August 2006

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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity via Satellite

Format

PDF on CD-Rom

Description

Lessons learned from natural or man-made disasters have highlighted the need to include satellites as a requirement in the recovery equation. Major disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the Asian Tsunami have also influenced businesses to plan for continuity of operations through redundant solutions. For many customers, these markets are akin to an insurance policy: customers commit funding for a system or service they may not use. Yet, when inevitable network failures and disasters do occur, quick action to implement alternative solutions is of the utmost importance to help minimize losses, save lives and avoid business disruption.

Players in this space see a natural fit for satellites to help businesses and governments secure the links they need to recover quickly and offer redundant communication lines. For both disaster recovery and business continuity, the uptake depends heavily on how well ahead customers plan, if they plan at all. Unfortunately for most businesses, the top priority is often an increase in IT capabilities to sustain growth rather than a plan of action for a backup satellite link in periods of outage. For governments, only sustained public pressure brings the funding and regulatory will to place satellite products and services in the hands of emergency response teams.

Nonetheless, more organizations are anticipating their needs for a variety of emergency situations in order to keep communication alive with employees, suppliers, clients, media and citizens. They are now estimating the potential loss of business from network downtime and evaluating what redundant, reliable, and ubiquitous continuity assistance plans they should implement.

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the emerging satellite-based disaster recovery and business continuity market and analyzes the growth potential for backup and redundant solutions delivered via satellite. Both fixed and mobile satellite services are among the key means to enabling disaster recovery and business continuity services, as they provide an "always-on" network redundancy capability. This report assesses the drivers behind this market, the projected satellite bandwidth and equipment sales, vertical segments driving growth, types of available satellite solutions, and applications and system requirements for satellite-based disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Primary questions that will be addressed in this report include:

• What are the drivers in alternative telecommunications systems in times of disasters or network outages?
• What level of satellite equipment and bandwidth uptake will emerge in these markets?
• Which vertical segments are most likely to be leading markets for satellite players?
• Which customer segments are time- or cost-sensitive to network downtime?
• What types of satellite solutions are offered for disaster recovery and business continuity?
• What are the applications and systems requirements for redundant satellite systems?

• Market Definitions and Overview
• Review of Solutions/Players
  • Narrowband and Broadband Mobile Services
  • VSAT Services
  • Transponder Leases for Fixed Satellite Services
• Requirements by Vertical Segments
  • Enterprise
  • Civilian/Government
  • Military/Defense
• Market Assessment and Forecasts
  • Service Revenues
  • Transponder Demand

Table Of Contents

Executive Summary

1. Market Overview and Trends
   1.1 Disaster Recovery
      1.1.1 Definition
      1.1.2 Context, Trends and Issues
   1.2 Business Continuity
      1.2.1 Definition
      1.2.2 Context, Trends and Issues

2. Satellites for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
   2.1 Value Proposition of Satellites
   2.2 Satellite Players and Strategy
      2.2.1 Disaster Recovery
      2.2.2 Business Continuity
   2.3 Satellite Solutions, by Segment
      2.3.1 Narrowband Mobile Services
      2.3.2 Broadband Mobile Services
      2.3.3 VSAT Services
      2.3.4 Transponder Leases for Fixed and Mobile Satellite Services

3. Market Segments and Business Models
   3.1 Enterprise and Commercial
      3.1.1 Demand Drivers
      3.1.2 Requirements
      3.1.3 Core Verticals
      3.1.4 Regional Demand
   3.2 Government and Civilian
      3.2.1 Demand Drivers
      3.2.2 Requirements
      3.2.3 Core Verticals
      3.2.4 Regional Demand
   3.3 Military and Defense
      3.3.1 Demand Drivers
      3.3.2 Requirements
      3.3.3 Regional Demand
   3.4 Business Model Review
      3.4.1 Inventory Management
      3.4.2 Pre-Positioned and Planned Procurement
      3.4.3 Add-on Services

4. Market Forecasts
   4.1 Transponder (TPE) Demand
      4.1.1 Scope
      4.1.2 Regional Totals
   4.2 Equipment and Services
      4.2.1 Disaster Recovery Narrowband Solutions
      4.2.2 Disaster Recovery Broadband Solutions
      4.2.3 Business Continuity Broadband Solutions
   4.3 Application Totals

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