Advanced Technologies: Hardware And Management For Tomorrow's Applications
With advanced services growing in demand, next-generation hardware and management tools are entering the market, making it possible for users to achieve their business goals. From broadcasting and program management to corporate communications and network operations, today's advanced equipment is propelling revenue growth for global users. This panel of hardware service providers will discussed the latest technologies out on the market and the benefits they bring to communications transmissions.
Africa Roundtable: Connecting The Continent With Satellite Solutions
Even though political instability and economic challenges continue on the continent, Africa will always be a prime player for satellite services. The panel of experts shared the various applications and business successes afforded by Africa to the global satellite community, along with showcasing where more growth opportunities still remain.
For several years, Africa has accounted for the highest regional growth in satellite communications revenue for the largest operators in the world. But it's difficult business. This session will demonstrate how communications companies are exploiting market opportunities by combining satellite technology with cable, fiber, GSM, WiFi and other complementary systems.
Asia-Pacific Business Roundtable: Emerging Stronger Than Ever For Satellite Business
Even though satellite operators in Asia-Pacific continue to face challenges as they battle for market share, this region is increasing in its importance for satellite connectivity. From dramatic regulatory strides out of India, new broadband business opportunities underway in southeast Asia to data and programming business ventures in China with the pending 2008 Summer Olympic Games, all eyes are focused on the Far East.
One of the world's largest regional deployments of broadband satellite services is underway in Asia. Deregulation is creating valuable new market opportunities, and satellite telecom and broadcasting links with other regions continue to grow. What was once an emerging region is now a pace-setter for the rest of the world. Hear progress reports from the top players in this session.
Broadband Connectivity: From The Skies To The Seas
New mobile VSAT solutions are now creating the opportunity for airlines and cruise ships to radically improve their communications and entertainment services for passengers. High speed Internet access is already available and will soon be joined by live television and cell phone coverage anywhere on the planet. Though Connexion-by-Boeing has attracted the most attention, there are a host of other competing solutions. This panel of experts discussed which applications will become the most important revenue generators and help you decide who has the best business case.
New technologies and service strategies are enabling a host of broadband services to consumers worldwide. This panel discussed how markets and technologies are being addressed by traditional and new service providers.
Europe: Expanded Opportunities And Increased Consumer Demand
From DTH and pay-TV programming to consumer broadband services, Europe, both eastern and western, is increasing its demand for such satellite-enabled platforms. The panel shared insights regarding the communication applications that are in demand, where the new business is and what is needed to capitalize on this expanding market.
General Session: Mobile Satellite Services: MSS Industry Leaders Stake Their Claims
MSS operators in 2008 will have to deliver on their promises of innovative new capabilities which can address a much wider market than the niches MSS has served to date. With the launch of ICO and TerreStar's new satellites, we will see whether ATC really is the magic bullet that has attracted so much attention on Wall Street. Virtually all players need to raise more financing to fund their business plans. Will the markets cooperate, or is the cycle of bankruptcies we saw in late 1990s doomed to repeat itself? Hear what the CEOs have to say about their plans, and why they believe in the future of MSS.
The enterprise market can seem like El Dorado - the fabled city of gold that lies beyond the horizon. According to WTA's Teleport Benchmarks survey of satellite service providers, the enterprise market provides 10-12% of service revenues to the average company, yet, that percentage has changed little over the past decade, despite the fact that enterprise networking has grown. In this session, satellite technology and service experts discuss the challenges, technology changes and new opportunities to take a greater share of enterprise networking business.
How Fast is Too Fast? Betting the Ranch on Technology Adoption
Communications is a business driven by technology change. But technology adoption is a double-edged sword. Demand for HDTV is booming on the one hand -- but the terrestrial Internet is fast becoming a serious player in low-definition and even standard video. IPTV is growing fast as a new distribution channel and a technology upgrade for cable systems -- but the dominant IPTV providers tend toward fiber for program contribution and distribution. Digital signage and digital cinema look like attractive new markets -- but when will adoption reach a meaningful level? And if that weren't enough, game-changing satellite technology looks poised to drastically increase capacity in the sky, with unpredictable consequences for pricing and demand. In this panel, service providers and technologists debate the push-and-pull of technology adoption and offer their forecasts for change.
How IP Will Challenge Your Business Model - and Open Up New Opportunities
As data protocols converge on the IP standard, and digitization and compression make it feasible to transmit just about anything in IP packets, customers are gaining the benefits of bandwidth savings, a fast-expanding set of applications, and the ability to run all their traffic on one network. Good news for them - but often a severe challenge to the service provider's business model. In this roundtable discussion, expert practitioners provided updates on the current state of the art and how it is affecting the commercial service provider.
Ka-band applications continue to grow and smart, concise business plans have emerged. Who is supplying Ka-band services, how far along are the services, and which regions are offering the best business opportunities?
For many years, Ka-band was touted as the answer to a perceived shortage in satellite frequencies, a situation that led operators to hoard orbital slots and devise unique methods of obtaining traditional FSS and BSS space in the orbital arc. Despite technical experts, warnings of intense rainfade issues and other technological hurdles that needed to be overcome to put this frequency into use, the satellite industry adopted the Ka-band as the logical solution to its FSS and DBS frequency shortage. But in the wake of financial turmoil and industry change, what has happened to the broadband Ka-band players we heard so much about in the past? Who is supplying Ka-band services, how far along are the services, who is using them, how is the regulatory process proceeding, how is the technology working in the field, and what can we expect to see in the coming years? These are only some of the questions that were examined during this panel of Ka-band players and experts.
Latin America Roundtable: The Near-Term Business Trends And Developments
Latin America continues to suffer economically. Argentina has yet to recover from its economic crisis, and some satellite operators have taken a great loss during these recent years. Now, all eyes are focused on Brazil and Mexico for leading Latin America back to satellite profitability. Which companies have found these keys to business success? The region's top satellite dealmakers shared their insights and hopes for the future.
Latin America: Near Term Business Trends and Developments
Key Latin American economies are rebounding, and satellite bandwidth prices in the region are currently among the lowest in the world. These two facts are driving a resurgence in demand for satellite-based systems and services in South and Central America and the Caribbean. Attend this session to learn how success is being realized by value-added resellers, carriers, operators, manufacturers and other contenders.
Launch Services Providers Roundtable: The New Buying Strategy
Even though the commercial launch business continues to face its challenges, new launch procurement measures are being put in place both for commercial and military clients. New strategic alliances have formed and new providers are gaining speed. How is this going to impact you, the customer, when it comes to buying a launch vehicle? Top executives outlined the new business plans and share insights as to how they are maintaining customer relations, maintaining the engineering and further enhancing their vehicles as they manage these market changes.
Last year's panel initiated a discussion among satellite builders, system operators and launch providers illuminating the interdependence of these vital segments of the satellite industry. This year's panel will address the challenges of continued industry consolidation, increasing demand and tightening supply, and the always present uncertainties associated with schedule delays, launch and in-orbit failures. Are things getting better, or are they worsening? Come and hear this panel of industry veterans question each other and field questions from the moderator and the audience.
Launch Users and Providers: Continuing the Dialogue
Recent panels initiated a discussion among satellite builders, system operators and launch providers illuminating the interdependence of these vital segments of the satellite industry. This year's panel will continue to address the challenges of industry consolidation, entry of new participants, strong demand, and the uncertainties of delivery delays, launch slips and failures of launches and in-orbit. Who are those most affected by these issues? Come and hear this panel of industry veterans question each other and field questions from the moderator and the audience.
Launch providers tend to believe that they are providing the best possible service and value, while the satellite owners/operators often voice frustration at what they perceive to be high costs and less-than-perfect reliability. Satellite manufacturers are deeply involved as well, sometimes acting as the agent for launch procurement. Equally important to the process is the insurance community, which has a vital interest in the performance of, and interaction among, the players in this area. This session features representatives from all sectors discussing the issues involved in trying to resolve the natural tensions among these competing interests.
Middle East: From Tactical Demand To Commercial Longevity
The Middle East region is thirsting for more satellite bandwidth to provide a wide variety of military and commercial services. From mobile to advanced VSAT technology, this panel of experts discussed why companies that want to play in this market may have to jump through plenty of hoops to establish their businesses, but once they do, the opportunities could be well worth the effort.
Opening General Session: Expanding Market Growth and Driving Applications
Global systems are the backbone of satellite-enabled communications, and the CEOs who run these businesses establish the pace for expansion of market growth and development of new applications. They set priorities and, ultimately, create opportunities. With existing businesses as the base, and massive resources as the trump card, these CEOs approach the challenge of increasing profitability and managing costs in ways that define how satellite will build its share of the global telecommunications marketplace.
Opening General Session: The Leading Initiatives Fueling Business Development
The hallmark session of the SATELLITE 2007 Conference has been retooled and refocused. This year, CEOs from the top global satellite services companies discuss the challenges faced in offering satellite-enabled services to a diverse customer base, debate which applications truly hold revenue value and share insights on what role satellite technology will play in the ever-changing communications industry.
Opportunities for Next-Generation Satellite Networks
Satellite-based networks that do more and cost less - that's the promise of IP-based, next-gen technologies now being deployed in business and government applications. Using the common platform of Internet protocol, leading-edge providers are finding ways to integrate with legacy systems for video, wireline and mobile telephony, data transmission, air-traffic control and other applications in ways that boost capabilities and lower costs. In this wide-ranging discussion, technology and operations experts identify the unexpected opportunities and discuss the obstacles to selling and implementing service.
The SATELLITE 2006 Conference Proceedings CD-Rom includes the audio and PowerPoint presentations from every session in the conference. It also includes a complete exhibitor list with links so you can contact the 240 exhibitors of SATELLITE 2006 directly.
The SATELLITE 2007 Conference Proceedings CD-Rom includes the audio and PowerPoint presentations from every session in the conference. It also includes a complete exhibitor list with links so you can contact the 270 exhibitors of SATELLITE 2007 directly.
The SATELLITE 2008 Conference Proceedings CD-Rom includes the audio and PowerPoint presentations from every session in the conference. It also includes a complete exhibitor list with links so you can contact the 270 exhibitors of SATELLITE 2008 directly.
Satellite Broadband: Finally a Ka-band Competitive Force?
After years of development and a lot of bluster, satellite broadband services are finally a competitive force in the marketplace. The customer base is still small compared to that of alternative media, but the future looks very bright. Several organizations and investors are taking bold steps to increase capability and capacity. Actively searching for and developing niche markets, these players are no longer shy of also taking on entrenched behemoths for market share. Leading executives and entrepreneurs will present in their views, achievements, lessons learned and plans for the future, covering business strategy, financing, technology and system architectures, market growth and opportunities.
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.
Satellite Ground Segment CEO Session: The Terrestrial Connection
The satellite ground segment sector is unquestionably on a growth path, as technical advances, emerging markets and new applications have all served to generate increasing sales for satellite ground segment providers. Broadband satellite networks, enterprise applications and government demand have all fostered growth for ground segment solutions in all regions. In addition, advanced coding and modulation, DVB-S2, MPEG-4 and mesh networks are only a sampling of the technical features now fostering growth. With the industry becoming more entrenched in the broader telecom landscape, where then will growth come from in the next 2-3 years. What technical requirements are driving the business, and how do satellite ground segment providers position themselves in an increasingly hybrid world? This panel of ground segment CEOs will answer these questions and more in this far-reaching session.
Satellite Manufacturer CEOs: The Spacecraft Connection
The global roster of satellite manufacturers continues to grow even as competition tightens and the marketplace warns of a slow-down beginning after 2010. Chief executives of the leading firms in the United States and Europe, divided by fierce competition, may find themselves united in discrete attempts to fend off the market inroads already evident from Russia, China, India. What does the future hold for the historic industry leaders, and how will they meet external challenges while maintaining product lines that deliver value?
Satellite Manufacturers: Payloads Advancing Business Growth
What is the landscape for satellite manufacturers a year removed from the FSS consolidation? How was the business affected? What is the future? Our panel of manufacturers will offer their views in this interactive panel, traditionally one of the conference's most-popular sessions.
Satellite Manufacturing: Keeping Balance as Complexity Increases
Satellite manufacturers are facing an increasingly complex marketplace. There are changing balances between commercial, military, and civil/scientific customers as well as between geostationary and non-geostationary systems. New technologies and suppliers are emerging around the world. New economic realities are forcing realignments among companies to meet business as well as regulatory challenges. Chief executives from the major manufacturers face off in a free-wheeling discussion of how they individually and the satellite industry as a whole can best evolve to accommodate the shifting market, add value to customers, and make a profit.
Satellite Market Statistics: The Numbers Speak Volumes
This session will present data to show trends for development in satellite communications, including use of transponders, growth of demand for various services, the actual fraction of transponders in revenue producing service, and numbers of subscribers to various MSS systems, DARS, DBS, broadband, and other applications. New data collected specifically for presentation at SATELLITE 2008 will be interpreted, and benchmarks will be set.
SATELLITE SWOT: New Opportunities, New Risks, New Technologies in Turbulent Times
Innovation has always been a hallmark of the global satellite-enabled marketplace, with new technologies contributing to smaller packages and lower equipment costs, creative use and re-use of spectrum to expand services without requiring additional allocations, the introduction of viable applications for an expanding array of frequency options. At the same time, service providers have decried rising launch and spacecraft costs in an era of constrained budgets and customer cost-cutting. How will satellite continue to demarcate its top markets and services? Will turbulent economic times dictate a return to basics and a suspension of innovation as the marketplace rides the current downturn? Are other technologies or architectures poised to slice away portions of the satellite pie? And will industry leaders have the resources to continue the cycle of innovation that has characterized the satellite-enabled marketplace for more than four decades?
SATELLITE SWOT: Challenges and Opportunities for Satellite-Enabled Communications
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?
Terrestrial Partnerships: New Business Opportunities for Satellite
As terrestrial telecommunications operators search for the 'triple play' of voice, data and video broadband Internet Protocol-based service, satellite providers may provide the unique partnering solutions. What opportunities exist for terrestrial telecommunications-satellite partnerships, and should they take the form of commercial agreements, business combinations or joint ventures? Representatives of both sectors will discuss the possibilities.
The chief executives at the top of the global satellite-enabled marketplace set the pace for industry innovation, new services, complex orbital architectures, and day-to-day operations. As 2009 approaches, some key bets have to be made. How much will rising spacecraft and launch costs affect the business case? Has HDTV really, finally, arrived, and what does it mean? What are the demand factors for satellite communications as fill rates in many locations and on many spacecraft reach or exceed 80 percent? And is there a danger that the exuberance many in the industry feel will not be sustained in this climate of economic uncertainty and restraint?
The Global Operators Roundtable: The New Face Of The Industry
Now under new ownership, stronger business models are solidifying within the FSS industry. Likewise, new mergers among these players have changed the landscape and service offerings. In addition, new customers are surfacing, more regions want complex applications and more hybrid solutions are materializing to provide complete services to customers. The executives of the top global satellite operators shared insights into how traditional FSS business is serving clients in new innovative ways.
The ITAR and COMSATs: Where Are We Today, and Where Might We Go
There is no question that the U.S. Department of State's export control jurisdiction over COMSATs has had a negative impact on the U.S. COMSAT industry. Recognizing the reality that the ITAR is 'the law,' with respect to export controls governing COMSATs, how can both U.S. and foreign companies most effectively work with the ITAR and the State Department licensing system? What changes could realistically be made to the ITAR and/or the State Department licensing process that would accommodate the fast pace of international COMSAT procurements? Hear a lively panel discussion of these and related issues.
The Markets You Can't Miss: Where Satellite Service Companies Will Place Their Bets in the Next Five Years
The mix of business on the world's satellite networks continues to change. TV and radio contribution and distribution still lead but by an ever-shrinking margin, with enterprise and government managed networks, mobile phone backhaul and non-broadcast content distribution coming up fast. Satellite service providers are counting on new lines of business and new markets to create tomorrow's new growth. What will be the most important new geographic, industry or application markets to watch in the next five years? This panel of visionary executives will share their views on where to place your bets.
The Middle East: Commercial, Government and Enterprise Opportunities
Development of cutting-edge satellite technology continues to drive demand for new interactive satellite services throughout the Middle East. Availability of these solutions is facilitating the emergence of indigenous satcom suppliers, as well as earnest buyers. Learn from front-line experts how, when and where contracts are being signed in the Middle East.
The New Hybrid Opportunity: Terrestrial Mobile and Satellite
Research by WTA shows that satellite service providers are making mobile telephone backhaul one of their top priorities for business development. From an installed base of practically zero five years ago, satellite has accelerated into the mainstream when it comes to extending terrestrial mobile and wireless services into low-density and geographically remote markets. Increasingly, satellite-based networks are also providing overlays to operating networks where they can cost-effectively introduce advanced services that contribute to the carrier's top line. What technology improvements and market have opened this line of business, and how are satellite service providers getting into an unfamiliar market and delivering value? This panel of next-generation operators describes the opportunities in the market, the technology challenges and the factors powering their success.
The Regionals' Roundtable: Smaller Players Offer Innovation
As they expand the size of their fleets through consolidation, global satellite operators are getting bigger, as well as grabbing world headlines. But dozens of smaller operators are still in business in every region of the world. Not only have many of these regional players created a legacy of longstanding service among a loyal customer base, but they are offering some of the most innovative services in today's market. This panel of high-level executives of established and new regional operators discussed the changes and opportunities on the horizon.
The Satellite Manufacturers Roundtable: Paying Attention To Detail
Amidst declining sales, technical troubles, and shrinking margins, the major global satellite manufacturers continue to battle for customers. In addition, each company is providing unique strategies to keep engineers from losing their touch. What are they doing to improve the reliability of their offerings? What stumbling blocks do they still face? This panel of manufacturers offered their views in this interactive panel, traditionally one of the conference's most-popular plenary sessions.
The Top Five New Satellite Service Markets Of The Next Five Years
Like the mass TV audience it serves, the broadcast, cable and DTH sector is slowing eroding as the dominant application on the world's satellite networks. New lines of business, some still in the formative stages, are rising to take advantage of the inherent strengths of satellite distribution and communications. What will be the five most important new markets to watch in the next five years? This panel of visionary executives - drawn from past winners of WTA's Teleport Awards for Excellence -shared their views on where to place your bets.
The Top Five New Satellite Service Markets Of The Next Five Years
Like the mass TV audience it serves, the broadcast, cable and Direct-to-Home sector is slowly eroding as the dominant application on the world's satellite networks. New lines of business, some still in the formative stages, are rising to take advantage of the inherent strengths of satellite distribution and communications. What will be the five most important new markets to watch in the next five years? This panel of visionary executives-drawn from past winners of WTA's Teleport Awards for Excellence-will share their views on where to place your bets.
