
solutions you are providing?
demand end-to-end With SatCloud™, you avoid the need to invest
capital expenses in deploying a new platform
satellite solutions which is a significant reduction in risk. You also
DG: Today, SpaceBridge provides complete avoid the additional startup costs of training
ground infrastructure required for your engineering & support teams on new
communication with LEO/MEO/GEO satellites. hardware systems maintenance and support.
This covers complete end-to-end solutions, we launched an extensive promotion campaign You pay only for what you need with pay-as–
including construction of the teleports for VSAT to explain our history to the satellite market you–grow model, while gaining a complete
platforms that provide networking solutions, detailing on who we are as a company. Most Operation Suite for free. At the same time, you
unmanned gateways, maned HUBs Teleports of the people now know that SpaceBridge can enjoy managed services provided through
and various types of application oriented is the combination of the former Advantech our network operation centers managed
SatCloud™ offers a game-
remote terminals, as well as the SCPC modems, Satellite Networks (previously also known by our highly-dedicated and experienced
and a combination of both for variety of as EMS Satellite Networks), SpaceBridge engineers. SatCloud comes with 24×7 network
applications such as low cost/high performance Networks, ACT-Wireless and Signal Processors management services, based on a complete
broadband internet access, cellular backhaul, OpEx model for credit approved customers/
changing cloud-orchestrated
Limited (SPL). Basically a combination of the
maritime, oil and gas, mining, telemedicine, companies that were acquired and integrated partners.
critical infrastructures like homeland security, by Advantech Wireless. Looking back, it was
air traffic control (ATC) and military amongst the best thing we could have done, as today KA: How are satellites contributing to the IoT
solution for service providers others.
KA: Looking back at the change from
our customers are not confused about who we
are and what are we doing. We have received
great feedback on our campaign, we have
space? Especially Industrial IoT?
DG: The proliferation of IP-enabled industrial
David Gelerman, President and CEO of SpaceBridge Advantech to SpaceBridge as the main brand, created a momentum and gained the trust of things, or “objects,” equipped with sensors,
speaks to Teletimes International how did it go from a marketing point of view? our customers. processors and network capabilities means
that more and more remote device functions
DG: SpaceBridge is not exactly a brand-new KA: Many of our readers would be interested and operations can and will be reported,
name. For thirty years, we were known as in details about SatCloud. How can businesses controlled and automated via the internet
Mr. Gelerman is a visionary engineer, innovator and businessman with over 40 years of experience. In 1988, Mr. Gelerman founded SpaceBridge the Advantech Wireless. This premium brand and IP networks. The business benefits from
benefit from it?
Inc. (formerly Advantech Wireless Inc.), serving as President and CEO for the last 31 years. Steering the company from start-up to becoming a was highly sought for RF equipment but to IIoT can be large across many industries. They
dominant global player in the satellite ground communication business, both in baseband products and networking, as well as radio frequency a certain degree, it overshadowed our VSAT range from cost and downtime reductions, to
DG: SatCloud™ is a cloud-based, dynamic SCPC
converters and amplifiers. In 2018, after the divestiture of radio frequency business, Mr. Gelerman carries on forward with the VSAT Networking and broadcast business. Therefore, once we efficiency and productivity gains, to better asset
Bandwidth-on-Demand solution. Satellite
business, keeping in tradition and with continued strengths as a best-in-class industry leader, leading the pace of innovation with one of the most divested the RF business, we decided to use tracking and resource management, to new
service providers struggle to raise a budget or
advanced VSAT satellite network platforms, concentrating on VHTS, NGSO satellites and cost effective modems/routers for mass broadband the name associated with the current business. revenue opportunities.
major funds required for new operations, as
consumer Internet market. In 2005 we purchased SpaceBridge Networks, they do with choosing the right technology to
the Ottawa based company specializing in commit to, and investing in relevant human SpaceBridge products and technology can
Prior to founding the company, Mr. Gelerman held various management and design engineering positions at Nortel Networks, in the Transmission development of the ASICs based on the DVB uniquely address Industrial IoT / Machine-to-
resources and training, due to lack of visibility of
Networks Division, where he led team that developed multibillion dollar microwave terrestrial radio business. open standards two-way communication. As Machine data networking requirements for a
integration costs when starting a new operation.
the current business closely represents the work SpaceBridge has created SatCloud™, a new, wide variety of Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications.
Mr. Gelerman holds a Master’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE), specializing in Wireless Communications and Broadcasting. done by SpaceBridge, it made a lot of sense to These include smart infrastructure, logistics,
first-of-its-kind service to help address and
use this name. We had already maintained the resolve these challenges. healthcare, smart utilities, and other solutions
Khalid Athar: How did the 2019 year play out for the satellite industry the satellite operators who instead of looking for very high EBITDA (and spacebridge.com domain for all these years so for various use cases in energy, insurance,
and for SpaceBridge in specific? hence the ability of high leveraging) as they usually did will start following it was easy to make that shift. Designed to address satellite network mining, agriculture, ATM networks, lottery
the traditional KPIs for doing business, such as ROI and profit margins. This It is quite difficult to come up with the right and operators’ challenges, SatCloud™ solution uses networks, kiosk & signage and many more.
David Gelerman: 2019 was a pivotal year for the industry as a whole and trend will result in acquisitions around ground infrastructure equipment meaningful name that properly represents your Cloud Teleport Services such as Scheduling
for SpaceBridge in particular. The industry started a consolidation trend providers and ISPs to create fully integrated companies that can compete marketplace and to have the domain available and Orchestration. Ideal for starter hubs, new Satellite networking advantages of the two-
whereby competitors are buying each other to have a larger market share. on equal footing with the companies that transformed from equipment for such a name which was another reason for service providers, pay-as-you-grow, new and/ way satellite VSAT networks can provide major
I believe that soon we will see more accretive acquisitions that will involve providers to solution providers by launching their own satellites and also us to go ahead with this. During the last year, or gradual deployments models, SatCloud™ benefits for large-scale Industrial IoT (Internet
18 November 2020 November 2020 19of Things) data networks. VSAT has proven to network of remote VSAT terminals, and routes TDMA or SCPC DVB-S2X access technologies.
be a very reliable and cost-effective technology data to the customer’s central IoT system. It
for collecting and distributing data to/from can set up and run optimal satellite capacity From Low-Bit Rate to Broadband: Deliver a
large numbers of distributed elements from use parameters based on the IoT data traffic range of services – from multi-megabit data
different geographically dispersed locations. requirements with as mentioned 384 bits for Smart Grid or surveillance to low-bit-rates
As a wireless bypass technology, VSATs can granularity per terminal/per any pre-set period for machine-polling — and reduce or optimize
deliver uniform QOS network availability and of time (like 1 sec, 1 min, 1 hour, etc.). It may satellite costs.
managed network performance standards — be co-located with the customer’s IoT system
across multiple countries, or telecoms provider at corporate location, or connected to a data Flexible Architecture: Star, Mesh and SCPC
territories. center, or the Cloud. Point-to-Point network typologies can all be
supported on the same platform, which comes
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dispersed networks of many sites: our VSAT C8000 ASAT™ VSAT terminals connect to “IoT
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up to connect IoT traffic from remote locations customer’s IoT platform or application. Cellular Backhaul (CBH), MNOs segment
that have no telecoms to provide either push to, and the impact of 5G technologies that will
or pull from the Hub. The C8000 ASAT™ terminal is designed revolutionize the market need of much higher
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IOT/M2M low cost VSAT C8000 all-outdoor speeds, the C8000 adds blazing-fast link speeds embarked upon with the adoption of the
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20 November 2020Paradigm’s Swarm950 -
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Type Approved for use on Inmarsat Sell to new customers
with ST Engineering iDirect 950mp
Reduce time to market
Paradigm’s world-leading, rugged carry-on
SWARM950 terminal is now Type Approved
on Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network,
Save OPEX
providing extreme flexibility for high
throughput, secure data services around the
world.
The SWARM950 is powered by the PIM®
providing the user with higher throughputs
as a result of its enhanced power offering.
With its ST Engineering iDirect 950mp
modem, it also offers military grade security
over both the commercial and military
satellite frequencies.
Jon Godfrey, Paradigm’s General Manager
stated: “our SWARM terminal has always
outperformed other hand carry satcom
terminals, now with the highly capable
950mp modem and type approval on
GX it will be impossible to beat for high
throughput and flexibility in every location
around the world”. Mil-Ka capable, higher power BUC creates supports Power over Ethernet devices and
a highly flexible hand carry system which provides a multitude of services to the end
The PIM in the SWARM950 is the brains enables end users to use G2X Land services user - from VLAN setup and management
behind the terminal. It provides network
flexibility and intelligent operation to the
over Global Xpress anywhere in the world,
whilst also accessing their own national
to smart auto-selecting of AC and DC power
interfaces. only until December 31, 2020
user and enables the terminal to achieve the MILSATCOM systems on the same device.
highest possible throughput in any location, With options to switch to other bands on the The SWARM950 will give Military and
as well as having the ability to operate in same easy to use system, this is an extremely Government users operating at multiple
TRANSEC mode and being FIPS 140-2
encryption compliant, as required.
versatile, low SWAP government user
terminal” said James Marley, Sales Director,
locations all over the world the capability to
achieve data, voice and video connectivity -10% in all Beam Budget Licenses
Land Sector, Inmarsat Global Government. at the level they require.
Already recognised as a low SWaP terminal,
the SWARM950 provides full Mil-Ka and Ka-
Band operation and can also operate in either
This flexibility of the SWARM950 is
enhanced even further by the PIM terminal
"It's essential that troops operating in
harsh, challenging environments have
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demand. The PIM950 is lightweight, power-
efficient and industrialised to MIL-STD in
for the modem, baseband switching,
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government demands for mobile, tactical
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device so that any non-skilled user can easily
operate the terminal reducing both training
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22 November 2020 November 2020 23Gilat Telecom enhances SD-WAN system Indosat Ooredoo partners with Huawei to build
to increase capacity across Africa APAC's first SRv6-based 5G-Ready transport network
Gilat Telecom has announced significant "Our SD-WAN MAX solution enables
new enhancements to its Software-Defined MNOs, ISPs and enterprises across
Wide Area Network (SD-WAN MAX). Africa to achieve more capacity from less
hardware and software. The integration
This will benefit African operators with fiber of F5's software is one of a number of
and satellite networks that are aiming to improvements we have made in response
markedly increase network availability and to suggestions from our customers and
bandwidth. partners. We are confident that our SD-
WAN MAX is the best available on the
Gilat Telecom is the first company in the market," said Amir Cohen, CTO of Gilat
world to have developed an SD-WAN Telecom.
solution for both satellite and fiber traffic.
Meeting the needs of African MNOs, ISPs
The new SD-WAN enhancements center and Enterprises
around the integration of technology
from F5 that enables complex traffic By improving its SD-WAN MAX system,
management decisions based on client, smart monitors that sample various Gilat Telcom now has more scope than ever
server, or application status. Gilat Telecom network components. Depending on before to specifically address the needs of
is also leveraging F5's event-driven scripting the samples, it is possible to change the African MNOs, ISPs and enterprises. Most
language, which is key to addressing traffic path, save bandwidth, improve MNOs and ISPs in Africa use both satellite
application delivery challenges across any performance, and perform bandwidth and fiber networks to maximise coverage
environment. The integration of F5 makes it control. Additional traffic management and creating asymmetric traffic routes with
even easier for Gilat Telecom to intelligently bandwidth optimisations are driven by AI end-customers receiving traffic over To ensure the fulfilment of both Consumers
manage network traffic, including building and machine-learning algorithms. satellite and sending over fiber. and Enterprises future demands in the
digital era , Indosat Ooredoo has announced
its continued partnership with Huawei
Indonesia as one of its strategic partners
Indosat posts yet another strong quarter, double to build a state-of-the-art, programmable,
5G-ready transport network powered by
digit growth in cellular revenue and EBITDA Segment routing IPv6 (SRv6). Huawei will
deploy the network in the key areas of
In preparing for these future ready services in
Indonesia, Indosat Ooredoo has undergone
delivering Asia Pacific’s first SRv6-based
5G-ready transport network. With this we
Jabodetabek, Surabaya and the rest of East various steps of digital and the transport hope we can bring more value and enhance
Java & Bali, which will be the first commercial network transformation is a key element of our customers experience for digital services
Indosat Ooredoo has announced its YoY. Cellular subscribers reached 60.4 President Director & CEO of Indosat deployment of its kind in Asia Pacific. This this journey. especially for latency sensitive and real time
nine-month performance report, ended million at the end of September 2020, Ooredoo, Ahmad Abdulaziz A. A. Al- enables a simple, scalable, agile and reliable applications”
30 September 2020. Despite COVID-19 an increase of 2.8% YoY with an average Neama, said, “I am extremely happy network available on demand to Enterprises After an in-depth analysis of the existing
challenge and economic situation, the monthly revenue per subscriber (ARPU) to announce that Indosat Ooredoo has and Consumers alike. network and long-term goals, Indosat Andy Ma, CEO of Huawei Indonesia Carrier
company delivered strong financial of IDR 31.7 thousand from previously posted yet another quarter with strong Ooredoo choses to deploy SRv6 IP solution. Business remarks, “Huawei Indonesia has
and operational performance. Indosat IDR 27.8 thousand, and data traffic financial and operational performance. Indosat Ooredoo is an Indonesia’s leading Huawei Indonesia provides the SRv6 been supporting Indosat Ooredoo over
Ooredoo has managed to keep the grew by 54.7% YoY. Despite all the competitive and COVID mobile operator, serving a growing subscriber intelligent routing function which allows for many years, and is especially honor to be
growth momentum intact with double challenges, we have maintained our base who rely on connectivity. With growing deterministic paths and committed latency. able to support Indosat Ooredoo to build
digit growth in cellular Revenue and Growth in subscribers as well as growth momentum and are on track demand for mobile data consumption and 5G-oriented, intelligent SRv6-based IP
EBITDA. ARPU strongly suggests that Indosat with our turnaround strategy. We with the emergence of newer technologies Medhat Elhusseiny, Chief Technology and transport network. Huawei has launched the
Ooredoo’s network investments, digital stay committed to offer best in class like Cloud Computing and Network slicing, Information Officer of Indosat Ooredoo industry's first committed SLA IP solution to
Indosat Ooredoo recorded a solid initiatives and consumer offerings telecommunication services to the this paradigm shift from Indosat Ooredoo commented, “As part of Indosat Ooredoo’s provide premium transmission services for a
performance for the nine months of are delivering favourable results. In people of Indonesia. ensures on-demand network services for its digital transformation journey, addressing wide variety of vertical industries in the 5G
2020 with total revenue increasing 9.2% a market where most operators are customers. This new technology along with our consumers and enterprise customers’ era. The solution has been widely deployed
YoY to IDR20.6 trillion, cellular revenue offering unlimited proposition, Indosat Amidst the current situation, we will Indosat Ooredoo wide fiber optic network increasing demands for cloud computing, IoT in multiple leading operators around the
increasing 12.9% YoY to IDR17 trillion, Ooredoo has managed to maintain continue to put employee health and expansions will enable cloud computing services, on-demand and scalable network world. Huawei anticipates making IP
EBITDA reaching IDR8.5 trillion or growth momentum with improved safety as our top priority and all necessary faster data connectivity with which Indosat requirements, we are excited to partner transport networks even more intelligent
increasing 17% YoY and EBITDA margin network experience and value for measures have been put in place to Ooredoo looks to serve digital communities with Huawei to build Next-Generation through our continued cooperation with
recorded 41.1%, an increase of 2.7 ppt money pricing. support our employees.” in much automated way. Programmable Network Infrastructure by Indosat Ooredoo.”
24 November 2020 November 2020 25proof conduit of digitization and economic
growth; and to recommend policy initiatives
in areas where expedited policy decisions and The region requires
regulatory enablement can positively make
a difference in the proliferation of Fiber-optic accelerated
networks in the region. The Fiber-focused
roundtable will build on recommendations implementation of
already issued to UN Member States by
the ITU, the private sector, and by the UN certain initiatives
Broadband Commission, highlighting the
positive economic impact and fulfillment of that can boost
bandwidth demands posed by emerging digital
communications technologies in countries with up the region's
low Fiber penetration.
socio-economic
Similarly, the second SAMENA Accelerator
roundtable, focused on "Accelerating a transformation
Sustainable Digital Economy", to be held later in
November, will drive inspiration from and build through digitization.
on the key messages and decisions expressed
Bocar BA, CEO & Board Member of SAMENA Council
in the Declaration of the G20 Digital Economy
Ministers Meeting of July 2020; including the
fact that digital technologies must be harnessed deployment as a guarantor of future digital roundtables, to assist in the region's policy-
to realize opportunities of the 21st century communication advancements and reliability, making efforts."
and which will drive future digital economic
SAMENA Council to hold
for all and that it is highly important that the
region's digital economy and policy-making growth, foster digital ecosystems, and support Huawei Middle East's President, Charles
sustain progress on the implementation and new opportunities for nations and their citizens Yang, has commented, “Huawei envisions
fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable in their personal and societal strides. an intelligent, fully connected digital world,
Public-Private Policy Roundtables Development. Recognizing the criticality of where nations and citizens prosper. We support
universal, secure, and affordable connectivity, Bocar BA, CEO and Board Member of SAMENA strategic approaches and innovation-driven
for which expansion of ICT infrastructure is Council, expressing his views on continuing frameworks that can help develop the world’s
a pre-requisite and the fundamental enabler to bring Public and Private sector decision- digital economies. Policy and regulatory
of development of the digital economy, the makers on the SAMENA Council's platform to transformation required to achieve progress on
"SAMENA Accelerator" Series of Stakeholder Meetings to Contribute Recommendations prevailing policy-level consensus among the participate in the subject-specific policy-level global digital fronts, aligned with internationally
region's policymakers underpins the need roundtables, has stated that "These SAMENA agreed digital development goals suited to
on Accelerating Fiber Deployment and Sustainable Digital Economy in the Region for developing frameworks that can help Digital Economy Policy Accelerator roundtables each country’s nation-building visions, must
accelerate and measure the digital economy. are the next step in SAMENA Council's first focus on expediting the development
Teletimes Report To this effect, the SAMENA Council and Huawei advocacy efforts to conjoin knowledge- of reliable and resilient communications
collaborated roundtable on Digital Economy exchange with practical methods to accelerate infrastructure, which serve as the cornerstone
will help identify key initiatives that can be the region's digital economy, and Fiber of our connected and digital economy. The
SAMENA Telecommunications Council has taken immediately to accelerate progress on infrastructure is proving to be fundamental Middle East region inevitably requires fiber-
to this aspiration. Digital transformation, based networks, which will not only boost its
announced that, with the collaboration
of Huawei Technologies Middle East, a "Huawei Middle digital development in a digitally inclusive
manner, thus providing regional policymakers enabled by mobility, cloud and broadband socio-economic development and build the
technologies, including Fiber-optic, is taking knowledge based digital economy, but will also
series of Public and Private sector policy-
level roundtables will be held with industry East's President, and regulatory authorities the confidence
that the Private sector is fully ready to play its place in almost every industry, reinforcing help make it sustainable.”
the need for us to re-think ICT infrastructure
stakeholders during the month of November,
focused on addressing issues and requirements Charles Yang, part in fulfilling the global goal of Universal
Digital Access and in furthering the Connect development and ICT policies, which should The SAMENA Accelerator series of action-
be aligned well with national economic visions oriented stakeholder meetings are similar
for increased fiber deployment in the region
and to assist policymakers in accelerating a has commented, 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda of the
United Nations. as much as they should be with sustainability in their approach to the SAMENA Leaders'
“Huawei envisions
sustainable digital economy. of investment within the Industry. The region Roundtable (SALT). While the SALT follows
In the wake of accelerated 5G developments requires accelerated implementation of certain the Chatham House rules of communication
The first one-day, by-invitation-only SAMENA
Accelerator roundtable on building "Fiber-optic an intelligent, fully and given the anticipated role 5G may play in
advancing other industries and new growth
initiatives that can boost up the region's socio-
economic transformation through digitization.
and information-sharing and is intended only
for the leadership of Regulatory Authorities
Connectivity Corridors for Digital Economy",
to be held on November 19, 2020, will bring connected digital streams, thereby catalyzing new economic
development opportunities across established
These roundtables are a product of visions and
priorities that SAMENA Council's Membership
and Private Sector CEOs, the SAMENA
Accelerator roundtables are open to all tiers of
together ICT policy and regulatory leadership
from within the region and beyond, to discuss world, where nations and nascent market segments, both SAMENA
Council, which serves as a unifying voice
shares with the region's Policymakers and
Regulatory Authorities. We anticipate prolific,
policy decision-making and the wider industry
audience. Participation as speakers in the
the SA-ME-NA region's Fiber deployment
challenges, including a myriad of investment and citizens prosper." for Telecom Operators as well as a sector-
development partner to governments, and
outcome-oriented roadmap for action between
the Private and the Public sectors during the
roundtables, however, is exclusive to invited
speakers only. Senior industry executives
and deployment issues; to build the case for Huawei, which is a leading Technology Provider month of November. SAMENA Council will may approach SAMENA Council to request
Charles Yang - President, Huawei ME
accelerating Fiber deployment as a future- as well as a Member of the Council, view Fiber issue outcome statements, following these participation details.
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