This past year brought a number of positive developments in the ongoing partnership between commercial satellite service providers and our government customers. Perhaps the most exciting was that Intelsat launched and deployed our next-generation high-throughput satellite (HTS) platform, Intelsat EpicNG, which has been in the works for several years. At the same time, an emerging […]
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Addressing Growing Connectivity Demands in Latin America
By Pilar Bonilla, Senior Principal Regional Marketing Manager, Latin America
Alexander Graham Bell was reciting Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” when the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II picked up the receiver of the telephone invented by Bell in the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, the largest world’s fair up to
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A few days before Hurricane Matthew roared into the Caribbean, officials at By Light Professional IT Services in Arlington, VA, heard from the Defense Logistics Agency that the U.S. military might need commercial satellite capacity for relief efforts. By Light is a service-disabled veteran-owned business with a contract to provide the DoD with satellite communications
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Media Sector Stretches in 2017 as it Looks to Become All Things to All Viewers
Peter Ostapiuk, Head of Media Product Services, Intelsat
The embrace of linear over-the-top (OTT) and time-shifted viewing along with the growing use of mobile devices by end users has been driving change in the media sector for several years. Viewing habits and
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So many of the services we all depend on today are powered by space communications. Just think about it – bank ATMs and gas stations, air traffic safety, smartphones and GPS just to name a few. Without space the world economy, in many ways, turns back half a century in time.
For some time now, we
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Telecom and Media Markets in Africa will embrace the unique opportunity of Mobile growth
By Arsene Sol-Loza, Senior Principal Regional Marketing Manager, Africa
Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market, yet over 300 million of the continent’s 1.13 billion residents still lack access to cell phones and the Internet. The rapid expansion of the mobile
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Jay Yass, Vice President, Business Development
Terrestrial Wi-Fi and cellular networks support just a portion of the grid that will be required to allow fully autonomous vehicles to navigate city streets and highways. Satellites will play an equally important role in delivering secure software updates and other critical information, such as mapping data, needed for the
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Moving Closer to Delivering the Home WiFi Experience to Users on the Move
Mark Richman, Director, Product Management, Mobility
The mobility sector remains one of the most dynamic and growing opportunities for broadband providers, driven by the demand that end users want to remain connected at all times. As maritime operators and their crews and cruise line
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Late last year Northern Sky Research released the 13th edition of its Government and Military Satellite Communications report. This annual report is the longest-running on the government & military satellite communications market, providing a much anticipated view of the drivers, regional trends, and capacity demands of the market through 2024.
NSR Senior Analyst Brad Grady spoke
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By Melvyn Chen, Marketing
In the opening chapter of Steven Levy’s book, “In the Plex – How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives,” he writes about joining a team of Google associate product managers (APM), a select group pegged as the company’s future leaders, on a trip to a remote village in India. There was
The SatCom Frontier editorial team and everyone at Intelsat General Corp. would like to take this opportunity to send our best wishes for the Holiday Season to our online readers and visitors. You have been a large part of our success in 2016.
A special thanks and best wishes also goes to America’s military. At any
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Some of the top articles of 2016 reveal shifts across the satellite sector
In 2016, High Throughput Satellite (HTS) fleets moved from the drawing board to reality, as Inmarsat and Intelsat ramp up services on new platforms that bring unprecedented capabilities to satellite users. It is clear, based upon the early results that the satellite sector
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Satellite communications have never been more vital to the security of the United States, or under such assault. Recent increases in aggressive and targeted interference have put the continuous connectivity of U.S. government satellite communications in question.
NBC News recently ran a story that called space the “next cybersecurity battlefield.” In the story, the network references
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By Nick Dowsett, Director, IntelsatOne Managed Solutions
Several of my colleagues and I have just returned from the recent AfricaCom conference in South Africa, where we witnessed a lot of talk and excitement about how Intelsat’s new generation of high-performance satellites, Intelsat Epic, is going to help open up markets that previously couldn’t be served in
For Africa, Offering Innovation in the Sky and on the Ground Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense continues to look to the private sector for ways to encourage innovation. This is a welcome initiative that we have commented on previously, and we applaud the leadership of Defense Secretary Ash Carter in this area.
Earlier this month, Defense One reported on recommendations from the Defense Innovation Board, made up
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By Ruben Marentes, Director, Intelsat Network Operations Center
When all is going smoothly, the job of making sure Intelsat customers are able to transmit and receive voice, video and data through our global satellite and ground network doesn’t draw much attention. Thinking about it probably conjures an image of Intelsat engineers sipping coffee as they
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Antony Allen Vraa sounded the alarm for a shortfall in bandwidth needed for the U.S. military, then added why the alarm can’t be answered any time soon. Vraa, wideband satellite communications subject matter expert for the Joint Staff J6, which serves the Chairman in the development of C4 capability requirements, outlined the growing need at
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Like sentries, satellites never sleep. Commercial satellites are always ready to support the soldier, the pilot, the seaman with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as Global Positioning System data to paint a picture of the enemy and of assets available to defeat it.
“You can use space to find targets, analyze movement and do all
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When John Raymond left Air Force Space Command for a new assignment in 2010, he was a one-star general leaving behind a relatively stable strategic environment. Space capabilities at the time were focused on technologies that could support the warfighter on Earth. Space itself was not viewed as a potential battlefield in its own right.
On
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By Annemarie Meijer
A decade ago, the International Telecommunications Union set an ambitious goal of having all of Africa’s broadcast companies converted to digital terrestrial television by mid-2015. Digital broadcasting uses less spectrum than analog signals, and the ITU intended that the conversion would free up spectrum for other applications.
Well, the target date came and went
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