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Exhibit Hall Open
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FIND SOUGHT-AFTER SOLUTIONS - Dozens of new products are unveiled during the SATELLITE Exhibition. Whether its voice, video, data, or all three, the SATELLITE Exhibition showcases the products and solutions you need to ensure your communications are cost-effective, mobile, global and secure.
CONNECT WITH COLLEAGUES - With more than 8,000 in attendance, plus 270 exhibiting companies, you'll see old friends and make new during the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition.
DISCOVER NEW TECHNOLOGY - Get up close and hands on with hundreds of products, new technologies. Comparison shop as you walk the show floor and discover what technology will enhance your business.
Plan your visit to the SATELLITE Exhibition and contact exhibitors before the event here.

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Satellite Broadband: Is Ka-Band the Way to Grow?
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After years of struggles, innovative approaches and challenges, satellite broadband has found its way to market success. A large-capacity Ku/Ka-band satellite is now operating in Asia and, after years of slow growth, we are now hearing the pleasant sounds of "beam saturation" in North America. Spaceway 3 is finally going to do what it was designed to do: broadband for homes and businesses. Innovative and cost-effective user equipment is being shipped all over the world to meet broadband needs of both commercial and government customers.
Have we at last found the right mix of technology and business solutions that have eluded us for quite some time? Can we climb out of the low single-digit market share in this critical part of telecommunications? In this session, leading entrepreneurs and market experts in this critical field will address all aspects of this question.
Moderator: D.K. Sachdev, President, SpaceTel Consultancy LLC Speakers: Michael Caulfield, Vice President, Business Development, Boeing Satellite Systems John Celli, President & COO, Space Systems/Loral Paul Gaske, EVP and GM, North American Division, Hughes Philippe Saint-Aubert, SVP, Sales and Marketing, Astrium Erwin Hudson, EVP & CTO, WildBlue Communications Mark Dankberg, Chairman and CEO, ViaSat Blaise Jaeger, Executive Vice President and General Manager Telecom, Thales Alenia Space

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SATELLITE SWOT: Challenges and Opportunities for Satellite-Enabled Communications
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Most industry observers today agree that the outlook for satellite-enabled communications has brightened over the past few years. Industry old-timers counter that the global satellite marketplace has seen its share of business cycles and technology threats. How will satellite define a competitive edge against aggressive terrestrial alternatives? Where will the impulse and the funding come from to keep space-based solutions from increasingly becoming niche solutions? What impact will the continuing emergence of potential global players from China, India, Brazil and other countries have on established businesses? And, finally, what will be the "next big thing" that sustains momentum for satellite-enabled connectivity solutions throughout The Sixth Decade?
Moderator: Jason Bates, Editor, Access Intelligence, LLC, Satellite Group Speakers: David Leonard, CEO, WildBlue Communications Keith Volkert, CEO, SCI Patrick Brant, President and CEO, Lavell Systems, Inc. Robert McIntyre, Chief Technical Officer, Service Provider Group, Cisco/Scientific Atlanta Moorthy Hariharan, CTO, ViaSat, Inc. Denis Curtin, COO, XTAR Stuart Daughtridge, EVP, Commercial Division, Integral Systems Arunas Slekys, VP and GM, Russia and Newly Independent States, Hughes

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