Industry execs at the SATELLITE 2017 panel “Maritime Focus: Which Technologies Will Lead the Way in the New Mobile Maritime Era” offered a variety of takes on where the maritime satellite industry stands and what companies should consider moving forward.
Inmarsat Senior Vice President Drew Brandy said: “Where we see the industry going over the next few years is the area of application development and bringing these applications together with bandwidth to deliver something unique and effective, creating a new maritime ecosystem.”
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Marlink Chief Marketing Officer Ghani Behloul said his company focuses on working directly with customers on-site globally, including putting team members aboard ships, to help improve crew management.
Intelsat Director of Mobility Product Management Mark Richman said his company is moving forward “aggressively” with the rollout of HTS. “We’ve got three or four more launches to go and by the end of 2018 our constellation will be up and complete and in service.”
Kymeta Vice President Håkan Olsson described Kalo, a partnership with Intelsat, as “a global service that’s going to be available the third quarter this year based on data plans.”
Andrew Smith, director for Applied Satellite Technology, said: “More bandwidth isn’t going to solve every problem. That bandwidth needs to be efficient and that cost needs to be kept down.”
Richman concluded: “The company that can bring that all together and be able to demonstrate that there’s a real return on that investment, real dollars and cents savings and quantify that and tell that story … that would be transformational.” VS
