Northern Sky Research (NSR) is an international market research and consulting firm specializing in satellite and wireless technology and applications. NSR’s primary areas of expertise include emerging technology, IP applications, and video services. With extensive expertise in all regions and a number of user segments, NSR is a leading provider of in-depth market insights and analyses.
NSR Research Report: Advanced Satellite Coding and Modulation, 2nd Edition: Assessing Implementation Schedules for Advanced Video Compression, Satellite Coding and Modulation
Advanced coding and modulation technologies, often used in various combinations, offer a quantum-leap in efficiency that brings structural changes to the ground segment business of most satellite-delivered applications. Satellite sectors and applications that benefit from advanced modulation and/or video compression include DTH, video distribution and contribution, satellite broadband and IP trunking/backhaul, HITS, digital cinema distribution and SCPC.
NSR Research Report: Aeronautical Satellite Services: Analyzing the Market Opportunity for Passenger Jets and Business Aviation
With a growing number of passengers transported, with more and longer routes flown, airlines are looking at improving the flight experience of its ever-demanding customers. Building on a successful deployment for crew communications and business jet customers, players in the market are eyeing with glee the captive audience of over 2 billion passengers flying around the world as a source of additional revenues from a growing offering of in-flight entertainment services that overtook the corporate magazine era.
NSR Research Report: Broadband Satellite Markets, 8th Edition - A Worldwide Analysis of Industry Trends and Market Forecasts from 2008 to 2018
Satellite broadband services grew solidly in 2008 following a very strong year in 2007. Broadband VSAT networking applications for both corporate and government clients made steady gains, and single site satellite broadband Internet access services continued to demonstrate their viability in North America, Australia and Europe. It is no surprise that broadband trunking services remain under pressure in many markets, yet wireless backhaul, notably for cellular networks, saw another excellent year.
NSR Research Report: China Satellite Markets - Assessment of Commercial Satellite Transponder Demand in China, Hong Kong and Macau from 2007-2013
The "Middle Kingdom" has long attracted the satellite industry with a set a demographics that seems to make it an ideal market: large and diverse landmass, enormous population with substantial ethnic and linguistic diversity, a fast growing middle class, rapidly rising penetration of pay television and broadband services, and a government actively seeking to "bridge the digital divide" between the relatively wealthy eastern half of the country and the economically disadvantaged rural, western regions.
NSR Research Report: Direct-to-Home (DTH) Satellite Services: An Analysis of Ten Emering DTH Markets
Pay-TV services globally have exhibited tremendous growth over the past two decades, particularly in developed country markets. Driven by economic growth and increasing levels of disposable income, households of the world's economic elite have opted for cable TV, DTH and other emerging platforms such as IPTV as a basic feature of consumption for household entertainment.
NSR Research Report: Global Assessment of Satellite Demand, 5th Edition - A Region-Specific Supply and Demand Analysis of the Commercial Geostationary Satellite Transponder Market for 2007-2017
A Market in Expansion, but What Does the Future Hold?
The year 2007 and through mid-2008 were very strong for the commercial satellite industry with solid transponder sales, increasing fill rates and marked improvements in several regional markets that had been notably weak in the past. Yet how the commercial satellite sector will weather the current global economic crisis is far from sure. NSR continues to closely track developments in every commercial market from the main engines of the industry like video distribution and Direct-To-Home to emerging and quickly developing segments like consumer-class satellite broadband services, cellular backhaul, maritime and other mobile services. Using this large and detailed base of market research, NSR has once again assembled all the diverse elements and trends in transponder supply and demand for the commercial satellite market into its comprehensive and industry-leading "Global Assessment of Satellite Demand" study.
NSR Research Report: Global SCADA and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) via Satellite Markets
By their very nature, Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services are largely recession-proof. Specific verticals that include the oil & gas industry, the utility industry and the transportation/cargo industries need to track and control critical assets as part of daily business operations regardless of the economic climate.
NSR Research Report: Government and Military Demand on Commercial Satellites 5th Edition
In 2008 Pentagon leaders disclosed that non-traditional conflicts such as the insurgents and terrorists facing coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan will be the main military battlefields for years to come. In an annual review that grades the U.S. Military's ability to meet the demands of the nation's military strategy, a classified Pentagon assessment concluded that the U.S. Military is prevented from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis such as potential outbreaks in North Korea, Iran, Lebanon or China.
NSR Research Report: Indian Satellite Markets - An Evaluation of Growth Prospects from 2007-2013
Heralded as the third largest economy in the world, it is easy to see why India is an international investment destination. The first widespread distribution of television over satellite began the famous Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) in 1975-76. Thirty three years hence, India has a home-grown INSAT satellite system with over two hundred transponders, GEO and polar orbit launching capability, nearly five million DTH homes and almost a hundred thousand VSAT sites in an environment that continues to grow at over eight percent per annum.
NSR Research Report: IPTV via Satellite: 2nd Edition
The emerging IPTV industry is in rapid evolution as telcos explore the real promise beyond "me-too" TV offerings. Satellites' proven broadcast economics combined with the virtualization possibilities of IP is a powerful enabler for IPTV. Players at all levels in the distribution chain realize the advantages of cooperation through open models that unleash innovation beyond the boundaries of each player's payrolls. [...]
NSR Research Report: Mobile TV and Mobile Video, 2nd Edition: A Complete 360-degree Analysis
While voice, messaging, music and Internet are increasingly adopted across both fixed and mobile contexts, television remains the last of the classic entertainment/communication consumer applications yet to make the jump from fixed to mobile in a big way. Not surprisingly, mobile television (MoTV) is considered "The Next Killer App" in mobile, after music.
NSR Research Report: WiMAX - Opportunity or Threat for Satellite Communications?
WiMAX is poised to become the key enabler of nomadic/mobile enterprise applications to ultimately foster anytime, anywhere digital lifestyles for consumers as well. Given ongoing progress in mobile WiMAX certifications, Intel's push and Sprint's multi-billion network build out acting as a catalyst, 2007 is considered an inflexion-point year toward accelerating widespread build out of mobile WiMAX networks. [...]
NSR Research Report: Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 2nd Edition - Assessing Cellular and Data / IP Networks Worldwide
Of the globe's 6.68 billion people, 3.3 billion (or 49.4%) of the world's population now have a mobile phone compared to 1.3 billion fixed line phones. In many countries, mobile phones far outnumber landline subscribers, and the gap is expected to widen over time. In fact, fixed landlines are also being replaced by "fixed" wireless units that have the ability to roam within a service provider's footprint, further increasing the proposition for wireless technology.
