Enterprise-Class HTS Services to Account for Over 180 Gbps of Capacity Demand & US$2.0 Bil. in Revenues by 2022
by Martin Jarrold
London, UK, December 2, 2013--The subjects of the oil & gas vertical market and that of High Throughput Satellites are rarely outside the scope of anyone connected with the development and delivery of satellite-based communications solutions these days. Indeed, as you read this column – during, I believe, the first week of December – one of the latest of the GVF-EMP Conference Partnership events covering the first of these subjects has already been successfully concluded, and another, covering the later subject, will be very nearly, or even actually, underway.
Now featuring in the archives of the Partnership are a series of downloadable presentations which were delivered during the GVF Oil & Gas Communications South East Asia 2013 Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur in mid-November, an event which has been widely praised as one of the most successful in the seven-year history of the GVF’s Oil & Gas Communications Series. These presentations covered a range of key satellite/oil & gas themes, including:
In the Analyst’s View: Future Evolution of Oil & Gas Patch Communications – Trends in the Asian Sphere
Stephane Chenard, Senior Analyst, Euroconsult
The Morning ‘Big Data’ Panel
Cutting-Edge Communications for Digital Oil & Gas: High Throughput Satellite
Ayyengar Venkata Desikan Ranganathan, Director of Systems Engineering, iDirect Asia
Vaibhav Magow, Regional Director, Asia-Pacific, Hughes
Terry Bleakley, Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales, Intelsat
O&G Critical Communications: Insights from Real World Case Studies in the Asia-Pacific
Simon Burmester, Head of Sales, Oil & Gas, SpeedCast
Cyber Security and Satellite Networks Use for Data Collection
Frank Ganaden, Chief Engineer, Mobile Satellite Services, ViaSat
The Afternoon ‘Big Data’ Panel
Networking Solution Innovations for Cloud-over-Satellite in E&P
Alexander Jeuck, Vice President, Sales, Asia Pacific, ND SatCom
Clement Larroque, Managing Director, Echelon SatNet
Satellite Operators in the Asian Oil & Gas Patch: Bandwidth & Footprint Planning & Provision
Rick Abbasi, Senior Product Marketing Director, Network Services & Regional CSE Director, Asia Pacific, Intelsat
Oil, Gas & Communications Spectrum: Interference Challenges & Challenging Interference
Christopher Sivertz, Managing Director, S2C2 SATCOM Thailand & Chief, GVF Training South East Asia
Comparative Portfolios of Satellite Services for the Oil & Gas Industry
John Meyers, Director, Sales & Technical Marketing, Spacenet Thailand
Oil & Gas: The Remote Application of Auto-Deploy Antenna Technology for Measurement While Drilling & Other Real-Time Down-Hole Services in the Digital Oilfield
Jonathan Lee, Director of Sales, Asia-Pacific, C-COM Satellite Systems
Evolving Commercial Oil & Gas Applications in the Offshore Communications Environment
Charlie Ransford, Business Development, South East Asia, Marlink
The Asian Digital Oilfield in Real-Time: Data Monitoring & Management, Remote Collaboration & Operations Support Centers
Lewis Yim, Service Delivery Manager for Eastern Hemisphere, Baker Hughes BEACON
Bandwidth for Digital Oilfields: How Much is Enough? – Maximizing your Space Segment
Mohd Faizal Zainal Amri, General Manager, Hermes Datacomms Malaysia
O&G Communications Solutions: Current Services & Hardware Solutions Trends
Stephan Romer Jørgensen, Director, Sales & Marketing, Asia Pacific, Cobham SATCOM
Oil & Gas Communications: Implementation of a High Speed Satellite Network
Timothy Ye, Business Development Manager, ITC Global (Australia)
Strategic Satellite Spectrum Defense for Oil & Gas Big Data
Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Program Development, GVF
The majority of the above presentations are now entirely in the public domain, thereby giving both the wider satellite industry, and satellite communications solutions end-users, who could not attend the event, an opportunity to benefit from access to the speakers’ insights. To download these slide sets in PDF format, please go to: www.uk-emp.co.uk/emp-home/current-events/o-gcomms-sea-2013-program/
The same access to presentations is accorded following all GVF-EMP events, although the next event in the Partnership’s portfolio uses a somewhat different model. The clue to this model is in the name of the event, High Throughput Satellites 2013: The Game-Changer in Action – The London Roundtable. This Roundtable event, like its predecessors held in Washington DC in May 2013, and in London in December 2012, is panel discussion focused. Whilst panelists will be afforded the option to present opening introductory remarks that may be supported by a limited number of slides, the entire thrust of the two-day event (5th & 6th December) is dialogue, discussion, and debate.
An impressive line-up of speakers has been assembled for this Roundtable. The Roundtable Chairing/Moderating team will comprise David Hartshorn, Secretary General, GVF; Chris Baugh, President, NSR; Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Program Development, GVF; Stéphane Chenard, Advisor, International Programs, GVF & Senior Consultant, Euroconsult; and, Elisabeth Tweedie, Founder & Chief Executive, Definitive Direction & Associate Editor, Satellite Executive Briefing.
Day One, 5th December, will begin with an Opening Keynote from Chris Baugh, President of NSR who will present his analysis in Defining the Satellite Broadband Market Eco-System: Present & Future Trends in HTS, exploring the satellite broadband eco-system, its present manifestation, and its future reach.
A Satellite Operator Roundtable will follow, featuring Jean-Philippe Gillet, Vice President, Sales, Europe & Middle East, Intelsat; Rash Jhanjee, Director of Enterprise, Inmarsat Global Xpress; David Bestwick, Technical Director, Avanti Communications; David Burr, Director, Product Development, O3b Networks; and, Julian Crudge, Managing Director, Telenor (UK) Ltd. This session will provide a comprehensive, wide-reaching overview of exactly what it is that high-throughput satellite operators are already providing, or planning and preparing to provide using C, Ku and Ka band solutions.
An Engineering Roundtable will take as its starting point that new satellite communications technologies and solutions bring new engineering challenges, and new development opportunities, in both space segment and a range of ground segment environments. From the in-orbit angle, it is important to examine the current – and future – engineering of the high-throughput payload in terms of maximizing the potential of multi-spotbeam and frequency reuse architectures. From the ground angle this session will look at infrastructure evolution and the planning, design, deployment & managing of HTS terminals/earth stations, including antenna technology product quality and installation, HTS-enabled terminals and user expectations, understanding rain fade issues, and device portability. Featured session panelists here are: Tim Marshall, Director of Product Development, Kymeta; Hagay Katz, Assistant Vice President, Head of VSATs Line of Business, Gilat Satellite Networks; Denis Sutherland, Senior Systems Engineering Manager, iDirect; David Bookham, Managing Director, Brightday Engineering; John Landovsksis, Vice President of VSAT Systems, Advantech Wireless; and, Martin Coleman, Executive Director, IRG and RF Systems Specialist, Crystal Solutions.
Contributing to the User Verticals Roundtable will be Drew Klein, Director of Business Development, C-COM Satellite Systems; Brian Everard, Director, Everard Solutions; Bill Green, Global Account Director, Hermes Datacomms; Brent Horwitz, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, MTN; Martyn Hopkins, Product Sales Director, SIS Live; Roger Adamson, Chief Executive Officer, Futurenautics; Chairman, International Maritime Sales & Marketing Association; and, Greg Oliveau, International Market Development, Gogo. This session asks: Who are the customers for HTS? What do they want from HTS? And how is HTS positioned to provide what they want? These are questions encompassing the needs of broadcast video & satellite news gathering (SNG), aeronautical, maritime, oil & gas, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) requiring information and critical communications solutions for humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery situations.
Day One concludes with a Regulatory, Licensing & Financing Roundtable, which as well as examining the regulatory and licensing eco-system for high throughput satellite services and technologies, the panelists will look into due diligence around the investment in new satellites. HTS satellites are more technically complex than traditional satellites, the commercial case is significantly more challenging and the ramp-up periods have been quite long to date. Does this make the financial community reluctant to invest, and do HTS proponents need to find a way to make the risk profile look more attractive? The panelists will be Ann Vandenbroucke, Director International Regulatory & Policy Issues, Inmarsat; Kumar Singarajah, Director, Regulatory Affairs & Business Development, Avanti Communications; Andrew J McSpadden, Managing Director, Trinity Advisers Limited; and, John Worthy, Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP.
Day Two will begin with a Joint Opening Keynote, The European Market & Technology Roadmap for HTS & its Applications given by Michéle Le Saux, Directorate Telecommunication & Integrated Application, TIA-TTG, European Space Agency; and, Rune Sandbakken, Head, Satellite Communications, Norwegian Space Centre. The Keynote will offer an overview of ESA programs and projects related to the market for HTS-based applications and the leading technologies behind them, together with an overview of current public-private sector industry collaborations in Norway.
The OEM Roundtable which follows will investigate the latest initiatives and developments from leading manufacturers of the terminal and antenna technologies that comprise the foundation of networks that facilitate access to in-orbit HTS assets. Topics to be included in the dialogue are: Equipment Design & Technical Innovation; Equipment Manufacture & Economies of Scale; and, HTS-enabled Terminals & New User Expectations. The contributors will be Thomas Kerr, Program Manager, Aeronautical, Kymeta; Fred Morris, Vice President, Global Sales Engineering, Comtech EF Data; Hagay Katz, Assistant Vice President, Head of VSATs Line of Business, Gilat Satellite Networks; and, Thomas Van den Driessche, Chief Commercial Officer, Newtec.
To examine Fixed & Mobile Networking Applications & VARs we will have a Roundtable session which will look at the range of the HTS application, and its deployment, and the role of the Value Added Reseller in the equipment and service supply chain. From an emphasis on the varying requirements of mobile environments on land and at sea, to aspects of the latest advanced broadcast environment, and to rural telecommunications, the provision of HTS-based applications brings a wealth of opportunity for innovative supply to meet emerging demand. The panelists, Danielle Edwards, Maritime Product Manager, Mobility, Intelsat; Michael Pollack, Vice President, UltiSat; and, Jack Buechler, Executive Advisor on International Programs, GVF, will investigate.
Concluding the program for High Throughput Satellites 2013: The Game-Changer in Action – The London Roundtable, we will feature the Ground Infrastructure Roundtable. Tony Sewell, User Terminal Partner Manager, Inmarsat Global Xpress; Drew Klein, Director of Business Development, C-COM Satellite Systems; Chris Insall, Manager, Commercial Programs, Cobham SATCOM; Dave Nicoll, Business Manager, Sematron; and, Dr David Geen, Vice President, Tactical Ground Systems, SkyWare Technologies, will take as the principal focus of this session the evolutionary dynamics of an industry which manufactures, integrates, and deploys the products comprising the “Ground Segment”, and most particularly the antenna component. Included in the discussion will be the topics of: Antenna Technologies; Application/Market Specific Antenna Design; Antenna Installer Training; Type Approvals & Product Quality Assurance; and, Device Portability in the COTM/COTP space.
Clearly, these two-days of dialogue, discussion, and debate will attract a lot of attention, and provide not only an opportunity to have key questions answered, but an opportunity to identify new questions not as yet formulated.
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Martin Jarrold is the Chief of International Program Development of the GVF. He can be reached at: martin.jarrold@gvf.org
