Yearbook 2017

African Satellite Communications Yearbook 2017 African Satellite Communications Yearbook 2017

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Introduction

African Space Strategy 1

Government IT solution

Digitizing Senegalese Economy 2 Bridging the connectivity divide in Africa 4 The return of low earth orbit satellite broadband 6

WRC-19 should address needs of satellite industry 8 The growing importance of Cloud Computing in ICT 10 Building smart, safe and sustainable cities 12 Is 2017 the gateway of future technological progress? 15

Assessing Internet control and surveillance in Nigeria 22

Understanding and delivering Internet access at sea 29 Reporting from the heart of disaster 31

33 The power of satellite broadband in emerging economies

Altering telco's strategic identity 35

How Space Technology improves our lives 45

Exploring Communication Satellites to Bridge Digital Divide 49

The race to connect billions more things to the internet 52

Leveraging space science and technology for growth and sustainable development 56

Satellite Broadcasting

Satellite remains the backbone of digital TV infrastructure 16

Beyond technology, infrastructure, and financial challenges of Digital Migration 19

DTH - Moving towards a new era 24 The DTH teleport - challenges and opportunities 26 African Space Agencies

Priorities of Algerian Space Program 37 Nigeria's journey to the outer space 41 Roles of Technology Transfer in Egyptian Space Program 54 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 African Space Strategy

Not all African countries are at the same approximately 1 billion people spread maps in a fraction of the time it would take technical readiness level and hence the over 30.3 million km2. However, the using laborious ground surveys. The use disparity in space expertise and over reliance on support outside of the of synthetic aperture radars or capabilities on the continent. continent could erode the African space stereoscopic imaging provides aspirations through an infiltration of topographic maps of the landscape. This Today, Africa faces major pressing external interests. capability enables city planners to keep issues: climate change impact, water up with urban sprawl and gives deployed s c a r c i t y , e n e r g y s h o r t a g e , There are abundant natural resources troops the latest maps of unfamiliar environmental stresses and food crisis, that can fuel economic growth and terrain. The latter is vitally important for which affect citizens, business and the address social challenges if harnessed peacekeeping missions in Africa. community at large. Space technology in a sustainable manner. In addition, is useful in constituting factual, precise large rural communities in Africa are In Africa, navigation and positioning is and updated information. sparsely populated and their needs can the main element of the international air be supported and provided for by a traffic management system providing According to MO Ibrahim Foundation, suite of space products and services. worldwide navigation coverage to between 2015 and 2050, Africa's youth Also, Africa's strategic location with a support all phases of flight. With will almost double, from 230 to 452 unique landmass and latitude coverage appropriate augmentation systems, million, yet the fastest growing African is suitable for astronomical and space navigation and positioning satellites will economies have not created enough physics facilities. enable gate-to-gate navigation and all jobs for youth. In 2015, 60% of Africans weather capabilities for suitably were under 25 years old. In 2016, the In the case of natural disaster equipped aircraft. With more precise average age of African presidents is 66, management such as floods, remote navigation tools and accurate landing while the average median age of the sensing from space can provide data systems flying do not only become safer, continent's population is 20. Of the 25 for the whole cycle of information for but also more efficient by reducing fastest growing economies in the world flood prevention and mitigation, pre- delays, diversions and cancellation of between 2004 and 2014, ten are African. flood assessment, response during the flights. Nearly 15 million young Africans were flood, recovery, after the flood and More African countries have a space unemployed in 2015. In 2015, four weather newscasts. Timely satellite agency. However, a growing number of African countries featured in the global imagery and communications links in governments have shifted the top ten for the highest terrorism levels: hard-to-reach places can help stem supervision of their space program to Nigeria, Somalia, Egypt, Libya. Between catastrophic economic and human Trade/Industry as part of an overall one-third and a half of the tertiary losses. strategy to prioritize space applications educated populations of Kenya, In countries where the failure of a over space science and research. Space Uganda, Liberia, Mozambique and harvest may mean the difference science and technology has and Ghana leave their country. between bounty and starvation, continues to contribute to sustainable satellites have helped planners development and offers many benefits to This digital revolution of the 21st century manage scarce resources and head off mankind. is based on the Internet, which is the potential disasters before insects or revolution's driving force. Without a high- other blights could wipe out an entire Depending on their mission, satellites speed Internet connection or at least a crop. For example, in agricultural have different orbits. Weather and mobile telephone, the citizen is excluded regions near the fringes of the Sahara communication satellites are placed in from today's information society. In zone, scientists used satellite images to geostationary orbits (altitude of some countries, the essential role of this predict where locust swarms were 36,000km) above the equator, from tool is well understood and the right to breeding and were able to prevent the which they have a constant gaze on the means of communication and to locusts from swarming, thus saving same hemisphere of the Earth by broadband Internet access is spoken of large areas of cropland. completing one orbit around the Earth as a fundamental right. every 24 hours. Remote sensing data can help us The Internet arrived in sub-Saharan manage scarce resources by showing Other satellites are placed in Low Earth Africa from the early 1990s onwards: us the best places to drill for water or oil. Orbits (LEO), which complete on Kenya in 1993, Uganda and Nigeria in Remote sensing satellites have average one orbit around the earth every 1995, Togo in 1996. In most of those become a formidable weapon against 100 minutes. Because the Earth rotates countries, Internet connection began the destruction of the environment in the plane of the orbit, such a satellite with analogue telephone lines. Yet because they can systematically eventually covers the whole Earth. Such Internet in Africa is still limited by a lower monitor large areas to assess the orbits are used for remote sensing, and penetration rate when compared to the spread of pollution and other damages. navigation and positioning applications. rest of the world, and overall available Such monitoring capabilities are critical The development of the region in the long bandwidth indicates that Africa is for the long-term sustainable use of our run will depend not only on the circulation sometimes way behind the "digital scarce resources. of persons but also on the circulation of divide". Remote sensing technology is also information. In a world that claims to be a Africa has a spatial market that is helping African mapmakers. With global one, good information traffic is one characterised by a population of satellite imagery, they can produce of the most important concerns.

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Digitizing Senegalese Economy

In Africa, Senegal is classified 1st African country for the weight of Internet in the economy (I-PIB), due in particular to a very good international connectivity and a good domestic network of transmission. This project of deployment of the national backbone provides high-speed coverage which makes Internet and its associated services, more and more accessible to the Senegalese citizens. Fatou Kamara says a project Start-up Sénégal, incubates100 companies a year, and a billion CFA has been devoted to the promotion of entrepreneurship.

Fatou Kamara Brand and Digital Director Expresso Sénégal

In Africa, Senegal is classified 1st African ecosystem”.The total costs of these reforms and country for the weight of Internet in the the projects over the period 2016/2025 that this economy (I-PIB) estimated at 3.3%, due in plan aims, are of 1,361 billion F CFA and 300 particular to a very good international million; 73% will be financed by the private sector, connectivity and a good domestic network of 17% by the public and 10% in PPP mode. transmission. The Senegal GDP shows that 91% of its value This plan will offer real digital opportunities in the are due to private consumption while other long term. Those are consigned in a chapter dimensions such as the contribution of the devoted on the promotion of an industry of digital private sector investments, public and export innovating and creative of value articulated remain low. Senegal undertook a large around three points. program of digitalization of the centralized and The first aims at the improvement of the decentralized public administration. And the environment of support for the local private sector. country intends to consolidate the furnished Thus the Contribution to the Development of efforts because of a report of the World Bank Telecommunications and Energy (CODETE) will entitled « Development in the world 2016: the be re-examined so that the resources planned for Numeric dividends » which highlights the the development of the universal service of importance for Senegal to adopt and Telecommunications will increased, and the implement quickly its strategy and its program rationalization of the taxes applied to the sector of reform in the sector of communication and will be committed. information technologies in order to generate the digital dividends. A program “Start-up Senegal” and funds of support to ''the entrepreneurship and the Those will be beneficial for the whole promotion of digital'' will be also launched. Senegalese economy via an accelerated The second point relates to the promotion of the development of the generating activities of investment and the export of services. With the employment. The development of the digital Digital Park of Technologies (PTN) of the new city sector is consigned within the Senegal Digital close to the capital, Diamniadio, a space will be Plan which is an axis of the Emerging Senegal dedicated to encourage the digital by the means in Plan, which directs a structural transformation particular of a program of incubation. It is also of the Senegalese economy currently in hand. envisaged a development of digital poles of activities near to the university campuses in order The Digital Senegal Plan is made up by the to constitute zones of economic activities prerequisite and priority angles articulated arranged with adequate infrastructures, to create around the slogan “the digital for all and all the an engine of growth, layers of employment and usages in 2025 in Senegal with a dynamic and facilities for the activities of Business Outsourcing innovating private sector, in a powerful Process/Information Technology-Enabled

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Services. The last point refers to the creation of access terms to the market in order to reduce the obstacles weighing on the local Small and medium-size companies for the access to the public order. In the medium term, 50% of the public contracts TIC will be dedicated to the local companies or companies in the neighbor countries, and 3000 qualified jobs will be created a year by 2025. In addition, with the project « Start – Up Sénégal », 100 companies a year will be incubated and a billion (1.000.000.000) F CFA a year will be devoted to the promotion and the entrepreneurship. In the long term, the plan of digitalization of Senegal by 2025 will make it possible to support priority economic sectors: agricultural productivity, security and maritime safety, e-commerce and financial services, E- health and telemedicine, education system, cultural industry ...

For that, the State of Senegal will continue its extensions of network and will optimize the existing one. As its General Manager underlines it, the Agency of the data processing of State (ADIE) aims to modernize the Senegalese administration by placing at its disposal a coherent and evolutionary information system with an aim of offering a qualitative public service to the users. This agency will have soon nearly 4500 km of optical fibre through Senegal.

This project of deployment of the national backbone whose phase 3 started in January 2016, reached an interesting threshold of national coverage to which is added a cellular network of the CDMA type and a wireless networking of the WiMax type.

This high-speed coverage is carried by infrastructures which are supplemented or accompanied by private operators which makes Internet and its associated services, more and more accessible to the Senegalese citizens.

Among these services, it is necessary to quote the on-line means of payment, via mobile and all the digital electronic banking which allowed the creation and fast development of number of companies of Money transfer, sites of on-line purchases, but also the development of solutions of digital banking transactions.

In addition to the electronic money, the increasingly powerful digitalization in Senegal made it possible to gradually stabilize Digital terrestrial television (TNT) but also all the audio-visual platforms with services with strong added value. This potential of digitalization of the offer, and all the chain of creation of value of the companies, should be more accompanied by a legal and lawful framework which impels competition in this sector at high rate of development. It is a situation well taken into account by Senegal.

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Bridging the connectivity divide in Africa

The African connectivity environment is in a state of flux. With more than half of the continent's 1.2 billion population getting by with little-to-no broadband Internet access and 400 million of those lacking even the most basic levels of connectivity, Africa harbors great potential for growth. Newtec's Pieter-Paul Mooijman says that now is a time of great opportunity for access solutions that can reach these difficult-to-reach areas, which are often vast and without the infrastructure to connect by more traditional means.

Pieter-Paul Mooijman Regional Sales Director Africa Newtec Newtec

With the long-standing infrastructure Although the satellite Wi-Fi hotspot solution is challenges facing Africa today and for the slightly more expensive from an initial investment foreseeable future, there is a real window of perspective, the fact that the investment is opportunity for satellite companies to deliver generating revenues from a large number of end- connectivity and services that is sorely users means the Total Cost of Ownership per user needed by the continent's 1.2 billion people. A represents just a fraction of the cost when key trend in areas that rely on satellite to keep compared to a traditional-single user VSAT them connected has been the move towards terminal. multiservice solutions and platforms, which enables operators to expand their portfolios Cellular backhaul for 2G is also an important and move their offerings to wider, less- technology in Africa. With more than 672 million traditional markets. people in Africa relying on 2G services, it is vital that these networks are upgraded and expanded Connecting communities to meet growing connectivity demands Another key change has been the increase in throughout the continent. Newtec has recently the viability of community Wi-Fi solutions that worked alongside Intelsat to deliver managed deliver connectivity to a single hub within a services solution that will provide 2G services in small town or village. This could then remote locations using the Newtec Dialog® distribute Internet provision on an access platform across sub-Saharan Africa. voucher basis or sold by local shops as a service, creating new business models, The role of the ground segment Innovations like this not only work for Newtec is traditionally strong in Africa, where we business owners, but also for end-users, who have a network of long-term partners who we can receive Internet access with no up-front work with to deliver solutions that provide reliable investment and no recurring service satellite connectivity in a highly scalable procurement obligation. andflexible way, serving multiple marketsfroma single platform. Combining these qualities with Services like this can also bring great benefits the ease of remote VSAT installations, makes the in education. For example, Newtec was platform perfectly suited for the African market. As honored to be selected by Avanti well as providing an initial solution that meets the Communications as the High Throughput customer's needs at this moment, the scalability Satellite ground segment technology platform provides the opportunity to grow with the for its Every Child Online project, which will customer's business. provide affordable and reliable satellite broadband connectivity to thousands of One such partner is Liquid Telecom – a leading schools and community sites across Sub- independent data, voice and IP provider in Saharan Africa over the next two years. eastern, central and southern Africa – with whom

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we have worked for several years. After expanding its portfolio by purchasing a Newtec Dialog multiservice platform in 2015, the installation was completed in March 2016, enabling Liquid Telecom to enlarge and improve its VSAT services with more applications and features for both current and new customers.It also enabled LiquidTelecom to launch business-to-business applications and reliable cellular backhaul connections for mobile operators throughout Africa,providing customers with a high-speed satellite service.

In South Africa, Newtec was chosen by state- owned broadcasting signal distributor SENTECH to upgrade 800 of its sites across the nation and provide a solution that matches its needs both now and in the future, cementing a long-standing relationship that we have built on the cornerstones of reliability, customer support and cost-effectiveness. SENTECH is making use of the Newtec Dialog's multiservice capabilities, monitoring radio towers, Point of Sales and ATMs as well as using it as a multicast solution and for radio backhaul.

A roadmap for connectivity Newtec's aim for Africa is the same as it always has been – to ensure people are connected. This is essential for the economic and educational development of the African continent. Being connected to the Internet vastly improves the knowledge and skills base of users, providing advantages that previous generations may not have had. We want to be able to ensure that users in remote, rural areas have the same opportunities that are available in more developed regions and communities.

There are – of course – key challenges that face the African market, including ongoing regulatory concerns which can restrict the importing of satellite equipment and cause problems in obtaining communication licenses, and political instability leading to businesses looking to abstain from investment due to political instability.

However, despite these concerns, Newtec will continue to provide efficient, scalable and reliable satellite equipment for our customers, and will continue to work closely with them to ensure the ongoing development of connectivity infrastructures across the continent. We want to enable both businesses and communities to have the connectivity that brings opportunity.

www.newtec.eu

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The return of low earth orbit satellite broadband

New industry entrants such as earth-observation companies Skybox Imaging and Planet Labs have shown that LEO satellites can be built at low cost. Planet Labs, whose system uses larger numbers of very small satellites offering lower resolution but more frequent updates built all of its satellites in house with launch costs coming down, largely as a result of competition from new players such as SpaceX. Iqbal Singh Bedi, argues that the key to running a profitable telecommunications satellite business is the fill factor by setting up effective global distribution targeting customers on land, at sea and in the air. Iqbal Singh Bedi Principal Analysys Mason

It's 1994, the year the Channel Tunnel opens, Consequently, there are now commercial Nelson Mandela is elected president and O. J. precedents for LEO communication services. Simpson is arrested. A company called Secondly, the broadband market is vastly more Teledesic, set up by cellular pioneer Craig developed than it was in Teledesic's day. Back in McCaw and Bill Gates, files a plan with the 1994, less than 0.5% of the world's population was FCC for the 'Internet-in-the-sky', a USD9 online and most connections were narrowband. billion project to build and launch 840 Ka band By 2002,the year that Teledesic shut up shop, satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide penetration exceeded 10% but even in the USA global data connectivity. A demonstration narrowband connections outnumbered satellite was launched in 1998 but the broadband by three to one. Today over 40% of the commercial failure of other LEO projects world's population is online and almost all users including Iridium and Globalstar meant that enjoy some form of broadband. Teledesic was ultimately unfinanceable (as were other similar projects such as Celstri). Thirdly, new entrants such as earth-observation companies Skybox Imaging and Planet Labs have Construction of Teledesic's satellites was shown that LEO satellites can be built at low cost: officially suspended in October 2002 Fast- Skybox (bought by Google in 2014 for USD500 forward to 2015, and the hot topic of million) developed its dishwashersized satellite conversation at the Satellite 2015 conference and built the prototype in house, although and trade show in Washington, DC was a manufacture was subsequently outsourced to series of rival proposals from OneWeb, SSL. Planet Labs, whose system uses larger SpaceX and LeoSat for new LEO numbers of very small satellites (offering lower constellations designed to provide global resolution but more frequent updates) built all of its broadband connectivity (see Figure 1). What satellites in house. Launch costs are also coming has changed in the industry to revive the down, largely as a result of competition from new concept of delivering broadband via LEO players such as SpaceX. satellites and what are the key challenges that these new projects need to address? Finally, there have been some advances in the design of antennas for LEO satellite terminals, Firstly, it's worth pointing out that while the which need the ability to track a satellite as it original investors in Iridium and Globalstar lost moves across the sky and transfer seamlessly to a their money, these two constellations did new one when the first satellite approaches the actually get built and have been operating horizon. Most commentators agree thatsolid-state effectively for 15 years. Both companies have antennas will be essential to meet the cost and been able to raise money for second- reliability needs of the new systems. Two generation constellations (Globalstar's was companies,Kymeta and Phasor, were exhibiting launched last year and Iridium should start prototype low-cost solid-state antennas at launching its NEXT satellites in October). Satellite 2015, though at present both companies 6 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

need to deploy separate antenna units for transmit and receive, and manufacturing costs are in the thousands of dollars rather than the low hundreds.

The cost of user terminals therefore remains a major challenge to the viability of LEO broadband. Similarly, it remains to be seen whether the satellites can really be built for a few hundred thousand dollars apiece. Co- ordinating the spectrum for global constellations of LEO satellites with the operators of existing geostationary satellites in the same band is also a complex undertaking. Lastly, the key to running a profitable telecommunications satellite business is the fill factor: all of these projects will therefore need to set up effective global distribution targeting customers on land, at sea and in the air. Such challenges should not be underestimated, but then neither should the drive and tenacity of the new LEO broadband pioneers.

Analysys Mason works extensively with satellite operators and service providers and their investors on market forecasting, business planning and transaction support projects. For further information please contact Philip Bates.

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Having lost one battle, IMT proponents were favourably greeted with a new agenda item for WRC-19, especially to identify high-frequency bands above 24GHz for IMT/5G services. Nevertheless, the conference had decided that C-, Ku- and Ka-bands currently allocated to FSS, mobile satellite services (MSS) and broadcast satellite services (BSS) should not be considered in the studies. In this context, Ali Ebadi argues that satellite industry cannot afford to rest on its laurels and must stay alert for any possible recommendations of allocation to IMT in the FSS Ka-band (27-30GHz), following the proposed introduction of 5G IMT to some Dr Ali Ebadi Senior Vice-President, portions of the FSS Ka-band. Space Systems Development Measat Satellite Systems.

The satellite industry should be credited for primary basis internationally. The last conference their joint efforts at WRC-15 to ensure the also allocated the L-band spectrum in the band satellite community's best interests are served. 1427- 1518MHz to IMT in Regions 2 and 3, and Particularly, the band 3600-4200MHz remains some countries in Region 1. This is subject to ITU- exclusively allocated to fixed satellite services R studies to determine the regulatory and technical (FSS) worldwide into the next decade, except measures to ensure the compatibility of IMT and for a few countries in Region 2 (American broadcasting satellite service (sound) operations Region), in which the US, Canada, Cameron in the frequency band 1 452-1 492MHz. and Costa Rica have allocated 3600-3700MHz f o r t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l M o b i l e Besides IMT, the threat to conventional Telecommunications (IMT) industry. Geostationary (GSO) services will come from the proliferation of HTS (High Throughput Satellite) Having lost one battle, IMT proponents were capacity, from both GSO and non-GSO systems. favourably greeted with a new agenda item for The much lower cost per bit offered by HTS WRC-19 — to identify high-frequency bands systems designed to provide consumer broadband above 24GHz for IMT/5G services. access will lead to their inevitable encroachment Nevertheless, in favour of the satellite industry, into other business verticals (such as enterprise the conference decided that C-, Ku- and Ka- VSAT, video distribution, and so on) even if the bands currently allocated to FSS, mobile capacity is not optimised for such markets. satellite services (MSS) and broadcast satellite Customers will find a way to utilise HTS capacity at services (BSS) should not be considered in the a fraction of the price of wide-beam FSS capacity studies. even though it requires them to use multiple beams. However, the satellite industry cannot rest on its laurels and has to stay alert for any possible The proliferation of HTS capacity (by reusing the recommendations of allocation to IMT in the spectrum) is an “arms race” of sorts. An existing FSS Ka-band (27-30GHz). This alert makes FSS satellite operator, when faced with new reference to one country's decision to competition from neighbouring HTS systems that introduce 5G IMT to some portions (27.5-28.35 can provide capacity into the market at a tenth of GHz) of the FSS Ka-band on its domestic the price of its own offerings, must choose between allocation. two unattractive options: (i) abandon that market or (ii) build its own HTS system. It should be noted that this is only possible as the FSS is on secondary allocation to the The result is — every operator is forced to buy their terrestrial services in that country, whereas the own HTS satellite(s) and the amount of deployed specific portion of the Ka-band is allocated to capacity will be far higher than the supportable FSS and the terrestrial services on a co- demand. While new technologies such as beam

8 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 forming, beam hopping, digital channelisers additional spectrum needs for the development of and HTS will significantly encourage the more the FSS and the sharing and the compatibility efficient use of spectrum, it has been studies with existing services on a primary and suggested the improved bandwidth secondary basis, including in adjacent bands as economics will open up new applications that appropriate. will increase the demand for capacity, in turn sustaining the financial health of the In summary, there is a need for satellite operators operators. to participate actively in ITU-R study groups dealing with FSS, GSO, NGSO and IMT WRC-19 But so far, there is little evidence to suggest agenda items. Asian satellite operators have whether this will happen. The only new market united under the auspices of organisations such that has evolved in recent years is the airline as CASBAA and APSCC to raise awareness of connectivity market, and it is being chased the potential threat to satellite spectrum and its aggressively by nearly every large satellite impact on both satellite and broadcasting fleet operator in the world. It is not clear that industries and to lobby for support for its the revenue economics for this application are protection. Operators are also coordinating with sufficient to support the scale of investments operators and interested parties in Europe, Africa currently being made. Most of the above is true and America to ensure that our message is heard for HTS capacity, whether it is from GSO or at upcoming regulatory meetings. non-GSO (NGSO). The major difference is: NGSO systems will have lots of potential capacity trapped in regions with low customer density (such as oceans or sparsely populated areas), and hence will have higher amortised “cost per sellable bit”.

As such, the impact of NGSO systems in any particular regional market will be limited. And in all likelihood, GEO HTS systems will have already affected the market long before the NGSO systems are even operational. WRC- 19 will also focus on some works relating to the NGSO systems. Considering the need to encourage development and implementation of new technologies in the FSS, WRC-19 will consider technical and operational issues, as well as regulatory provisions for NGSO FSS systems in the 37.5-39.5GHz (space-to- Earth), 39.5-42.5GHz (space-to-Earth), and 47.2-50.2GHz and 50.4-51.4GHz (Earth-to- space) frequency bands.

At the same time, the conference will also study technical and operational issues and regulatory provisions for new NGSO systems in the 3.700-4.200MHz, 4.500-4.800MHz, 5.925-6.425MHz and 6.725-7.025MHz frequency bands allocated to the FSS to protect the GSO FSS networks. These agenda items are another focus of the satellite industry to ensure NGSO systems sufficiently protect the GSO FSS, MSS and BSS networks. Another critical issue is undoubtedly the approval of the agenda to study the technical and operational characteristics for Earth Station In Motion (ESIM) that operates within geostationary FSS frequency bands. This will definitely require the satellite industry to continue its caution at WRC-19 to ensure FSS is sufficiently protected and no undue constraints are caused to existing and future FSS services. In the meantime, recognising the growth of the satellite industry in the past decade, and how this is expected to continue in the next decade, future conferences will study spectrum needs and possible allocation to FSS in the band 51.4- 52.4GHz for WRC-19, and 37.5-39.5GHz for the following WRC-23. The satellite industry will have a key role in the studies to justify the

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The growing importance of Cloud Computing in ICT

Over the past several years, computing has accelerated its fantastic pace of innovation that has manifested into cloud and mobile computing, extending businesses far beyond the confines of enterprise. In cloud computing, resources such as infrastructure, application platforms, and business processes are provided through the internet to users in an on demand basis. According to Aminu Ola Razaq, cloud computing comes with both benefits and demerits, and as such its impact will depends on if professionals can increase its potencies and evade its demerits, thereby increasing its productivity, efficiency, security and cost effectiveness.

Aminu Ola Razaq Principal Computer/GIS Analyst National Oil Spill Detection & Response Agency Abuja, Nigeria

Cloud computing is an internet based internet accessibility. Presently, Amazon is an technology, that offers assistance to business example of web services provider that offers owners in order to advance their mainly public cloud provider type. A private cloud businesses. The cloud is surrounded by employed stringent policy for network accessibility network of hardware and software for for end users, which utilize hosted services of data resource sharing purpose. According to centre. When a service provider employs public literary study, the shared resources are cloud resources in the production of private cloud, automated and virtualized in order for them to the resultant cloud is called virtual private be simply accessed. The cloud computing cloud. The main aim of cloud computing is to also help industrialist to lessen assist in making computing resources to be infrastructure and operational cost, hence more scalable. the users are only anticipated to pay for the resources utilized. It is helpful for Variety of Cloud Services organizations with active infrastructure or with There are various types of cloud computing based limited duration of resources. Cloud computing on services rendered namely; SAAS (software as is described with varying terms which a service), PAAS (platform as a service) and IAAS disseminates shared resources over the (infrastructure as a service) respectively. These internet platform. The servers hosted and services are hosted remotely and accessed by shared are mainly grouped into three end users via websites. The combination of classes, namely; Infrastructure-as-a-service these three cloud computing types are called (IaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and “stack”. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Cloud formations and structures Cloud environment is broken down into public A cloud service is mainly employed by end- private, hybrid and community cloud respectively. users from time to time, usually on the hourly Services are available to the public on a lager basis. It has a “pay as you go” feature which range on the internet in public cloud. It also makes cloud service a simple platform. provides flexible and cost effective means of Cloud service is mostly managed and solution deployment, management and providing controlled by the provider. Joel Weis states infrastructural deployment. It can be used by that there are public and private varieties of the companies such as Environmental Systems cloud. When a third party offers computing Research Institute (ESRI) on demand. resources as a service it is considered as a In private cloud, authorized users are usually service, but in a private cloud a user by one customer in a private network whose operates as a sole user and as owner of basic task is data security. The problem of this type the resources. Hence a public cloud engages of network is that the Total Cost of Ownership has and sells services to any individual user having to be handled by the customer and at the same time maintaining the network alone. 10 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Hybrid cloud are usually employed where a require large amount of bandwidth but these customer has the hardware and software instances and applications are managed requirement to employ peer to peer typed of efficiently. Running ArcGIS server in the cloud is computing environment. The customer is not always encouraged in several organizations for expected to have a dedicated server in order to example keeping sensitive data without have its secured data and concurrently link security measures is not always safe but this client computer systems to the public, for deployment option stands better. Publicly make example an organization may wish to store stored maps available and other GIS information. some of its sensitive data in the cloud. Community clouds is mostly in place ESRI on the Cloud customers are Limited with similar IT ESRI offers data and other features such as layers requirement and share an infrastructure and base maps. ESRI develops applications for offered by a single supplier. Customer cost the website. A data centre website for GIS of services is spread amongst stakeholders, applications research and assessment which which makes this model a better option employs the data on ArcGIS.com combining economically. The total cost of ownership of applications which runs on workstations in non public cloud environment is reduced. –ESRI data centre.

GIS and its Application to cloud computing ArchGIS server as a platform provides GIS The popularity of cloud computing is a services to software on other work stations on the significant trend in the field of information ArchGIS server hosted by Amazon EC2. technology today. Notwithstanding even Presently, customers deploy ArcGIS server on a though not all things will migrate into the computer running in their organization's data cloud, it is justified to say that almost all centre. It is also possible to deploy ArcGIS server in organization will employ this new trending the cloud employing Amazon web services as in discovery in their operations. For experts of figure (AWS). Although numerous providers geographic information system (GIS), Cloud provide public cloud platforms, which was computing provides numerous possibilities. pioneered by Amazon.

First, its easier development. ESRI offers an Conclusion already configured Amazon Machine image New technological advancement is expected to AMI which contains Arch GIS Server. The considerably decrease the cost of available and developer of VM specifies an AMI by which present technologies. However, cloud computing the instance can be created. An AMI can comes with both benefits and demerits. domicile in Linux or windows server. Instead of installing and configuring the product on a In finalizing its impact depends on if we can machine in your data center, EC2VM can be increase its potencies and evade its demerits. In created from AMI this manner the cloud can increase in productivity, efficiency, security and cost effective. Faster deployment: several organizations employing a new server machine to run new The most significant of these is security of data in software for its operations required tedious and public domain for example, running ArcGIS server time consuming processes. It can take more in the cloud is not always encouraged in several than one weeks engaging AWS. On the organizations such as keeping sensitive data contrary, any individual with valid credit card without security measures is not always safe but can obtain an EC2VM on the internet within this deployment option stands better. minutes only. If having ARCGIS server, the application that employs it and getting it running by using AWS option.

Lower cost: AWS can be cost effective depending on costs set by different data center. It is true when an application with elastic (i.e., widely varying) demand is involved. Broad availability: due to the fact that software running on AWS can be accessed by the public user having access to the internet connection similarly GIS services hosted by ARCGIS SERVER IN an EC2VM can also be accessed through its availability. It is an eloquent approach for offering some types of information, but it raises a security questions.

Better Performance: ArchGIS Server provides support and host several kinds of applications and data analysis on GIS data.Deployment of numerous instances of ArcGIS server in numerous EC2 VMs and at the same time running applications on AWS, is expected to 11 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Building smart, safe and sustainable cities

Cities today occupy just 2 percent of the earth's surface, yet are home to more than half of its people. That will increase to two-thirds by 2050. The profound implications of this global migration require a fresh way of looking at urban centers—one that encompasses a new set of ideas and technologies. Dr. Brahim Ghribi, says that new technology platforms, including the cloud-based platform as a service (PaaS), licensed-based on demand software as a service (SaaS), open-source software and open APIs, will further broaden the reach and effectiveness of smart city services and citizen convenience, while creating new cost efficiencies.

Dr. Brahim Gbribi Head of Government Relation for Middle East & North Africa Nokia

Cities today occupy just 2 percent of the earth's (IoT) refers to the constant exchange of surface, yet are home to more than half of its information among “smart” physical devices, people. That will increase to two-thirds by including machines, vehicles, buildings and other 2050. The profound implications of this global items embedded with sensors. Network migration require a fresh way of looking at connectivity enables these objects to collect and urban centers—one that encompasses a new exchange data, and be controlled and coordinated set of ideas and technologies. remotely.

The challenges The centrality of data is a common theme in smart The global population shift toward cities is cities. Some collect and use self-generated data to bringing increased pressure to urban areas in build their own applications and services; others terms of energy use, environmental protection have taken more of a “publishing” approach, and citizen safety. Managing urban areas is seeking to make available their data to expected to become one of the stakeholders, or to “curate” data provided by most important development challenges of the others, which can be obtained via open data 21st century by many observers such as the portals or through paid-for data marketplaces. In UN DESA Population Division. Cities have to both cases, the expectation is that third parties do more with less amid increased competition may be better able to exploit the data than the city and must find more efficient and sustainable could itself. financial models, optimize infrastructure and offer smarter services. They are also Furthermore, new technology platforms, including competing to attract business and talent, while the cloud-based platform as a service (PaaS), taking care of citizens' wealth, security, privacy licensed-based ondemand software as a service and well-being. (SaaS), open-source software and open APIs, will further broaden the reach and effectiveness of The opportunities smart city services and citizen convenience, while Cities have many opportunities to face these creating new cost efficiencies. challenges and become “smart.” These are enabled by technology, and in particular the Finally, creative financing models, including internet of things (IoT), where everyone and public-private partnerships (PPP), will enable all everything becomes connected through data smart city stakeholders to invest in the from billions of sensors everywhere. This technologies they require to compete and thrive in vision is being enabled by improved a global economy. Broadband speeds, diversified connectivity options, cheaper sensors and user interface The Smart City Playbook devices, as well as innovative new All of these developments and technologies will applications and users. The Internet of Things provide sustainable and productive urban environments—smart cities—that improve quality 12 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

of life, bolster economic growth, attract Applications: smart, safe and sustainable business activities and create new jobs. These factors will enhance the way people live Effective applications are essential for smart city and work each day—making the world more success. The Smart City Playbook groups smart productive, smart, safe and sustainable. Many city applications and activities under the minds and resources are needed to make categories of smart, safe, and sustainable. cities smart, safe and sustainable. Success Smart: These applications improve the quality of depends on involving citizens, government, life for citizens, bolstering innovation, as well as industry, academia and other stakeholders social and economic development. These make throughout the process, from vision to cities more attractive places in which to live, visit planning to implementation. With these and do business. challenges and opportunities in mind, Nokia commissioned a Machina Research study to Safe: Applications which prevent or minimize the find out how 22 cities — from Bristol to Dubai, risks of adverse events, including crime, Shanghai to San Francisco — are trying to accidents and natural disasters. become smart, safe and sustainable. The Sustainable: Sustainable applications minimize result is a compilation of best practices that the environmental impact of the municipality's urban centers everywhere can adopt: the own operations and the activities of its businesses Smart City Playbook. It aims to provide smart and citizens. “Sustainable” also means selecting city stakeholders with relevant insights on the right business model to fund, invest and cost- strategies, solutions and pitfalls to be avoided efficiently manage innovations in the process of becoming smarter cities. Nokia's commitment to smarter, safer, The Six S'S and sustainable cities Amid increased competition and the The approach to building out IoT applications is imperative to do more with less, cities looking far too often silo-based, which is costly and time- to thrive in the days ahead must get “smart” by consuming, neglecting interoperability, security, investing in the six s's: shared, secure and availability, scalability and sometimes the scalable information and communication interdependence requirements for each technology (ICT) that enables human application. To assure smart city components that possibilities in a way that is smart, safe and you can rapidly create, deploy, integrate and sustainable. manage, a holistic, horizontally layered architecture based on leading products and Infrastructure: shared, secure and solutions is required. It should align with the larger scalable smart city ecosystem to assure shared, secure and scalable operations support. Our smart city For optimal smart city implementation, a framework is based on a horizontally layered shared, secure and scalable infrastructure is architecture encompassing the following: needed. Shared: To maximize synergies and City-wide connectivity — both fixed and mobile minimize costs, city administration services access to connect all people, devices, systems can share reliable wireless and wireline IP and sensors broadband network infrastructure, A shared city-wide network — a single applications and data over a single IP converged IP-based network for operational infrastructure. Application and service efficiency and lower costs providers can have access to a 'horizontal' city A city cloud architecture — with a virtualized platform with common set of capabilities, and software-defined network to flexibly connect residents can have ubiquitous and real-time sites, people and access to applications, anytime and applications quickly and securely everywhere. Secure: In a world where A city IoT platform — to manage sensors and cybersecurity and data privacy are high on the devices and collect, analyze and make data agenda, endpoint and data protection, device available to third-party applications m a n a g e m e n t , a u t h e n t i c a t i o n a n d City applications — developed within an authorization, traffic profiling and encryption innovation ecosystem of trusted partners. are key points on both governments' and Working with an open ecosystem of trusted citizens' checklists. partners—including technology vendors, application developers, service providers, system And, just like scalability, true security can only integrators, utility companies, research be achieved when possible threats are taken institutions and others—Nokia continuously into consideration upfront. Scalable: Many explores new systems, applications, content and smart city initiatives will start small, but grow services. A good example is the ng Connect fast, and scale big. As such, the time is now for program, through which we have built an anticipating a massive take-up of sensor ecosystem that enables more than 300 member devices and applications, as well as an companies, including leading network, consumer equivalent growth in data and network traffic. electronics, applications, platforms and content This can only be achieved through a city ICT providers. We work with these partners to develop infrastructure that is scalable by design. standardization initiatives, solution concepts, end-to-end prototypes, business models and market trials that will unleash the full potential of

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the IoT and smart cities.

Our commitment to the six s's: building shared, secure and scalable infrastructures that enable the human possibilities of smart, safe and sustainable cities - means that Nokia is strategically positioned to help governments, communications service providers and large enterprises deliver on the promise of smart cities

14 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Is 2017 the gateway of future technological progress?

By 2020, global Internet traffic will be 95-times the volume of the global Internet in 2005. This growth is driven by more Internet users, more connected devices, faster broadband speeds, and more video. At least, 71% of network traffic will originate from non-PC devices including smartphones, tablets and televisions. Mike Weston believes that digitization and the Internet of Things (IoT) will contribute to driving increased network traffic with applications such as video surveillance, smart meters, digital health monitors and mobile to mobile services creating incremental traffic and new network requirements. Mike Weston Vice President CISCO

By 2020, global Internet traffic will be 95-times However, there is an important pre-requisite for the volume of the global Internet in 2005. This successful digitization: digital ready networks. growth is driven by more Internet users, more Going forward, network connectivity will become connected devices, faster broadband speeds, increasingly easy as corporate networking shifts and more video. By 2020, 71% of network to an open model. A digital ready network provides traffic will originate from non-PC devices automation, real-time analytics, virtualization and including smartphones, tablets and the limitless scalability of the cloud. An open, televisions. software-driven network helps digital Digitization and the Internet of Things (IoT) will transformation by providing insights automation also contribute to driving increased network and threat protection. For example, in the digital traffic. Applications such as video surveillance, age, network devices can detect and shut down a smart meters, digital health monitors and pipeline spill automatically, or enable preventive mobile to mobile services will create maintenance in manufacturing plants. incremental traffic and new network requirements. The Internet of Things gets into higher gear Digitization requires digital ready networks The race to connect the unconnected will continue, At the World Economic Forum in Davos this enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) where billions year, the Fourth Industrial Revolution was a of sensors will soon change the way we live our central theme. This industrial revolution will be lives. IoT in consumer and business life will different in that it is characterized by a range of accelerate, connecting data, things, processes new technologies that are fusing the physical, and people. More things will become intelligent digital and biological worlds, impacting all and connected to address the range of business disciplines, economies and industries, and needs. Medical devices, appliances, performance even challenging ideas about what it means to monitors, connected vehicles and smart grids are be human. some of the early areas of adoption. For consumers, wearable devices will continue to grow The world has the potential to connect billions and mesh with healthcare and big data. Intelligent more people to digital networks, dramatically systems will grow at a quick pace in 2017, as more improve the efficiency of organizations and applications and products become available. New even manage assets. As the world becomes products will by default have connected networks digital and everything becomes connected, and Wi-Fi built into them, opening the door for new data becomes the most strategic asset of any use cases and innovative business models. company or country. The ability to secure data, act on the data and deliver services based on Security becomes even more the data will determine the success of paramount organizations. The growth of IoT will place even greater emphasis

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on security. The growth of connected devices workflows. and networks will largely depend on the success of being able to secure them Fog Computing - Intelligence at the successfully. The current generation of edge of the network security technologies and architectures will not The increasing investment in smart city be sufficient to protect billions of devices in applications will drive intelligence to the edge of the exponentially more complex connections. network. Compute, storage and networking Inadequate security will be a critical barrier to capabilities will move to the most remote devices, large-scale deployment of IoT systems and allowing data from sensors to be converted into broad customer adoption of IoT applications. intelligent commands. This will improve urban Simply extending existing IT security services such as traffic management, smart architectures to the IoT will not be sufficient. lighting, security, and parking. Solving the security challenges being raised As an example, surveillance video may pick up through the adoption of IoT requires disruptive first responder traffic on the roads and adapt traffic and innovative solutions. Couple this with the signals to give them priority. Drivers of mass life cycle of devices without the possibility of transportation may get alerted to maintenance physical upgrades. A starting point is likely to faults and receive alerts to stop at the next station. be cloud-based security services,with Sensors inbuilt into utility networks may switch from resource-efficient, thing-to-cloud interactions. multiple renewable energy source options to drive We also see a shift toward a cyberphysical the best yield at the lowest cost. paradigm, where we closely integrate computing and communication with the Data deluge drives deep learning and connected things, including the ability to artificial intelligence control their operations. In such systems, many The vast volumes of data being generated by security vulnerabilities and threats come from sensors lead to statistical patterns that can be the interactions between the cyber and mapped to normal business or consumer physical domains. An approach to holistically behaviour. This opens up the frontiers for deep integrate security vulnerability analysis and learning and predictive analytics driving insights protections in both domains will become into business or consumer response. Other use increasingly necessary. cases are when a network is intelligent enough to defend itself, which is especially useful for securing Plug and play will be the new norm the IoT. Other than the challenges of security and privacy being raised by the adoption of IoT, lack Moreover, the current incidence frequency of cyber of interoperability between different products threats has grown to such a level that it is beyond and different solutions is also currently limiting human intervention and more automated forms of its growth. Going forward solution vendors of response and remediation are required. Artificial IoT will focus less on setting their own Intelligence helps analyse and automatically standards and instead build their products on investigate suspicious web traffic. With artificial the basis of being able to complement and intelligence, we can discover attacks before they align with others. can begin to steal sensitive data. Then next twelve months promise to open up new possibilities of This will allow us to enjoy fantastic applications technology applications driving never seen before that fully unleash the power of IoT. An use cases and significant improvement to human immediate use-case will be the successful life as we know it today. integration of the smart home including solutions like automated lighting and window The advent of alternate realities blinds, energy management, movement The blending of dimensions is something that we'll sensors, face recognition and smart home continue to see more of in 2017 as purely online appliances. retailers are now launching physical presences (Amazon book stores and Amazon Go), and Changing the way we work Pokémon Go bought augmented reality to the According to 2016 research by Harvard attention of the masses. Virtual reality technology Business Review, while individual workforce has reached the point that it is now accessible to members are becoming more connected on the average consumer, as with devices like their own, effective team communication has smartphones and tablets. New open software become more important over the past two driven platforms are enabling businesses to years. Work collaboration with partners, innovate in how they might use the technology – suppliers, customers, consultants, as well as whether in the online, physical or virtual spaces colleagues in dispersed locations has increased in importance. However, not all collaboration tools are equally effective. Tools that are not aligned with business processes and mismatched with workstyles tend to be used less. Cloud, file sharing, video conferencing and content management have become highly effective. The next generation of collaboration tools will be cloud-based, mobile-first and capable of integrating various

15 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Satellite remains the backbone, of digital TV infrastructure

Eutelsat, one of the world's leading operators of communications satellites, operates the most popular satellite neighbourhoods in the region and continues to develop innovative services that enable TV platform operators and broadcasters to maximize the potential of their markets. Markus Fritz says the Middle East and North Africa region continues to show powerful growth, with the total number of homes exceeding 64.7 million with TV ownership at 94%, and as high as 98% in some countries. A staggering 91% of TV homes are served by satellite.

Markus Fritz Executive Vice President of Commercial Development & Strategic Partnerships Eutelsat

The Middle East and North Africa TV market consumer survey from the Eutelsat TV continues to be one of the most exciting and Observatory. The total number of homes in 2016 dynamic in the world. Overall growth of all stands at 64.7 million with TV ownership at 94%, television viewers is higher than ever before, and as high as 98% in some countries. A with exciting opportunities particularly in High staggering 91% of TV homes are served by Definition and Ultra HD. satellite.

Eutelsat, one of the world's leading operators “Our 2016 survey takes the pulse of the vibrant of communications satellites, operates the Arab TV market and shows key trends that include most popular satellite neighbourhoods in the the acceleration of High Definition broadcasting region and continues to develop innovative and the diversity of free-to-air channels in the services that enable TV platform operators and region,” said Markus Fritz, Eutelsat EVP broadcasters to maximize the potential of their Commercial Development and Strategic markets. Partnerships. “The survey confirms the pole position of the 7/8º West neighbourhood that The 7/8° West position, commercialised by today enables TV channels to reach into more both Eutelsat and Nilesat, is the leading than 52.3 million homes in 14 Arab countries. The broadcast neighbourhood for MENA and new wave of growth is also reflected in the 40% already reaches 90% of TV homes in the increase in High Definition channels in 2016, region. The second most important TV further confirming 7/8° West as the video neighbourhood in MENA is 13° East. Home to neighbourhood of reference in the Middle East the HOTBIRD family of satellites, it reaches 38 and North Africa.” million homes across the region and is a unique bridge between MENA and Europe. No.1 in the region The new 7° East orbital position has also seen Satellite in the MENA region remains the important growth for customers in South-East backbone of digital TV infrastructure, reaching into Europe, Turkey and the Middle East with over 8 56.1 million homes. Over the last three years, 75% million homes. It is a growing hotspot for of the 3.4 million new homes that have selected Farsi-speaking audiences with over 30 satellite as primary means for TV reception have channels joining the neighbourhood in the last chosen the 7/8° West neighbourhood, further 12 months. anchoring its leading position, up 2.6 million since 2014. The pull of 7/8° West is driven by a strong Vibrant market channel line-up of 1,264 Arabic and international TV channels reach into more than 52.3 million channels, of which almost 150 are in High homes in 14 Arab countries The Middle East Definition, as well as the vast choice and unique and North Africa region continues to show offer of free-to-air content (44% of channels are powerful growth, according to the latest exclusive to this position).

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exceptional images of the latest fashion events HD and beyond from around the world.” Available in seven 2016 marked a tipping point for HDTV HD is languages, Travelxp 4K, features world class gaining traction, with the number of HD- travel programmes filmed all over the world. The equipped homes crossing a threshold of 20 4K channel follows the success of Travelxp HD, million, up from 14.4 million and now which offers 100% originally-produced premium accounting for 34% of TV homes in the region. travel and lifestyle programming distributed to over This percentage is even higher within the 7/8º 50 million homes globally. West audience (46%). HD channels are continuously being added to the offering, with Travelxp 4K CEO, Prashant Chothani, free-to-air channels in HD now outnumbering commented: “Travelxp 4K is all about bringing the pay- TV channels. world to homes in stunning resolution. It's not just about more pixels in 4K but better pixels. We are The most recent addition includes five proud to reinforce our partnership with Eutelsat channels launched by Kuwait TV and and to benefit from their vast knowledge of the Echourouk News HD, the 24/7 Algerian news Ultra HD broadcasting chain. Joining the channel. Ali Fodil, Managing Director and HOTBIRD neighbourhood and gaining access to a founder of the Echourouk Group, said: “With unique and ethnically diverse population pool is a the launch last December of our all-news natural step for us that will fast-track penetration of channel in HD via the EUTELSAT 7 West A Travelxp 4K into homes across Europe, North satellite, we are fully embracing key Africa and the Middle East.” Eutelsat added: “The technology trends and giving viewers the launch of FTV UHD and Travelxp 4K is new benefit of the superior image quality.” Across all evidence of the move by content producers to Ultra Eutelsat satellites, there are now more than HD. Their trust in Eutelsat reflects our commitment 1,000 HD channels. “2016 marked a tipping to delivering service that guarantees viewers an point for High Definition TV across our video enriched and unrivalled Ultra HD experience. neighbourhoods, reaching a new landmark of 1,000 channels, many of which are exclusive to We are proud to support these new channels and Eutelsat,” said Eutelsat's Fritz. “We are fully look forward to accelerating their distribution equipped to accommodate this accelerating across the vast footprint provided by our pace and work closely with broadcasters as HOTBIRD video neighbourhood.” Overall, the they transition to an enhanced viewing exciting Middle East and North Africa market is a experience.” crucial focus for Eutelsat as broadcasters look to attract new audiences, launch new services and Fast-growing Ultra HD connect with people in their homes and on the “We are proud to reinforce our partnership with move. Eutelsat” Prashant Chothani, Travelxp 4K Exclusive Ultra HD content continues to Manoto TV, the popular Persian-language expand on Eutelsat satellites, helping spur channel, has recently completed its switch in SD growth for the next generation of high-end and HD versions to the EUTELSAT 7B satellite. delivery. GfK data reveals that 1.2 million Ultra The channel is now available exclusively from HD sets were sold by the end of 2015 in the Eutelsat's HOTBIRD satellites and EUTELSAT region. 7B, which together form a single neighbourhood for Persian-speaking viewers in Europe, the FunBox UHD joined the HOTBIRD Middle East and Iran. More than two million neighbourhood in 2016, offering amazing Ultra HOTBIRD homes in Iran are already equipped for HD content to cable networks, IP network dual-feed reception from HOTBIRD and the operators and DTH communities across the adjacent EUTELSAT 7B satellite to benefit from satellite footprint, from Germany to Dubai, the superior image quality of Manoto TV in HD and Qatar to Turkey. a diverse line-up of free-to-air content. HOTBIRD already has an addressable Ultra HD connected market of 5 million homes, and a Robert Le Merle, Manoto's Operations Director potential cable subscriber base of 550 million said: “Manoto TV has become the most popular homes. Two more Ultra HD channels have Persian-language channel by staying ahead of the also launched on HOTBIRD. Fashion TV's new competition. Ultra HD channel, FTV UHD and Travelxp 4K, the world's first 4K travel channel, have chosen Viewer expectations are rising all the time. The HOTBIRD's market-leading penetration into audience won't settle for cheap pop-up channels cable and IPTV networks across Europe and anymore. We want to deliver the best experience MENA. Building on the one-of-a-kind Fashion for our viewers with larger scale production and TV brand, FTV UHD is setting a new standard high resolution pictures. We are working with in fashion and lifestyle broadcasting through Eutelsat to deliver premium quality entertainment original programming on style and trends into this growing market. Many satellite providers offered with exceptional image quality. in this territory can only grab short-term FTV UHD's CEO, Michel Adam Lisowski, opportunities. We need to work with a company commented: “We are excited to pursue our that has a vision for the future. Eutelsat shares our commitment to the highest quality of vision.” broadcasting standards through an Ultra HD channel offering Eutelsat's HOTBIRD homes Dual-feed maximises choice A low-cost, dual-feed

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solution makes it simple for audiences to access services on both Eutelsat's 7º East satellites and 13º East, home to EMEA's prime HOTBIRD broadcast neighbourhood.

The easy-to-install monoblock LNB enables an 80cm satellite dish pointed at 13° East to access both neighbourhoods seamlessly. It means broadcasters can cost-effectively reach millions of TV homes across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East served by HOTBIRD, while 7° East satellites provide a key orbital position for audiences in South- East Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa. Homes can receive over 1200 TV channels from the 13° East and 7° East orbital locations, creating even more value for audiences.

Multiscreen delivery with SmartBEAM

Eutelsat's SmartBEAM service provides a satellite-based solution for multiscreen video delivery to connected devices and WiFi Hotspots. SmartBEAM is a game-changer for extending access to video content on mobile devices beyond terrestrial networks and has a competitive edge for mass market delivery of OTT services via satellite. The service enables broadcasters and pay-TV operators to leverage the ubiquitous coverage of satellites to broadcast video content in IP format, creating a network that is completely dedicated to IPnative terminals, including tablets and smartphones. SmartBEAM works with any WiFi-enabled device, supporting instant channel change, DRM security and low latency. Tricolor TV, the operator of one of the world's fastestgrowing TV platforms, is already preparing to launch SmartBEAM to complement its linear Pay-TV service in Russia, going beyond the four walls of user homes to reach viewers on their mobile devices in public.

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Beyond technology, infrastructure, and financial challenges of Digital Migration

Digitization of broadcasting was a challenge, because of limited infrastructure, market potential, content distribution, and strategies for successful migration. ITS decided to enter into partnership agreement with Star-times of China. The ITS/Star platform offers the most viable and realistic platform for easy realization and delivery DSO target. Yakub Ibn Muhammed observed that NTA Star venture currently operating pay DTT should also be allowed to adopt simulcryption, to enable subscribers who already owned Startimes DTT set top boxes have access to free TV

Yakub Ibn Muhammed Director General and CEO Nigerian Television Authority Abuja

The world of broadcasting is going through a plan for digital terrestrial broadcasting in the VHF profound change, due to the development of (174-230MHz) and UHF (470-862MHz) digital technology. The analogue to digital frequency bands. The agreement establishes the broadcasting switchover affects all segments technical criteria for transition from analogue to in the broadcasting value-chain, namely: digital terrestrial television broadcasting and also content production, transmission and how frequencies will be used in all – digital reception. environment as well as governing cross border Considering the role of television and radio in interference in the transition period. contemporary societies, the impact is therefore not only technical but also economic, So far, digitization of broadcasting was a social and political impact, hence needs to be challenge, especially in developing country like handled carefully. The increase in contents Nigeria, because of limited infrastructure. There channels will bring an increase in employment are issues raised by all countries in relation to of people in the creative industry. switching from analogue to digital including regulation, market potential, content distribution, New broadcast stations no longer have to and strategies for successful migration. invest in transmission equipment and so allow lower production costs and additional players All countries that are signatory to the ITU Geneva to the information technology sector will also 2006 GE06are required to make a complete translate in an increase in revenue from taxes switch over from analogue transmission to digital, to governments. following the International Telecommunication Union agreement. The GE06 Agreement of the The world-wide digitization process will free up ITU established the Digital Terrestrial spectrum for the growth of the information Broadcasting Frequency Plan in the radio technology industry. The transition to digital frequency bands for the Ultra High frequency terrestrial television broadcasting is a complex (UHF) Band and Very High Frequency (VHF) process, requiring the involvement of Band. legislators, regulators, broadcasting companies such as contents producers, Nigeria as case study broadcasters and network operators, with With Nigeria as case study, the final deadline of manufacturers and viewers. Apart from clearer June 17th 2017 could not be meet and more Africa images, increased channels for contents and countries like Ghana and Botswana are seeking easier reception, the availability of spectrum to achieve a complete digital switch over, but have will allow expansion of the internet based failed in terms of technology, infrastructure, and technology. financing. Nigeria reminds a signatory to the ITU Geneva 2006 (GE06) agreement that established a In May 2015, the Nigerian Television Authority

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(NTA) registered the Integrated Television combined with identifiers so that several Services Limited (ITS) with the Corporate programmes can use the same frequency channel Affairs Commission as a limited liability as is the case for mobile telephone today. The company to do the business of Broadcast combined signals can be distributed to Signal Distribution (BSD) as envisaged in the transmission sites together as a bundle to the Government's white paper, on the receiver. recommendation of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Digital Migration. This entity Therefore, a single frequency channel that carried (ITS) is the BSD that emerged from the NTA in one programme can now carry up to eight line with this recommendation. This programmes. Hence, the capacity of the bandwidth organization is saddled with the responsibility resource has been increased substantially through and objective as spelt out in the white paper of sharing. The sharing however calls for a different evacuating and distributing Broadcast signals way of managing the broadcasting chain. There is terrestrially across the country Nigeria. need for an entity to combine the different programmes to be referred to as MUX Operator Each country has their own unique situations and the network facilities are being shared hence but Integrated Television Services (ITS) which its management and operation is an issue to be is the National broadcasting Signal Distributor addressed. Broadcasters will share bandwidth, for Nigeria has proven itself as a reliable network facilities, distribution of signals and related organization by launching the DSO pilot operational costs. scheme in Jos Plateau State on 30th April 2016. Also ITS is fully ready to be launch in Ilorin, Kwara state, Oshogbo in Osun state The Challenges of Digital Switch Over and Enugu in Enugu state but awaiting the There are a lot of challenges to Digital Switch Over regulatory authority that did not make a clear in Nigeria, among them are lack of legislature timeline program for the entire stakeholders in backing the operations of DSO and regulatory the DSO business for the implementation of authority asserting themselves and spelling out the digital migration. roles of different stakeholders in the DSO business. Non-existence of business model for all the Strategic Partnership stakeholders to determine or foresee the profit on Due to huge financial burden involved, ITS their investment on the business for transparency. decided to enter into partnership agreement The regulatory body has not allowed the BSD to be with Star-times of China. The ITS/Star responsible for the distribution of Set up boxes. The platform offers the most viable and realistic little funds provided for the BSD was not enough to platform for easy realizing and delivery DSO cover two states in Nigeria due to the huge and target. The ITS is inheriting well over 120 sites varied cost of mast, transmitter and broadcast from the NTA while our strategic partner equipment. already operates in over 86 cities, in 34 states across the country and the federal capital Unstable power supply from the Power Holding territory. Given our approach in the Jos Company has resulted in spending over millions on operation, it only requires complimenting fuel, and provision of uninterruptible power supply. existing infrastructure in these 86 cities to Inadequate content provision by the broadcasters accommodate the Free-tv services. This is hindering the DSO process. Twenty programs relationship if encouraged and nurtured will were allocated for national program, while six take Nigeria to a speedy conclusion of the programs were allocated for the region and six DSO.Currently the transmission standard for programs was allocated for the community or local, DTT is DVB-T2 H.264 which is deployed but to a greater surprise most of this MUX are not yet will soon be upgraded to H.265. filled up. Digital migration has faced many challenges and Between Digital and Analog because it is not optional, most countries have had Broadcasting to be seen struggling to achieve its goals. Digital Analogue broadcasting uses analogue migration comes with challenges ranging from lack signals throughout its broadcasting chain. of proper awareness creation, similarly inadequate Therefore, for each programme being of Set-Top-Box. The set –Top-Box manufacturers broadcast it has to be assigned a frequency had committed resources to the importation of 850, channel and it is the responsibility of the 000 STBs from China which is still grossly broadcaster to distribute signals to be inadequate for the DSO process. So far, a total of transmitted to all transmission sites, and to 745, 480 STBs have been imported into the operate and manage transmitters in all areas country; 566, 478 have been delivered, while 485, the programme has to cover. It was primarily 409 have been sold and 332, 095 were activated in offering only broadcasting service. Hence, for Jos and Abuja. Most countries that have Nigeria TV to broadcast ten programmes it successfully digitized their broadcasting have needs ten separate frequency channels to reportedly spent colossal amounts of money in operates and man transmitters all over the creating awareness among the citizens. For country. example, the United Kingdom took seven years of educating masses and was the first country in the Digital broadcasting on the other hand uses world to migrate to digital transmission. Adequate digital signals in its broadcasting chain. The funding and good communication strategies are different signals to be transmitted are required to achieve a smooth transition.

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The Set Top Box manufacturing is an manufacturers; Middle Ware supplier; and content expensive enterprise which the government aggregator. need not continue to support through the The effort to deliver the DSO in Nigeria is the work subsidy programme. Like all other of these as well as significant players in manufacturer of electronic appliances, they government and the National Assembly of the should be allowed to manufacture and flood Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is the duty of NBC to the market with their products. Market forces separate the services of signal distributors/MUX would hence determine the cost and services and content service provider. The role of preferences of the viewership. The STB signal distributors should be clearly stated as to regime as presently operated constitute a multiplex, transfer service, re-multiplex and heavy burden on resources that would have transmitter network service. The transmission been otherwise available to the DSO project. network topology consists of Multiplexer, Transmission link and transmission systems. Also the role of content service provider should be spelt N B C s t a k e h o l d e r s w e r e n a t u r a l l y out as to responsible for content production, apprehensive about their payments; those content aggregation and delivery of content to the who had huge banking commitments like Set signal distributor/MUX for the consumer. Top Box manufacturers; the satellite company evacuating programs; the signal distributors; Recommendations call center operators and the content Taking into consideration the number of channels aggregators. Yet, each of these continued to NTA intends to transit on the national platform for it believe in the process sufficiently to remain to fulfil its mandate as a national broadcaster, we committed to the delivery of the DSO. After a recommend that NTA channels be given the very careful process of audit of claims, NBC option to ride only on the platform of the Integrated was able to settle the financial commitment to Television Services which also is government these stakeholders, thus strengthening the owned national carrier. This recommendation is resolve to take the DSO further. without prejudice to other private signal distributors, but borne out of concern for reducing Despite Nigerian challenges, for not able to cost of transmission and friction that may arise in meet up with the DSO dates, we still have future as a result of different mandates gilding some countries like Zambian broadcasting private enterprises and government owned regulatory body, Ethiopian, Niger and Sierra agencies or organizations. Leone on their proposed plan to come and The National assembly should fast track the study the Nigerian DSO process.The deadline process of legislative frame work for the digital posed as a challenge due to unpreparedness switch over DSO particularly as it affects the NTA of the BSD. The BSD argued that the and integrated television services (ITS). installation of digital infrastructure was too NTA Star venture currently operating pay DTT expensive. be allowed to adopt simulcryption, to enable In modern times, technology is a subscribers who already owned Startimes DTT phenomenon whose speed is worth keeping set top boxes have access to free TV. A further with. Digital broadcasting is such technology partnership with ITS will go a long way to give ITS that has become a necessary evil for the the needed technical and infrastructural support media industry. Having been initiated by UN which the company needs in the absence of a g e n c y f o r t h e r e g u l a t i o n o f funding from government. The NTA star DTT telecommunications and the deadline set and infrastructure in over 80 cities which will therefore signed by member states, it is a must process. be readily available for use by ITS for free DTT Comparing analogue and digital regimes, it is deployment in short time. With this DSO will soon clear that the broadcasting industry is moving be a walk over in Nigeria. Funds should also be to a 'promised land' where content quality is release for provision of compelling contents and long overdue. However, the migration process adequate modern training. has come with challenges to the government, media industry and the citizens. The good news is that our neighboring countries have not achieved anything close to what Nigeria has been able to do so far in DSO.

Proposed Licensing Framework National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is the regulatory authority responsible for regulating and controlling broadcasting in Nigeria including receiving, processing and considering applications for the grant of broadcasting licenses. It is also responsible for facilitating transition from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting. This includes licensing of broadcasting signal distributor(s) and broadcasting content service providers. The main stakeholders helping to drive Nigeria's digital switch over (DSO) include DIGITEAM; Signal Distributors; Set-Top-Box

21 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Assessing Internet control and surveillance in Nigeria

The Internet is arguably one of the most significant technological developments of the late 20th century. Despite the added benefits of this tool to learning, there has been a trend of increasing budgetary allocation for surveillance equipment including internet communications monitoring by Nigerian government. John Olayemi Odumesi argues that there is a need for more openness from the government to allow a public debate on the internet surveillance to ensure better inclusion, and warns that any unwarranted intrusion on the privacy of citizens will affect the digital economy.

Odumesi John E-Learning Department Civil Defence Academy FCT, Nigeria

The Internet has been considered as a services — and now sell them, either as one medium for promoting global freedom of wing of a larger operation or as their sole form of expression. The Internet was created as an business activity — in cyberspace. open communications system which would enable academics to collaborate and interchange ideas and information without However, these ideas of a free and ungoverned being tied to hierarchical restriction. Internet have proven to be delusive as many national governments have found ways to control, The Internet has a few advantages: it is censor, and govern the Internet. Internet activities relatively fast, it is accessible 24 hours a day, are under the control of governments around the seven days a week, and you can be used from world as laws, regulations, blockades and personal computer. censorship under various guises, in the name of protecting financial transactions and most First, and perhaps of greatest importance for importantly national security. many subscribers to online services, is e-mail. Computer connectivity between nations has By virtue of its decentralized design many people allowed a new form of correspondence to have regarded the Internet to be immune from evolve and this, though seldom noticed, has state control. changed people's daily lives the world over. Individuals now send more words to others, However, the Internet has never been excluded more often, than ever before. from censorship and surveillance by administrative authorities. Internet accessibility in Nigeria has grown exponentially with the advent of It is now possible to communicate easily and mobile phone data and fixed wireless access rapidly with people thousands of miles away. services. However, there has not been any talk E - m a i l h a s b e c o m e a s e e m i n g l y about the state of internet freedom in Nigeria. indispensable part of people's lives, and correspondence by post seems tedious and In 2013, the Nigerian government awarded slow by comparison. $40million contrast to an Israeli company to monitor computer and internet communication by Yet, perhaps because e-mail, in removing Nigerians. The Nigerian government secretly and previous barriers of geography and distance, in open violation of lawful contracting procedures, reduces some of the perceived burdens of has awarded an Israeli firm, Elbit Systems, a the old paper and post systems, it is used $40million contract to help it spy on citizens' almost incessantly! computer networks and Internet communications Finally, the Internet has become a major site under the shape of intelligence gathering and for commercial activity, and many corporate national security. organizations now advertise their goods and

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Roles of public institutions From the study, protection of internet infrastructure is presently covered under Section 3 of Nigeria Cybercrime Act 2015, Part Seven (7) of Accordingly, the Nigeria Communications Nigeria National Cybersecurity Policy provide C o m m i s s i o n , r e g u l a t e s t h e legal framework for addressing any form of telecommunications service providers, issues challenges towards national internet infrastructure of internet control have been a major concern and Chapter Six (6) of Nigeria National nationally and internationally especially as they Cybersecurity Strategy presents government relate to content, safety of minors and approach to national internet infrastructure vulnerable audiences. The internet in Nigeria is protection and resilience. Also, the concern over not controlled. Although, provisions had been telecoms infrastructure vandalism led to the need made in the license document on the provider's to declare it a critical national security obligations. Thus, activities in this area have infrastructure and in line to this, the critical national been mostly self-regulatory. infrastructure bill is presently on the floor of the National Assembly which is yet to be passed into However, NCC has made provisions via the law. development of frameworks and industry code of practice that will guide the industry, supporting a co-regulatory approach. The In exploring the study on how agencies handling of concern over telecoms infrastructure internet control related cases/issues in Nigeria, it vandalism led to the need to declare it a critical was revealed that, there is no specific agency national infrastructure. In line to this, NCC has assign by law to investigate internet control and sponsored the critical national infrastructure surveillance related cases/issues. However, bill which is yet to be passed into law. However, Nigeria Information Technology Development NCC is in the process of establishing a sectoral Agency (NITDA) indicated that; it ensures Computer Security Incident Response Team enforcement towards policy framework on the use that will receive reports of security breaches, of information technology as well as administering conduct analyses of the reports, etc. Nigeria's country code top level domain (.ng).

The study reveals that, no security agency, In examining the general awareness level about governmental parastatals or private entities in internet control in Nigeria, it was observed that, the Nigeria is handling any aspects of internet general public believes the internet usage is been control. However, the survey further reveals monitored by the Nigerian government. that, Nigeria Communications Commission is . in the process of establishing a sectorial Also, other government surveillance efforts were Computer Security Incident Response Team revealed in the publicly available summary of the which will eventually address internet control federal government's 2014 budget proposal, related cases/issues in Nigeria. which budgeted NGN 415 million (US$2.6 million) for a “Data Retention System”, NGN 359 million NCC does not carry out or engage in internet (US$2.2 million) for a “GSM Passive Off-the-air surveillance but collaborates with a number of Interception System” and NGN 350 million agencies on issues that border on (US$2.2 million) for a “Strontium Sky Diligent Cybersecurity, cyber incidences and internet Recon System” under the Directorate of State governance. A study indicates that, only Nigeria Security Services. Information Technology Development Agency ( N I T D A ) c o l l a b o r a t e w i t h N i g e r i a Conclusion Communications Commission (NCC) and The Nigerian government must understand the Nigeria Internet Registration Agency (NIRA) on legal and socio-economic implications of the cases relating to internet surveillance. various threats to Internet Freedom and seek to, However, the collaboration is based to while combating security threats, find the right enforcement and policy formulation on balance between privacy of its citizens and information technology usage in Nigeria. security of the nation. Citizen and Internet business participation is needed to create a safe However, there are existing legislations that and free Internet and government should not seek violates internet user privacy in Nigeria, they to intimidate individuals and organisations that are; Section 38 of Nigeria Cybercrime Act 2015, bring these rights violations to the attention of all Nigeria National Cybersecurity Policy and stakeholders. Strategy, NITDA Act 2007, Sections 146 and 147 of the Nigeria Communications There is evidence within Africa and elsewhere that Commission Act 2003, The Part 1 of the draft the effect of increasing government monitoring of lawful interception of communications Internet communications is the stifling and regulation by Nigeria Communications silencing of freedom of expression, which creates Commission Act 2003, , Guidelines for the a numb and inert civil society incapable of any provision of internet service published in engagement with government. pursuant to Section 70 (2) of the Nigeria Communications Commission Act 2003, Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013 and Mobile Number Portability regulation 2013 by Nigeria Communications Commission.

23 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 DTH - Moving towards a new era

Direct to home (DTH) services have provided highly-valued content to millions across the globe for many years now. In recent years, over the top (OTT) services and Video on Demand (VoD) have been making waves in the broadcasting sector as a whole, and companies are coming to grips with their new place in the market. Mahdi Mehrabi, outlines the changing DTH sector, and new opportunities that have arisen alongside the advent of new technologies.

Mahdi Mehrab Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director North Telecom

The era of legacy television seems to be being costly networks, and large human capital costs to dimmed by the emergence of Video on keep the network up and running, especially for Demand (VoD) technologies and other over countries with a variety of different geographical the top (OTT) services, which are acting as variations such as mountains and deserts. disruptive technologies for the legacy television market around the world. Things are New technologies deliver new opportunities moving fast, but more than half of the world's With the emergence of new technologies in the population still has no means to be connected satellite industry, new opportunities have arisen. to basic infrastructures, and heavily relies on Spot beams were not initially an interesting legacy technology like television. concept for DTH platforms, as broadcasters could cover a continent or two through wide beam legacy Providing access to billions technology, enabling them to reach out to millions Direct to home (DTH) services have been in of viewers with a single platform. However, the existence for many years. The initial DTH media market is growing fast; copyright and concept was to provide viewers with better concentrating on local content are trending. access to media in general and television in particular. Providers wanted to make DTH Consumers are demanding more content and services via satellite easy to access for billions programming in their mother tongue, and want to of people around the world. see traditional television as a more dynamic media to fill the gaps of the social media era as much as The concepts of using very small antennas possible. with high reliability to bridge the digital gap and to protect the right of the world's population to They also value the flexibility provided in terms of have access to information through the smaller antenna sizes, the ease of deployment simplest method of communication are among without having technical expertise, and the lower the most remarkable achievements of satellite costs achieved while maintaining the quality and communication platforms. Using a very small reliability of their system. antenna and, in many cases, cost effective setup boxes, made the DTH system almost a Having said that, spot beam concepts have proven plugand- to be a favorable and cost-effective method to address the concerns detailed above. play technology for lots of people around the Broadcasters are seeing a great deal of value in globe. It is accessible anywhere, easy to concentrating more on their domestic markets and deploy and almost maintenance free. This has using television for different purposes such as significantly cut costs for broadcasters that teleshopping and news media, etc. have traditionally relied on the deployment of Today, consumers are demanding more; they want VHF/UHF technology with many PoP sites, to see what is going on in the world around them.

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Spot beam technology has provided a huge advantage to broadcasters to concentrate more on their target market, enjoying the strength of satellite capabilities to ensure the high degree of reliability and availability to their customers, particularly in harsh and tropical environments, where the degradation of satellite signals have been always a big barrier to DTH market penetration.

A more specialized and segmented market Moving forward, we are witnessing the planning and deployment of many new satellite constellations in upcoming years; most are targeting underdeveloped areas for the provision of IP communication capabilities, taking the development stage into account while being realistic about supply chain and eco-system constraints. It would be wise to invest in video applications as a new deployment focus as well, since the spot beam concept provides lower cost television receive- only (TVRO) services compared with twoway communications. In a nutshell, it is essential to contrast between different types of broadcasters and their demand, since the market is moving to be more specialized and more segmented.

25 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 The DTH teleport - challenges and opportunities

DTH broadcasting has traditionally been one of the most stable and safe market segments for satellite operators for many years. However, in recent times consumer viewing habits have changed drastically, with more people than ever before watching media over alternate devices, and switching from traditional free or paid-for TV to subscription streaming services. Cristi Damian, explains how teleports have to change in line with the evolving DTH market, and how new technologies can provide vast improvements in operations

Cristi Damian VP of Business Development at Advantech Wireless

After almost two decades of being one of the back up. As newer satellites offered better most 'change reality is fast catching up with equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP), traditional satellite based DTH operators. and better coverage, traffic was moved periodically Companies and technologies that did not exist from one antenna to another, trying to meet 15 years ago are now several times larger and customer demands. Soon, the teleport become a riding fast on the most advanced technology spider net of intermediate frequency (IF) and available. There is probably as much, if not waveguide routings, and tasks like frequency more, video content being distributed by planning become ever more complex. YouTube today than by the entire DTH industry. The need to maintain perfect availability, as well as Add to that the rapid change driven by the technology limitations, required all indoor demography in the way we access video today, equipment, including modems, frequency we can easily see the challenges. converters, and HPAs. Technical personnel would supervise the installations 24/7 and would be able Traditionally, DTH operators provided video to act on the spot in case of malfunctioning. Fines content directly to the end user, or via cable for loss of traffic during a major sporting event operators. We've seen a 20 percent fall in the would be huge. last 2-3 years on cable TV / satellite TV subscriptions in mature markets. Young But that came at a cost we could afford only 20 generations do not have plasma TVs on their years ago. In a recent study a few years ago, we buying agendas, but they do need identified typical RF power losses anywhere uninterrupted high speed Internet access and between 60 percent to 80 percent on the wave unlimited data on their smartphones. Is there guide runs connecting the indoor high power still a place for satellite DTH operators, and will amplifiers (HPAs) to antennas. We have they be able to adapt? We believe the answer is highlighted electricity expenses 7-8 times higher yes, and the time is now. than they should be.

We can turn the business model around and The OPEX cost to run this expensive infrastructure create opportunities based on intrinsic satellite would easily exceed millions of Dollars. Bandwidth advantages, and by proper teleport design. management becomes difficult, and we would even end up paying for it when not used. Soon, the Legacy DTH teleports high OPEX cost would make any new investment The vast majority of DTH teleports were in CAPEX problematic. Our productivity would designed and built almost 20 years ago. As suffer, and cash flow would be affected. We have to business grew, the teleports grew too. More act now, and act fast. antennas were added, with bigger shelters and large UPS systems with diesel generators for

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Advanced DTH teleport should be able to saturate an entire transponder architecture with a single carrier, as this is the most economical way of using bandwidth. To do that, 90 percent of existing teleports still use large indoor klystrons. For the overall business side, there are several The klystrons are bandwidth limited, and require points that should be covered: expensive, wellstabilized and balanced power Bandwidth costs are falling, and that will make lines. In the front end, each klystron is using a the DTH teleport business case stronger. frequency converter to connect to the modem. On However, this will imply output, the klystrons run on complex 1:N more customers for the same or even lower redundancy schemes, and have all outputs revenue. It will require a priority change in connected to a network of high power filter OPEX cost allocation from equipment combiners in order to be able to concentrate maintenance to customer handling and multiple klystrons (i.e. multiple transponders), on support. It implies directly a much lower teleport the same wave guide run to the outdoor antenna. architecture complexity. This traditional architecture severely limits our flexibility in the teleport, to route carriers from one UltraHD 4k or 8K is here to stay, and it will grow. antenna to another, or simply split traffic. That means 4-8 times more bandwidth, and 4-8 times more RF power required to transmit. Yes, We are now in charge of a massive investment into we can use higher order modulation to reduce a very expensive shelter, which is using massive bandwidth, as specified in DVB-S2X standard, electricity on UPS and diesel generators, plus but that also requires more power. History expensive air conditioning systems. But when we proves that customers will not pay extra for look at how efficient we are, we notice that we lose these new services; they will expect the same anywhere up to 80 percent of RF power on these or lower prices in a very competitive frequency combiners and long wave guide environment. runs.We believe that there is no reason to continue doing that. There are certain benefits of the new HTS satellites, but wider beams are still the best Today, GAN-based solid state power amplifiers option for broadcasting, as opposed to narrow (SSPAs) are military grade and designed for all spot beams. However, narrow beams could be outdoor harsh environments. They exhibit useful for local content contribution. The reliability values at least three times higher than traditional DTH teleport operator should legacy klystrons or older SSPAs. These systems engage the HTS satellite operator for are wide band, and do not require frequency partnership, because sooner or later they will combiners. The frequency converters are built-in. compete. At the minimum, we should keep the modems and the encoders in the teleport. All RF should be Video distribution is most efficiently done in a outdoors, and we should run L-band outdoor hybrid satellite – Internet network. We need to cables, instead of wave guides, at a fraction of the develop the IP knowledge and skills that we cost. Just by moving the RF section outdoors, we urgently need at the teleport level. The DTH will easily reduce the amount of energy teleport will be more of a networking hub than a consumption by 50 percent, as we need less RF simple one way broadcast solution. This is a power now. In a simple step, we have eliminated new set of skills that it is not easily available in the need for: the teleport today. Digital IF, which intends to replace all IF cables Frequency converters and their redundancy; and switching matrixes with Ethernet cables Expensive high power filter combiners; and and routers, is making fast progress. It will Expensive outdoor waveguide runs. achieve a massive cost reduction at the teleport hardware level, and much higher flexibility in And reduced the size of: changing traffic from one antenna to another, or The air conditioning; and from one teleport to another. The UPS and diesel generators. Additional power savings are possible by installing The DTH teleport is a major CAPEX and OPEX the SSPAs behind the antenna reflector, on a asset. We need to generate additional mobile platform that is moving in synch with the business from antenna as it tracks the satellite. By adopting these multiservice platforms, and we need to access simple changes, a massive cost reduction can be new markets, if we want to stay competitive and achieved in electricity bills, and we now require grow. much less RF power to transmit. And, with more and more high bandwidth transmissions and Ultra Adopt the change today, plan for the HD4K and 8K, rest assured that we will need all the future now RF power that we can get. It is our firm conviction that the satellite DTH industry needs to reinvent itself in line with the This brings us to the second thing that we can now most advanced technology available, and with achieve by this simple change. GaN-based SSPAs today's demands of our customers. We have to are much more linear, hence they have much start by admitting that the way we design the better capability for transmitting higher teleport has a major cost impact and it can limit bandwidth signals, and higher modulation. They our capabilities. We know that, ideally, we are a safe investment for future demands for more

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power and more bandwidth. that can service markets larger than traditional DTH broadcast. We should consider a digital IF architecture. IP becomes the way video is being transmitted. To The teleport would be able to uplink large SCPC push the change even further, we should DVBS2X carriers, with the most advanced consider running IP data cables instead of L- modulation and error correcting codes available, in band cables between the shelter and the RF. a typical DTH architecture. It could also allocate Complex and expensive matrix switches can bandwidth from the same pool for traditional now be replaced by simple IP routers. Traffic Internet bidirectional applications, in a very can be sent on multiple paths via Internet or via efficient pure TDMA access mode. It could also do satellite. The increase in flexibility is truly optimal cellular backhauling with a traffic profile outstanding We can reach more content, and that will allow burst and SCPC using the advanced we can reach new customers. ASCPCTM access mode.

There are at least two ways to send data via This integrated platform, with its built-in intelligent IP: algorithms, basically replaces three different Use additional IF to IP external converters, at networks, all of them designed for different both sides of the IP cable network; and applications and different markets. It offers a future Consider the migration to a more advanced proof solution, in a dynamic and unpredictable architecture in which the modem is also market evolution. outdoors, built in the RF.

The Advantech Wireless C8000 All Outdoor Terminal is a full transceiver, operating in Ku and/or Ka-band, and includes a built-in advanced DVB-S2x or DVB-RCS modem. This , is the first to be launched in a series of completely integrated modem plus RF all outdoor solutions. It takes advantage of a full software defined radio platform, where even the satellite access mode, i.e. SCPC or TDMA, can be changed. Future modulation and error correcting codes can be simple software upgrades.

At this point, even the need for a shelter is questionable. All video content can be sent to the teleport from the processing studio, on a fibre cable line. We will need to access more customers, and have more than one service. The selected platform for the teleport should be a truly multiservice platform. We should be able to provide:

High video content when needed, without wasting bandwidth when we do not transmit; Complement the services with Internet access, generate more business on a TDMA classic platform;

Be able to extend cellular networks, like 3G and 5G; and Be able to take advantage of low cost HTS bandwidth, where having an all IP network with very high flexibility is mandatory. The most advanced solution today is the ASAT IITM Multiservice and Multi-Waveform VSAT Platform. This innovative satcom access platform won the “VSAT Manufacturer of the Year Award” at the VSAT Global Conference, London, in 2015.

At the core of this platform is Advantech Wireless WaveSwitchTM technology, which allows different satellite access schemes from the same terminal, and the intelligent 3D BoDTM bandwidth allocation scheme, which analyses in real time the traffic profile, assigns the requested level of quality of service, and allocates the bandwidth. The entire idea is to have a real multi-service platform in the teleport 28 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Understanding and delivering Internet access at sea

Delivering communications for crew at sea has only recently become a serious focus for shipping companies, helped significantly by falling satellite capacity prices and the advancement of antenna technology. Providing services that allow crew to stay in touch with friends and family back home makes all the difference to crew satisfaction, and therefore crew retention. Gregor Ross, outlines how services have evolved as bandwidth consumption has moved from straight-forward web browsing to applications and social networking.

Gregor Ross, Sales & Marketing Director - Europe Globecomm Maritime

For some time, the assumption in maritime and particularly officer cadets – communications is communications has been that more an increasingly important part of the offer. bandwidth is always better than less. That this argument has been made mostly by the There are numerous technologies available to suppliers of the bandwidth is not surprising, but help owners meet the demand for Internet access, it has helped to overturn another assumption; but among the issues to be unpacked are the that the bandwidth available at sea would never crew's expectations and the belief that only high catch up to that available ashore. throughput can meet them. What must be understood is what Internet access actually Thanks to changes in the way that we consume means. It should be obvious that there is a huge data, this argument may be less relevant in difference between this and browsing the world future than it was in the past. What remains true wide web, but in the user's mind the terminology is is that broadband satellite services at sea are interchangeable. expensive compared to those ashore. Although in our experience there is a limit to what Other more recent developments such as social seafarers will spend on communications, it networking and apps are further extending the does not depend only on their disposable conversation. Compared to web browsing where income. It is also a function of the quality of the the user generally receives information, social connectivity and its ease of use. media is far more engaged. Send and receive traffic flow on these applications is closer to 50-50, Changing face of Internet usage but the data volume required is much lower than The common complaint of welfare browsing, while app use falls somewhere in organisations is why seafarers cannot have the between. 'Starbucks' experience at sea. Using only the simplest comparisons, the router installed at The right system for the right the Starbucks cost maybe US$50 and the store applications might pay its Internet service provider US$100 a month. And the Wi-Fi is free (for the price of Selecting the right system for the user's needs your metadata) which means that if it isn't depends on understanding not just the available working, you have no recourse to complaint. options – including 4G connectivity - but how crew are likely to use it. Real examples recorded via the A VSAT equivalent would require US$50,000 of Globecomm Portal indicate that crew usage on a hardware and US$2,000 a month or more for megabyte per month basis will be reasonably the service. It's not a helpful comparison. What consistent whether the service is provided free or we can be certain of is that crew demand for paid for. Of course, there is a limit to what seafarers reliable, private connectivity is strong and will will pay, just as there are differences in usage continue to grow. For those recruiting crew – patterns which can

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be observed among a fleet of similar ships, owned and crewed by the same company. Given the distinction between web browsing, apps and social media, what service providers must help owners understand is which service is better for which applications.

While it is obviously true that a crew with access to VSAT will show higher usage, crew communications is not all about the high end. L-band services can provide crew with very acceptable access to social networks and specific apps. The evidence we have collected suggests that the vast majority of crew are happy to pay a reasonable price for the service, but they are not particularly sensitive to price per megabyte. How much they spend instead depends on whether the connectivity is of sufficient quality for them to use it, and crucially, how easy it is to access, using their own smart phone and in privacy. Just like the bandwidth, the options are growing. But with maritime budgets under pressure, demonstrating value remains as important as ever.

30 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Reporting from the heart of disaster

Whether it’s national disaster, major music or sporting event, or everyday news, satellite news gathering has become a major part in everyday life. Throughout the decades, technology has developed and evolved so that today, our satellite broadcast equipment is advanced enough that we can broadcast live HD footage from around the world. With it, viewers in every corner of the Earth can stay up to date on the latest events, and get a glimpse of worlds they’ll never experience from themselves. When it comes to humanitarian disasters, such as wars or weather events, SNG enables us to be at the heart of what’s going on Robert Bell, talks about how SNG has changed our world for the better.

Robert Bell Executive Director Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI)

Disasters make news. Whether the referred to as digital newsgathering (DNG). It uses catastrophe is an act of nature or humanity, we a mix of satellite, cellular telephone, microwave want to see it with our own eyes and share the and wired broadband to transmit news experience of the people whose lives are from the field to the news center, where it is edited turned upside down. We watch with a horrified into stories or put live on the air. The equipment fascination that is part curiosity and part rides on trucks or cars, in suitcases or backpacks, compassion. Through the miracle of moving and it makes reporters, wherever in the world they pictures, we are connected to the lives of may be, into integrated members of the news people we have never met and may be moved team. to help them. Trying to give context How exactly do disasters become news? That Bringing us live coverage of terrible events is a is, how does video coverage get from disaster tough job. On September 11, 2001, executive zones to your television, your computer or your producer Susan Zireinsky, of the CBS news phone? In hurricanes and floods, warfare and program “48 Hours,” was tasked with producing terrorism, one of the first things to collapse is the primetime coverage of the first day and night communications. Sometimes the networks after the fall of the World Trade Center in New York themselves are damaged – as when the 2011 City. Japanese tsunami wiped out wired and wireless communications in the Sendai region “Especially on that day,” she recalls, “you were just – and sometimes they are simply going to whomever had a piece of information. You overwhelmed by the number of people trying to were getting cameras up, you were putting people use them. Some catastrophes take place far in place, you were trying to wrap your brain around from any broadband connection or optical fibre it. You wanted to step back and synthesize some of line. the information, which is what we were trying to do. At that point, we thought there were many more Since the 1980s, the solution to bringing news dead, and it was still a search-and-rescue mission. from the worst places in the world has been It was a very, very complicated day to try to give satellite. It was in 1984that an entrepreneur context to.” named Stanley Hubbard, a TV station owner and member of SSPI's Hall of Fame, When the infamous Capiapo mine collapsed in assembled a team to create the world's first Chile, NHK of Japan arrived early and stayed until 'satellite truck' to deliver live news from the after the rescue. Roger Hawkins, President of the field. satellite services company Disaster Truck, recalls working for the network. “When the rescuers That innovation created a global industry, completed a hole about 18 inches in diameter to worth an estimated US$1.2 billion today, now send down food and water, NHK sent down a video

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camera. We showed the miners how to use it and for two and a half weeks, they were able to interview each other and record messages for their loved ones, who were waiting for them to be rescued.”

The same video footage, transmitted by satellite, transfixed people the world over. Mr. Hawkins was also present after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in 2010. CBS did not have any equipment of its own close enough to Haiti to rush to the scene, so Disaster Truck got the call. After putting their portable satellite terminal into place, however, they could not find a generator to power it. The stakes were high. American star journalist Katie Courec was due to arrive to handle the reporting assignment, so Hawkins' team wired up two Haitian taxi cabs to produce enough power for the satellite terminal and the camera. The coverage went live on schedule.

Uniting the world Reporting live from the field does more than satisfy the idle curiosity of viewers. In many terrible situations, it provides the first reliable information from the field. It marshals the concern and support of millions of people, who are moved to donate online. Red Cross officials reported that they raised US$488 million from the public for disaster relief in Haiti. When the tsunami struck Japan in 2011, donations to the Red Cross added $700 million to the massive disaster relief effort of the Japanese government.

It also brings the realities of war, terrorism and disaster into the homes of those lucky enough to be ignorant of all three. That can make us feel less safe – but can also unite us in powerful ways.

When the United States pushed Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in 2003, the world saw live coverage from the Bloommobile, a satellite- equipped vehicle that NBC News put into the field. It was named for correspondent David Bloom, who became a household name by reporting on the move as tanks and trucks rolled across the desert. Sadly, Mr. Bloom died of a pulmonary embolism in Bagdad soon after those broadcasts.

America's Iraqi mission began with live TV coverage and ended the same way. NBC News put the Bloommobile back in action in 2010 to cover the last US combat brigade as it pulled out of Iraq. The motivation then was the same as it was in 2003, according to David Verdi, Vice President of NBC News. “We asked ourselves what our audience expected from us in our coverage of the conflict. The unanimous answer was that our audience expects to see this war live.”

The digital newsgathering toolkit has an ever- expanding range of technologies to capture and deliver news to your TV, computer or phone. When journalists need to bring you that

32 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 The power of satellite broadband in emerging economies

Access to Internet connectivity is taken for granted in much of the Western world; we use it every day for work, shopping, entertainment, and to stay in touch with those we love. Broadband has so much more to offer in developing nations though, particularly across Africa, where reliable connectivity can improve economic activity and change millions of lives for the better. Farhad Khan, describes the benefits delivered by high speed Internet in Africa, and how Yahsat is making a real difference to the lives of many.

Farhad Khan Chief Commercial Officer, Yahsat

Historically, economies that have stayed abreast with technological advancements have seen Investing to boost economic activity consequent socioeconomic development across The benefits of satellite broadband are probably the sectors ranging from healthcare and education to most visible across Africa. The continent brims with agriculture and financial services. potential, and for those savvy enough and patient enough to understand its dynamic markets, the A technology that has propelled economic progress continent's opportunities are arguably the most significantly, I believe, is broadband. Until relatively significant to be found anywhere in the world. recently, much of the world's more advanced connectivity was driven by legacy cable Even though the continent is beset with drawbacks such infrastructure. as low disposable income, socio-political issues, and ruralurban migration, there are many tangible positive This type of physical infrastructure, labour intensive indicators, which cannot be ignored. The continent's and disruptive to install, requires significant Internet penetration is expected to reach 50 per cent by governmental and private sector investment to build 2025 as Smartphones hit a forecasted 360 million in and maintain. Hence, naturally, many developing number, increasing significantly from 16 per cent and 67 economies found themselves hamstrung by the lack million respectively in 2013. of access to communication capabilities that are a pre-requisite for growth and development. Africa's economies are set to continue growing, with a direct correlation between investment in broadband There was definitely a need for high performance connectivity and the growth in economic activity, being broadband that is not subjected to costs and established by research from the GSM Association, physical limitations that would typically be present amongst others, suggesting that for every 10 per cent with the cable based systems. A gap existed for a increase in broadband connectivity, the GDP of broadband technology that is unfettered by the developing nations rises by 1.38 per cent. limitations of older systems. This technology's impact is far-reaching and can actually put Delivering life-changing connectivity businesses and government organisations in Yahsat has set out to provide connectivity across Africa, emerging markets on an equal footing to their to not only businesses and individuals, but also contemporaries in other government and social organisations that are parts of the world. facilitating socio-economic growth across different sectors and industries. Our YahClick broadband service Broadband, powered by satellites, reaches users in offers consumers a highly reliable, instantly available the remotest parts of the world and facilitates social service with total independence from terrestrial development infrastructure. It is not a one-size-fits-all approach, but a unparalleled in the history of the world. Satellite solution that is scalable and can be tailored according to communications have revolutionized the way different needs. education is We have worked with numerous organisations across imparted to children, healthcare is delivered to Africa and are seeing first-hand the benefits that patients, and government services are provided to technology is bringing to communities and individuals citizens. nationwide. Over the past few years, we have

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witnessed remarkable results in markets including communication between healthcare facilities, these Kenya and South Africa. For instance, the Eastern patients have access to quicker, cheaper options. Cape in South Africa comprises of multiple rural communities. The local health centres and clinics have been able to provide services that have reduced mortality and These remote communities relyon local resources improved the quality of life only because of a simple to stay informed and educated with knowledge sharing mechanism that has been community libraries playing a key role. Traditionally implemented through high-speed broadband. I believe theselibraries have been underserved in terms of that the advantages of satellite communications connectivity, meaning there was barely any library- services are numerous and significant – offering stable, to-librarycommunications and public internet affordable broadband connectivity that in turn has the access was unreliable. ability to change the fortune of a nation – and its people for the better. The National Library of South Africa is a custodian and provider of the nation's key knowledge The applications are endless for schools, medical resource. Mandated to ensure that knowledge is centres, commerce and banking, as well as for not lost to posterity and that information is available connecting under serviced, off-network areas such as to all, the Department of Arts and Culture, which rural communities. oversees the Library, decided to undertake an ambitious project to improve access to its services Looking to the future in 2010. We look forward to bringing high-speed connectivity to more countries across Africa with our third satellite, Al Given South Africa is the 25th largest country in the Yah 3, set to be launched this year, and place previously world and home to nine provinces, of which the neglected communities at the heart of the next Eastern Cape is the second largest, connecting the generation of economic development. libraries and rural communities, was a significant challenge due to the lack of nation-wide infrastructure.

In an effort to support The National Library project and to help drive knowledge across South Africa, Vox Telecom and YahClick joined forces to provide satellite broadband Internet services to all public libraries in the Eastern Cape. YahClick was chosen due to its ease of installation, with no terrestrial restrictions, and has since provided the ideal solution to connect libraries with each other and with the outside world in a more affordable and reliable way.

Today, the partnership has given communities easier access to information and knowledge enhancing the learning Photo courtesy experience even in the most remote locations by connecting 207 remote libraries. In addition, it has given individuals a renewed interest in reading with libraries seeing an increase in footfall.

Similarly, in Kenya, forty percent of the residents of the Kiambu County reside in rural areas and require access to affordable healthcare facilities. Hence, there was a need to connect 108 urban and rural health care facilities to improve the provision of healthcare services in the country to ensure that patients receive adequate, timely care.

There was a vital system required through which facilities could share important information such as patients' medical history, inventory management for drugs, and keep a track of human resource requirements when nurses or doctors are on leave. In addition to this, teleconferencing facilities were essential to refer patients or secure prompt advice from physicians.

Through implementing new software and employing YahClick services, the healthcare facilities are now able to share critical information, which helps them in managing patient inquiries, and handle simpler cases in the clinics. This not only saved time, but also resulted in cost savings for the patients looking for healthcare services. For instance, most of the local farmers can get medical assistance without the need to travel long distances for a check-up and consultation. About 10,000 patients are provided healthcare services in the county every day, and through improved

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Altering telco's strategic identity

Sudatel operates in four African countries, with three of its operations located in West Africa, namely, Sudan, Expresso (Senegal), Chinguitel (Mauritania) and Intercel (Guinea Conkary) with high demand for data and huge potential for digitial adoption. Bushra Omer Alkhalil Altayeb, explains that while the trigger for adopting digital transformation between countries may be different, the fear operators' face of becoming irrelevant in the digital revolution and the benefits reaped from digitalized business models has paved the way towards telecom digital strategies.

Bushra Omer Alkhalil Altayeb Business Analysis Manager Sudatel

As digitization conquers most aspects of the Operators find themselves in a critical position that consumer's daily activities, an imperative for has led to the emergence of certain trends; innovation has become deemed necessary, Mergers & acquisition, cost optimization initiatives traditional business models need to be and introducing digitization to their portfolios. The disrupted for businesses to maintain time for altering Telco's strategic identity has now relevance with their stakeholders. The come. On the other hand the case of Africa is consumer's expectation for digitalization different, the telecom market and digital context unravels organically as an entire generation is vary significantly from one country to the other. now fully accustomed to the digital environment. In South Africa penetration rates have exceeded 133%, whereas in Sub-Saharan Africa penetration The development of the technology has rates averaged at 44% . To grasp a solid allowed it to become affordable to the end understanding of digitalization in Africa one must user. Furthermore, the economic benefits of be aware of the cultural differences and gaps in the digital world are massive. All are key order to adjust their digital offering. The increase in factors that are driving the dynamic growth of smart phone penetration and aggressive demand the digital world. for data is a weighty trend in the region, a factor that can stimulate the adoption of digitalization The question still remains intact, “How are aggressively. telecom operators reacting to the dominant impact of digitization?” Whether it's M-pesa in Kenya or the Nigerian Netflix, African countries can utilize digital The effect of digitization has initially been transformation to bridge the gap towards further viewed by telecom operators as a challenge, development. the perception of a product/service that is not extracted from the Telco's core portfolio is a Therefore, the trigger for adopting digital threat. However, with slower revenue growths transformation between Africa and the Middle East and declining margins operators find may be different, yet the role of telecom operators themselves at crossroads. In the MEA region, remains the same in both markets. The fear a region that enjoyed a 10 year run till 2016 operators' face of becoming irrelevant in the digital and contributed to 20% of the industry's revolution and the benefits reaped from digitalized economic pool profit , is now strategically business models has paved the way towards challenged. telecom digital strategies.

The high capital requirements, increasing From precisely that context, Sudatel telecom operational costs complimented by relatively group developed its five year corporate strategy. matured markets insinuates that cash wins will Sudatel operates in four African countries, three of not be easy in the Middle East markets. 35 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

the operations are located in West Africa, cycle for Sudatel group that starts by laying the namely, Expresso (Senegal), Chinguitel ground and context effectively for ICT (Mauritania) and Intercel (Guinea Conkary). transformation.

As mentioned earlier, these African markets The key challenge facing the STG strategy will be vary significantly yet all indicators illustrate introducing digitalization to markets that have led a high demand for data and huge potential for traditional manner and host a small population of digitial adoption. Sudatel operates in cut-throat digital savvy consumers. The emphasize of African competitive markets but enjoys a modest governments set on developing a fully-fledged market share and a strong presence.In 2016, digital ecosystem is a key factor for telecom Sudatel recorded revenues of approximately operators to play an active role in these markets. $500 million , enjoying EBITDA margins of 35% For instance, which comfortably fall within the region's average. Rwanda's master plan developed by the government to use ICT as an economy enabler has Sudatel strategically targets revenues of $ 1 highlighted the benefits of digitalization. Rwanda Billion by 2020 and achieving an EBITDA has managed to attain average growth of 7% margin of 45%. The strategy dictates a between 2012-2015, primarily driven by ICT diversified portfolio by 2020 meaning that 50% services. Fortunately, over the past few years of revenues are to be incurred from modern government strategies have been influenced by the services ( digital services & broadband). The role ICT can play in the economy. Sudatel has 2020 Corporate Strategy is divided between witnessed that governments in all opcos have two stages to achieve the vision of becoming a grasped the importance of digitalization. With the leading ICT provider in the region. The first support received to date, Sudatel will be able to phase highlights the importance of bettering introduce e-commerce and e-government the basics and addressing key issues in initiatives into its portfolio during the upcoming regards to connectivity. During the past two year. years, the company has been working on improving its competitive abilities through As a telecom operator in a region that shows high optimizing the network, improving processes, growth prospects, Sudatel is arming itself not to maximizing synergies and building reach a precarious position. The motive for telecom partnerships. operators to introduce digitization may have come by force, yet the gains that range from increased Several cost optimization projects have taken revenues, churn reduction and customer place and enriched go to market techniques acquisition position digitalization as a massive have been developed. The objective of this opportunity that telecom operators have to period is to ensure that STG is utilizing its leverage from. In the case of Sudatel, the success assets in a manner that allows the company to of digital adoption is highly interlinked with national realize its full potential. When viewing this part strategies. of Sudatel's journey it aligns with the growth potential seen in all markets that needs to be The success of operators will enhance the success realized prior to or in tandem with the digital of this new ecosystem, the gains will range from transformation. increased revenues for operators to higher growth rates in the economy. The necessity of an aligned An unserved demand still exists towards collaborative ecosystem is crucial, only then can different services in all markets. For example, Sudatel realize the full gain from digitalization. in Sudan and Mauritania a high demand for voice and data still exists whilst in Senegal and Intercel the demand for data shows high potential. Moreover, to lay the groundwork for ICT services Sudatel has been gradually started to introduce digital services. The second phase of the Strategy focuses on convergence and the portfolio Sudatel can introduce using its 13,675 km of fiber optic infrastructure, its state of the art data center based in Khartoum and markets that are ready for innovation. During this stage STG will extend its market reach into new markets, new segments and new products.

strategy will accelerate business growth. Connectivity will always be a key element during both stages of the strategy and prioritizing investment based on customer experience impact. Finally, creating a work environment that provides a space for innovation and unity is vital for the employees of Sudatel. The five principles strategic plan aims to initiate and manage a smooth transition 36 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Horizon 2020 Priorities of Algerian Space Program

The Algerian Space Agency was established to promote the exploitation and peaceful use of space technologies to benefit the country's economic, social and cultural development; and to propose bilateral and multilateral space cooperation policies, in consonant with national needs in the areas of Earth observation, Satellite communications, Satellite positioning, and developing networks essential for basic mapping, seismic monitoring and auscultation of infrastructures. Dr Nassim Hanned, says the Space Programme provides national strategy for the development of space activities in Algeria which was adopted in 2006 by the government. Dr Nassim Hanned Algerian Space Agency ASAL’

Algeria adopted in November 2006 a National was to improve the efficiency of natural resources Space Plan – Horizon 2020 - where Earth management and major risks prevention; setting Observation has a prominent place, focusing up a national technological capability and on natural resources, forecasting and mastering of space applications (human potential, monitoring of natural disasters, land know-how, specifics resources as well as management and infrastructure studies. promoting the use of space technology in different fields. Established to promote the exploitation and peaceful use of space technologies to benefit The telecommunications and positioning system the country's economic, social and cultural are part of the Space Plan as well. They are development; and to propose bilateral and integrated in a way to interact with local multilateral space cooperation policies, communities, for the set-up of early warning consonant with national needs, the Algerian systems for natural disasters, the updating of the Space Agency ASAL's have since inception civil protection geographical database (high and ensured that the engagements resulting from very high resolution imagery), and seismological the obligations imposed upon the Algerian risk maps with permanent GPS stations, radar government by regional and international interferometry and high resolution imagery. space cooperation agreements are followed up and assessed. The Plan also encompasses actions related to national cadastral mapping in urban and rural The managers of the Space Program were areas (scale 1:10,000 ASAL-ANC Project), to also saddled with proposing to government a energy and mining issues, oil and gas industry, national space strategy, and to ensure that it is water resources, flood prevention, dam executed; establishing the infrastructure surveillance, land use (1:200,000), locust early required to reinforce the country's space warning, agriculture, forestry, public works, capabilities; as well as creating synergies transportation, urban studies (in relation to between national research institutions, disasters), and health. industrial development institutions, and those who use the products generated by the space Space Systems sector. Algerian Space Agency ASAL's main executive element is the Centre National des Techniques According to Dr Nassim Hanned, the overall Spatiales (CNTS or CTS), which is responsible for impacts of the National Space Programme the execution of the national research programme (NSP) was reinforcing national sovereignty; in these spheres, in accordance with national w h i l e a l s o p r o m o t i n g s u s t a i n a b l e needs regarding such matters as water resources, development; Mastering of space technology. agriculture, telecommunications, transport, and The specific goals of the Space Programme the environment, besides others. The CNTS

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houses the ALSAT ground receiving station. ALSAT-2A was launched in July 2010, while The CNTS has a hundred researchers ALSAT-2B is planned to be launched in 2011. 20 organised into different divisions and research Algerian engineers were trained by Astrium during groups, working on different projects. These the integration of the ALSAT-2A satellite. Asat-2A projects are in the areas of micro-satellite was launched by indian launch Vehicle PSLV t e c h n o l o g y ; s p a c e - b a s e d 12th July 2010, telecommunications; space cartography, civil engineering, remote sensing, etc. ALSAT-2A have taken more than 94.000 image products of several regions of the world; covering Algeria embarked on its space adventure via a more than 6 millions of Sq.Km [6,831 millions de technology transfer program. KM²], and more than 72% covering Africa Successful satellite design,test and operation continent. While ALSAT-2A is integrated by experience of Alsat-1 satellite resulted in the Astrium in France, the ALSAT-2B satellite is construction of a satellite assembly integration integrated in Oran by the "Satellite Development and test (AI&T) facility in Oran city and the Centre" UDPS. The ALSAT-2 programme offers advanced Alsat-2A satellite, designed by a 2.5 meter data in panchromatic. ALSAT-3, and France based European company. After these ALSAT-4 are also in the planning phase. technology and know-how transfer projects, Algeria is now developing its third satellite According to Dr Nassim Hanned, having access to Alsat-2B at its own AI&T facility with its own the services offered by communications satellite personnel, constitutes a priority of the National Space Program (NSP), for this reason ASAL plans to Alsat-1 was also the first of SSTL's MicroSat- launch and operate a communications satellite 100 or SSTL-100 class of microsatellites,and “Alcomsat-1”. the first in the international Disaster Management Constellation (DMC) of The objectives of the Algeria's communication satellites, which is a consortium currently satellite includes autonomy in communications, composed of Algeria, China, Nigeria, Turkey, efficiency and secured communications Network, and the UK,each of which acquired and had increasing the capacities of the national launched a MicroSat-100 from SSTL. telecommunications network, access to information, continuity of communications The 90kg ALSAT-1 was built by SSTL (UK) and services case of majors disasters and to respond was launched in November 2002 with a to national needs in communications, telephony, designed lifetime of 5 years. It features a 32 broadcasting, eeducation, e-health, as we33 as meter resolution imager in 3 spectral bands, gaining a know how in design and operation of with a swath width of 2x300km. The published communications satellite, he said. budget figures of this satellite vary between 1.24 Billion Algerian Dinars (about 100 million Alcomsat, Algeria's communication satellite will be USD)46 and 11 million USD47. launched in China. The Algeria's first geostationary satellite AlComSat1 will be Alsat-1 has dimensions of 60 cm × 60 cm × 60 launched aboard a Chang Zheng-3B/ G2 rocket, cm, and is in a sun synchronous orbit at an with the aim of providing services in the fields of altitude of 680 km. Its imaging systems cover a telecommunications and broadcasting, of swath of 600 km × 560 km, and its telephony and Internet,” said Azzedine Oussedik, multispectral imaging resolution is 32 m × 32 director general of the Algerian Space Agency m. Alsat-1 had a designed life of five years but (ASAL). One other objectives of the Alcomsat-1 it is still operational and is expected to remain project is to narrow the digital divide. so for the foreseeable future.

While each member country owns its own African Resource Management satellite satellite, and has its own ground control Constellation station, they can all access imagery from all The African Resource Management (ARM) the satellites, not just their own, and can Constellation is a project signed in 2009 between transmit commands to their own spacecraft Algeria, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, and through other DMC member States' control open to other countries as they wish to join. It aims facilities. Thus, each gets access to five at fulfilling the needs of African users for resource satellites for the price of one. Coordination and management geospatial datasets, with the distribution services for the DMC are provided engineering of a constellation of small or micro EO by SSTL subsidiary DMC Imaging satellites. International DMCii. The DMC imagers are accurately calibrated to Landsat, and as such The ARM Constellation is one of the four pillars of they enable a detailed comparison with the the African Resource Management System past 30 years of imagery archive. developed under the auspices of the NEPAD. The micro-satellites are deemed to serve in priority 3 The ALSAT-2 programme covers 2 satellites, main "economic priority areas". These are food one integrated in France, and the second security agriculture and coastal zone areas integrated in Algeria. The 116 kg satellites (market information, have a panchromatic 2.5m ground crop prediction and commercial farming support); resolution,and 10m in multispectral (4 bands). environmental monitoring, conservation and

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tourism (including water management); and National Structures government and planning issues such as disaster management, planning for The Centre National des Techniques Spatiales infrastructure, security, urban planning and (CNTS or CTS), is responsible for the execution of telecommunication planning. the national Spac research programme, in accordance with national needs regarding such A constellation design was adopted that would matters as water resources, agriculture, have each satellite equipped with a 2.5m telecommunications, transport, and the resolution panchromatic imager and a 5m environment, besides others. The CNTS houses resolution multispectral imager in 6 the ALSAT ground receiving station. multispectral bands. Data from these identical satellites would be gotten through an integrated The CNTS has a hundred researchers organised ground station. From the ground station, efforts into different divisions and research groups, would be made to ensure that the satellite data working on different projects. These projects are in reach the end users all over the continent, as the areas of micro-satellite technology; space- close to real time as possible. based telecommunications; space cartography, civil engineering, remote sensing. The program would also include capacity building initiatives and the development of low- With regard to space infrastructure, ASAL is cost multi-source ground receiving stations to creating a Satellite Development Centre (CDS), a aid the less privileged countries who can gain Satellite Applications Centre (CAS), a access through these stations to remote Telecommunications Satellite Operations Centre sensing and meteorological satellite data. (CEST), and a Doctoral School of Space Technologies and Applications (EDTAS). Arab Satellite constellation for Earth Observation The CDS provides ASAL with the means to design, develop and make the country's future satellites. It On the proposition of his Excellency the th has electronics, electrical, optical, and mechanical Algerian President, at the 17 Arab conference laboratories, antenna and radio frequency test in Algiers dated Marsh 2005, the leaders of chambers, a thermal test chamber, a clean room Arab league decided to go for an Arab Satellite for satellite and subsystems assembly and Constellation for Earth Observation. integration, and an environmental test building. The Arab Satellite constellation for Earth The CAS will undertake large-scale national space Observation is made up of constellation of applications projects, develop decision support three earth observation satellites was retained tools based on geographical information systems and the technical requirements were identified (GIS) and space technologies, technologically at the Algiers workshop which was done in June upgrade specialised remote sensing and GIS 2006. teams, and provide specialised training in space techniques for operational projects. On August 2008, seven countries from the Arab league expressed some remarks about the The CEST will promote the use of technical study and the execution plan of the telecommunications satellite services in Algeria, project. The project is being supported by six deal with the needs of the users of such services, countries, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, take control of future telecommunications satellite Tunisia, Libya. services, and control the country's future Alcomsat telecommunications satellite. Then on march 2009, the Arab league installed an “ad-hoc” committee constituted of Foreign The EDTAS will provide PhD-level education in the Affairs Ministries, in charge of putting-on the spheres of space optics and precision mechanics, ideal execution conditions of the project. The space computer science, space instrumentation, future Arab satellite constellation will be used space imagery processing and GIS, and space- for territory planning, environment & majors based telecommunications. In its first phase, the disaster risks, water resources, agriculture and EDTAS involves 50 postgraduate students forest, mines resources & oil, fishing resources pursuing PhDs in these fields, at five Algerian and transportation. universities. ASAL implement the National Research The National Council of Geographical Program on space technologies in the fields 6f Information: This was created in 1996 and micro satellites technology, space represents a number of ministries associated with communications, space instrumentation, geographic information, on top of Defence, space geodesy, remote sensing and satellite Finance, Planning, Interior, etc. The Council image processing, geo spatial information. In - grouped 5 institutions in charge of basic its implementation, this program emphasizes geographical information: the National Institute of on research network entities including centre, Cartography and Remote Sensing, the National units, laboratories and teams and on other Agency of Land Survey, the National Centre for national research programs such as Space Techniques, the Research Centre for agriculture, water resources, environment, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics; and the telecommunication, and health. National Order of Surveyors Land Experts 39 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

These institutions spread their activities on six commissions, dealing with cartography, major risks, remote sensing, topography, GIS standardization, and space technologies.

The Arzew Centre for Space Techniques (CTS): Based in the suburb of Oran, CTS is one of the operational entities under ASAL, in charge of carrying out the studiesrelated to sensors, radiometers, space telecoms, atmospheric physics, spatial geodesy and altimetry, geomatics, databases on GIS, etc.

The Centre for the Development of Advanced Technologies (CDTA): The CDTA acts in a variety of domains, but as far as EO is concerned, it is mostly engaged in system architecture and image algorithms.

40 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Nigeria's journey to the outer space

Humans have been traveling into space for more than half a century. Over the last decades, African countries have steadily build human capacity to explore the use of outer space for social and economic development, bringing in fresh ideas and new approach with the intention of reaping the benefits of space activity. Space is inspiring a new generation of African scientists and are currently working on peaceful exploration and use of outer space, to address challenges in government, education, resources management, capacity building, smart cities and telecommunications for the creation of emerging digital economies. Dr. Spencer Onuh, provides details of the Nigerian space programme, its vision, achievements, challenges and the keys to its success. Dr. Spencer Onuh CEO, Centre for Satellite Technology Development, CSTD

Historically, Nigeria's vision to venture into space as an active participant dates back to The Nigerian space programme 1971 when her desires was first declared to ECA/OAU (Economic Commission for Five satellites have been launched by the Nigerian Africa/Organisation of African Unity) members government into outer space. Early plans to launch at an inter-governmental meeting in Addis- a national satellite in 1976 were not executed until Ababa. 2003. The NigeriaSat-1 was the first Nigerian satellite built by a United Kingdom-based satellite Subsequently, the Federal Government of technology company, Surrey Satellite Technology Nigeria included in its 1975-1980 Limited, (SSTL). The satellite was launched by development plan, the establishment of a Kosmos-3M rocket from a Russian spaceport on National Remote Sensing Centre. The 27th September 2003. NigeriaSat-1 was part of the mandate of the Centre is to provide for a global Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) fulfilment of Nigeria's aspiration to be a service System. provider and not to remain a consumer nation of space-derived products The primary objectives of NigeriaSat-1 were to provide early warning signals of environmental disaster, detection and control desertification in the . It is against this background that the northern part of Nigeria, and to assist in Government of the Federal Republic of demographic planning. Nigeria established the National Space Research and Development Agency Other objectives of Nigeria's early bird include (NASRDA) on May 5, 1999. establishing relationship between malaria vectors and the environment that breeds malaria while It also created an enabling environment by also providing early warning signals on future approving the National Space Policy and outbreaks of meningitis using remote sensing Programmes. This policy serves as a road technology. In the area of natural resource map to the attainment of self-reliance, management, NigeriaSat-1 provide invaluable particularly in the areas of indigenous critical support in conflict resolution and border disputes mass of trained space engineers and by mapping out state and International borders. scientists. NigeriaSat-1 is a satellite of the standard Disaster The policy also bothers on the utilization of Monitoring Constellation (DMC) design. It has 100 space-derived data for National development kg mass and carries an optical imaging payload to and improvement on the quality of life of every provide 32m ground resolution with an Nigerian. exceptionally wide swath width of over 640 km. The payload uses green, red and near infrared

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bands equivalent to LandSat TM+ bands 2, 3 was launched into orbit by Nigeria in Xichang, and 4. Images are stored in a 1-gigabyte solid- China on 19th December 2011with no cost to state data recorder and returned via an 8- Nigeria. Mbit/s S-band downlink. The mission of the Nigerian National Space NigeriaSat-1 can image scenes as large as Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), 640 X 560 km, providing unparalleled wide- established in 1999 under the authority of the area, medium-resolution data. The data will be Ministry for Science and Technology, is "to achieve used within Nigeria to monitor pollution, land the technological competence in the manufacture use and other medium-scale phenomena. and launch of satellites”. It focuses on building the indigenous competence in developing, designing Similarly, NigeriaSat-2 (N2) and NigeriaSat-X and building the appropriate hard and software in (Nx) are Nigeria's third and fourth satellites. space technologies, as an essential tool for its They were built as high-resolution earth socio-economic development and enhancement observation satellites by Surrey Space of the quality of life of its people. Technology Limited (SSTL) for Disaster NASRDA has 8 departments in total, 4 of which are Monitoring Constellation (DMC) system. N2 involved in space-related matters: has 2.5-metre resolution panchromatic (very high resolution), 5-metre multispectral (high ·The Department of Space Applications, resolution, (Near Infrared Radiation) NIR red, dealing with utilizing space data to green and red bands), and 32-metre address multispectral (medium resolution, NIR red, socio-economic problems; green and red bands) antennas. These ·The Department of (space) Policy satellites were launched into orbit by Ukrainian Planning and Research, set-up in 2001; Dnepr rocket from a military base in Russia on ·The Department of Engineering and 17 August 2011. Space Systems, representing the mainstream of NigComSat-1, a communication satellite the Agency, dealing with science and ordered and built in China in 2004, was engineering activities; Nigeria's second satellite and Africa's first ·The Department of Data Management communication satellite. It was launched on and ICT, taking care of the operations 13th May 2007, aboard a Chinese carrier related to rocket, from the Xichang Satellite Launch data capture, archiving, processing and Centre in China. The spacecraft was operated exploitation (mission algorithms, data analysis, by Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited and product validation). (NigComSat) and the Nigerian Space Agency, NASRDA. In addition, NASRDA set up the GeoApps Plus Ltd, a company in charge of commercially distributing Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited satellite data and the services from its centres to (NigComSat)is a Special Purpose Vehicle the public. NASRDA is also coordinating the (SPV), incorporated as a state owned National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (NDGI) enterprise, fully funded and owned by the initiative. Federal Government of Nigeria. NigComSat Limited is currently being supervised by the newly created Ministry of communications Nigeria's Space centres Technology and regulated by Nigerian In the framework of the Nigeria's space agenda, a Communication Commission (NCC) and multi-institutional approach was put in place to National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). dissipates energy and fulfil Nigeria's vision in various capacities. These institutions are to act as the operational or functional branches of NASRDA On 10th November 2008 (0900 GMT), the as a whole. In all of the operational Centres, NigComSat-1 was reportedly switched off for research and development programmes provide analysis and also to avoid a possible collision unique opportunities for international cooperation with other satellites in space. According to and partnership, particularly directed towards Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, it finding effective solutions to local problems. was put into "emergency mode operation in order to effect mitigation and repairs". The These operational Centres are: satellite eventually failed after losing power on (i) Centre for Basic Space Science (CBSS) 11th November 2008. Nsukka: this centre is mandated to provide a sound education, research and knowledge in The Federal Ministry of Science and basic science, astronomy/astrophysics, rocketry Technology, NigComSat Ltd and CGWIC and balloons, geomagnetism as well as designing (China Great Wall Industry Corporation)on and fabricating appropriate systems, 24th March 2009, signed a further contract for instrumentations and telescopes. the in-orbit delivery of the NigComSat-1R satellite. NigComSat-1R was also a DFH-4 (ii) National Centre for Remote Sensing (NCRS) satellite, and was delivered in the fourth Jos: this is the earliest of Nigeria's space centre quarter of 2011 as a replacement for the failed charged with the sole responsibility of harmonizing N i g C o m S a t - 1 . A n e w N i g e r i a n research and development in space science and communications satellite (NigComSat-1R) technology application for sustainable socio- 42 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

economic development in the country. months of data distribution. Customers include companies from many countries requiring the In order to accomplish this, it would require DMC data for various applications such as satellite data acquisition, archiving and Agricultural Monitoring, Country Mosaic, Forest distribution, possibly aided by the Monitoring, and Wetland Monitoring. establishment of a multi-source satellite receiving station and development of The DMC responded immediately to the disaster application solutions. in the Asian Tsunami disaster by acquiring satellite images of the affected countries/areas. These (iii) Centre for Satellite Technology images were sent to the European Space Agency Development (CSTD) Abuja: this centre have (ESA)project (Global Monitoring for the its primary focus on indigenous critical mass of Environment and Security(GMES), which is trained engineers and scientists in all charged to produce and deliver maps to aid rudiments of satellite technology-building, agencies managing the disaster. Images from the launching, telemetry, tracking and control of all DMC satellites, including NigeriaSat-1, were also kinds of satellites such as Earth Observation, available to other managers of disaster such as Communication, Weather, Scientific UNOSAT of Geneva, Map Action of UK,SERTIT of Research, etc. France, and KeyOBs of Belgium.

(iv) Centre for Geodesy and Geodynamics The first picture released from the Nigerian (CGG) Toro: the earth core centre, was pair(NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X) is of New established to facilitate capacity for geodetic Zealand's biggest city, Auckland.It was acquired surveying and mapping, as well as monitoring by NigeriaSat-X, and reveals the buildings and the of coastal deformation and subsistence due to landscape surrounding this major urban centre. It excessive oil and gas exploitation, floods and is possible to see the wakes of ships passing global mean sea level rise and other related under the harbour bridge that joins downtown seismic and geodynamic phenomena Auckland with North Shore City. including implementation of international agreements with respect to Satellite Laser N2 and Nx also assist the Disaster Monitoring Ranging (SLR), Very Long Baseline Constellation. You may wish to be informed that Interferometry (VLBI) and cooperative Nigeria also joined in the search for the Malaysian international Global Positioning System (GPS) plane, imageries were sent to further aid the network. search.

(v) Centre for Space Transport & Propulsion Spin-off of Nigeria Space programme (CSTP) Epe: this centre is the Africa's conduit The launch of Nigeria satellites generated to space and is mandated to focus on rapid widespread national attention and stimulated advances in the science and technology of country-wide awareness of the potential of Rocketry, the main transportation vehicles. satellites. Stakeholders and users of satellite data for geo-information acquisition, socio-economic (vi) Centre for Space Science and Technology activities were equally enthusiastic. Education (ARCSSTE) Ile-Ife: this centre was affiliated to the United Nations African As a technological eye in the sky, the Nigerian Regional Centre for Space Science and satellite maps have individually provided an Technology Education established for the overview of the entire landscape of Nigeria and Anglophone countries. Its main function is to beyond. The resulting maps now form what is develop curriculum, skills and knowledge of termed urban and rural land use/land cover maps university educators, research scientists and showing the varied ways mankind have placed it train other professionals and personnel in the vital natural resource, especially land to use. With applications of satellite remote sensing, this maps, Scientists from around the world now meteorology and communication and relied on these maps to evaluate the nature of geographic information system to sustainable different terrains in areas where any research is to development. be carried out.

Indigenous satellite In addition, Scientists in Nigeria have generated “NigeriaSat-1 satellite as part of the Disaster urban and rural land use (LU) and land cover (LC) Monitoring Constellation (DMC) Satellites was data of the different landscape where satellite part of the agreements to work in constellation maps were produce from space. From the results, and provide effective services to users scientist can differentiate weeds from shrubs, globally. “The DMC established a commercial grasses from trees and the various use to which sale out-let for the DMC data namely, the the entire savannah landscape have been put to D i s a s t e r M o n i t o r i n g C o n s t e l l a t i o n use became visible with the Nigeriasat maps. International Imaging (DMCII) which is in the U.K”. In Nigeria, Gully Erosion is synonymous to parts of South Eastern Nigeria. Specifically, it is the most The DMCII has been responding to the prominent feature in the landscape of the South requests for images positively from clients Eastern Nigeria and has constituted a major around the world. The DMC has secured problem in agricultural land development and substantial sales of its products within 3 other socio-economic development in the area. The States mostly affected are Anambra, Abia, 43 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo. extent of hazards posed to the community and to assess the level risk to farm land, resident and the Relying on imageries from NigeriaSat entire ecosystem. satellites, scientists now have a clear view of the impact of erosion from the maps During the research, scientists have been able to generated by the satellites. While the erosion classified the reservoir water depth using covers a total area of about 400 Km2, a supervised classification scheme of the spectral satellite maps can repeatedly captured these band which best described water level variations terrains several times in a week and in a year was identified and hydrological data were generating information of sequential analysed to identify patterns in the reservoir water development over a long period of time. Once levels. Like the earlier studies, this study is understood, policy makers will now be presently being extended to use simulation confronted with accurate and precise details models to generate flood-condition scenarios and of the impact of Gully Erosion in parts where its to demonstrate utility of models as early-warning worst hit. and risk management decision-support tools. Also deforestation in Nigeria has had strong So far, the NigeriaSat maps have enable the impact on the entire Biodiversity of the entire scientists to identify and measure the landscape. In Nigeria forest degradation is geometric characteristics of the gullies in the occurring at an alarming rate and becoming a study area, as well as assessing the impact of threat to socio-economic development. In the these spreading gullies on the immediate past, studies have shown that our tropical forest environment and other factors of gully erosion belt now covers about 2% of Nigeria, and it's formulation. reducing at the rate of 3.5% per annum.

With the maps, major gullies have been Scientists working with NigeriaSat maps are correctly identified and delineated at scale of currently carrying out a study on some selected 1:100,000 clear to the eye of even the forest reserves across major ecological zones untrained and proving a source of reliable data covering Shasha forest reserve, South Western for decision making. As at now, the scope of Nigeria. So far, preliminary results have revealed study has been extended to cover more areas that forest zone in Nigeria is experiencing rapid with similar challenges and to develop a encroachment of the savannah belt; declining at a Geographic Information System model for rate 0f 0.99% per annum between 1963 and 2003; monitoring gully development and gully regressive succession is already taking place on erosion disasters early warning system. the forest fringes in Nigeria; and a downward shift In some parts of Nigeria, the Metropolis in Savannah belt has been noticed. frequently experienced floods that will come and last for weeks on roads, streets, lanes and When compared with global average, the result crescents; and sometimes became suggests deforestation rate are higher than the exclusively permanent features of some national estimate given by FAO. For instance, communities. while the global rate of deforestation is 1-2%, World Bank estimate for 3rd World is 1-1.5% and The pattern has changed in the recent past to FAO rate for Nigeria is 0.76%. flash floods whereby the flood will come and Conclusion disappear in less than three to four hours in Today space exploration is considered by many few locations within and around the visionaries and scientists, as a future source of Metropolis. Today, there is a third phase of it energy through the use of solar power satellites now. Particularly occasioned by torrential and the construction of lunar solar power stations. rains, floods are now becoming reoccurring As a result of the innovation and commercial incidences leading to great threats to urban success of the Space centre, the National Space lives; loose of lives and property and rendering Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) thousands of residents homeless; changing has a road map which spelt out the the face of the earth and disrupting the commercialization plans. unsustainable traffic of the Metropolis, among The direct benefits will be employment, revenues others. from sales, new markets, cost savings, NigeriaSat maps now provide a reliable employment and technology reliability, while the information about hazards and provide a indirect ones will be promotion, technology platform for routine prediction by scientists. A innovation, international cooperation and particular study was carried out along Kaduna environment protection. River And Shiroro Dam In Kaduna/Niger States. The study was informed by the annual flooding of settlements and farmlands around Kaduna River and Shiroro Dam due to a variety of factors, which include impeded drainage, land use, rainfall and topography. With the NigeriaSat maps, scientists can distinguish the main reservoirs from the surrounding floods and the grass savannah along the creek.

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How Space Technology improves our lives

Already billions of dollars of banking, credit card and ATM transactions occur in India alone. Worldwide, satellite mediated transactions run into the trillions of dollars. In China, India, Africa and Latin America satellite plays a critical role in providing banking, education, health and Internet- related services. Without satellites, according to Joseph N. Pelton, we would be much more devastated by hurricanes and monsoons, not be aware of the ozone hole, La Nina and La Nino, the full effects of global warning, or be able to undertake programs to help defend the world's communications, energy, and IT systems against solar weather, coronal mass ejections, potentially hazardous asteroids or dangerous near earth objects.

Joseph N. Pelton Director Emeritus Space & Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI), George Washington University

“Space is a transformative realm that has especially in developing economies. The Reserve impacted how humans think of themselves and Bank of India recognizes that the fact there is our role in the universe from the “Big Bang” to about 1 ATM per 15,000 residents is holding back our living on “Spaceship Earth”. Application their economy. They are currently seeking to grow satellites as well as space research and the number of ATMs in India from about 100,000 to exploration have improved almost every 165,000 in a short period of time. More than one aspect of our lives and accelerated our growth third of these ATM will be provided via broadband into becoming a technological society. services from communications satellites.

The Space Age has led not only to a wide range Already billions of dollars of banking, credit card of new “high tech” products and services, but and ATM transactions occur in India alone. World indeed to a number of new fields of research wide these satellite mediated transactions run into and a growing range of satellite applications. the trillions of dollars. In China, India, Africa and Today education, health care, weather Latin America the importance of satellite plays a prediction, aviation safety, navigation, storm critical role in providing banking, education, health w a r n i n g s , m a p m a k i n g , g l o b a l and Internet-related services. In short the impact communications, global business and of satellites is pervasive world wide, but it is much thousands of industrial products are enriched larger in developing than in so-called developed by space applications. economies.

Over the past decade, the global space In Africa broadband satellite connections to the economy grew a whopping 48 percent. As an cloud are provided for instance to connect the industry it is one of the fastest growing sectors African Development Bank sites across that vast in the world. Today, the space economy is also continent where terrestrial communications and IT predominantly commercial. Commercial systems are greatly lacking. satellite services and commercial satellite infrastructure together account for about $200 The current network of 32 satellite access points billion of the total has just been put under a new contract to expand to 36 locations for the African Development Bank. But the impact of the commercial space These ADB broadband connections are subjected industry on the global economy is much more to special quality of service, security and other pervasive than can be detected from its conditions to protect the integrity of the system. economic footprint. There is no indicator that Only satellite broadband can today create such a shows how many billions of dollars and many secure and reliable network for all member thousands of lives are saved by virtue of countries. weather satellite forecasting. The impact of This is to say that economists, using traditional satellites is magnified in many ways-- economic metrics as to “industry size”, tend to

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totally miss the “value” of space to global more and more service jobs a net shrinkage of civilization. This is not only because of the employment opportunity—especially in low-skill “spin off” and enabling aspects of space jobs that require a minimum of education and technology, but because of its leveraged training. The World Bank experts in urban growth impact on other aspects of the economy such have estimated that 80% of the new development as banking, insurance, transportation in most megacities will represent slums that often services, and educational and health services. breed crime, health problems, and high rates of Finally there is something that few economists unemployment. In these same areas birth rates consider, but which may be the highest value are often high. of space-based services of all. The challenges that various megacities face vary This is risk minimization—the ability of space enormously. Nevertheless there is a fair amount of technologies to prevent the elimination of our data from around the world, gathered from such species and the protection of essential cities as Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Dhaka, infrastructure on which modern civilization Lagos, Sao Paulo, Karachi, Cairo, Guangzhou, depends.Without satellites we would be much Manila, etc. that suggest the following conclusion more devastated by hurricanes and that is expressly stated in my recent book “The monsoons, not be aware of the ozone hole, La Safe City: Living Free in a Dangerous World”. This Nina and La Nino, the full effects of global conclusion is that urban sprawl is bad, urban warning, or be able to undertake programs to density is good, but super urban density becomes help defend the world's communications, bad again. energy, and IT systems against solar weather, coronal mass ejections, potentially hazardous The Home Minister of India has indicated that the asteroids or dangerous near earth objects. super density of the world's largest cities is overwhelming the ability of first responders to In a less dramatic way, space based services respond to urban disasters and provide a safe are key to disaster recovery and response. environment for citizens. Super urban density Damage assessment, risk prevention, when combined with unchecked demographic emergency communications restoration, growth, for instance, is out-stripping all of the aircraft takeoff and landing safety, and advances that “green technologies” are making in mapping and positioning plus many other combating climate change. critical services are now very much dependent of satellite communications, space navigation We live on a quite finite six sextillion ton world with systems, and remote sensing systems. But a limited supply of natural resources and an let's examine the link between space activities atmosphere that is increasingly polluted. Carbon and the possibility the survival of human footprints, especially in cities, in most cases, civilization. continue to grow apace. We see an unsustainable pattern of worldwide statistics when we look at a The truth is that advanced human civilization range of critical statistics:global demographics; may not be able to sustain itself much energy, water and food consumption; beyondits current “likely limits” of another few environmental viability; life time extension; super centuries—without the benefit of space automation and lack of job creation; systems and technologies. governmental effectiveness (or lack thereof); and social and cultural patterns of conflict. The world as we know it will be dramatically different in less than four decades. We will shift We are left with few options. It is only human from being 53% urban to perhaps 70% urban technology and innovation and creation of new in just this brief period of time. In 1800 there ways to utilize the capabilities and resources were some 800 million people on planet Earth. provided to us by planet Earth, near space, and by By 1900 there were 1.8 billion and in the year the solar system. Only a stabilized global 2000 there were almost 7 billion people. If we population, more effective educational and health take all of the world's population that will be care systems, and new technologycan possibly added to the globe in the next 37 years and allow a positive way forward in the 21st century-- add another 600 million people on top of this and beyond. Continued unmodified economic and number, this is the number thatwill represent population growth--without significant new types the population growth of cities. By the end of of technology intervention--with much of it being the 21st century global population will have space based—could lead to dire consequences. surged to somewhere between 10 and 12 Without major shifts in demographics, education, billion people according to United Nation's and technology we could see the end of the projections. human species in an alarming short time. The recent announcement that the carbon gas build As we see sustained growth in the world's up on our planet had increased by 1.4% in the past population and runaway growth in the world' year suggests that the problem we face are now megacities (i.e. cities of more than 10 million) going exponential. we find a disturbing pattern of many new urban areas springing up without sufficient water, Our species faces a dark rendezvous with cosmic sewage, transportation systems, educational history unless we craft a range of new strategies. and health care systems. On top of these These strategies must be buoyed with a dynamic mega-trends we also are seeing super- range of new technologies that broadens and automation, computer algorithms replacing

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extends network-based tele-education and geomagnetic field, and a greatest reduced tele-health systems. protective shield by altered Van Allen Belts are truly serious threats that could have economic effects There must be targeted educational systems calculated in the trillions of dollars (US) or in the and technological advances that allow a new most catastrophic conditions actually mean the range of birth-control capabilities to bring all sudden end of human civilization. national growth rates below 1% through tax incentives or penalties, incentives to villages to The problem that occurs when traditional curtail birth rates, etc. economists seek to assess the value of space to the global economy is that they look at dollar There is a need to create new green energy throughput (which is a mere $300 billion per year) systems—some of which can and should be rather than understanding the strategic importance space-based. Finally we need to look to totally of space to human survival. My higher level new technologies such as space-based message about the economic importance of space systems that can transfer excess heat to outer is contained in the following four points. space. These initiatives and more are needed to protect us from a range of cosmic threats Space and Its Economic Importance that could devastate or even destroy modern human civilization. Space systems today permeate our global economy. Navigation satellites dominate aircraft Assuming we can make these adaptations to take offs and landings, routing of ships, trucks, and save the bio-sphere that we need to survive as buses, map making and a host of strategic and a species we also need to develop new military operators. Telecommunications and technologies that can also save human broadcast satellites play dominant role in global civilization from natural disasters such as solar television distribution of news, sports and flares, coronal mass ejections, and potentially entertainment, strategic communications, satellite hazardous comets, asteroids and meteorites tele-health and tele-education is now key in scores that could create devastating threats to our of counties. Broadband satellite communication survival as well. systems now play a key role in providing global Internet interconnectivity, worldwide banking, Without significant innovation and the rapid insurance, and trade-related links. In short st creation of new 21 century space capabilities satellites provide vital roles in global business it is entirely possible that the human species connections to many nations—and especially in will not be able to sustain itself and overcome developing countries where much of global today's challenges. There have been to date at economic growth is occuring. least five mass extinction events. Each one of these events has managed to eliminate 30% to One cannot easily overestimate the importance of 65% of the plant and animal species on our space-based systems for education, health and planet. The so-called K-T event that occurred medical services, weather and disaster-relief 65.5 million years ago and was thus the most services, search and rescue, and many other recent--wiped out the greatest number of enterprises from fishing to agriculture, from species with the greatest efficiency. Less that insurance to global manufacturing. An exercise 1% of all species that have ever existed on known as a “day without satellites” has Earth survive today. demonstrated that much of the world's economy and defense capabilities would go down without Four of the extinction events were due to heat the functioning of the many hundreds of satellites rise and chemical changes and the other was that now ring the globe. triggered much more rapidly by a massive asteroid strike. This event occurred when an Only if we truly were to experience a day without asteroid, some 5 kilometers in diameter, space with all of our weather, remote sensing, impacted along the Gulf of Mexico and created navigation, communications and broadcasting a huge cloud that blocked out the sun and satellites for both our civilian and military services killed vegetation all over the world and wiped would we actually begin to comprehend what role out the dinosaurs. space systems plays in contemporary society. The lost to the industry for one day would be millions, So what is the relevance of all this to space?It but for the world economy the lost would be is space technology and applications that may staggering—not only in terms of money lost, but well constitute critical components of a survival lives lost as well. strategy for planet Earth and the ability of humanity to sustain itself against threats that What economists generally do not fully comes with super-urban crowding, over- comprehend is that is just today's reality and an heating of the bio-sphere, the challenges of event that involved a temporary loss of space inadequate health care and educational system capabilities. Current and future space systems, insufficient and non-sustainable systems may be the only technology that stands demands for energy, food, water, and an ever between us and a devastating solar event (i.e. a “higher standard of living”. In parallel the coronal mass ejection similar to the so-called dangers that come from asteroids, comets, Carrington Event) or a massive asteroid strike. solar flares, coronal mass ejections, reversal Space technology is quite literally essential to the of the Earth's magnetic poles, a significant survival of human and modern infrastructure. reduction of the Earth's protective 47 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

There is no economic formula that could effectively place a valuation on planetary defenss against climate change, against massive solar flares, against coronal mass ejections that come at a time of weakened levels of the geomagnetosphere, against potentially hazardous asteroids or comets, Only through space activities can we learn about other risks such as the Ozone hole, current changes to the protective shield of the Van Allen Belts and an altered Earth's magnetic field. Fortunately the likelihood of such events are low, but they are indeed finite and real. The potentially losses from such event might not only be in the quadrillions of dollars, but the consequences would in truth be even more severe. In urban areas the losses might involve billions of lives lost and the survivors of a category 9 or 10 asteroid strike (on the Torino Scale) would find that human society had suddenly returned to Stone Age conditions if we survive at all.

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Exploring Communication Satellites to Bridge Digital Divide

Since the launch of Syncom-2 in 1963, then Syncom-3 in 1964, that add value to the first manmade Russian satellite called SPUTNIK, launched earlier, on 4th October, 1957, communication satellites technologies have evolved and blossomed. The world had also seen important advances which compete favourably with terrestrial broadband technologies, addressing the cost of acquisition sustainably with very small aperture terminal (VSAT) as the essential customer premises equipment (CPE). Ahmed-Rufai Timasaniyu, examines the strategic advantages of modern communications satellites, techniques and innovations in addressing effective universal access goals and digital inclusion without exclusivity in Africa.

Ahmed-Rufai Timasaniyu Pioneer CEO Nigerian Communication satellite NigComSat Ltd

Historically, there has been a disconnection in and local government council levels, proper urban the access to basic infrastructure between and regional planning, difficult geographic terrain developed and developing nations as well as (i.e swampy areas), theft and damage to optic- those who live in urban and rural areas. The fibre cables especially during road construction, imbalance as it concerns access to ICT huge capital requirement for deployment, infrastructure is more evident and pronounced anticompetitiveness among operators, non- in Africa considering inadequate or absence of implementation of infrastructural sharing and thus the last mile access infrastructure. discriminatory access to available inland fibre and metro-rings, maintenance culture, reliability and There is gross underutilization of huge robustness of deployed networks, affordability of terabyte capacities at the shores of the African services etc. continent, due mainly to the absence of massive last mile terrestrial distribution supply Nortel recounts the vulnerability of terrestrial–only chain. Existing infrastructure in the African technology in Mexico where 97 miles fiberoptic hinterlands are grossly inadequate, thus the cables serving rural communities with much need to develop national, sub-regional and needed voice services by a telecommunications regional carrier of carriers and digital links with provider were exhumed within days and used as cross-border inter-connectivity. Though, the new and creative jewelry in the form of colorful continent has adequate capacity on flowers in local markets. submarine fibre optic cable along the shores of the African coast, it lacks adequate Growing needs for effective ICT infrastructure within African countries infrastructure including cross-border connectivity. Information and Communication Technologies The last mile access through metropolitan and (ICT) are central to the creation of the emerging national backbone links are limited and global knowledge-based economy and can play grossly inadequate compared with the huge an important role in accelerating growth, in International connectivity at the shores and promoting sustainable development and thus there is low broadband penetration, eradicating poverty in developing countries as well dropped calls experience, ineffective and as countries with economies in transition and in inefficient delivery of voice, video and data. facilitating their effective integration into the global economy. Other issues aside, the absence or inadequate inter-city and intra-city metro-ring ICTs are seen as crucial for the speedy optic fiber systems are due to: right of way implementation of all development projects and hindrance & issues, appropriate corridor and programmes that are meant to have a visible channels, multiple taxation at national, state positive effect on the lives of ordinary Africans. The

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African continent is akin to a big community; Communication Satellites, Broadband, we love to keep in touch with one another. It is Broadcasting And Navigation not uncommon to see traditional weddings take place in villages, on such occasions city dwellers will travel to their roots to rejoice and According to Singer, broadband should have felicitate with their loved ones back home, at sufficient two-way transmission capacity and such times we always need to keep in touch speed to allow interactive high-quality full-motion with those that have migrated to the cities. video, data and voice applications simultaneously Wireless systems such as variants of CDMA, via one “pipe.” The satellite telecommunications GSM, WIMAX and WIFI has enabled technology has the potential to accelerate the sustenance of such enlarged communal life availability of high-speed Internet services in and culture, even to areas with little or no developing countries, including the least- terrestrial network using communication developed countries, the land-locked and island satellites as backhaul and backbone in the nations to meet the requirements of new remotest part of the African village. knowledge-based economies.

The demand projections suggest the need for There is a close link between the availability of a a robust passive infrastructure build-out in and large-scale broadband infrastructure and the around Africa to address this large un-met provision of public education, health, trade demand for information and communication services and on-line access to e-government and services. Areas with good ICT facilities and e-trade information. applications has empowered individuals, businesses especially SMEs, local and Satellite system design engineers have developed community groups and given women the enhanced satellite bus with advanced increasing participation in economic and broadband based communication payloads to human development activities including job support not just broadband capabilities but also creation. advanced payload capabilities incorporating on- board switching techniques, multi-frequency, Various e-business applications and projects multi-polarization and multi-spot beams and large of government, public sector, banks and geographical coverage areas, reduced on orbit corporate bodies have stretched capacity, cost per transponder, increased service capacity capability and performance of existing ICT from a single orbital slot, implemented frequency infrastructures with setbacks in efficiency, user reuse techniques and extended orbital life. experience and speed of transactions and operations. Nations are building broadband High satellite capacity of the order of 100 Gbps Internet infrastructures and policies that will coupled with multiple beams and multiple increase broadband penetration as a gateways, has already resulted in comparatively development enabler, foundation for low cost satellite bandwidth. Satellite systemsare knowledge-based economy and driver of optimized for services like Internet access, Virtual transformation. Private Networks (VPN), personal access,etc. The adoption of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) For instance, Nigeria has been doing its bit to systems has introduced a paradigm shift in improve broadband in the country; ambitious satellite broadband access services and the ICT regulations and competition, favorable satellite industry. The satellite industry has begun laws and deregulation to enhance private a process of “remaking” the satellite broadband participation that can transform business access market into an unprecedented offering that practices for the required diffusion of ICTs, compares favourably to a DSL and fiber-based strong supervision mechanisms to ensure services in many unserved or underserved compliance to Government ICT frameworks, markets. The capacity and efficiency of satellite in consultation with stakeholders for all inclusive providing broadband Internet is improving implementation, exponentially.

Government intervention through Universal Nigeria is in the history books as the first African Service Provisioning Fund (USPF) to facilitate country to deploy a Ka-band based connectivity in underserved areas, the recent Communication Satellite covering the African development of the Nigerian National continent and Europe. Nigeria's High-Powered, Broadband Plan 2013-2018 by the Federal quad-band communications Satellite carrying Ku, Ministry of Communications Technology and Ka, C and L-Band, had to be de-orbited as a result finally,in furtherance to growing needs of of an on-board anomaly and re-launched as Communication Satellite ICT requirements NIGCOMSAT-1R with few enhancements. and satellite-based digital broadcast television to help bridge the digital hiatus and satisfy the The replacement satellite has better performance universal Internet access goals that African parameters based on design inputs related to the governments have committed to; the Federal weather and climatic conditions of the African Government of Nigeria took the bull by the Environment, lessons learnt from operations and horns and responded with a communication market experience of the de-orbited first Nigerian satellite launch designed to meet West African Communication Satellite and inclusive Sub-Saharan needs as well as other regions. participation of Nigerian Engineers and Managers in the Communication Satellite project and program. Communication Satellites over Africa, 50 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

particularly over the sub-Saharan region, loss(dB) with better EIRP results than the de- should be designed with higher Equivalent orbited Communication satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1; Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) particularly if this was verified after an In-Orbit Test (IOT) of the satellite utilizes the upper region of the NIGCOMSAT-1R's performance; the insurance satellite spectrum i.e Ku and Ka Band to replacement of NIGCOMSAT-1. compensate for the rain fade column with other complementary measures such as adaptive Bridging Digital Hiatus code modulation (ACM), Uplink Power Control (UPC) system implementation etc. A large proportion of Africans live in rural areas and most of these rural communities do not have NigComSat-1R is the second Nigerian access to basic ICT services. Consequently, Communication satellite with quad-band high urgent interventions are required to ensure power communications; whose geostationary provision of universal access and delivery of orbit is positioned at 42.5oE with a launch quality services by development of ICT mass of 5,100 kg, and a service life of more infrastructure and services. Satellite than 15 years, while the design life is 22.5 c o m m u n i c a t i o n s p r o v i d e a d v a n c e d years. The satellite has a reliability value of communications infrastructure to regions that do 99.7% with more than a 75% reliability value at not have adequate terrestrial infrastructure, as is the end of its service life. the case in Africa. Satellite networks can be rolled out to hundreds or thousands of locations in a The satellite provides Ku-band, C-band, Ka- fraction of the time required for a comparable band and Navigation payloads capability. The terrestrial network to be established. Ku band payload has 14 operational channels, 2 fixed beams over Western and A VSAT installation requires only a single vendor; Eastern Africa. The C-band payload has 4 and multi-vendor coordination is not required. An active channels with coverage of Western installation can usually be completed in a matter of Africa. The Ka-band payload has 8 channels hours, no matter where the site is located, providing a communications and trunking meaning complete wide area network deployment capability using 3 fixed spot beams over can be accomplished in a matter of weeks, rather Europe, South Africa and Nigeria. The than months. Satellite network installation and Navigation payload has 2 receive uplink deployment are indeed quick and simple. Satellite signals on C-band covering Nigeria and communication as a major means of broadcast Europe, and 2 transmit downlink signals on L- and mass media is unquestionable. band: L1 and L5, giving global coverage. The NIGCOMSAT-1R L-band payload with a global Satellite platforms for both free-to-air and pay beam is Africa's contribution to Global services have proven more suitable for Navigation Satellite System providing a broadcasting a range of HD channels than Digital regional Space-Based Augmentation System Terrestrial Television (DTT) since the bandwidth (SBAS). The Nigerian Satellite Augmentation spectrum is not relatively scarce (frequency reuse System (NSAS) is a first for Nigeria and also through polarization and space diversity, covers other African countries including utilization of higher frequency bands such as the oceans. Ka-band.

The NIGCOMSAT-1R L-band payload system Conclusion is meant to provide Integrity, Availability, ICT is a development enabler but is a function of Accuracy, Continuity and Fleet management the level of networked infrastructure indicating ICT capability of GNSS signals. The helical readiness. antenna with a backfire cavity (reflector) is a The success of Nigeria's information technology dual-frequency defined by ±8.7 bore sight p o l i c y d e p e n d s g r e a t l y o n s a t e l l i t e angle supports downlink frequencies on L1 communications and supporting technologies to (1575.42MHz) and L5 (1176.45MHz) from the meet short and medium term plans. The earth deck of the spacecraft. NIGCOMSAT-1R as the first indigenously operated and managed communication satellite is The RF design of the antenna was analysed fast-tracking development and is playing a critical using Ansoft HFSS, while the antenna Contour role in delivering ICT readiness and patterns as shown in Figure 5 were computed Communications. It remains a signpost for e- using TICRA GRASP Antenna software. The readiness and a foundation for the transformation Antenna gain specification was designed to to a knowledge-based economy to drive meet a minimum of 30 dBW Equivalent transformation. Communication Satellites are Isotropic Radiated Power when combined with strategic continental ICT infrastructure with far an appropriate Solid State Power Amplifier r e a c h i n g i m p a c t s i n e n h a n c i n g (SSPA) thus guaranteeing navigation telecommunications, broadcasting, the Internet capability over the African and European and multimedia services in Africa; including: coverage areas. transforming countries from just being a consumer of bandwidth to a provider.. Antenna layout and design of the helical unit, coaxial lines, multiplexer, SSPA, and high power switch on the communication module of the spacecraft were optimized, reducing

51 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 The race to connect billions more things to the internet

The IoT ecosystem is rapidly taking shape. According to Gartner, there are already an estimated 8.4 billion connected things in use worldwide in 2017, which is set to reach an astonishing 20.4 billion by 2020. Nevertheless, many African countries have already embarked on their IoT journey: intelligent traffic lights in Nairobi are helping to ease traffic congestion, load-limiting smart meters are helping to combat outages in South Africa, while unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being used as part of conservation efforts in national parks. Ben Roberts, says Liquid Telecom has already seen first-hand some of the unusual IoT use cases that are appearing across Africa. Ben Roberts Group Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Liquid Telecom.

Liquid Telecom is the leading independent utility providers. Smart meters are gaining data, voice and IP provider in Eastern, Central popularity and traction globally, and the technology and Southern Africa, supplying fibre optic, has a compelling business case across the satellite and international carrier services to continent. Africa's largest mobile network operators, ISPs, financial institutions and businesses of Smart meters give both businesses and consumer all sizes, creating the first pan-Africa fibre a more accurate overview of usage patterns, player. enabling more accurate billing and improved energy efficiency. Working under various brands, the Liquid As smart metering adoption rates growing globally, Telecom Group has operating entities in the technology is attracting increasing attention Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, from investors. “Companies with IoT as a central Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, UAE, plank of their business model have received tens of Uganda, UK, Zambia and Zimbabwe. millions of dollars in investment over the last five years in Africa. A subsidiary of Econet Global, Liquid Telecom began life as the satellite and voice operator With an estimated one million hand pumps that Econet Satellite Services, which was founded supply water to over 200 million rural water users in 1997. Rebranding to Liquid Telecom in 2004, across Africa, IoT can also play a crucial role in we went onto launch our high-speed, cross- improving maintenance of this equipment and help border fibre network linking southern Africa to supply communities with clean water. the rest of the world. in 2009. Operators and users alike are seeing the benefits of our In South Africa, IoT is being used for an entirely reliable, cost-effective communications different purpose: load limiting smart meters are infrastructure. We set out to challenge the helping to warn residents of imminent outages. In status quo. Today, we're changing the African 2015, Johannesburg-based electricity utility City telecoms industry, the lives of millions and Power began a pilot of load limiting smart meters even the continent itself. which limited electricity to households in a bid to avoid load-shedding. IoT in Africa Over 630 million people in Africa live without Such smart meters monitor household power access to electricity, while an estimated 40 usage in real-time and if residents are using too billion hours a year are spent fetching water in much electricity, they receive a SMS asking them to the sub-Saharan region. Conventional utility reduce power usage. Such compelling use cases providers are simply struggling to serve the suggest that IoT is well positioned to take a central continent's population. IoT can be a huge help role in energy and water provision across Africa in in addressing the challenges facing Africa's the years ahead.

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Connecting billions more to show instant timing results for a completed things to the interne section of the rally, including intermediate ranking. All rally cars are also fitted with GPS tracking The true value of IoT comes from the huge devices which provide automatic position updates volumes of data an application generates over every second. time. All that data can be used by businesses and consumers to provide insight and The geo-location data is available online intelligence that saves money and drives superimposed on Google Earth, allowing fans to efficiency, but first it must go somewhere to be follow rally car positions and race progress analysed. through a website or mobile phone app. Drivers were also happy as it identified a number of cars And increasingly that data is heading to the who took short-cuts. With these cars penalised the cloud. Many of today's IoT applications run on system meant the results were accurate and cloud platforms that bring together correct in a very tight race. Be it social networking, operational and information technology to video streaming or leading-edge rally timing enable real-time analytics of data. To give it equipment, more demand for cloud-based greater context, the cloud is where all the services is on its way, and with it comes a greater information from hundreds of smart meters, need for network infrastructure and data centres for example, goes to be processed before it across Africa. provides a utilities firm with a comprehensive overview of usage patterns. That's where Liquid Telecom comes in. Through our 50,000km fibre network – which connects Technologies in the Low Power Wide Area more African countries on a single network than Network (LPWAN) space will facilitate the any other – and three state-of-the-art data centres, deployment of millions of expected low we're preparing for Africa's digital future, which bandwidth IoT sensors. Although IoT doesn't increasingly belongs in the cloud. consume as much bandwidth as other cloud- based applications, it will be yet another driver Sectoral analysis of cloud adoption in Africa. According to global information and analysis firm IHS Markit, the industrial sector – driven by Many of the world's largest cloud and content building automation, industrial automation and players have already arrived in the region or lighting – will account for nearly half of all new are on their way. The likes of Microsoft, connected devices globally between 2015 and Google, Amazon Web Services and Alibaba 2025. In Europe and North America, fluctuating are currently battling for a head-start in prices and external demand have led many Africa's cloud market. Many African users of industries to pursue greater automation and cloud services are using platforms hosted in deploy IoT within their operations. This is slowly Europe or the US, but Microsoft recently bringing about fundamental structural changes to announced the deployment of its first cloud entire industry verticals and their supply chains. data centre in Johannesburg, which will surely The drivers across Africa, however, can be very improve the quality of experience for African different. Here IoT can radically improve cloud users by virtue of lower network latency. agricultural outputs, increase efficiencies at One of the biggest lessons for today's cloud understaffed and over-worked hospitals, and help computing players is that success in Africa reduce the enormous number of people dying on usually comes from paying attention to local African roads in traffic accidents. needs. In East Africa, an emerging developer community Across most areas of business, government is taking a stronger interest in IoT, while IoT is and society in Africa there is a 'data gap'. The making advancements in South Africa where there role of IoT in the collection of accurate data will are already maturing machine-to-machine (M2M) really come into life as the cost of data sensor services. According to global market intelligence devices lowers, and the ease of connecting firm IDC, the IoT market opportunity in Africa is them to the network increases. Machine poised to grow by 17% from $837.9 million in 2016 learning and big data analytics, mostly to $1.8 billion by 2020. running in the cloud, will be able to use this data to solve business and social problems. Liquid Telecom has already seen first-hand some of the unusual IoT use cases that are appearing across Africa. Earlier this year, for example, Liquid Telecom provided a timing solution for the 2017 Safari Rally, held in East Africa.

Using start-of-theart TAGHeuer timing equipment and connectivity supplied by Liquid Telecom, all timing information from the rally was captured along with relevant driver and car data, and sent to a cloud server. From there, a cloud server processes the data

53 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Roles of Technology Transfer in Egyptian Space Program

Egypt, is perhaps one of the most advanced countries in the Middle East and Africa in terms of space technologies capabilities. The National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences steady advancement in the fields of Remote Sensing and peaceful applications of Space Sciences would not have been possible without the support, incentives and rewards offered by the leadership. Ayman El-Dessouk, explains that the strategic objectives of the Egyptian Space Program was the introduction of Egypt to the space age via scientific research as well as transfer of technology of design and manufacturing of small satellites to Egypt.

Ayman El-Dessouki Chairman National Authority of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS)

As a developing country, Egypt has been sea level rise due to its relative low elevation in struggling to overcome day to day challenges Egypt compared to the land around it. The represented by a rocketing population growth wetlands of the Nile delta constitute about 25% of and the need to finance several activities the total area of wetlands in the Mediterranean which concern low income citizens who region, and produce over 60% of the fish catch of constitute the majority of the country's Egypt. population. The northern coastal zone of Egypt is about 1200 The population density in Egypt is among the km long. The Mediterranean coast is developed highest in the world. About 97% of the for recreational tourism, with the six cities of El- population lives on an estimated 4% (40,080 Arish, Port Said, Damietta, Rosetta, Alexandria km2) of the total area of Egypt. This yields an and Mersa Matrouh. Alexandria, Port Said and average population density of 1,435 persons Damietta are also industrial towns. per km2. This national average, however, The Red Sea and South Sinai coasts are c o n c e a l s w i d e v a r i a t i o n s a m o n g international tourism zones, with diving being the governorates, and between urban and rural main activity. In addition to increased tourism areas within a single governorate. activities, a tremendous move towards building new industrial complexes is in progress in the Egypt's water resources are limited to the northern and the eastern coasts. natural flow of River Nile which presents about 95% of the country's water budget. The The coastal zones of Egypt suffer from a number remaining 5% are constituted from of serious problems including unplanned groundwater and rainfall. The country's quota development, land subsidence, excessive erosion of Nile water is fixed at 55.5 billion m3 per year rates, water logging, salt water intrusion, soil according to an agreement signed in 1959. salinization and ecosystem degradation. Given Inflowing Nile water is stored in Lake Nasser Egypt's growing population, its limited fertile land, shared between Egypt and Sudan, a lake and the concentration of a sizable part of its which can store more than 160 billion m3 of economic activities in the coastal zones, the water at its full storage capacity. Rain falls on potential social and economic impacts of climate the Mediterranean coastal line, with maximum change would be serious on the country's future. intensity occurring during the winter season. The rainfall does not exceed 130-170 mm on Agriculture represents one of the most complex the coast and decreases inland. and important human activity in Egypt and it plays a significant role in the Egyptian economy. In addition, the coastal zones of Egypt extend Moreover, agriculture plays an important role in for over 3,500 km in length along the the social structures of rural areas in Egypt, and it Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts. The is responsible for social stability in these regions. Mediterranean shoreline is most vulnerable to The impact of climate change is most likely to hit

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the rural communities severely due to their radar technology with the establishment of fragile socioeconomic conditions. assembly, Integration, testing and development labs also in Egypt. Egyptian Space Program Several attempts were initiated to start a Technology transfer space program in Egypt since the fifties of the Egypt is one of the most advanced countries in the last century. In 1998 the space council was Middle East in terms of space technologies established within the academy of scientific capabilities. In 2008, Thales was awarded a research and technology. In 1999 the space contract by Nilesat, the Egyptian satellite council approved the start of the current phase company, for the Nilesat-201 broadcasting of Egyptian Space Program within the communication satellite and its associated National Authority of Remote Sensing and services and ground stations. Since 2010, Nilesat- Space Sciences. 201 has provided digital Direct-to-Home (DTH) television, radio broadcasting and high-speed The mission of National Authority for Remote data services to users in North Africa and the Sensing and Space Sciences is to pursue, Middle East, including the Gulf region. Thales transfer, and provide the most modern earlier provided payloads for Nilesat's first two technology in the fields of Remote Sensing satellites Nilesat-101 and Nilesat-102. and peaceful applications of Space Sciences, and build the selfcapability of utilizing these Thales began operations in Egypt since 1973, technologies to support the National providing its government and private sector development plans and objectives. customers with capabilities for air traffic control, communications, radars, air defence and The Strategic objectives of the Egyptian transportation systems. The Group's vision is to Space Program was the gradual induction of promote security, safety and growth, support Egypt to the space age by the gradual design sustainable economic development, and foster and manufacturing of remote sensing and local talent. This is evident through the continuous small satellites for scientific research, transfer local cooperation between Thales and the of the technology of design and manufacturing Egyptian government. of small satellites to Egypt, establishment of a scientific and technological base for space Historically, Thales has provided defence and high tech industries in Egypt, solutions, aerospace and transportation systems development of the human base for space for urban railway projects in Egypt. Over the last technology, utilization of the space few years, the Group has extended its footprint in t e c h n o l o g i e s a n d a p p l i c a t i o n s i n other areas including security for critical advancement of the scientific research and infrastructure and space-related products. Thales' technology development in Egypt and serving local presence is continuously increasing as a the development plans of the country and result of the country's economic growth initiatives. dissemination of the culture of science in the Egyptian society, as well as development of a In 1982, Thales established a joint venture called specialized authority for space in Egypt. Arab International Optronics, an Egyptian joint stock company, created on a 49/51 basis between Egypsat-1 / -2 / DesertSAT Thales and the National Service Products Organisation for the local production of optical and The 165kg 20 million USD EgypSAT-1 was optronic equipment. The company today employs built by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Ukraine about 400 employees. for NARSS, and was launched in April 2007.The spacecraft was designed and Over the past thirty years Thales has built a manufactured in Ukraine with Egyptian longstanding partnership with Egypt's Air participation, with emphasis on transfer of the Navigation Service Provider providing a variety of technology of design, manufacturing and state-of-the-art Thales products, ranging from air testing of small satellites to Egypt. traffic surveillance radars, modern navaids and air traffic control simulators for the Egyptian Aviation It has a nominal ground resolution of 7.8 Academy; to the Air Traffic Management (ATM) meters with 2 imaging instruments: a system and the tower system for Cairo multispectral/ panchromatic and NIR imager International Airport. (39m resolution), able to provide a full coverage of Egypt in 70 days. The swath was respectively 47 and 55 km. During its construction phase, 64 Egyptian engineers were trained in Ukraine. The mission is not active anymore, since the contact with the satellite has been lost definitively in July 2010. The mission expected lifetime was 3 years. The third Egyptian satellite DesertSat was actively designed and manufactured with limited foreign technical assistance in Egypt. At least nine technology components were manufactured in Egypt. The spacecraft utilizes

55 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 Leveraging space science and technology for growth and sustainable development

The space industry drives new technologies and innovation, and its applications go beyond space systems into sectors such as medicine, manufacturing, security and energy. In order for South Africa to capture a reasonable share of the global space market, it is focusing on spacecraft ground support, space technology, geospatial information, space communication and space navigation industries. In this analysis, Carla sharpe argues that the strategic goal set out for SANSA remains the development of a space program that stimulates innovation, advancing science by studying everything above the surface of the Earth, from the planet’s atmosphere to the edges of the universe.

Carla sharpe Foundation for Space development, South Africa

South Africa's space history reaches back to SunSpace is South Africa's only satellite 1820, when the first permanent astronomical manufacturer, and the builder of both South observatory and scientific institution in the Africa's satellites, SunSat in 1999, and southern hemisphere was completed at the SumbandilaSat in 2009. The company, originally a Cape of Good Hope. spin-off of Stellenbosch University, specializes in small and medium sized payloads and related In recent years, South Africa has made the services. development and cultivation of a domestic space industry a priority, citing the critical roles The state-owned company Denel Dynamics “is the science, technology, and innovation play in largest single entity in defence and aerospace in economic growth and socio-economic South Africa.”Denel was incorporated as a private development. South Africa established a civil company with the state as its sole shareholder in space agency, the South African National 1992. Denel operates the Denel Overberg Test Space Agency, or SANSA, by act in 2008; the Range and produces tactical missiles for export. agency is now fully operational. The company has capabilities in diverse aerospace and defense areas. South Africa has separately invested heavily in a bid to host the Square Kilometer Array, a Marcom Aeronautics and Space is a massive radio telescope that would Johannesburg-based company that has reported revolutionize astronomy, and also create it will develop a two-stage liquid engine launch growth opportunities for South Africa's high vehicle called the CHEETAH-1 CSLV, designed to tech workforce. deliver small payloads into orbit. The company, which also markets engineering services, states Between 100 and 200 South African that it hopes to reduce the cost of launch and organizations are engaged in aerospace address underserved payload markets. activities – including manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft as well as some weapons Square Kilometer Array capability – according to the Department of The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is a radio Labour. telescope in development by a consortium of 20 The aerospace industry is mainly located in the countries that will provide an order-of-magnitude Geuteng province especially Pretoria and increase in the global capability for radio Johannesburg, with a smaller concentration of astronomy. The name refers to the combined more space-focused companies based in the surface area (one square kilometer) of the Western Cape. A small number of firms are approximately 3,000 antennas that will comprise focused specifically on aspects of the system. manufacturing and/or operating space South Africa's project site is in the Karoo area of systems. the Northern Cape Province. This area is very dry,

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with few clouds, and its remote location and vehicle company based in the United States, is surrounding hills minimize signal interference. aiming to substantially lower the costs51 and The location allows a fiber optic connection to a increase the reliability of space transportation. control center in Cape Town. South Africa has South Africa is also the home of a pioneering invested in bringing the Square Kilometer Array participant in commercial space tourism. Mark (SKA) project to the country for over ten years. Shuttleworth, an Internet entrepreneur, became the first South African in space in April of 2002.52 When operational in 2022-2024, SKA will be 50 His trip to the International Space Station, to 100 times more sensitive than any other launched via Soyuz and brokered by Space radio telescope on Earth, capable of detecting Adventures, cost a reported 20 m USD (ZAR 143.4 the equivalent of an airport radar on a planet 50 m, 14.4 m EUR). light years away. It will download data at 10 times the global internet traffic rate, have a central processing power of more than 1 billion PCs, and will generate more data in the first year of operation than has been generated in the course of human history to that point. The construction is estimated by to cost 1.5 b EUR, with recurring costs at about 100 to 150 m EUR annually.

Space-Related Products and Services

South Africa is a market for space-related p r o d u c t s a n d s e r v i c e s i n c l u d i n g telecommunications, television, imagery, location-based services, and space tourism. Demand for remote sensing data is growing rapidly in South Africa, as satellite imagery is viewed as key to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. In addition to being a priority in government policy, the country has had a long-standing relationship with commercial providers of satellite imagery. Applications of GPS technologies, as in most markets internationally, are growing at a rapid pace in South Africa.

Demand for satellite telecommunications services across Africa has been growing at a sustained and rapid rate, driven by demand for cellular backhaul, VSAT enterprise networks, a n d d i r e c t - t o - h o m e t e l e v i s i o n . Telecommunications in general is one of the fastest growing industries in the country, and South Africa has the most developed telecommunications network in Africa.

An innovative partnership between South African commercial entities and Intelsat, designed to increase the available communications infrastructure in Africa, reflects South Africa's interest in greater participation in the international space industry.

Direct-to-home television in South Africa has traditionally been dominated by a single provider, MultiChoice DStv, which began broadcasting in 1995. (Satellite delivery of pay- TV dominates the market, as there is little to no cable TV infrastructure.45) The industry is now facing growth in providers and competition.

Two important figures in global commercial space have strong ties to South Africa. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, who emigrated to the United States at age 17, was born and raised in South Africa. SpaceX, a launch 57 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Satellite industry’s guide

Your explicit guide to international space agencies, companies, and organisations supporting and providing satellite communications products and services in Africa and around the world

ARAB SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ES'HAILSAT ORGANISATION Contact: Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari Contact: Yasir Hassan Job Title: CEO Job Title: Director of Transmission Operations Address: Area No: 31, Umm Lakhba, Al Markhiya Street, Address: PO Box 1038, Diplomatic Quarter, Riyadh PO Box 10653, 11431, Saudi Arabia. Doha, Qatar. Tel: +966 11482 0000 Tel: +974 44 99 35 35 Fax: +966 11 488 7999 Fax: +974 44 99 35 04 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.arabsat.com Website: www.eshailsat.qa Es'hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, is the first satellite Founded in 1976 by the 21 member-states of the Arab company of Qatar. It will provide independent, high quality, League, Arabsat has been serving the growing needs of the critical capacity that Qatar will need for 2022 and beyond. It Arab world for over 30 years. will also supply important additional connectivity, services, Now one of the world's top satellite operators, and by far the and redundancy, with Es'hailSat's satellites a cornerstone of leading satellite services provider in the Arab world, Qatar's advanced communications industry—including Arabsat carries over 500 TV channels over 200 radio providing an independent access to satellite capacity for stations, two pay-TV networks and a wide selection of HD Qatar's TV broadcasters, an alternative route for essential channels reaching tens of millions of homes in more than data connections outside Qatar. 100 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Central Asia--including an audience of over 170 million viewers within the 21 Arab countries alone.

Operating a growing fleet of owned satellites at the NIGCOMSAT 20°East, 26°East, 30.5°East, 39°East and 44.5°East Contact: Ms. Abimbola Alale positions of the geostationary orbit, Arabsat is the only Job Title: Managing Director satellite operator in the MENA region offering the full Address: Obasanjo Space Center, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua spectrum of broadcast, telecommunications and Express Way, Pyakassa, broadband services. This capacity will continue to expand Abuja, Nigeria. with the launch of Arabsat's new 6th-generation satellites, Tel: +234 9 2911 731 making the Arabsat satellite fleet the youngest in the Email: [email protected] region. Website: www.nigcomsat.gov.ng/

NIGCOMSAT Ltd owns and operates the Nigerian EGYPTSAT Communications Satellite systems. The NigComSat-1R Contact: Dr. Mohammed Elghamry system is built to provide domestic and international satellite Job Title: President and CEO services via a 2 way satellite communications service across Address: 24 Ebour Buildings, Salah Salem Road, Cairo, West, Central, South East Africa, Europe and Asia. Our main Egypt 11371. focus is to operate and manage the Nigerian Communications Tel: +20 2 261 2787 Satellites to provide on commercial basis, comprehensive Fax: +20 2 405 3949 transmission services via digital or analogue systems and to Email: [email protected] operate same by either fixed or mobile satellite, direct Website: www.egyptsat.com broadcast satellite services, end to end solutions and to engage in transponder leasing and such business for profit. Egypsat provides high-speed Internet connection, using the Express AM22 satellite, which offers a hot spot beam pointed just over the Middle East, from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean coast. This extensive coverage for all c

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communications satellite fleet, covering diverse territories NILESAT with an International global expansion growth strategy. Contact: Dr. Tharwat Mekky Spacecom today is an established market leader in Europe, Job Title: Chairman and CEO the Middle East with the 4°W orbital slot 'hot spot', has Address: PO Box 72, 6th of October City, Egypt. established a significant footprint in Africa and North America Tel: +202 38400 145 and is now expanding to Asia. Spacecom has an excellent Fax: +202 38400 402 reputation in the market with an experienced and stable Email: [email protected] management and strong financial backing. Our collective Website: www.nilesat.com.eg vision is to position Spacecom as an international satellite services provider — one that operates a constellation of The Egyptian Satellite Company, Nilesat, is a joint-stock advanced satellites at multiple orbital locations and maintains company operating under the Free Zone Law in 6th of its personalized attention to its customers over a wider range October City, and the name of a series of Egyptian of territories. communications satellites. It was established in 1996 to operate Egyptian satellites, associated ground control stations and uplinking facilities. It has launched two satellites to the 7° West orbital neighbourhood (Nilesat 101 and Nilesat 102), and launched its second generation THURAYA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY satellite, Nilesat 201 in August 2010. Contact: Samer Halawai Job Title: Chief Executive Officer Nilesat broadcasts around 700 TV channels, and over 100 Address: Post Box 283333 Dubai, UAE. digital radio channels uplinked either from Cairo, Dubai, Tel: +971 4 4488888 Amman, Doha, Riyadh and Beirut and covering North Fax: +971 4 4488999 Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf Region. Nearly 76 Email: [email protected] percent of the TV channels are free to air, the remaining Website: www.thuraya.com channels are encrypted. Nilesat viewership in the MENA region has shown steady growth, from 11 million Thuraya Telecommunications Company is an industry leading households in 2003 to more than 43 million households. MSS operator and a global telecommunication provider offering innovative communications solutions to a variety of sectors including energy, broadcast media, maritime, military and humanitarian NGO. Thuraya's superior network enables clear communications and uninterrupted coverage across two RASCOMSTAR-QAF thirds of the globe by satellite and across the whole planet Address: Dubai Internet City, Building 8, Unit 106, P.O. through its unique GSM roaming capabilities. Box 500435, Dubai, UAE. The company's diverse range of technologically superior and Tel: +971 4 425 7899 highly reliable mobile satellite handsets and broadband Email: [email protected] devices provide ease of use, value, quality and efficiency. Website: www.rascomstar.com Thuraya remains committed to serving humanity through delivering the essential tools for optimal connectivity, never leaving anyone out of reach. RascomStar-QAF provides a new communication infrastructure for Africa to facilitate community development through information sharing and technical empowerment. The RASCOM-QAF satellite system allows innovating solutions for equitable and affordable access. RascomStar-QAF is convinced that the use of affordable TURKSAT information technology will ease the development of local Address: 40 KM. Konya Yolu 06839 Golbasi Ankara, knowledge and content, develop inter-cultural Turkey. communication and increase information among Tel: +90 312 615 3000 populations in case of natural disasters or conflicts. The Fax: +90 312 499 5115 company has developed marketing thinking on the Email: [email protected] services, applications and contents which are adequate to Website: www.turksat.com rural and suburban areas. Turksat, the only satellite and cable TV operator in Turkey, was established as a publicly owned and privately managed company with a mission to be the leading innovator of satellite based services complementing its strong foothold in the public SPACE-COMMUNICATION LTD (SPACECOM) IT sector. Turksat's expertise spans three main business Contact: David Pollack sectors that include: satellite/space technologies, cable TV Job Title: President & CEO and information technology/e-government services and Address: Spacecom, Greg Tower, 5th Floor, PO Box operations. Turksat manages and operates four fully owned 24854, Nicosia 1304, satellites and provides all kinds of satellite communication Cyprus. services through Turksat 2A, 3A, 4A and 4B. Tel: +357 22 030814 Email: [email protected] Website: www.amos-spacecom.com

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YAHSAT provider offering innovative communications solutions to a Contact: Masood M. Sharif Mahmood variety of sectors including energy, broadcast media, Job Title: Chief Executive Officer maritime, military and humanitarian NGO. Thuraya's Address: Yahsat HQ, Al Falah City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. superior network enables clear communications and Tel: +971 2 510 0000 uninterrupted coverage across two thirds of the globe by Fax: +971 2 510 0001 satellite and across the whole planet through its unique GSM Email: [email protected] roaming capabilities. Website: www.yahsat.ae The company's diverse range of technologically superior Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC (Yahsat) and highly reliable mobile satellite handsets and broadband is a private joint stock company fully owned by Mubadala, devices provide ease of use, value, quality and efficiency for an investment arm of the Government of Abu Dhabi. Since professionals across a wide range of sectors in more than being incorporated in 2007, we have designed the region's 160 countries throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. first multi-purpose satellite system, based on extensive Thuraya remains committed to serving humanity through interaction with customers and research into their delivering the essential tools for optimal connectivity, never communication needs. Our firsthand understanding of leaving anyone out of reach. specific market requirements has enabled us to develop customized satellite solutions for the government as well as the commercial sector in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Central to South West Asia. ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS Thierry Balanche Title: Sales & Marketing Manager Address: 5 Avenue des Andes, 91943 Les Ulis, France. Tel: +33 6 87 69 70 35 SEA LAUNCH Fax: +33 1 69 82 76 79 Email: [email protected] Peter G. Stier URL: www.zodiacaerospace.com/en/zodiac-data-system Title: Vice President, Sales & Marketing Address: Chemin d'Eysins 47, CH-1260 Nyon, ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS is a leading provider in the fields Switzerland. of telecommunications, telemetry and high data rate Tel: +41 31 380 00 00 transmissions, antennas (hexapod) and baseband receivers Fax: +41 31 380 18 08 (Cortex HDR) for Earth observation applications, deep Email: [email protected] space processors (Cortex DS), TT&C modems (Cortex URL: www.sea-launch.com CRT), integrated solutions for carrier & signal analysis, monitoring, interference detection and geolocation, as well as other products like SSPAs, frequency U/D converters. Sea Launch SA's corporate headquarters are located in the canton of Vaud at Chemin d'Eysins 47, CH-1260 in Nyon, Switzerland. It is located some 25 kilometres north east of Geneva's city center. Sea Launch is responsible for International Telecommunications Satellite contracting and managing all aspects of our customers' Organization (ITSO) requirements for launch services. Jose Toscano From the preliminary technical evaluations of planned Title: Director General & CEO spacecraft configurations through launch and post-flight Address: 4400 Jenifer St. NW Suite 332, Washington DC reporting, our objective is to provide an industry–leading 20008, USA. launch experience for all of our customers. Tel: +1 202 2435096 Sea Launch has a highly experienced group of executives Fax: +1 202 2435018 and personnel to support these activities, with expertise in Email: [email protected] management, mission design and planning, strategic URL: www.itso.int planning, finance, contracting, legal, sales, marketing, insurance, communications and customer relations. The International Telecommunications Satellite Sea Launch contracts directly and exclusively with Organization (ITSO), formerly abbreviated and referred to Energia Logistics Ltd. as its technical partner for the as INTELSAT, is the continuation of the intergovernmental organization established by treaty in 1973. The Organization delivery and execution of Sea Launch Zenit–3SL launch underwent an important restructuring in 2001 in order to services, and regulatory compliance oversight. secure the long-term viability of its communications system in a market that is characterized by increasing competition, Thuraya Telecommunications fast-paced innovations and rising capital costs, and in order Ng Guan Soon to attract private investments. On 18 July 2001 the satellite Title: Regional Director, Asia fleet, customer contracts and other operational assets Address: 991G Alexandra Road, #03-29A, Singapore previously held by INTELSAT were transferred to a new 119975. private company Intelsat, initially registered in Bermuda but Tel: +65 6622 0605 now registered in Luxembourg. Fax: +65 6622 0611 Email: [email protected] At that time, the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization changed its acronym from INTELSAT to ITSO. URL: www.thuraya.com Since the restructuring in 2001, ITSO has been tasked with the mission to ensure that Intelsat, S.A. continues to provide Thuraya Telecommunications Company is an industry public telecommunications services, including voice, data leading MSS operator and a global telecommunication

60 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 and video, on a global and non-discriminatory basis. Headquartered in Washington D.C., ITSO currently has 149 AVANTI COMMUNICATIONS member countries. Contact: David Williams Job Title: Chief Executive Officer Address: Cobham House, 20 Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EB, UK. Satellite Interference Reduction Group Tel: +44 207 749 1600 Martin Coleman Fax: +44 207 749 1633 Title: Executive Director Email: Online Form Address: 3rd Floor, 4 Athol Street, Douglas, IM1 1LD, Isle Website: www.avantiplc.com of Man, UK. Tel: +44 7785 258 027 Avanti have been providing satellite internet sevices to Fax: +44 7092 380 183 individuals and companies worldwide for over a decade. Email: [email protected] Through the HYLAS satellite fleet and more than 150 URL: www.satirg.org partners in 118 countries, the network provides ubiquitous internet service to 27 per cent of the world's population. The Satellite Interference Reduction Group (IRG) is a global Avanti delivers the level of quality and flexibility that the organization dedicated to combating the costly problem of most demanding telecoms customers in the world seek. satellite Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) and is working hard to reduce this industry issue. It comprises two advisory committees, the End User Initiative (EUI) covering Avanti is the first mover in high throughput satellite data Broadcasters and Uplinkers Certification and communications in EMEA. It has rights to orbital slots and Documentation, and Carrier ID. In addition, the group has Ka-band spectrum that cover an end market of over 1.5bn two working groups, covering Intentional and VSAT people. The Group has invested $1.2bn in a network that Interference. incorporates satellites, ground stations, datacenters and a fibre ring. Avanti has a unique Cloud based flexible The Group's membership comprises satellite operators, customer interface that is protected by patented users, uplinkers, service providers, equipment vendors and technology. other organizations to combat RFI. IRG's extensive and qualified industry experience is leveraged to influence Avanti's first satellite, called HYLAS 1, launched in suppliers, improve the quality of satellite communications November 2010 and was the first superfast Ka-band equipment and services, identifying and satellite launched in Europe. Avanti's second satellite, providing technical resources to all. IRG leads the drive for called HYLAS 2, was launched in August 2012 and extends Carrier ID, solving difficult cases, improving geolocation and Avanti's coverage to Africa, the Caucasus and the Middle looking at the root causes of VSAT Interference. IRG East. Avanti also owns a multiband satellite called supports APSCC, CASBAA, GVF, SIA, SMg, SMi, SSPi, ARTEMIS, with a fourth and a fifth satellite under ITU, WBUISOG and WTA maintaining a vital link between construction called HYLAS 3 and HYLAS 4. all.

INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO) Contact: A S Kiran Kumar Job Title: Chairman EUMETSAT Address: Antariksh Bhavan, New BEL Road, Bangalore - Contact: A. Ratier 560 231, India. Job Title: Director General Tel: +91 80 23415275 or 22172296 Address: Eumetsat Allee 1, D-64295 Darmstadt, Fax: +91 80 23412253 Germany. Email: [email protected] Tel: +49 6151 807 3660/3770 Website: www.isro.gov.in Fax: +49 6151 807 3790 Throughout the years, ISRO has upheld its mission of Email: [email protected] bringing space to the service of the common man, to the Website: www.eumetsat.int service of the Nation. In the process, it has become one of the six largest space agencies in the world. ISRO EUMETSAT is a global operational satellite agency at the maintains one of the largest fleet of communication heart of Europe. Our purpose is to gather accurate and satellites (INSAT) and remote sensing (IRS) satellites, that reliable satellite data on weather, climate and the cater to the ever growing demand for fast and reliable environment around the clock, and to deliver them to our communication and earth observation respectively. ISRO Member and Cooperating States, to our international develops and delivers application specific satellite partners, and to users products and tools to the Nation: broadcasts, worldwide. communications, weather forecasts, disaster management tools, Geographic Information Systems, cartography, navigation, telemedicine, dedicated distance education satellites being some of them.

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Hellas Sat, is a leading satellite operator offering services in EUTELSAT Europe, Middle East and South Africa. It was established in Contact: Vanessa O'Connor August 2001 and owns & operates the Hellas Sat 2 high Job Title: Corporate Communications Director power and advanced satellite located at 39° E, which was Address: 70 rue Balard, 75502 Paris Cedex 15, France. successfully launched in May 2003. Tel: +33 1 53 98 47 47 Hellas Sat value combines high quality services at Fax: +33 1 53 98 37 00 affordable prices and professional business practices with Email: [email protected] understanding of different customer needs. Hellas Sat Website: www.eutelsat.com individual solutions are based on a wide portfolio of services offered in all regions. Established in 1977, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext The company has been focusing on the development of the Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is one of the world's orbital position of 39o E into an attractive alternative leading and most experienced operators of communications proposition to the international market for video satellites. The company provides capacity on 37 satellites to broadcasting, as well as VSAT applications. clients that include broadcasters and broadcasting Through the very successful operation of the three DTH associations, pay-TV operators, video, data and Internet platforms in Romania (Dolce), Bulgaria (Bulsatcom) and service providers, enterprises and government agencies. Serbia (Polaris Media), Hellas Sat and the position of 39o E Eutelsat's satellites provide ubiquitous coverage of Europe, have emerged as one of the most popular combination in the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, the region, broadcasting more than 200 HD and SD TV enabling video, data, broadband and government channels. The number of the households served by the communications to be established irrespective of a user's orbital position 39o E is estimated to be in excess of 2.5 location. million. In April 2013, Arabsat acquired a majority stake in Hellas Sat Headquartered in Paris, with offices and teleports around the and the company is now a member of Arabsat Group. Hellas globe, Eutelsat represents a workforce of 1,000 men and Sat 2 will soon be joined by two new powerful satellites HS-3 women from 32 countries who are experts in their fields and and HS-4 part of Arabsat's 6th generation satellite program. work with clients to deliver the highest quality of service. INMARSAT Contact: Katie Potts GAZPROM SPACE SYSTEMS Job Title: Corporate Communications Manager Contact: Dmitriy Sevastiyanov Address: 99 City Road, London EC1Y 1AX, UK. Job Title: Director General Tel: +44 20 7728 1000 Address: 77B Building, Moscow Street, Shchelkova, Email: [email protected] Moscow, Russia. Website: www.inmarsat.com Tel: +7 495 504 2906 Fax: +7 495 504 2911 Inmarsat plc is the leading provider of global mobile satellite Email: [email protected] communications services. Since 1979, Inmarsat has been Website: www.gazprom-spacesystems.ru providing reliable voice and high-speed data communications to governments, enterprises and other organizations, with a range of services that can be used on The company created and operates the Yamal Satellite land, at sea or in the air. Communications System consisting of four satellites Inmarsat employs around 1,600 staff in more than 60 (Yamal-201, Yamal-202, Yamal-300K, Yamal-402) and locations around the world, with a presence in the major advanced ground telecommunications infrastructure (three ports and centres of commerce on every continent. Inmarsat teleports, digital satellite TV center) and a wide network of is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:ISAT.L). ground stations in the Russian regions.

Gazprom Space Systems is an international operator providing Yamal satellite capacity not only in Russia but also in a considerable part of the Eastern hemisphere. On the THE INTERSPUTNIK INTERNATIONAL international market Gazprom Space Systems is positioned ORGANIZATION OF SPACE COMMUNICATIONS as a Fixed Satellite Service Operator, while within Russia the company is also a service provider (satellite communication Contact: Vadim Belov links, satellite broadcasting services, satellite Internet Job Title: Director General access, aerospace monitoring services) and a systems Address: 2nd Smolensky pereulok 1/4, 121099, Moscow, integrator (development of space and ground Russia. communication systems). Tel: +7 495 641 44 20 Fax: +7 495 641 44 40 Email: [email protected] HELLAS SAT Website: www.intersputnik.com Contact: Christodoulos Protopapas Job Title: President and CEO Address: Konstantinoupoleos 48, Koropi, GR-19400, Founded in 1971 the Intersputnik International Organization Athens, Greece. of Space Communications supports cooperation and Tel: +30 210 6159700 coordination of the efforts of 26 Member Countries aimed at Email: [email protected] designing, procuring, operating and expanding an Website: www.hellas-sat.net international satellite telecommunications system. Intersputnik can be joined by the government of any state

62 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 that shares the principles of Intersputnik's activity. territory of Russia, the CIS, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Intersputnik operates an international satellite the Asia-Pacific region, North and South America, and telecommunications system and makes its geostationary Australia. RSCC provides a full range of communications and orbit and frequency resource on 22 satellites available to broadcasting services using its own terrestrial engineering telecommunications operators and corporate customers. facilities and satellite constellation. The company's satellites offer wide opportunities for TV & radio broadcasting, Intersputnik is the official distributor of satellite resource broadband Internet access, data transmission, and services of Eutelsat S.A., markets and sells RSCC, videoconferencing, VSAT network deployment, as well as ABS, Intelsat, SES, Chinasat and Gazprom Space departmental and corporate Systems satellite capacity, and works together with other communications networks worldwide. The company includes regional and domestic satellite telecommunications five teleports and the company's own high-speed optical- operators. Isatel Russia is the first company of fibre digital network. Intersputnik Holding, Ltd. established on the initiative of the member countries of Intersputnik. Isatel offers full- scale services related to the installation and operation of SES satellite communications networks. Contact: Ferdinand Kayser Intersputnik's own geostationary orbit and spectrum Job Title: Chief Commercial Officer resource is used under projects with partners to establish Address: Château de Betzdorf, L-6815 Luxembourg. new satellite telecommunications systems. Tel: +352 710 725 1 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ses.com

O3B NETWORKS SES (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Contact: Steve Collar Exchange: SESG) is the world-leading satellite operator with Job Title: Chief Commercial Officer a fleet of more than 50 geostationary satellites. The company Address: 3rd Floor Anley House, Anley Street, St provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, Helier, JE2 3QE, Jersey. content and Internet service providers, mobile and fixed Tel: +44 1534 828 590 network operators and business and governmental Fax: +44 1534 862 301 organizations worldwide. SES stands for long-lasting Email: [email protected] business relationships, high-quality service and excellence Website: www.o3bnetworks.com in the satellite industry. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite bandwidth and O3b Networks Limited is a global satellite service provider service requirements. operating a next-generation satellite network for SES holds a participation in O3b Networks, a next generation telecommunications operators, Internet service satellite network combining the reach of satellite with the providers, enterprise and government customers in speed of fibre. emerging markets. The O3b system combines the global reach of satellite with the speed of a fibre optic network providing billions of consumers and businesses in nearly 180 countries with TELENOR SATELLITE BROADCASTING low cost, high speed, low latency Internet and mobile Contact: Morten Tengs connectivity. O3b Networks' investors include SES, Job Title: CEO and Vice President Google, Liberty Global, HSBC Principal Investments, Address: Snarøyveien 30, M3A, 1331 Fornebu, Norway. Northbridge Venture Partners, Allen & Company, Tel: +47 67 89 00 00 Development Bank of Southern Africa, Sofina, Satya Email: [email protected] Capital and Luxempart. O3b Networks is headquartered Website:www.telenorsat.com/ in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands.

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) is a major European satellite provider of broadcast and data communication RUSSIAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS services for customers in the broadcast, maritime, and oil and COMPANY (RSCC) gas markets. TSBc owns and operates the THOR satellite Contact: Andrey Kirillovich fleet, positioned at 1°West, which provides highpowered and Job Title: Director, Integration Services and Projects high-quality satellite capacity throughout Europe, the Middle Address: 8, bld. 6, 1st Goncharny pereulok, Moscow, East and Africa. 115172, Russia. TSBc has also strengthened its position by moving our Thor Tel: +7 495 730 0450 III satellite to a new orbital location, 4°West, from where it Fax: +7 495 730 0383 offers inclined-orbit services throughout the Middle East. Email: [email protected] With the successful launch of THOR 7 on April 26, 2015 , Website: www.rscc.ru TSBc looks to increasing its presence and expanding its regional coverage to support the growth requirements of its The Russian Satellite Communication Company (RSCC) broadcast and enterprise customers. is the Russian state satellite operator with global coverage. RSCC was founded in 1967 and belongs to the TSBc is headquartered at Telenor Group offices in Fornebu, ten largest satellite operators in the world in terms of just outside Oslo. The company is 100 percent owned by satellites and orbital slots. Satellites are located in the Telenor Broadcast Holding AS, a wholly owned holding orbital arc from 14 West to 145 East and cover the whole company of Telenor Group, one of the world's major mobile

63 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 operators. INTELSAT Contact: Dianne VanBeber ECHOSTAR CORPORATION Job Title: Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Contact: Michael T. Dugan Communications Job Title: President & CEO Address: 7900 Tysons One Place, McLean, VA 22102- Address: 100 Inverness Terrace East, Englewood, CO 5972, USA. 80112, USA. Tel: +1 703 559 6800 Tel: +1 303 706 4000 Fax: +1 703 559 7898 Email: Online Form Email: [email protected] Website: www.echostar.com Website: www.intelsat.com EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) is one of the premier global providers of satellite operations and video Intelsat S.A. is the world's leading provider of satellite delivery solutions. EchoStar's wholly owned subsidiary, services, delivering high performance connectivity solutions Hughes, is the world's leading provider of satellite for media, fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure, broadband services, delivering network technologies and enterprise and government and military applications. managed services in more than 100 countries. Intelsat's satellite, teleport and fiber infrastructure is Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., with business units unmatched in the industry, setting the standard for worldwide, EchoStar is a multiple Emmy award-winning transmissions of video and broadband services. From the company that has pioneered advancements in the TV and globalization of content and the proliferation of HD, to the satellite industries for nearly 30 years, consistently expansion of cellular networks and mobile broadband access, delivering value for customers, partners and investors. Intelsat creates value for its customers through creative Over the last three decades, EchoStar's innovations in s p a c e - b a s e d s o l u t i o n s . video technology have impacted the way consumers view, Envision…Connect…Transform…with Intelsat. receive and manage TV programming, garnering numerous awards in recognition of EchoStar's advancements to the media landscape. EchoStar's consumer solutions include HughesNet®, North America's #1 high-speed satellite Internet service; Sling Media's Slingbox® products; EchoStar's line of advanced digital video set-top-box products for the satellite and terrestrial viewer markets, including the Hopper® and Joey®; and further contributions to the worldwide TV experience IRIDIUM through partnerships in Canada, Mexico and Europe. Contact: Bryan Hartin Job Title: Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing Address: 1750 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 1400, McLean, VA 22102, USA. Tel: +1 703 287 7400 Fax: +1 703 287 7450 Email: [email protected] Website: www.iridium.com GLOBALSTAR Contact: James Monroe III Iridium Communications Inc. is the only satellite Job Title: Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors communications company that offers truly global voice and and Chief Executive Officer data communications coverage. A technology innovator and Address: 300 Holiday Square Blvd., Covington, market leader, Iridium is advancing the way global Louisiana 70433, USA. enterprises conduct daily mission-critical activities through Tel: +1 985 335 1538 reliable, near real-time, communications services. Iridium's Fax: +1 408 933 4100 66 low-Earth orbiting (LEO) cross-linked satellites – the Email: [email protected] world's largest commercial constellation – operate as a fully Website:www.globalstar.com meshed network that is supported by multiple in-orbit spares. Globalstar is a leading provider of mobile satellite voice Reaching over oceans, through airways and across the Polar and data services, leveraging the world's newest satellite Regions, Iridium solutions are ideally suited for industries network. Customers around the world in industries like such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/ government, emergency management, marine, logging, humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy oil & gas and outdoor recreation rely on Globalstar to equipment, transportation and utilities. Iridium provides conduct business smarter and faster, maintain peace of service to subscribers from the US Department of Defense, as mind and access emergency personnel. well as other civil and government agencies around the world. Globalstar data solutions are ideal for various asset and Iridium sells its products, solutions and services through a personal tracking, data monitoring and SCADA network of service providers and value-added dealers. applications. The Company's products include mobile and fixed satellite telephones, the innovative Sat-Fi satellite hotspot, Simplex and Duplex satellite data modems, tracking devices and flexible service packages.

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TELESAT Contact: Philip Harlow Contact: Daniel Goldberg Job Title: President and Chief Operating Officer Job Title: President & CEO Address: 2551 Dulles View Drive, Suite 300, Herndon, VA Address: 1601 Telesat Court, Ottawa, Ontario K1B 5P4 20171-5219, USA. Canada. Tel: +1 571 281 3570 Tel: +1 613 748 0123 Fax: +1 571 281 3576 Fax: +1 613 748 8712 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.xtar.com Website: www.telesat.com XTAR is a trusted partner in providing support exclusively for Telesat is a leading global satellite operator, providing the benefit of military and government users. Offering service reliable and secure satellite-delivered communications in the X-band frequency range via two satellite payloads, solutions worldwide to broadcast, telecom, corporate and XTAR is the ideal source for cost effective and vital resources government customers. Headquartered in Ottawa, for today's government, military, diplomatic, humanitarian, Canada, with offices and facilities around the world, the and emergency disaster response operations. XTAR's company's state-of-the-art fleet consists of 14 satellites capabilities are designed to support a range of requirements plus the Canadian payload on ViaSat- 1 with another and our space segment is employed by nations around the satellite under construction. Telesat also manages the world. Every day, NATO-members and countries in Africa, operations of additional satellites for third parties. Privately the Middle East, and Latin America rely on XTAR to deliver held, Telesat's principal shareholders are Canada's Public critical services such as border security, information Sector Pension Investment Board and Loral Space & gathering and relief to people in need. XTAR is the satellite Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LORL). service provider of choice to support bandwidth-hungry applications in the most demanding environments in the air, on the ground, and at sea.

XTAR capacity is a powerful stand-alone communications resource. It also is fully compatible with and operates in conjunction with government-owned satellite systems like the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system, and other VIASAT MILSAT systems such as Syracuse and Sicral. Our non- Contact: Andre L. Jones preemptible service is highly secure and interoperable with Job Title: Director, Business Development existing networks. XTAR's agile and powerful commercial X- Address: 6155 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA 92009, band is the best choice when mission success comes first. USA. Tel: +1 678 924 2474 Email: [email protected] Website: www.viasat.com

Viasat Inc offers turnkey services for operators and CHINA GREAT WALL INDUSTRY CORPORATION service providers to deliver affordable, high-speed Contact: Liu Bo broadband Job Title: Director services worldwide, we offer the ViaSat Flexible Address: No.88 Nan Cai Yuan Street, Xi Cheng District, Broadband System. This system brings a new level of Beijing 100054, PR China. flexibility, high-capacity, and affordability to service Tel: +86 10 8810 2087 providers, enabling them to start with a smaller Fax: +86 10 8810 2109 investment, focus capacity to match the bandwidth Email: [email protected]; [email protected] demand in their markets, and scale their infrastructure as Website: www.cgwic.com expansion is needed. Established in 1980, China Great Wall Industry Corporation The Flexible Broadband System is designed to provide the (CGWIC) is the sole commercial organization authorized by industry's best satellite bandwidth economics in a more the Chinese government to provide satellites, commercial affordable package, tailored to regional operators. The launch services and to carry out international space system is based on the most advanced ViaSat High- cooperation. Capacity Satellite System, the same flexible networking As the professional company promoting international system developed for the ViaSat-2 satellite scheduled to cooperation for China's space industry, CGWIC is devoted to launch next year. ViaSat and Boeing are also adapting a the internationalized development of China's space industry. ViaSat-2 based payload to the Boeing 702SP (small CGWIC has developed into a system integrator for space platform) satellite bus to provide affordable and flexible products and services. satellite broadband anywhere in the world. It can meet customers' multi-directional needs by providing comprehensive solutions for commercial launch services, satellite export, satellite ground tracking and control station construction, satellite applications, project financing, project insurance and technical training,

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Contact: 1st Floor, BOI Building, Herbert Macaulay Way, THALES ALENIA SPACE Contact: Sandy Gillio Central Business District, Abuja Job Title: Director, Sales and Marketing, APAC Tel: +234 9 461 248 1-2 Address: 5 Allee des Gabians – BP 99 – 06156 Cannes Fax: +234 9 524 00 10 LA Bocca CEDEX - France. Email: [email protected] Tel: +33 4 92 28 95 87 Website: www.galaxybackboneplc.com.ng Fax: +33 4 92 92 34 50 Products: Satellite-based Broadband Solutions Email: [email protected] Website: www.thalesaleniaspace.com Galaxy Backbone Ltd is a public institution charged with Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 building and operating shared ICT Infrastructure and percent) and Finmeccanica (33 percent), is a key European services for all Federal Government Ministries, player in space telecommunications, navigation, earth Departments and Agencies. observation, exploration and orbital infrastructures. Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio form the two parent The establishment of Galaxy Backbone by the Federal companies' “Space Alliance”, which offers a complete range Government of Nigeria was driven by the need for of services and solutions. Because of its unrivalled expertise Government to pursue a cohesive and harmonized in dual (civil/military) missions, constellations, flexible approach to information and communications technology payloads, altimetry, meteorology and high-resolution optical acquisition, deployment and utilization in the public sector. and radar instruments, Thales Alenia Space is the natural partner to countries that want to expand their space program. The company has the mandate to build and operate a The company posted consolidated revenues in excess of 2 Nationwide Broadband network that provides IP-based billion euros in 2013, and has 7,500 employees in six Connectivity services to all Federal Government MDAs and countries. institutions. Galaxy is focused on providing ICT infrastructure, applications and services to all Federal Government MDAs and institutions which includes but not limited to managing Government Data Centers and databases, Directory Services, National Information ARIANESPACE - Headquarters Repositories, IP-telephony and other solutions/services Contact: Isabelle Veillon delivered on the shared platform. Job Title: Vice President Corporate Communications Address: Boulevard de l'Europe, BP 177, 91006 Evry- Courcouronnes, Cedex, France. Tel: +33 1 60 87 60 00 Fax: +33 1 60 87 63 04 Email: [email protected] Website: www.arianespace.com SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED Contact: Patrick Wood Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first Job Title: Group CEO commercial satellite launch company. Its shareholders Address: Tycho House, 20 Stephenson Road, Surrey include Airbus Safran Launchers, the French space agency Research Park, Guildford CNES, and all European space companies, representing 10 GU2 7YE, UK. European countries. As of January 1, 2015, the company Tel: +44 1483 803803 had 329 employees, at corporate headquarters in Evry, at the Fax: +44 1483 803804 Guiana Space Center (CSG) - launch site for Ariane 5, Soyuz Email: [email protected] and Vega - and at local offices in Washington DC, Singapore Website: www.sstl.co.uk and Tokyo.

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is the world's In 2014, six launches of Ariane 5, four launches of Soyuz at leading small satellite company, delivering operational CSG and one launch of Vega generated a turnover of 1,399 space missions for a range of applications including Earth million euros. Moreover, 14 satellite launch orders have been observation, science and communications. The company awarded to Arianespace. designs, manufactures and operates high performance Since its creation, Arianespace has signed contracts with 93 satellites and ground systems for a fraction of the price customers worldwide carrying out 221 Ariane launches, 37 normally associated with space missions, with over 500 Soyuz launches (11 at CSG and 26 at Baikonur via its staff working on turnkey satellite platforms, space-proven subsidiary, Starsem and the four first launches of Vega. More satellite subsystems and optical instruments. than half of the commercial satellites in service today were launched by Arianespace. Since 1981, SSTL has built and launched 43 satellites – as well as providing training and development programmes, consultancy services, and mission studies for ESA, NASA , international governments and commercial customers, with an innovative approach that is changing the economics of space.

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Address: 21 Yegia Kapayim St., Kiriat Arie, Petah-Tikva From the preliminary technical evaluations of planned 4913020, Israel. spacecraft configurations through launch and post-flight Tel: +972 3 925 2000 reporting, the objective is to provide an industry–leading Fax: +972 3 925 2222 launch experience for all of its customers. Email: [email protected] Sea Launch has a highly experienced group of executives Website: www.gilat.com and personnel to support these activities, with expertise in Products: Satellite-based Broadband Solutions management, mission design and planning, strategic planning, finance, contracting, legal, sales, marketing, Gilat Satcom is a communication solutions provider that offers insurance, communications and customer relations. Sea satellite and fiber-based connectivity solutions in Africa, Asia Launch contracts directly and exclusively with Energia and the Middle East. With successful deployments in 50 Logistics Ltd. as its technical partner for the delivery and countries, we consistently deliver high-quality, cost-effective execution of Sea Launch Zenit–3SL launch services, and and efficient communication solutions to telcos, ISPs, regulatory compliance oversight. governments, enterprise customers and international organizations. Our services on land, at sea and in flight transcend the barriers INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH SERVICES of communication infrastructures reaching the most remote Contact: Karen Rose Monaghan locations on the planet. Our superior service is maintained by a Job Title: Director, Communications and Customer highly professional and dedicated staff, outstanding Relations engineering skills and excellent organization. Address: 1875 Explorer Street, Suite 700, Reston, VA The company operates three international teleports in Europe 20190, USA. and the Middle East, fourteen hubs/PoPs in Africa and two Tel: +1 571 633 7549 PoPs in Europe. In addition, we are shareholders in WIOCC, Fax: +1 571 633 7550 owners of the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System Email: [email protected] (EASSY), and in the West Africa Cable System (WACS), with Website: www.ilslaunch.com undersea fiber optic cable systems connecting eastern and western Africa to the rest of the world. We provide space For over 20 years, ILS has been providing launch services segments over numerous satellites including Intelsat, Telesat, for global satellite operators and offers a complete array of H e l l a s S a t , A B S , S E S - N e w S k i e s a n d o t h e r s . support, from contract signing through mission management and onorbit delivery. As a subsidiary of Eurocom Group Gilat Satcom has a strong ILS has exclusive rights to market the Proton and Angara financial stability. Perceptive financial analysis, combined with vehicles to commercial satellite operators worldwide and strategic partnerships ensures that the group's holdings have is a US company headquartered in Reston, VA., near the strong backing necessary to encourage growth. Providing Washington, D.C. For more information, visit Global Communication Services since 1992. www.ilslaunch.com. Gilat Satcom at a glance Khrunichev, which holds the majority interest in ILS, is one of the cornerstones of the Russian space industry. ·Headquarters in Israel, branch offices in Nigeria Khrunichev manufactures the Proton the Angara launch (Lagos) and Russia (Moscow) systems. Proton launches from facilities at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and has a heritage of over ·3 international satellite teleports, 14 hubs/PoPs in 400 missions since 1965. For more information, visit Africa, 2 PoPs in Europe, 2 fibers www.khrunichev.com. ·Management of 2.4Gb of satellite capacity and 8 STM1s over fiber (EASSy & WACS) ·Use of 15 satellites SPACEX Contact: Hannah Post ·Operations in 50 countries Job Title: Marketing & Communications Manager Address: 1 Rocket Road, Hawthorne, CA 90250, USA. ·More than 1500 sites globally Tel: +1 310 219 7840 ·24x7 bilingual Technical Assistance Center Email: [email protected] Website: www.spacex.com

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches the world's most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company SEA LAUNCH AG was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space Contact: Peter G. Stier transportation, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to Job Title: Vice President, Sales & Marketing live on other planets. Today, SpaceX is advancing the Address: Chemin d'Eysins 47, CH-1260 Nyon, Switzerland. boundaries of space technology through its Falcon launch Tel: +41 31 380 00 00 vehicles and Dragon spacecraft. SpaceX is the only Email: [email protected] private company ever to return a spacecraft from low- Website: www.sea-launch.com Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Sea Launch SA's corporate headquarters are located in the Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space canton of Vaud at Chemin d'Eysins 47, CH-1260 in Nyon, Station (ISS), exchanged cargo payloads, and returned Switzerland. It is located some 25 kilometres north east of safely to Earth—a technically challenging feat previously Geneva's city center. Sea Launch is responsible for contracting accomplished only by governments. and managing all aspects of our customers' requirements for As the world's fastest-growing provider of launch launch services. services, SpaceX has more than 50 launches on its

67 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 manifest, representing more than US$7 billion in contracts. our clients. These include commercial satellite launches as well as The ISB team brings together experts in space engineering, missions for NASA and the United States Air Force. contract negotiation, finance, risk management and insurance. In less than two decades we have become one of the most respected names in space insurance, with a client ATRIUM SPACE INSURANCE CONSORTIUM list that includes eight of the world's top 20 satellite Contact: David Wade companies. We currently place over 35% of the world's Job Title: Space Underwriter space insurance premium. Address: Lloyd's Building, 1 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ , UK. Tel: +44 207 327 4877 Email: [email protected] Website: www.atrium-uw.com/underwriting/space

CCTV INTERNATIONAL ASIC was formed in 2007. By matching the skills of an Address: Blk D, Wanghailou, No. 10 West 3rd Ring Road experienced underwriting team with those of a dedicated (Central), Haidian engineering team with years of industry knowledge and District, Beijing, 100142, China PR. experience, ASIC is able to provide a market-leading service Tel: +86 10 8804 6666 to its clients and brokers. With few satellites or launch Fax: +86 10 6851 1134 vehicles being identical, it is vital that each risk be fully Email: Online Form evaluated prior to being underwritten. Ambiguities that remain in the coverage design lead to complications and Website: www.cctv.com delays in settling a claim in the unfortunate situation of a loss arising. Collaborating with an insurer with the experience China Central Television (CCTV) is the national TV station and ability to fully comprehend your requirements and the of the People's Republic of China and it is one of China's entrepreneurialism to craft a bespoke coverage design helps most important news broadcast companies. Today, CCTV minimise the risk that ambiguities can produce. has become one of China's most influential media outlets. CCTV NEWS is the English language news channel of China Central Television (CCTV), the nation's largest national broadcasting network. BRIT INSURANCE Contact: Mark Cloutier Job Title: Group CEO Address: 55 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 3AS, UK. Tel: + 44 20 7984 8500 Email: [email protected] Website: www.britinsurance.com MULTICHOICE AFRICA Address: Abayode Savage Close, Victoria Island, Our team comprises some of the most experienced Space Lagos insurance specialists in the world. The nature of the insured Tel: +234 80345 46088, 8023702646 risk requires a considerable breadth of experience and Fax: +23410 6851 1134 technical knowledge and we work closely with one of the Email: Online Form world's largest satellite operators, Telesat, who provide Website: www.dstv.com valuable technical expertise. With the growth of applications such as HD television, From small beginnings, MultiChoice Africa has grown into a broadband internet access through satellite and satellite pay-TV giant. It all began in South Africa in 1986 when M-Net imagery, this niche market is primed for growth. Meticulous was founded as one of the first two subscription television attention is given to providing a bespoke wording for each services outside of the United States, and MultiChoice Africa risk. These can vary greatly depending on the type of satellite was incorporated to provide subscriber management and its intended use. services for pay television bouquets. Today, MultiChoice operates in 50 countries across sub-Saharan Africa including the Indian Ocean islands. Currently DStv is available in all 50 countries via satellite and GOtv is available in 8 countries with an aggressive roll out plan for further INTERNATIONAL SPACE BROKERS, INC. country expansion to new countries. Contact: Jeffrey Poliseno Job Title: Chief Executive Officer “When first established, M-Net used terrestrial frequencies Address: 1300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 990, Rosslyn, VA to broadcast an encrypted signal with sports and movie 22209, USA. programming”. Subscribers bought a decoder and paid Tel: +1 703 276 4900 monthly subscriptions. “M-Net obtained a license from the Fax: +1 703 276 4901 South African government for its terrestrial channel, as a pay Email: Online Form TV service with two hours per day free-to-air broadcasting Website: www.aon.com/industry-expertise/space.jsp which turned out to be an important marketing tool, since non subscribers could see the exclusive programming contained International Space Brokers (ISB), part of Aon Risk in M-Net during this open time”. Solutions, is the world's only insurance broker dedicated exclusively to the space industry. We harness our insurance By 1993, M-Net had leased a satellite transponder, which and space industry expertise to make complex situations gave C-band (satellite transmission frequency) footprint over simple, developing innovative responses that bring value to sub-Saharan Africa. This was leased from INTELSAT, the

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Via della Bufalotta AEROSPAZIO 378 00139 Roma Via Provinciale Nord, T (+39) 06 870901 42a 53040 www.acsys.it Rapolano Terme (SI) [email protected] T (+39) 0577 705009 www.aerospazio.com ACS is a software & system Integrator founded in 1979. To [email protected] their Customers, this Italian SME can offer integrated systems, software, services and consultancy in: • Earth Observation Satellites Payload Data Ground AEROSPAZIO Tecnologie is a leading SME providing testing Segments and engineering services for Aerospace. The company is • Environment monitoring Applications particularly active in the fields of Thermal Vacuum and Electric • Advanced & Immersive data visualization Space Propulsion, where provide its services to most of the As a «Payload Data Ground Segment» specialist, ACS European space industry. develops ground stations and subsystems/components for For its mission, the company operate a test laboratory equipped satellite data acquisition, dissemination, processing. The 36- with several vacuum test facilities some of which are unique in year long record testifies to profound knowledge of and their features. capabilities in handling different satellite data, metadata, The expertise of the company include the development of sensors, products, facilities interactions, associated services electric propulsion technologies, diagnostics (plasma probes, delivery. thrust balance), vacuum systems and cryogenic equipment, Our cutting end technology solutions are serving customers data acquisition & control systems, networking & in thirty countries. communications in harsh environments, software tools. Today, 70 IT specialists work on two company sites in Italy: The company has worked in several ESA flight programmes, Operational Headquarters in Rome and Research & including the BepiColombo mission to Mercury, the Exomars Development center in Matera. ACS-D, our German mission to Mars and the Small-GEO programme. subsidiary, provides high-end consultancy services at Eumetsat premises. ACS is part of a large ICT group Exprivia (2200 employees, AGT provider of SW technology and IT services in banking, Via Paolo Emilio, medical, industrial, telecommunication and PA sectors). 34 00192 Roma T (+39) 06 45437023 www. agtgroup.it Aero Sekur [email protected] Via delle Valli, 46 04011 Aprilia (LT) T (+39) 06 920161 www.aerosekur.com AGT is a scientific, engineering, marketing and sales integrated [email protected] organiza=[=tion. Agt enhances its customers products with innovative technologies identified by its sales team, reviewed by its R&D development team, engineered by its engineering team, and The company's mission is to design, develop, qualify and repositioned in their respective markets by its marketing team: manufacture products and supply services dedicated to this way injecting innovation and adding value into its ensuring the survival of defense and security forces, as well customers products. as supporting helicopter, aircraft and land vehicle operations, In addition, Agt develops horizontal capabilities of technology based on the best and consolidated mechanical technology, transfer and consultancies, develops its own prototype software, textiles and innovative materials. products, and operates services based on Artificial Intelligence The Space & Technology Division of Aero Sekur is tasked proprietary patents applications. with developing new technologies and designing new AGT is active in the Aerospace, Transportation, Oil and Gas, products of the future; all through a skillful fusion of advanced and Energy production and distribution fields. technological capability based on company expertise, collaboration with the main national and European Research AGT has been partner of the ESA (European Space Agency) to Institutes, and a good amount of creativity that has always transfer to the European Industries the activities available on characterized the company's innovation capabilities. the ISS (International Space Station), in the areas of Life European leader in the design, development and validation Sciences and Advanced Materials; and to the ASI (Agenzia of atmospheric re-entry, descent and landing systems, Aero Spaziale Italiana) and NASA to perform two experiments with Sekur has the most advanced technologies for the the Italian Astronaut Luca Parmitano during his mission on the production of flexible thermal protection systems and vented ISS. airbag systems which are the only one in the world to allow AGT is also partner in an International Consortium for the soft precision landing. development and manufacture of innovative rail structural Thanks to this exclusivity, Aero Sekur is a continuously systems; designs and manufactures special systems and parts evolving company, able - with innovative products, for the F1, the transportation and the aerospace markets; runs technologies and solutions – to anticipate the needs of activities of Project Management for important Multinational tomorrow in multiple areas of application, putting human Groups; Acts was Technology Broker for the Association Lazio safety at the centre of its development, on Earth and in Connect inside the DTA-Filas district of the Aerospace Space. Industries, and for Lazio Innova for the internationalization of the Aerospace cluster companies of the Lazio district.

69 Aerospace Laboratory for Innovative ALPHA Consult Components Via Umbria,10 20090 Segrate (MI) Via E. Gianturco, 31 80146 T (+39) 02 39810139 Napoli www.alphacons.eu T (+39) 081.6020139 www.aliscarl.it [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Emiliano Spaltro ALI Aerospace Laboratory for Innovative Components is a consortium among aerospace and ICT companies, which work ALPHA Consult is a European management and technology in the fields of design, engineering, prototyping and consultancy supporting businesses, regulators and manufacturing of innovative components for aerospace, European institutions. ground segment for controlling remote platforms, science and We are recognised as one of the leading independent experts technology. in Satellite Navigation (GNSS), Earth Observation (EO), Companies associated with a workforce of approximately Intelligent Transport System (ITS) and Unmanned Aerial 1,500 employees and a turnover total of € 200M€, emit virtually Vehicles (UAVs), and are increasingly active across other the entire industry in the areas of activity considered. supporting and related markets (chiefly Aerospace, The team also relies on the corporation of existing centres of Transportation, Agribusiness, Emergency response and excellence on the Campanian territory such as: CIRA, for management, and Climate Change). technological aspects, University of Naples (DIAS - Aerospace ALPHA Consult was established as a private limited company Engineering Department - and Earth Science Department) in 2009 by an experienced strategy consultant and today is an and the CNR (National Researche Centre) for scientific independent and wholly owned company by its working aspects. ALI participate in the following projects: director and staff. ALPHA Consult's headquarters is Milan IRENE (Italian Re-Entry Nacelle) (Italy), with a branch office in London (UK). ALPHA Consult The Italian and European Space Agencies (ASI and ESA) are works with all manner of stakeholders providing high quality supporting a research programme, called IRENE, carried out consultancy about all aspects of satellite navigation, earth in Campania region (South of Italy) by a cluster of industries, observation, ITS, and UAVs concepts and technologies. Our research organizations and universities, to develop a low-cost core services are strategy, business case and technology re-entry capsule, able to return payloads from the ISS to Earth advices. and/or to perform short-duration, scientific missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and/or to perform Earth Observation Argotec missions. Via Cervino, 52 10155 FIT (Technological Innovation Funds) Torino Experimental development programme: "Technological T (+39) 011 765 05 67 Developments for the realization of a prototype of a deployable structure for use as a lifting body reentry capsule from space" www.argotec.it (waiting for approvation). [email protected]

ALMA Sistemi sas Argotec is an Italian aerospace engineering company Via Tenuta del Cavaliere,1 founded in 2008 in Turin. It works in the aerospace sector and its activities are in various areas: payloads and technology, CAR Centro Direzionale Building B, small satellites, as well as training and simulations for 1st floor 00012 Guidonia (RM) astronauts and ground staff. Argotec engineering activities T (+39) 0774 016871 have focused on the research and development of several www.alma-sistemi.com technological solutions for the International Space Station. A adi@ alma-sistemi.com branch of the research is dedicated to the field of passive heat transfer. Additionally, the company works to design and build mini-satellites with small size and low mass (<50 kg). ALMA Sistemi sas di Di Iorio Alessio & C ( www.alma- sistemi.com ) is an Italian SME established in 2005 in Guidonia Training and simulation operations are conducted by (Rome, Italy) providing high level engineering and instructors certified by NASA and ESA. Many of these management consultancy in the space and defence markets. activities take place at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), From 2005 ALMA operates in high-value, high technology based in Cologne in Germany. Moreover, the Turin areas focusing on helping clients to exploit new technologies headquarters has a functional Mission Control Centre, and management styles. Its proven expertise has been gained directly connected to NASA, from which Argotec engineers from performing a broad range of projects in the: Aerospace, can provide real-time support for the operations on the Engineering and Research sectors. International Space Station (ISS). ALMA provides services in Project and Proposal In recent years, Argotec has designed and constructed the Management, Business Development, Mechanical "Space Food Lab", a new research facility for the study of Engineering and Analysis as well as System and Software healthy and nutritious food for astronauts. In particular, a Engineering. team of chefs, food technologists, dietitians, nutritionists, and engineers developed the bonus food for ESA astronauts who The activities of ALMA are focused on industrial projects have flown to the ISS. Argotec research and development covering added value services in the space market including also covers the Small Satellite Unit. The small satellites can Project Management, business development, engineering for be a utilized as an experimental platform in space to obtain Mechanical and Electric Ground Support Equipment (MGSE, useful scientific data or deliver commercial services. This is EGSE) for satellite and payloads, Earth Observation and the case with ArgoMoon, a nanosatellite for deep space built Navigation Applications. by Argotec and with coordination provided by the Italian Space Agency. Argomoon has been selected by NASA as a payload for the forthcoming Exploration Mission 1 scheduled for the end of 2018.

70 AVIOSPACE Via Giovanni Botero, Datasel 18 10122 Torino T (+39) 011 0867 100 Via privata OTO, 45 19136 La Spezia www.aviospace.com T (+39) 0187 599077 www.datasel.it/chisiamo.html [email protected] Managing Director Sandro Pazzini AVIOSPACE is a space company located in Torino. The T (+39) 346 0098399 [email protected] company was formed in 2004 and its network of partnership includes various SMEs in the field of Engineering and Manufacturing, several Universities, and Professionals. Datasel s.r.l. is a small engineering company operating both Between January 2010 and March 2016 Aviospace has been in hardware and software capabilities to perform design, an Airbus Defence and Space company, remaining however development , qualification and construction/implementation an Italian registered company with management and of reduced quantities of electronic equipments. Datasel personnel entirely Italian. especially operate in the following fields: Company core competences: • Navigation device, detonation control system and special • System Engineering, Space Transportation, Future interface equipments for missiles; Launchers, and Space Exploration systems • System Integration and software development of special • Thermal Control, Mechanical structures, Composite equipments for Microsatellite; materials, and nano-structured material • BMS (Battery Management Systems) for applications in • Avionics and On-board Software electromedical robotics (e.g. exoskeleton), automotive and • Propulsion, Multi-layer thermal insulation equipment (MLI), military applications; and Multi-physical simulation • Illumination, Domotic control and Security Systems (e.g. • Human Life in Space and ISS operations PA/GA for Mega-yachts and Cruise Ships). AVIOSPACE can benefit of a network of collaborations with small and medium companies with robust experience in high- quality manufacturing and niche technologies. The scenario of collaborations is permanently in evolution: agreements across Italy and Europe are already established D-Orbit or are in final preparation in the sector of the automatic space systems for transportation and exploration with the Italian Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 2 20123 Institute of Technology (IIT), as well as with universities and Milano Viale Risorgimento, other academic organizations (e.g. INSTM, Politecnico of 57 22073 Torino, La Sapienza) and manufacturers. Fino Mornasco (CO) Renato Panesi – CCO Compolab project T (+39) 320 0244978 Via dell'Artigianato, 53 Livorno renato.panesi@ deorbitaldevices.com T (+39) 0586 422497 www.deorbitaldevices.com [email protected] www.compolab.it [email protected] Compolab project was founded in 2010 aiming to provide D-Orbit is a satellite systems company providing solutions and technologies to support our clients through the commissioning and decommissioning solutions for conception, the design, the prototyping and the spacecraft, launch vehicles, and next-generation satellite industrialization of the product and to assist them in process constellations. D-Orbit adds value by streamlining the initial design and optimization. and final phases of satellite missions with systems and The company business is focused on design and technical services that enable customers to simplify spacecraft drafting, on modelling, on structural and fluid dynamic design, increase reliability, improve the use of mission simulations, on design and realization of test machines and resources, reduce operational costs associated with tests. We have developed remarkable skills in project design commissioning and decommissioning, and increase the and in the direct distribution of highly qualified activities on revenue-generating phase of a space mission. projects promoted by regional, national and European bids. D-Orbit's technology will be space-qualified in orbit in Q4- Our internal resources are highly specialized and qualified to 2016 with D-Sat, a satellite developed in-house with built-in guarantee an efficient and valuable quality service at self-decommissioning capability. competitive costs. Our crew has progressively increased the number of its D3 is an independent, smart motor optimized for collaborators and has guaranteed a constant turnover growth. decommissioning maneuvers. Installed on satellites before Among our clients, besides some PMI, we count the main launch, D3 removes them from operational orbit at end-of-life international players within the automotive, railway, energy, or in case of major failure in a quick, safe and direct manner. defence and aerospace sectors. Moreover we have started D3 is fully compliant with international space debris important collaborations both with primary Italian and regulations, enabling operators of constellations to cleanly international research centres and with technological parks, remove satellites at end-of-life, maintaining unobstructed developing productive collaborations and mutual satisfaction. orbits free from uncontrolled satellites, and reducing collision Even if we have significantly enhanced our internal skills in risk. order to offer highly specialized services, we have been able to produce an analysis method to approach considerably complex.

71 Dragonfly Elettronica Italiana Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 15 00144 Roma c/o Tecnopolo Abruzzo, T (+39) 06 9293.9404 www.dragonfly.it ss17 Ovest Nucleo Industriale di Pile 67100 L'Aquila [email protected] T (+39) 0862 1965740 Dragonfly is an innovative start-up (under Law 221/2012), www.elital.com, [email protected] operating in specific services for additive manufacturing, in Mr. Guido Arista particular for Defense and Aerospace fields. T (+39) 08621965740 ext.50 [email protected] Dragonfly offer an all-around support for additive manufacturing adoption, in terms of services and products: Elital (the name is Elettronica Italiana) was founded in 1986 and ranging from tailored business cases to system integration has rapidly expanded its capabilities in the design and services and from products "additive" engineering design to manufacturing of complex and multidisciplinary systems, third parties prototyping & production. subsystems and complete products. We help you to develop your product with specialized additive The fields where our technology is applied are mainly Space redesign services. We will find unconventional design and Defense (Homeland Security included) and also Industrial solutions in lightening, assembly and fluid dynamics application. Product and technologies are listed into optimization, solving technical problems that until now were www.elital.com. Some of our products: faced with only partial solutions, not entirely effective. • MGSE – OGSE We quickly realize your prototype and produce and finish final • EGSE parts using the most advanced technologies of laser metal • Space Qualified PCB (Printed Circuit Boards) powder fusion (EOS M290) with which it is possible to obtain fully dense objects with excellent metallurgical • Space Qualified Brazings characteristics. • Transportable Satcom systems Dragonfly is based in Capua inside the Italian Center for • Mobile Satcom Systems Aerospace Research (CIRA), with branches in Rome and Milan. Esri Italia On December 22nd, 2015, Via Casilina, 98 00182 ROMA Dragonfly established (along with other leading partners in Strada 1, Palazzo F2 Milanofiori 20090 Assago (MILANO) the aerospace, engineering and research) the network of T (+39) 06 40696.1 www.esriitalia.it [email protected] companies called NIAM (Italian Network for Additive Manufacturing). Esri Italia is the Italian leading company in geospatial solutions for Government and Enterprise. Esri Italia is Esri Official Distributor for the Italian market where the company operates EIE GROUP also in networks with important Partners. The target Via Torino, 151/A 30172 Mestre (VE) customers are mainly in Government, Defence, Public Safety T (+39) 041 5317906 www.eie.it & Security, Space, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Mr. Gianpietro Marchiori, CEO Companies, Universities, Research Institutions and No-Profit [email protected] [email protected] Associations. Esri Italy has a strong presence in the Italian market with EIE GROUP has been on the market since 1989, specializing Enterprise solutions supporting operation and decision making in Engineering & Design, Management & Contracts and of any private or public organization. Production & Services. It operates globally to provide The company offers high level of expertise in various engineering and turn-key solutions in areas such as application fields with solutions based on Esri technology and Astronomy, Astrophysics, Big science, Civil Infrastructures, the integration of ArcGIS Platform with other enterprise Large Scientific Technological Facilities as well as Space systems. The offering integrates Geolocation and Mapping Technologies and Renewable Plants. EIE GROUP is an Platforms, Spatial Analysis, GIS, Geospatial Data, Training internationally recognized player in Astronomy, very active in Programs and Professional Services. Dome and Telescope engineering. ArcGIS is a geolocation platform to make better, smarter In the scope of the services provided for supporting the decision and a more efficient organization. scientific research, EIE GROUP established EIE Space It works about every problem and situation has a location Technologies for the development of the activities in the aspect. Aerospace sector. People in an organization can use ArcGIS in different ways i.e.: EIE Space Technologies is based in Mestre-Venice, • Executives use the platform to keep on top of key headquartered at the main offices of the Group. It is devoted performance indicators and analyze trends and spatial to the development of Optical, Thermal and Mechanical connections that influence every aspect of organization's Ground Support Equipments for the Aerospace market and operations. the design and integration of optical payloads. With more • GIS analysts with ArcGIS can build maps using up-to-date than ten years of experience with aerospace industry data, perform deep analysis, and share results within or (Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Thales Alenia Space, ASI, ESA, outside their organization. MT-Mechatronics) we can provide products and solutions for the most demanding conditions. • Knowledge Workers use ArcGIS for manage enterprise data in decisions and business workflows. Support decision making in their organization with tools for advanced analysis EIE Space Technologies S.r.l. provides services for the and data visualization. aerospace industry including mechanical design, optical • CIO & IT Professional with ArcGIS can integrate mapping design, integration and test of opto-mechanical payloads, and spatial analysis into business system dashboards and design and realization of ground support equipments. reporting systems without customization. Implement ArcGIS Services include the assessment of the optical design for EO across your enterprise using your organization's policies and systems and scientific payloads, stray-light analysis and procedures for maintaining security and data integrity. You prototyping of advanced system models. can deploy ArcGIS on-premises or in the cloud.

72 Flyby Geophysical Applications Processing Via Carlo Puini, 97 int. 26/27 57128 Livorno Via Amendola, 173 c/o Physics Department 70126 Bari T (+39) 0586 505016 www.flyby.it [email protected] T (+39) 080 5442180 www.gapsrl.eu [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Flyby is an independent Italian company, specialized in the development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) exploiting Geophysical Applications Processing s.r.l. is a spin-off edge technologies in the field of Remote Sensing, Signal company of Politecnico di Bari, established on February 2006, Processing and Big Data Analytics. whose mission is to develop products, processes and services The company has been founded in 2001 with the aim to develop with technological and scientific value in the fields of satellite innovative solutions exploiting data analytics. Today we are remote sensing, stereo vision and biomedical research, and operating worldwide providing our systems and services in related software/hardware technologies.All the activity is different scenarios and market fields. performed on the basis of competencies and pay-offs of The company is managed by the founder, Dr. Emilio Simeone research projects, particularly in the Remote Sensing Group of (M.S. in Physics, Ph.D. in Applied Optics), and the staff is the Department of Physics of Bari, in collaboration with the composed by experts with M.S./Ph.D. level education and skills Institute for high studies on Intelligent Automation Systems in Computer Science, Physics, Telecommunication, (ISSIA) of the National Council of Research (CNR), based in Electronics, Signal Processing Engineering and Artificial Bari, Italy. Intelligence. During the last twenty years, the following scientific Flyby operates in five different business sectors (Defence, competences have been acquired: Space, Health, Maritime&Fishing, Energy) with five related • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing; Strategic Business Units (SBUs) and Controlled Corporations: • Developing of a multi-temporal SAR interferometric FlySight, siHealth, Flyby Space, BestFish and i-EM. i-EM processing chain (SPINUA © - Stable Points Identification in (Flyby 70%, Enel 30%) and BestFish (Flyby 60%, PxL 40%) are Non Urbanized Areas) for ground instability monitoring currently two joint venture founded respectively in 2012 and (subsidence, landslides, earthquakes); 2016. siHealth Ltd is a UK company founded in 2015 (100% • Analysis of optical data acquired by satellite platforms aimed Flyby owned). at the inference of biophysical parameters such as water Transversally to the five SBUs, the Research & Development quality and chlorophyll; Department ensures a continuous growing of the edge • Meteorological and climate data processing; high resolution competences in several technological fields. forecast services using numerical meteorological models; • Development of signal and image processing algorithms Since its foundation, the Company has been continuously using both interpreted and compiled programming involved in a wide range of R&D projects funded by the languages (MATLAB, SCILAB, IDL, C, C++) as well as European Space Agency (ESA), the Italian Space Agency Assembly; (ASI), the European Commission (EC) and by other regional • Development of algorithms on parallel architectures and agencies. These participations allowed us to bring in the market computational grids. state of art technologies for our customers. All the processes in the Company are managed according to UNI EN ISO9001:2008 quality standards. For the more Geocar demanding Military and Space projects we apply the rules and Viale del Basento, 120 85100 Potenza the quality requirements set down respectively by the MIL- T (+39) 0971 56671 www.geocart.net STD-498 and by the ECSS standards. [email protected]

The Group of Astrodynamics Via Lariana, 5 00199 Roma Geocart is an engineering company that operates in the fields of Earth Observation, Environmental Monitoring, T (+39) 06 97 88 14 40 Engineering and Information and Communication www.gaussteam.com [email protected] Technology by providing technical expertise and highly The Group of Astrodynamics for the Use of Space Systems innovative services. The core activity is the design, (G.A.U.S.S. Srl) is an Italian limited liability company based in production and maintenance of geographical databases. Rome, founded in 2012 as a spin-off of the Scuola di Ingegneria The company provides services related to the processing of Aerospaziale of Sapienza University of Rome, carrying on the satellite images and of geographic data acquired by means of school's more than twenty years tradition in the field of terrestrial and aerial remote sensing with the use of traditional microsatellites. Active in the space technology field, its aims are techniques and innovative instruments (GPS, laser scanner, the research, the development and the implementation of photogrammetric cameras and sensors operating in different aerospace projects, plus the educational aspect and the spectral bands). execution of related cultural initiatives. Moreover, Geocart designs and develops multi-sensor G.A.U.S.S. Srl has gained its experience from 8 differently integrated platforms and carries out GIS and cartographic shaped and sized satellites' launches. The company business editing and offers a consolidated experience on differential is mainly related to the design and the manufacturing of micro, SAR interferometry techniques. Regarding SAR analysis, the nano, pico and femto satellites, intended as CubeSat, company has developed a software named "SLIDE" (acronym PocketQube and releasing platforms such as GPOD (GAUSS for SAR Land Interferometry Data Exploitation) that allows to Picosatellites Orbital Deployer), MRFOD (Morehead Rome measure, with very high precision, displacements of land, Femtosatellites Orbital Deployer) and TUPOD (TubeSat works and infrastructures, using the SAR data acquired by Picosatellites Orbital Deployer). satellites. Since the early nineties, activities of designing, ground testing, integration, launch and ground operations have been managed by GAUSS members at the Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, where the UNISAT program started under the supervision of Professor Filippo Graziani.

73 GMSPAZIO Via Stefano Longanesi, 14 00146 Roma GEO-K T (+39) 06 4555 2502 www.gmspazio.com [email protected] Via Carlo Bartolomeo Piazza, 30 00161 Roma T (+39) 06 44292634 T (+39) 335 5702 339 www.imtsrl.it Dott. Filippo Gemma MBA [email protected]

GMSPAZIO is a small hi-tech ICT enterprise based in Rome, made mainly of brilliant young engineers operating in the fields of Aerospace, Defense and Homeland Security to help customers managing: GEO-K was founded in April 2006 as the first spin-off company of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". The mission of GEO- • Complex Modeling & Simulation Scenarios, K is to conduct R&D activities and to provide consulting, • Space Surveillance & Tracking and Space Situational services and products in the field of image processing and of Awareness Systems, microwave, optical and hyperspectral remote sensing It is the • Missile Defense Network Analysis Systems, commercial vehicle through which the scientific know-how • Satellite Remote Sensing Products and Services, developed by the University's Earth Observation Laboratory is • UAVs Surveillance & Monitoring Activities, made available to public and private initiatives in the form of user-oriented applications. Right after its birth, GEO-K was • Offering Products, Services, Training, and Know-how incubated within the European Space Agency (ESA) ESRIN transfer, to develop Integrated and Customized Information center, where new technology, based on artificial neural Systems, and customers' tailored ICT applications and networks for the processing of satellite data, was further related services. developed GMSPAZIO operates in EU Countries and overseas markets The key-personnel of GEO-K is highly qualified and with delivering integrated solutions to the main actors of the significant experience in international activities. In fact, over aforementioned market segments, serving International and the last few years GEO-K has been involved in contracts with National Space Agencies, Ministries of Defense, Prime national (Italian Space Agency) and international institutions Contractors, Subcontractors, and Research Entities with (ESA, EUMETSAT) for the exploitation of EO data. Moreover, state-of-the-art products and solutions used to produce high GEO-K is the only SME partner in the "URBANFLUXES" quality results saving time, money and resources. project, funded under the Horizon 2020 program, and aiming at estimating anthropogenic heat flux in urban areas from satellite data. The company has also acquired experience in Tyvak International SRL providing educational sessions in EO, mainly addressing Corso Castelfidardo, 30/A 10129 Torino companies or technical groups. T (+39) 011 1911 6070 www.tyvak.eu [email protected] IngeniArs Via Ponte a Piglieri, 8 56121 Pisa Tyvak International SRL is one of the three operating groups T (+39) 050 6396129 and the first international branch of Terran Orbital Corporation. www.ingeniars.com Terran Orbital teams are leading innovators and providers of [email protected] nanosatellites and microsatellite space vehicle products that target advanced state-of-the-art capabilities for government and commercial customers to support operationally and IngeniArs S.r.l. is an Italian spin-off company of the University scientifically relevant missions. of Pisa, born in 2014 (registered as "Innovative Start-Up" Tyvak International represents the most advanced and vertical according to the Italian law 221/2012) from the large integrated offer in the market of small space vehicle products experience of his co-founders in the area of Electronics and and services. The proprietary technology and know-how, Computer Science Engineering advanced research. Its based upon the continuous progress in the miniaturization of ambitious goal is to provide an answer to the ever increasing semiconductors, enable to develop, design and demand of innovation in strategic areas such as aerospace, commercialize small satellites platforms faster and cheaper telemedicine and automotive. The main focus is the design, with respect respect to traditional satellites systems. This also development and commercialization of Electronics Systems, provides considerable opportunities to exploit the space more Informatics Systems and innovative services. This is effectively and profitably. accomplished by offering highly advanced hardware/software solutions, and by managing the complete lifecycle of Founded in 2015, during its first year Tyvak has successfully electronics, microelectronics and embedded systems. started the process of technology transfer from the USA headquarters, being able to start its own R&D activities. So far, IngeniArs has a consolidated network of partners, suppliers Tyvak International has executed considerable space and customers, and can offer a wide range of high quality engineering projects, from mission concepts and feasibility products and services being able to cope with cutting edge studies to nanosat development and integration, launch technologies and at the same time answer promptly to the integration services and procurement of launch opportunities, customer requests. The goal of IngeniArs is indeed to for commercial and institutional customers at international industrialize and put on the market the considerable results level. The company has established partnerships with achieved by the co-founders especially in the field of important stakeholders of the Aerospace Industry such as aerospace, telemedicine and automotive. SMEs, Large System Integrators (LSI), Research centers and Universities. Tyvak International executes R&D programs with As spin-off company of the University of Pisa, IngeniArs is several of them focused on breakthrough technologies which continuously encouraging and promoting the technology will contribute in the next future to foster the company's growth. transfer from the valuable outcome of the advanced research to the market.

74 Iptsat ITS Via Sallustiana, 23 00187Roma Via Monte Santo, 2 T (+39) 06 42041717 00195 Roma www.iptsat.com T (+39) 06 45504949 [email protected] www.intese.com [email protected] The Iptsat has long been engaged in the development of solutions for the management and monitoring of land and environment through interaction with the users community GIS (Geographic Information System) and Remote ITS was established on 1st September 1999 and is formed by Sensing, providing high level of professionalism in all managers and entrepreneurs deriving their complementary aspects relative to the use of these technologies and experiences from a prolonged activity in the main aerospace proposing solutions with high added value. Italian industries and from the mastery of the financial The business sector in which Iptsat in 1982 initially instruments necessary for the "start-up" of firms focusing in the concentrated its energies was that of GIS Geographic high technological sectors. Information Systems, operating in developing applications Main motivation for the establishment of the Company was the for the management of geographic resources. awareness that a strong industrial capability in any Territorial Since 1996 Iptsat draws new life and economic planning District, regional, national or continental, can't be flourish from a corporate reorganization operated to meet the without the availability of innovative technologies and advanced growing demand for remote sensing data and the need to products, those are main ITS's objective. In this sense a create new GIS solutions to meet ever-changing technology. particular attention is devoted to the relationship with Research In the following years Iptsat signs an A.A.D. Acquisition, and Final Users, carrying out industrial links which changes Archiving & Distribution agreement with ImageSat technologies into hi-tech products really usable. International, which enables the acquisition of exclusive high-resolution panchromatic data from EROS satellites in Mission of ITS is to operate in the High Band of the Information the constellation. Technology field for the markets of: • Space In the following years Iptsat signs an A.A.D. Acquisition, • Defense Archiving & Distribution agreement with ImageSat • Energy International, which enables the acquisition of exclusive high-resolution panchromatic data from EROS satellites in the constellation. In 1999 Iptsat joined the Business Network of esri Italy, Kayser Italia dealing with the sale, assistance and development of Via di Popogna, 501 57128 Livorno customized software ArcGIS. With the growth of its know- T (+39) 0586 562 100 how, Iptsat pays special attention to training activities, www.kayser.it offering training courses best suited to professions and [email protected] businesses, with strong skills in computerized management Kayser Italia is a Small Medium Enterprise (SME), a private of land and environment. Since April 2008 iptsat AICA is the independent aerospace system engineering company, owned official test center for GIS ECDL (European Computer by Dr. Valfredo Zolesi's family. It has been incorporated in Driving License for Geographic Information System). 1986, and since 1995 it is 100% Italian property. The company is located in the countryside of Livorno, in the region of ItalConsul Tuscany, 20 Km south of the international airport of Pisa and Via Frangipane, 24 00184 Roma 90 Km from Florence. In a modern building, the company has T (+39) 06 6791818 F (+39) 06 69787432 5,000 sq. meters of property, organized into offices, meeting www.italconsul.net [email protected] rooms, conference room, laboratories, clean room, [email protected] manufacturing, inspection and integration area, and an User Support Operation center (USOC) for the support to the execution of experiments with astronauts on board the ISS. ItalConsul is an engineering services enterprise. Its Core Since the beginning up to 2015, Kayser Italia has participated to Business is the Logistics Engineering, ie RAMS Analysis 64 space missions with 101 payloads, all of them completed (CENELEC - Norm EN 50126) that make up the Integrated with full scientific, technical, economic and programmatic Logistics Support to Design of Systems and Equipments. success. The staff consists of 50 high-specialized engineers, Decades of experience gained in RAMS Analysis led with expertise in electronics, aeronautics, mechanics, ItalConsul to develop its ability to Design in the fields of thermodynamics, physics, computer science, optics and Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics Engineering (Machinery molecular biology. Their design and manufacturing capabilities, and Equipment), Software and Assessments. Moreover, joined with a deep engineering background, have allowed the ItalConsul extended over time its skills to simulations by participation of the company as both prime-contractor as well as software, such as Finite Element Analysis, Multi-domain and sub-contractor to many European Space Agency (ESA) and circuit simulations, too. The work-areas of ItalConsul Italian Space Agency (ASI) programmes, especially in the area concern Aerospace, Naval, Railway, Power Plants and of life science (biology and human physiology). manufacturing. The payloads developed by Kayser Italia have flown on Then ItalConsul is engaged in Research & Development sounding rockets, on the Russian capsules Bion, Foton, activities. Among its results it includes three patents, Progress, Soyuz, on the Shuttle Transportation System (STS), seventy scientific publications (also in prestigious journals) on SpaceX, on the Japanese HTV module, on the European and the realization of "RelySoft", a software-tool, based on ATV module, on the Chinese Shenzhou spaceship and on the the revolutionary methodologies, which have been accepted International Space Station (ISS). Kayser Italia supports grants by RIAC and often have made possible to find original and partnership programs with universities and research solutions to very complex problems, considered sometimes institutes and is actively involved in the promotion of the even insoluble. "RelySoft" was produced internally and integration process between large and Small Medium certificated by the University of L'Aquila. Enterprises working in space. 75 KELL MapSAT Via Donat Cattin, 83 52100 Arezzo C.da Piano Cappelle, 129 (area MUSA) 82100 Benevento T (+39) 06 36004916 T (+39) 0824 52422 www.mapsat.it [email protected] F (+39) 06 3216937 www.kell.it [email protected] MapSAT is an Italian newCo, based in Milan (Italy) and established in March 2015. The principal place of operations is KELL is an ICT Italian company operating for over twenty located in Benevento (Campania Region - Italy) in order to meet years in the Space and ICT sectors developing SW and ICT a specific sector of the market, related to the growing demand for smart solutions in the following fields of application: e- products and services of remote sensing for continuous health, telemedicine, e-government, Earth Observation, monitoring of the Earth's soil and sea. These activities are aimed remote sensing, mobile applications. Our Vision "make at protecting environment and climate, citizens security, urban everyday life easier with computing by making the planning, development of energetic and electrical infrastructure, technology easy, usable and available to everyone through prevention of human and natural risks and, more generally, continuous innovation." This objective is pursued through a updating and control of the elements of main interest to process of continuous innovation that promotes the constantly increase the knowledge of territorial changes. exploitation of research and its dissemination in the industry MapSAT targets both public and private clients, with the aim of and market. creating technology platforms dynamic and flexible, able to The team is formed by young researchers and technicians, satisfy both of these stakeholders, working on customizing the with strong and focused skills on ICT solutions, informatics, hardware and software solutions based on the same technology. software engineers, electronic engineers, physicists, engineers, electronic, oceanographers, economist who Since 2004, the MARSec Ground Station has been acquiring form a young, dynamic and multidisciplinary group engaged data from Aqua and Terra NASA satellites equipped with MODIS in R&D activities performed for international and national sensor. This experience has given the opportunity of configure Public Bodies and private organizations. and adapt the systems to acquire EROS-A starting from August The main technologies and skills are: a) Information 2005, RadarSat-1 from 2006 and EROS-B since 2009. Technology: web platform and mobile solutions for e-Health The X-band Antenna System is SeaSpace TeraScan 4.4m, three applications; b) Earth Observation: Kell designs and axes X-Band Polar Satellite Tracking Antenna. The Antenna is develops software systems for telemetry processing and connected to the Equipment Racks located in Equipment Room. production and processing of remote sensing images, The distance is about 146 meters therefore the tracking/carrier optical and SAR, archiving and distribution of data and frequency is down-converted to 720 MHz. The antenna is quality control fusion and geo-location for smart agriculture, configured to acquire EROS-B, EROS-A, Terra and Aqua water and land management; c) Navigation missions.

LAER MEC Via Caracciano 57/63 82011 Airola (BN) Via San Nicolò di Villola, 1 40127 Bologna T (+39) 0823 951634 T (+39) 051 6333403 www.mec-mmic.com www.laergroup.com [email protected] [email protected] Giorgio Mariani [email protected] LAER is a private company, AQ-ITA-SINCERT and MEC was founded in 2004, as spin-off of Bologna's and Ferrara's NADCAP qualified, operating since 1989 in aerospace field. Universities, in order to offer to the Italian and European The core business is represented by large assemblies and enterprises, the know-how coming from the university R&D manufacturing of metal and reinforced composites parts. department in the field of microwave electronic components, with a main focus on MMIC and TR Modules. The Company's LAER is also involved in several ambitious R&D projects, expertise and core business, are based on the executive design, assuring a continuous improvement of its products quality lay-out generation, on wafer probe test, on jig electrical & thermal and technical competences. characterization of MMIC.s and discrete active components. The leading technologies based on GaAs and GaN lmasrl semiconductors are used in our projects. A manpower of fifteen Via Vercelli 6 10044 Pianezza (TO) PhD Engineers, with solid background and expertise in MMIC T (+39) 011 9672053 design, make the strength of our Company. Further, the most www.lmasrl.com advanced software tools , based on ADS , Microwave Office [email protected] Sonnet EM and Ansys TAS, are always available to this design With more than 45 years of commitment into the Aerospace team. On the base of the excellent results achieved in strategic Market, LMA is today a leading global supplier of integrated European projects for Space, solutions for the most important players in the Space MEC was appointed by UMS (which is first European GaAs / sectors. GaN foundry) its official Design House. Since then, a very tight A whole set of in-house capabilities gives LMA the ability to cooperation is in progress with this foundry, which allows MEC to provide customers with any combination of services get early access to each new technology. From its inception, required - from the detailed-design, build-to-print MEC had the opportunity to develop, for enterprises which are manufacturing, to the assembly - and anything in between leaders in satellite systems, as Thales Alenia Space, Selex , and with flexibility and efficiency, meeting the highest quality Space Agencies as ESA , CONAE and ASI, very innovative requirements. microwave integrated modules and advanced MMICs, which allowed us to become one of the preferred European Design The Company excels at being a Tier 1 Integrator filling the Centre for spatial microwave components. gap between the main Customers and the traditional Subcontractors by integrating the supply base.

76 Open Sky's Media Lario C.so Santi Felice e Fortunato, 105 36100 Vicenza Località Pascolo 23842 Bosisio Parini (LC) T (+39) 02 47931234 www.opensky.it T (+39) 031 867111 [email protected] www.media-lario.com [email protected]

Connecting anybody anywhere has been our motto and goal Media Lario S.r.l. is a dynamic and innovative technology- from the very beginning. This is why in 2001 Open Sky started driven company with more than two decades of experience a partnership with Eutelsat, one of the leading satellite Internet supplying advanced optical components and optical systems. providers worldwide, and committed to the challenge of The company works with leading industrial and agency connecting 100% of the Italian territory. Because the digital partners including ASI, ESA, NASA, INAF, INAOE, Max- divide, lack or poor Internet terrestrial connections, was Planck Institutes, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Leonardo largely spread throughout Italy, an exciting technological and Finmeccanica, OHB, ASML, and others. business opportunity lay ahead of us. Soon Open Sky Media Lario's products are aboard space missions such as increased its expertise and market share to become the Italian Beppo-SAX, SWIFT, XMM, eROSITA, ROSETTA, leading telecom operator by number of Tooway subscribers INTEGRAL, CHEOPS, and installed in terrestrial and today our network includes 2500 authorized Smart observatories such as IRAM, ALMA, LMT, MAGIC. Installers and 140 dealers. The company is located in Italy, within the industrial hub of The trusting relationship and cooperation with our client Milan, an area rich with opto-mechanical expertise and companies changed our role from service provider to experience with space programs. consultant and partner in the technological endeavours of businesses and professionals. As a result, we were able to design breakthrough B2B satellite services to meet the diverse needs of our clientele, such as the remote control of Nadir surveillance systems for monitoring, and telemetry to backup c/o Campus Scientifico Università Cà Foscari Venezia data to the live streaming. Via Torino,155b 30172 Mestre (VE) Our other passion is the distribution of digital content to T (+39) 041 2346711 theatres via satellite. Open Sky's Cinema Division is now the T (+39) 348 3639396 Italian leader in the industry as it broadcasts more than 300 www.nadir-tech.it films per year, which equals about 85% of the shows [email protected] broadcast via satellite. In 2015 we launched Cinema On Demand, a digital delivery through broadband connection. Nadir S.r.l. is a small enterprise which heads some This service makes it possible for theatres to select and experienced researchers that decided to focus their activities download DCP and trailers from our online catalogue. in the development of a novel atmospheric plasma technology and innovative nanocomposites polymers materials with active and smart functionalities. Planetek Italia Via Massaua, 12 I 70132 Bari T (+39) 080 9644200 NEXTANT www.planetek.it Via Andrea Noale, 345/A 00155 Roma [email protected] T (+39) 06 91139002 www.nais-solutions.it Marco PASCALE [email protected] T (+39) 335 7781148 NEXTANT Applications & Innovative Solutions – NAIS was founded in 2005 with headquarters in Rome, with the mission Planetek Italia is an Italian SME, established in 1994, which to design innovative applications in the Aerospace market, employs 45 men and women, passionate and skilled in based on the ICT infrastructure and satellite technologies of Geoinformatics, Space solutions, and Earth science. Navigation, Earth Observation and Telecommunication. For We provide solutions through all phases of data life cycle from this purpose, NAIS continuously invests in research activities acquisition, storage, management up to analysis and sharing. financed by equity and participating in R&D projects, co- Application areas: satellites missions & cosmic exploration; financed by the National and International programs; in environmental & land monitoring, open-government & smart partnership with other Companies, Universities and cities. Research Centers. Main activity areas are: On board payload data processing The overtime expertise in satellite assets and ICT and compression, radar and optical data processing for the technologies allowed NAIS to develop Innovative ground segment, systems for the satellite attitude applications in the field of: Smart-mobility (solution for both determination, software for EGSE, mission planning and real- citizens and tourists transportation support and information); time system ; Satellite, aerial and drone data processing for Emergency (mission management and resource planning); cartography and geo-information production; Design and Cultural Heritage (safeguard, fruition and prevention); development of Spatial Data Infrastructures for geospatial Maritime (search & rescue, mission management and access data archive, management and sharing; Design and to harbour and docks); Defence (air defence systems development of geo-location based solutions, based on indoor development; simulation and training system development); & GPS/Gallileo/GNSS positioning systems. and Aeronautics (Air Traffic Management system 2D & 3D and flight information systems of General Aviation aircraft) and e-health (data synch & mobile devices).

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Tel: +60 3 7728 0063 Tel: +32 3 780 65 00 Fax: +60 3 7728 0353 Fax: +32 3 780 65 49 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.baycom.com.my Website: www.newtec.eu Products: Managed Satellite Network Provider Products: Modems | Modulators | Satcom Services | Networks

VODACOM NIGERIA 3A Aja Nwachukwu close, PARADIGM Address: Paradigm House, 14 Wilsom Road, Alton, Ikoyi, Hampshire GU34 2PP, UK. LAGOS Tel: +44 1420 88199 Tel: +234 Fax: +44 1420 88842 Fax: +234 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.paracomm.co.uk Website: www.vadacomng.com Products: Terminals | Earth Stations Products: Satcom Services | Networks

SUPERNET COMPUTER WAREHOUSE GROUP PLC Address: 10th Floor, Tower B, World Trade Centre, 10 Block 54A, Plot 10, Off Rufus Giwa Street Khayaban-e-Roomi Block 5, Clifton Karachi-75600, Pakistan. Off Adebayo Doherty Road Tel: +92 21 3587 1864-7 Off Admiralty Way Fax: +92 21 3587 1869 Email: [email protected] Lekki Phase 1, Lagos Website: www.super.net.pk Tel: +234 7030079110 Email: [email protected] Products: Data Networking Solutions Website: www.cwg-plc.com Products: Modems | Satcom Services | FOXCOM Address: 16 Hataasia St., Har Tuv A, Beit Shemesh, Israel Networks/Data/Voice 99052. Tel: +972 2 589 9888 IPNX Email: [email protected] Website: www.foxcom.com 4, Balarabe Musa Crescent, Products: Satcom Solutions Victoria Island, Lagos. Tel: +234 815964016 HORIZON SATELLITE SERVICES Email: [email protected] Address: PO Box 502343, Office Number 406, Zee Tower, Website: www.ipnx-nigeria.com Dubai Media City, UAE. Products: Modems | Satcom Services | Networks Tel: +971 4 391 5122 Fax: +971 4 391 2906 Email: Online Form Website: www.horizon-satellite.com TELNET GROUP Products: Managed Broadband Solutions | IP Trunking | Plot 242 Kofo Abayomi Street, GSM Backhauling Victoria Island, Lagos. INTERNET SOLUTIONS Tel: + 234 1 4611 747, +234 740 6890, +234 8022245991 Address: The Campus, Le Mans Building, 57 Sloane Street, Fax: +234 740 6890 Bryanston Gauteng, Email: [email protected] South Africa. Website: www.telnetng.com Tel: +27 011 575 1000 Email: [email protected] Products: Modems | Satcom Services | Networks Website: www.is.co.za Products: Managed Network Services

ISAT AFRICA Address: 105, Building 10, PO Box 500459, Dubai Internet NEWTEC City, Dubai, UAE. Address: Newtec Cy N.V., Laarstraat 5, B-9100, Sint- Email: Online Form Niklaas, Belgium. Website: www.isatafrica.com 79 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Products: Satellite Broadband | Teleport Collocation | Address: Fountain Grove – Suite 7, No 5, Second Road, CNR William Nicol Drive, Broadcasting Hyde Park 2196, Johannesburg, South Africa. Tel: +27 11 530 9300 ITC GLOBAL Fax: +27 11 327 2700 Address: Level 7, PPF Plaza - Front Tower, Kanyatta Email: [email protected] Road, Mwanza, Website: www.logical.co.za Tanzania. Products: VSAT | Internet | Voice | Data Tel: +255 2 8250 6004 Fax: +255 2 8250 6005 Email: [email protected] MECONNECT Website: www.itcglobal.com Address: Jebel Ali Free Zone, Area RA08-CA04 Tel: +971 4 8837071 Products: Satellite Communications Email: [email protected] Website: www.meconnect.net IWAY AFRICA Products: Modems | VSATs | Wireless | Cables | Test & Address: Suite 223/224 Grand Baie Business Park, Air and Geranium Street, Grand Measurement Baie, Mauritius. Tel: +230 26 393 22 MOBAX GROUP Fax: +230 26 310 67 Address: 5 Regency Drive, Route 21 Corporate Park, Irene, Email: [email protected] Pretoria, Website: www.iwayafrica.com South Africa. Products: VSAT | VoIP | Wireless Broadband | MPLS Tel: +27 12 345 4007 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mobaxgroup.com KOLAGEN TELECOM Address: 27 BP 805, Abidjan 27. Products: Telecomms Managed Services Tel: +225 22 41 12 68 Fax: +225 22 41 12 48 Email: [email protected] OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGIES Website: www.kolagen-telecom.com Address: 63, Rue 16 249-Face Lycée des Nations, Products: Telecomms Networks Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Tel: +226 25 38 84 08 Fax: +226 25 38 84 09 Email: [email protected] ARQIVA Website: www.offshoretechnologies.net Address: Crawley Court, Winchester SO21 2QA, UK. Products: Satcom Systems | WAN | VoIP Tel: +44 1962 823 434 Email: [email protected] Website: www.arqiva.com SKYSTREAM Products: TV | Radio | Network Solutions | Mobile | IoT Address: Dubai Internet City, Building 14, Suite 201, Dubai, UAE. Tel: +971 4 391 3377 Company: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE Fax: +971 4 390 8720 Address: 31 rue des Cosmonautes, 31402 Toulouse Email: [email protected] Cedex 4, France. Website: www.sky-stream.com Tel: +33 5 62 19 62 19 Email: [email protected] Products: Satcom Systems | IP | Voice | Video Website: www.space-airbusds.com Products: Satellite Systems | Telecoms | Services C2SAT TARASUL TELECOM Address: Isafjordsgatan 32B, SE-16440 Kista- Address: P.O.Box: 21340, Safat, Code 13136, Kuwait. Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: +965 22420001 Tel: +46 8 705 9500 Fax: +965 22407806 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website:www.c2sat.com Website: www.tarasultelecom.com Products: Stabilised Maritime VSAT Antenna Products: High-Speed Internet Services

THURAYA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY LIQUID TELECOMMUNICATIONS LTD Address: P.O. Box 283333, Dubai - UAE. Address: 5th Floor, Ebene Mews, 57 Cybercity, Ebene, Tel: +971 4 4488888 Mauritius. Fax: +971 4 4488999 Tel: +230 466 7620 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.thuraya.com Website: www.liquidtelecom.com Products: MSS Operator | Telecomms Solutions Products: Data, Voice and IP Provider SIS LIVE LOGICAL WIRELESS PTY LTD Address: Whitehall Avenue, Kingston, Milton Keynes MK10

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OAX, UK. Tel: +44 1908 865 252 Converters | Broadband Solutions Email: Contact Form Website: www.sis.tv ANACOM Products: Satellite Networks | Broadcasting Solutions Address: 1996 Lundy Avenue, San Jose, CA 95131, USA. Tel: +1 408 519 2062 DATASAT COMMUNICATIONS LTD Fax: +1 408 519 2063 Address: Tavistock Estate, Twyford, Berkshire, RG10 Email: [email protected] 9NJ, UK. Website: www.anacominc.com Tel: +44 118 934 9199 Products: Block-up Converters | Transceivers | SSPAs, IP Fax: +44 118 934 9198 Networking Email: [email protected] Internet: www.datasat.com C-COM SATELLITE SYSTEMS Products: Remote Communications Solutions | TETRA Address: 2574 Sheffield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1B 3V7. ECHELON SATNET Tel: +1 613 745 4110 Address: Echelon Satnet Ltd, 29 Harley Street, London Fax: +1 613 745 7144 W1G 9QR, UK. Email: [email protected] Tel: +971 6 5570900 Website: www.c-comsat.com Fax: +971 6 5570930 Products: Antenna Systems | Emergency Email: [email protected] Communications Website: www.echelonsatnet.co.uk Products: Network Systems Integrator COBHAM SATCOM LAND SYSTEMS TALIA GROUP Address: 2100 North Alafaya Trail, Suite 300, Orlando, Address: 19 Nassau Street, London W1W 7AF, UK. Florida 32826, USA. Tel: +44 20 3318 1500 Tel: +1 407 650 9054 Fax: +44 207 631 3343 Fax:+1 407 650 9086 Email: Online Form Email: [email protected] Website: www.talia.net Website: www.cobham.com Products: Internet | Voice | Video Products: Antennas | Networks | Vertical Market Satcom Solutions

ULTRA ELECTRONICS, GIGASAT COMTECH EF DATA Address: Tring Business Centre, Icknield Way, Tring, Address: 2114 West 7th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. HP23 4JX, UK. Tel: +1 480 333 2200 Tel: +44 1442 892000 Fax: +1 480 333 2540 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.ultra-gigasat.com Website: www.comtechefdata.com Products: Mobile Flyaway Antenna Systems Products: Satellite Bandwidth Efficiency and Link Optimization | VSATs | Modems EMC SATCOM TECHNOLOGIES Address: Vollsveien 21 N-1366, Lysaker, Norway. Tel: +47 (67) 535 337 EMERGING MARKETS COMMUNICATIONS Fax: +47 (67) 535 335 Address: 777 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1150, Miami FL Email: [email protected] 33131, USA. Website: www.emcsatcom.com Tel: +1 305 539 1358 Products: IP-based Satellite Network Systems Fax: +1 786 425 0679 Email: [email protected] Website: www.emc-corp.net ETL SYSTEMS Products: Hybrid Satellite and Terrestrial Communications Address: Coldwell Radio Station, Madley, Hereford, HR2 9NE, UK. Tel: +44 1981 259 020 EXPEDITION COMMUNICATIONS Fax: +44 1981 259 021 Address: 521 E. 1st Street - Long Beach, CA 90802, USA. Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 877 410 8101 Website: www.etlsystems.com Email: [email protected] Website: www.expeditioncommunications.com Products: RF Equipment Products: Satellite and VSAT Installations

ADVANTECH WIRELESS Address: 657 Orly Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada H9P GENERAL DYNAMICS SATCOM TECHNOLOGIES 1G1. Address: 2205 Fortune Drive, San Jose, California 95131, Tel: +1 514 420 0045 USA. Fax: +1 514 420 0073 Tel: +1 408 955 1900 [email protected] Fax: +1 408 955 1926/1927 Website: www.advantechwireless.com Email: [email protected] Products: Amplifiers | Transmitters | Frequency Website: www.gdsatcom.com

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GLOWLINK NORSAT INTERNATIONAL Address: 333 Distel Circle, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA. Address: 110-4020 Viking Way, Richmond, British Columbia Tel: +1 650 237 0220 V6V 2L4, Canada. Fax: +1 650 237 0225 Tel: +1 604 821 2800 Email: [email protected] Fax: +1 604 821 2801 Website: www.glowlink.com Email: [email protected] Products: Interference Removal Systems | Spectrum Website: www.norsat.com Monitoring Products: Microwave Components | Terminals | Receivers and Transmitters HARRIS CAPROCK Address: 4400 S. Sam Houston Parkway E., Houston, Texas 77048, USA. Tel: +1 832 668 2300 OPTIMAL SATCOM INC Fax: +1 832 668 2388 Address: 11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 200, Reston, VA Online Form 20191-5491, USA. Website: www.harriscaprock.com +1 703 657 8800 Products: Satellite Networks | Government | Energy | Fax: +1 603 547 0145 Email: [email protected] Maritime Website: www.optimalsatcom.com Products: Enterprise Capacity Management Systems

HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS Address: 11717 Exploration Lane Germantown, Maryland 20876, USA. PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION Tel: +1 301 428 5500 Address: 26200 Enterprise Way, Lake Forest, CA 92630, USA. Fax: +1 301 428 1868 Tel: +1 949 672 2000 Email: [email protected] Fax: +1 949 462 7100 Website: www.hughes.com Email: [email protected] Products: Broadband Satellite Networking Solutions Website: www.panasonic.aero Products: In-Flight Connectivity IDIRECT TECHNOLOGIES Address: 13861 Sunrise Valley Drive, Ste 300, Herndon, VA 20171 USA. POLARSAT Tel: +1 703 648 8000 Address: 549 Meloche Avenue, Dorval, Quebec H9P 2W2, Fax: +1 703 648 8014 Canada. Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 514 635 0040 Website: www.idirect.net Fax: +1 514 635 0044 Products: IP-based Satellite Communications Email: Contact Form ITC GLOBAL Website: www.polarsat.com Address: 2000 B Edwards Street, Houston, TX 77007, Products: VSAT Systems USA. Tel: +1 855 639 4482 Email: [email protected] Website: www.itcglobal.com/ RIGNET Products: Networking Solutions Address: 1880 S. Dairy Ashford, Suite 300, Houston, TX 77077, USA. Tel: +1 281 674 0100 MARITIME COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Fax: +1 281 674 0101 Address: 3044 N. Commerce Parkway, Miramar, FL Email: [email protected] 33025, USA. Website: www.rig.net Tel: +1 954 538 4000 Fax: +1 954 431 4077 Products: Managed Network Services Email: [email protected] Website: www.mtnsat.com TERRASAT COMMUNICATIONS Products: VSAT Solutions | Oil&Gas | Maritime Address: 235 Vineyard Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037, USA. Tel: +1 408 782 5911 NEWCOM INTERNATIONAL Fax: +1 408 782 5912 Address: 15590 NW 15th Avenue, Miami, FL 33169, Email: [email protected] USA. Website: www.terrasatinc.com Tel: +1 305 627 6000 Products: Block Upconverters | RF Transceivers Fax: +1 305 627 6001 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.newcominternational.com Products: Global Communications Provider

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AERONAUTICS ANALYSIS AND INFORMATION International Space Agencies CENTRE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS CSIRO Office of Space Science and Applications AND SPACE, (LAPAN) Contact: Mr Alex Held Address: CSIRO Office of Space Science and Contact: Mr Adi Sadewo Salatun Applications Job: Chairman G.P.O. Box 3023, Canberra, ACT 2601 Address: National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) Fax: 02 6246 5988 P.O. Box 1020/JAT Tel.: 02 6246 5899 Jakarta 13220, Indonesia Email: [email protected] Fax: +62-21-489-4815 Web site: www.cossa.csiro.au Tel.: +62-21-489-5040 Email: [email protected] Azerbaijan National Aerospace Agency (ANASA)

Contact: Mr Alchin Shirin-zada Job: Director General NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY, MALAYSIA Address: National Aerospace Agency Ministry of Defence Industry 159 Azadlig Ave. Contact: Ms Mazlan Othman Baku, AZ 1106, Azerbaijan Job: Director General Fax: +994-12-562 1738 Address: Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Tel.: +994-12-562 9387 Paras 5, Block 2, Menara PjH, Presint 2 Email: [email protected] 62100 Putrajaya, Malaysia Fax: +6(03) 8888 3478, +6012-2335898 Tel.: +6(03) 8888 8668 Email: [email protected] Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO)

Contact: Mr Md. Nazmul Huda Khan Job: Chairman IRANIAN SPACE AGENCY (ISA) Address: Space Research and Remote Sensing Contact: Yousef Ghadaksaz Khosroshahi Organization (SPARRSO) Job Title: Director of Satellite Planning and Development Mohakash Biggyan Bhaban. Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Department Nagar Address: No.34, Saayeh Street., Nelson Mandela Blvd., Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh Tehran, Islamic Republic Fax: +88-2-811-3080 of Iran. Tel.: +88-2-814-1402 / 913-1741 Tel: +98 21 2202 9995 Email: [email protected] Fax: +98 21 2202 7272 Email: [email protected], [email protected] National Remote Sensing Centre of China Website: www.isa.ir (NRSCC)

Contact: Mr Zhang Guocheng ISRAEL SPACE AGENCY Job: Director-General Contact: Yitzchak Ben Yisrael Address: National Remote Sensing Centre of China Job Title: Chairman Ministry of Science and Technology Address: Derech Menachem Begin 52, Tel Aviv, Israel. 15B Fuxing Road Tel: +972 3 7649600 Beijing 100862, China Email: Online Form Fax: +86-10-6851-3212 Website: www.space.gov.il Tel.: +86-10-6853-9135 Email: [email protected], [email protected]

JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY

Contact: Naoki Okumura The Hong Kong Observatory Job Title: President Address: Public Affairs Department, Japan Aerospace Contact: Mr C. Y. Lam, Director Exploration Agency Hong Kong Observatory (JAXA) Ochanomizu sola city, 4-6 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Address: 134A Nathan Road, Kowloon Tokyo, 101-8008, Japan. Hong Kong, China Tel: +81 3 5289 3600 Fax: +852-2311-9448 Fax: +81 3 3258 5051 Tel.: +852-2926-8221 Email: proffice@jaxa.jp Email: [email protected] Website: www.jaxa.jp

KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (KARI)

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Contact: Eun-Jung Lee PAKISTAN SPACE & UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH Job Title: Head, External Relations Team COMMISSION Address: 169-84 Gwahangno, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon Contact: Mr Ahmed Bilal 305-806, Korea. Job Title: Chairman Tel: +82 42 860 2148 Address: SUPARCO Headquarters, SUPARCO Road, P. O. Fax: +82 42 860 2015 Box No. 8402, Email: [email protected] Karachi-75270, Pakistan. Website: www.kari.re.kr Tel: +92 21 34690765 Fax: +92 21 34644928 Email: [email protected] Website: www.suparco.gov.pk NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Contact: Charles F. Bolden, Jr ROMANIAN SPACE AGENCY Job Title: NASA Administrator Contact: Marius-loan Piso Address: NASA Headquarters, 300 E. Street SW, Job Title: President Suite 5R30, Washington, DC Address: str. Mendeleev 21-25, sector 1, 010362 Bucharest, 20546, USA. Romania. Tel: +40 21 3168720 Tel: +1 202 358 0001 Fax: +40 21 3128804 Fax: +1 202 358 4338 Email: [email protected] Email: Online Form Website: www.rosa.ro Website: www.nasa.gov

NATIONAL SPACE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, NIGERIA NASRDA RUSSIAN FEDERAL SPACE AGENCY - ROSCOSMOS Contact: Komarov Igor Contact: Professor Seidu Onailo Mohammed Job Title: Head Job Title: Director General Address: Schepkina st. 42, Moscow, Russia, 107996. Address: Obasanjo Space Centre, Umaru Ya'ardua Tel: +7 495 631 85 21 Way, Pyakkassa Junction, Abuja, Northern Nigeria Fax: +7 495 631 90 24 Tel: +234 8033139987 Email: Online Form Email: [email protected] Website: www.en.federalspace.ru Website: www.nasrda.gov.ng

SWEDISH NATIONAL SPACE BOARD Contact: Olle Norberg NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY OF UKRAINE Job Title: Director General Contact: Oleg Uruskyi Address: Box 4006, SE-171 04 Solna, Sweden, Sweden. Job Title: Head Tel: +46 8 6276480 Address: 01010, Kyiv, Moskovska Str, 8,, Ukraine. Fax: +46 8 6275014 Tel: +380 44 281 6200 Email: [email protected] Fax: +380 44 281 6209 Website: www.snsb.se Email: [email protected] Website: www.nkau.gov.ua

NORWEGIAN SPACE CENTRE TAIWAN NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION Contact: Bo N. Andersen Contact: Dr. Guey-Shin Chang Job Title: Director General Job Title: Director General Address: PO Box 113 Skoyen, 0212 Oslo, Norway. Address: 8F, 9, Prosperity 1st Road, Science-Based Industrial Tel: +47 22 51 18 00 Park, HsinChu, Fax: +47 22 51 18 01 Taiwan ROC. Email: [email protected] Tel: +886 3 578 4208 Website: www.spacecentre.no Email: [email protected] Website: www.nspo.org.tw

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Name: UAE SPACE AGENCY Contact: Mohammed Al Ahbabi Job Title: Director General SPA CONDOR ELECTRONICS Address: P.O. Box: 7133Abu Dhabi, UAE. ALGERIA Tel: +971 2 202 2222 Fax: +971 2 202 2000 Condor SPA Electronics is the figurehead of Benhamadi Group. Email: [email protected] Founded in 2002, It soon grows into a leader in its field. It Website: www.space.gov.ae specializes in manufacture&maintenance of electronic products, computer, multimedia, home appliances, photovoltaic panels etc. Thanks to its aggressive price policy, reliability & after sales service, it has become one of the most successful brands in Name: UK SPACE AGENCY Algeria&won the heart of the Algerians. The enormous success Contact: Dr. David Parker that it achieved in Algerian&abroad market, denotes the high Job Title: Chief Executive quality&efficiency of its devices which are now the pride of Algeria. Address: Polaris House North Star Avenue, Swindon, Important figures: Global workers:5110 Number of showrooms Wiltshire SN2 1SZ, UK. across Algeria:130 Condor Product penetration in Algerian Tel: +44 1793 418069 homes:90%. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.condor.dz/ Website: www.bis.gov.uk/ukspaceagency Email: [email protected] Company: MEASAT GLOBAL BERHAD Novatti Contact: Yau Chyong Lim AUSTRALIA Job Title: Chief Commercial Officer Business Support Systems (BSS), Mobile Financial Services, Address: Jalan Teknokrat 1/2, Cyberjaya 63000, Mobile Payments and Remittances, Systems Integration. Novatti, Selangor, Malaysia. an Australian-based company, is an award-winning global Tel: +603 8213 2188 software technology and systems integration provider, committed Fax: +603 8213 2233 to delivering innovative payment solutions since 1996. With an Email: [email protected] | emphasis on the development and delivery of high volume, [email protected] mission critical systems, these reliable and efficient solutions Internet: www.measat.com include Consumer Digital Wallet, Electronic Top-Up, Mobile Money, Bill Payments, Remittance Services, Voucher MEASAT is a premium supplier of satellite communication Management Systems (PINs & PINless) and Electronic Value services to leading international broadcasters, Direct-To- Distribution Systems. Novatti enables telecommunication, Home (DTH) platforms and telecom operators. With banking and alternative network service providers to seamlessly capacity across six communication satellites, the expand their product portfolio and diversify their target markets. company provides satellite services to over 150 countries Novatti’s solutions are highly customizable and can be adjusted to representing 80 percent of the world's population across fit your business needs. Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Australia. Email: [email protected] The MEASAT fleet includes the state-of-the-art MEASAT- Website: http://www.novatti.com/ 3, MEASAT-3a and MEASAT-3b satellites co-located at 91.5°E, supporting Asia's premium DTH and video Real Impact Analytics distribution neighbourhood; MEASAT-2 at 148.0°E; and, BELGIUM MEASAT-5 at 119.5°E. In Africa, the AFRICASAT- 1a satellite at 46.0°E provides satellite capacity across the Data Analysis, Data Products and Services, Mobile Advertising African continent with connectivity to Europe, the Middle and Marketing, Network Management, Network Planning and East and South East Asia. The MEASAT fleet will be Design Real Impact Analytics (RIA) taps into rich telecom data further strengthened with the addition of MEASAT-3c at flows to capture their value. The data is turned into action with big 91.5°E in 2016 and MEASAT-2a at 148.0°E in 2017. data apps embedded in our clients’ day-to-day work. Leveraging facilities at the MEASAT Teleport and Broadcast Centre, and working with a select group of Email: [email protected] world-class partners, MEASAT also provides a complete Webssite: [email protected] range of broadcast and telecommunications solutions. Services include ultra high definition, high definition and Option Wireless Technology standard definition video playout, video turnaround, co- BELGIUM location, uplinking, broadband and IP termination services. Consulting and Engineering Services, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Modems, Systems Integration, Utilities (Smart Grid) GEO-INFORMATICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY Option Wireless Technology’s CloudGate is the carrier-approved DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, THAILAND IoT solution platform that delivers device connectivity, security, Contact: Mr Thongchai Charuppat edge computing processing power for global IoT applications Job: Director across the variety of protocols in different IoT verticals. It includes Address: Geo-Informatics and Space Technology the globally carrier-approved intelligent Cloudgate gateway plus Development Agency CloudGate Universe, Option’s cloud-based configuration and 196 Phahonyothin Road, Chatuchak deployment platform, as well as the CloudGate SDK for rapid Bangkok 10900, Thailand Fax: +66-2-561-3035 application development and the CloudGate HDK for prototyping Tel.: +66-2-940-6420-9 custom expansion cards. LuvitRed completes it and overcomes Email: [email protected] complexities of the vast variety of protocols used in different IoT 85 Airbus Group Australia Pacific streamlines the administrative processes. It bridges the gaps 49 Port Road Thebarton SA 5031 between cubesat designers, manufacturers and operators, Unit 6B Level 1 2 Brindabella Circuit Brindabella Business governmental regulatory agencies, launch providers, and space Park Canberra ACT 2609 insurers. www.airbusgroupap.com.au Solutions are tailored for each client to ensure their needs are www.airbusdefenceandspace.com www.intelligence- met. airbusds.com EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES Contacts: Valentin Merino-Villeneuve Risk analysis. [email protected] +61 421 730 422 Overseas launch certificate documentation. James Prior (Airbus DS Geo Australia) Consulting and administrative tasks. [email protected] +61 2 6143 5606 Insurance facilitation. Launch procurement. AU Launch Services streamlines the process of launching ORGANISATION OVERVIEW Australian space objects through the use of its direct experience Airbus Group Australia Pacific is part of Airbus Group, a and relationships with local and international organisations. global pioneer in aerospace and defence related services This saves time and money for the client. whose companies include Airbus, Airbus Helicopters and Airbus Defence and Space. Wholly owned by Airbus Helicopters, Airbus Group Australia Pacific represents Airbus Group in Australia, New Zealand Auspace and the South Pacific. 27-31 London Road Mile End South SA 5031 In the space sector, Airbus DS Geo Australia Pty Ltd is a www.auspace.com.au wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus DS Geo S.A. The Geo Contact: Paul Weiss [email protected] +61 408 business line provides earth observation satellite imagery 273 654 and associated products and services through direct sales and a network of resellers. The satellite imagery provided ORGANISATION OVERVIEW through Geo is obtained from a constellation of four optical Auspace is a systems integrator with a machine to machine and two radar earth observation satellites that are either (M2M) communications specialisation, focused on delivering owned by or operated on behalf of Airbus DS Geo. turnkey, bespoke solutions by enabling systems for the integrated management of lone workers, vehicle management Airbus Defence and Space provides decision makers with systems, industrial infrastructure and assets. Auspace joined sustainable solutions to increase security, optimise mission the Nova Group of companies in 2007 and in 2012 was re- planning and operations, boost performance, improve purposed to focus on an in-service M2M specialisation. management of natural resources and, last but not least, protect our environment. Provision of earth observation EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES satellite imagery and associated services and solutions from the Airbus operated constellation of four optical and Many enterprises deploy a range of portable and mobile assets two radar satellites. Provision of x-band secure satellite in addition to their vehicles and lone workers, some of which communication services. require tracking and monitoring in order that their business performance is optimised. An integrated Internet of Things (IoT) UNIQUE SELLING POINTS approach to managing portable and mobile assets with the From a single provider, Airbus Defence and Space cover vehicles and workers who deploy them, can provide very low the broadest range of optical and radar satellite imagery cost improvements in asset control and coordination. Data is products. They have an extensive global network of managed by the Auspace Global Alerting Platform portal for real resellers who can adapt their satellite imagery for the local time exception management and visualisation, providing a context. They excel in regular large area (whole state/whole harmonised environment for the management of people, country) satellite imagery coverages and regular monitoring vehicles and assets. Alerts, alarms, track and trace and services. Airbus Defence and Space owns and operates reporting can be consistently generated, visualised and Skynet 5, the UK's military satellite communications integrated into the enterprise where required. Capabilities system. With spot beam up to global coverage capabilities, include: asset and attribute monitoring, asset control data Skynet 5 offers a commercial route to protected, secure and collection, decision support and enterprise integration. resilient communications to Government users worldwide.

BAE Systems Australia AU Launch Services Taranaki Road Edinburgh Parks Edinburgh SA 5111 www.aulaunchservices.com www.baesystems.com Contact: Brett Burford [email protected] +61 488 Contact: Andrew Sysouphat 662 466 [email protected] +61 8 8480 8729 [email protected] +61 8 8480 ORGANISATION OVERVIEW 8729ORGANISATION OVERVIEW AU Launch Services is an Adelaide-based consulting group that works with cubesat manufacturers, owners and BAE Systems Australia is Australia's largest and most versatile operators, preparing the required launch documentation defence and security company working with government and and organising third party service providers in order to industry to enhance the country's defence capability through the facilitate the launch, access to spectrum, and success of delivery of innovative solutions. BAE Systems delivers the Australian cubesat missions. world's most advanced technology-led defence, aerospace and AU Launch Services is the single point of contact for clients. information security solutions. This saves time, avoids miscommunication, and

86 (IoT) devices, connecting the IoT around the world using a EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES massive fleet of small low-cost satellites. It provides BAE Systems Australia has an Australian leading capability direct, global access to a secure low-cost low-bandwidth to deliver complex integrated technology solutions – based connectivity platform ideal for machine to machine data at its headquarters in South Australia. Applied to the space exchange and deploying IoT sensor networks at scale. sector, its advanced manufacturing and systems With simple device setup and management through a web engineering capability allows the development and delivery interface and powerful cognitive analytics built in, the IoT of broad solutions from full system applications down to is about to take a giant leap forward. discrete component development and production. BAE Systems has local teams specialising in the development and servicing of advanced radio frequency, electronics and optical products and systems. Through its work with the Geoplex Department of Defence it also has significant experience in 10 Kingfisher Drive Hewett SA 5118 the support of satellite ground stations, and as a global www.geoplex.com.au company has delivered key components for over 250 Contact: Rick Bailey [email protected] +61 419 satellites. BAE Systems' advanced manufacturing 218 458 capabilities in South Australia allows it to produce mechanical and electronic components on site, using some of Australia's most advanced machining, printed circuit board assembly and environmental testing capabilities. Its ORGANISATION OVERVIEW Edinburgh Parks site is also the hub of its Australian additive Geoplex specialises in the delivery of Enterprise geographic manufacturing capability. information system solutions and professional services. This includes the sale of geospatial data collected using satellites, via partners such as Planet Labs (Earth Observation imagery) and Spire (Satellite - Automatic UNIQUE SELLING POINTS Identification Systems maritime tracking). Geoplex also As the Australian capability leader in defence and partners with US software company, AGI, to offer the aerospace products and systems, BAE Systems offers an physics modeling software Systems Tool Kit (STK) in end-to-end product lifecycle solution from system concept Australia. STK allows engineers and scientists to perform and development through operational data management complex analysis of ground, sea, air, and space assets, and and analysis. Its sustainment capabilities support a broad share results in one integrated solution. range of system integration, software and hardware upgrades and modernisations. BAE Systems is a global EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES leader in defence and aerospace, and has reach-back to the With respect to earth observation, Geoplex works closely global organisation with over 40,000 people working in with the customers who consume and add value to the data electronic systems development and support. collected by satellites. For example, decision makers in agriculture, understanding their problem domain and identifying the type of data to meet their requirements. Cobham Geoplex partners with organisations capturing data using National Drive Adelaide Airport SA 5950 next generation satellite technologies, such as Planet Labs www.cobham.com.au and Spire who use cubesats. It has the tools to allow Contact: Anthony Patterson engineers to model and evaluate potential solutions, [email protected] +61 412 671 610 significantly reducing costs but continuing to develop intellectual experience, by allowing testing to occur in a ORGANISATION OVERVIEW simulated environment. Cobham is an aviation and aerospace service provider to the commercial, government and defence sectors under UNIQUE SELLING POINTS long term performance based contracts. Its space related Geoplex offers access to the world's largest constellation of activity is currently airborne satcom and the time critical satellites, with extensive experience with cubesats in an transmission of collected sensor data and imagery for operational environment. Through world leading modelling surveillance operations. software STK, it helps Australians design the next generation of satellite and ground station solutions. Its full ecosystem is supported by an open Application Programming Interface, which allows users to get access to Fleet Space information in a timely manner. 1 Redwood Street Rostrevor SA 5073 www.fleet.space.com Contact: Flavia Tata Nardini [email protected] +61 424 487 893 Greenhouse Gas Monitor Australia Pty Ltd 23 Stanley Street Leabrook SA 5068 EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES Contact: Andrew Clark [email protected] Fleet is a truly agile space technology start-up building +61 418 808 387 connectivity as a service platform. Scalability and iterative development are built into its business model and infrastructure. Its core expertise is nano-satellite manufacture and deployment, satellite propulsion systems, IoT connectivity and software as a service platform development. Fleet is an agile space company making it faster, simpler and cheaper to connect the world's Internet of Things

87 ORGANISATION OVERVIEW specific capabilities are mission design, satellite guidance, Greenhouse Gas Monitor Australia Pty Ltd (GGMA) was navigation and control, systems engineering, structures and formed to develop and commercialise state-of-the-art power management, with commercial off the shelf hardware capabilities to measure, monitor and understand the being used where necessary. Partnered with a defence prime behaviour of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. and the University of Adelaide, it is developing a nanosatellite- GGMA's main activities are to: develop and commercialise based space situational awareness system to monitor defence novel instrumentation and methods to measure CO2 and CH4 and commercial space assets from both accidental and in the atmosphere, supported by field measurements develop malicious threats. atmospheric models to attribute measurements of GHGs to sources and sinks and predict the transport of GHGs in the UNIQUE SELLING POINTS atmosphere provide GHG data products to industry, Inovor is a small agile company with a capable team of legislators, traders, and to the agricultural community through specialists as well as considerable experience interpretation of Earth-based and space-based sensors. commercialising technology and building international collaborative teams. It has both a deep research and EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES development culture, with the majority of the team coming from GGMA principals have a long history of remote sensing of a research background, and expertise in systems engineering, trace gases in the atmosphere and in the development of which enables it to engineer quality assured products that meet related terrestrial and space-based instruments. GGMA has a user/customer needs. Inovor is geographically close to the pedigree of pioneering the field of space-based sensing of booming Asia-Pacific region and has a less restrictive export trace gases in the atmosphere, and providing key expertise in control regime, allowing free access to this growing market. the development of a carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor successfully deployed on NASA's Orbital Carbon Observatory (OCO). Lockheed Martin 5 Third Ave Mawson Lakes SA 5095 GGMA provides expert analysis and interpretation of data 53 Wentworth Avenue Kingston ACT 2604 from both OCO and Japan's Greenhouse Gases Observing www.lockheedmartin.com.au Satellite. GGMA is also supporting Lockheed Martin to Contact: Michelle Scully [email protected] +61 2 develop novel instrumentation to measure CO2 from a 6269 0101 geostationary platform.

UNIQUE SELLING POINTS ORGANISATION OVERVIEW GGMA has developed novel technology to measure and map Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a atmospheric methane and is well advanced in extending this global security and aerospace company that employs technology to measure nitrous oxide. GGMA has developed: approximately 125,000 people worldwide and is principally an autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicle-based instrument engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, to measure methane spectra of sampled gas software to: integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, extract sub-1ppm trace gas concentrations from measured products and services. spectra produce 3D gas concentration fields understand Lockheed Martin Australia (LMA) has grown to over 1000 staff surface fluxes and transport of trace gases infer location and currently engaged throughout Australia - from Queensland to strength of trace gas sources through a fusion of terrestrial Western Australia, South Australia and many points in and space-based measurements. between. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company is actively involved in Australia by: being a contributing partner in the Space Environment Research Centre developing a ground based space situational awareness Inovor Technologies sensor in Western Australia. 39 Gawler Terrace Walkerville SA 5081 www.inovor.com.au EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES Contact: Matthew Tetlow [email protected] +61 412 644 Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (SSC) has more 853 than 50 years' experience in space system design, EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES development, operations and sustainment. Its portfolio Inovor has a small team with expertise in guidance navigation extends across: commercial space - remote sensing, and control, embedded systems and software design and commercial SATCOM, and wind energy management military development, with a balanced split between graduate level, space - protected communications, narrowband mid-career and subject matter experts. Areas of expertise and communications, navigation, weather, early warning, space experience in space systems: protection civil space - human exploration, planetary systems engineering and mission design; spacecraft exploration, weather and environment advanced technologies integration and test; attitude determination and control - - optics, Radio Frequency and photonics; advanced precision pointing; spacecraft navigation and positioning; manufacturing and nano systems; and space science and space object detection and tracking; flight/ground segment instruments launch capability – medium and heavy through software development; spacecraft structures. United Launch Alliance, our joint venture with Boeing. Inovor has two prototype space subsystems and associated Intellectual Property. UNIQUE SELLING POINTS Lockheed Martin is an innovative company that uses research ORGANISATION OVERVIEW and development to solve some of the world's most complex Inovor Technologies has two business streams: defence problems. By combining skilled staff with an experienced contract research and development, and nanosatellite management team, and through a customer oriented technologies. It designs and integrates small satellites, contracting approach that offers real value-for-money providing a full development service from customer needs to solutions, Lockheed Martin aims to continue to grow and requirements, through design, build, integrate and test. Its establish itself as a major presence in Australia and the Asia-

88 Pacific region. As part of this growth Lockheed Martin seeks to Design of error control encoders and decoders and research partner with niche Australian high technology companies and in error control codes. Expertise in convolutional, trellis, turbo provide those companies with reach-back to access deep and low density parity check (LDPC) codes. technical expertise, market and supply chain opportunities.

Nova Systems SATCOM UNIQUE SELLING POINTS 27-31 London Road Mile End South SA 5031 Small World Communications has a large range of Viterbi, www.novasystems.com.au trellis, turbo and LDPC decoders and associated encoders. Contact: Peter Nikoloff [email protected] The company is able to provide cores for both FPGAs and +61 8 8252 7100 ASICs as well as custom coding solutions. It is also able to design encoders and decoders with high performance and encoding and decoding speeds over one billion bits per ] second. EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES Nova Systems SATCOM comprises a satellite communications team with high quality, experienced people that cover multiple disciplines encompassing project specification, requirements definition, engineering, SpeedCast integration, installation, test and evaluation, operations and 49 Port Road Thebarton SA 5031 International Launch Service. Our experts deliver successful www.speedcast.com commercial and Defence projects and provide expert advice Contact: Mike Kenneally [email protected] and guide clients through all aspects of SATCOM project +61 412 833 613 +61 8 8443 9844 establishment, delivery and support including: project management, satellite payload design and in-orbit testing, Earth station design and testing, commercial/military certification testing, SATCOM systems modelling and simulation (Satelite Tool Kit, Qualnet), link budget planning, UNIQUE SELLING POINTS network management systems,through life support planning, SpeedCast is a truly global service provider with a growing SATCOM training, asset and personnel tracking and space network of over 30 Earth stations worldwide. In Australia, launch. SpeedCast owns and operates its own network infrastructure consisting of three Earth stations; equipment hosting and co- ORGANISATION OVERVIEW location in other landmark teleports; country-wide point of Nova Systems is a professional service provider, specialising presence; and an uncontended and redundant backbone in the provision of engineering and management services, network connecting all its teleports to the core data centre providing industry and government with world-class infrastructure. Recently partnering with Airbus, SpeedCast independent expertise in delivering complex projects and provides unique secure satellite communication services solving technologically challenging problems. Nova Systems' primarily to government and Defence on Skynet 5A satellite. heritage is in supporting complex military systems, including a significant foot print in military SATCOM and now growing into the commercial sector. EXPERTISE AND CAPABILITIES SpeedCast's major strengths lie in its areas of focus, including UNIQUE SELLING POINTS radio frequency engineering, high integrity network design, Australian owned. implementation, integration, operation and maintenance of Member of the Defence Security Program. satellite ground systems and maritime RF networks around Largest employer of SATCOM/COMS specialists in Australia very small aperture terminal technology. SpeedCast also supplements very small aperture terminal networks with moblie satellite service and terrestrial connectivity via its Small World Communications global multiprotocol label switchnig network. 6 First Avenue Payneham South SA 5070 www.sworld.com.au Contact: Steven Pietrobon [email protected] +61 8 8332 0319 ORGANISATION OVERVIEW SpeedCast is a leading global network and satellite ORGANISATION OVERVIEW communications service provider offering high-quality Small World Communications specialises in the design of managed networks services in over 90 countries; and a global error control encoders and decoders used in digital maritime network serving customers worldwide. With 33 communications. Error control codes are used to correct international sales and support offices and 31 teleport errors caused by noise, interference and signal distortion. Its operations, SpeedCast has a unique infrastructure to serve products consist of software cores that are used in field the requirements of customers globally. With over 5000 links programmable logic arrays (FPGA) and application specific on land and at sea supporting mission critical applications, integrated circuits (ASIC). Many of its products are designed SpeedCast has distinguished itself with a strong operational for and used in satellite and deep space communication expertise and a highly efficient support organisation, which systems. These include encoders and decoders that are are the foundation of SpeedCast's success. SpeedCast is compatible with the Consultive Committee for Space Data publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange under the Systems (CCSDS), GEO-Mobile Radio (GMR), Inmarsat and ticker SDA (ASX:SDA). Intelsat standards as well as custom coding solutions.

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Consulting, Data Analysis, Test and Measurement function solution for telecommunications companies seeking Equipment. Transcom Instruments, focuses on T&M in efficient, flexible and convergent billing, customer care, wireless communications, microwave and GNSS field is customer relationship management (CRM), and process & established in year 2005. Throughout these years, workflow management. Transcom has developed a number of T&M instruments and has gained the ownership of several Intellectual Email: [email protected] Properties of it’s core technologies. Transcom is Website: http://www.telebilling.dk/ becoming the leading edge T&M instruments and solutions provider for the industry. HOI MEA EGYPT Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.transcom.net.cn/ Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Consulting and Engineering Services, LTE Network Infrastructure, Managed Network Services, Operational Support Systems (OSS). HOI- Avast Software MEA group, established in 2001, is a leading company in CZECH REPUBLIC telecom, engineering, manufacturing and consulting services. HOI-MEA instituted a total of 7 manufacturing facilities to Avast Software, maker of the most trusted mobile and PC construct Greenfield and Rooftop decorative/non-decorative security in the world, protects 230 million people and towers, and enhance the full turnkey capabilities in businesses with its security applications. Avast’s telecommunications projects. HOI-MEA is the 1st company to consumer mobile portfolio includes free apps for Android be granted TowerCo license in Egypt. Headquartered in and iOS that protect smartphone and tablet users from Egypt; HOI-MEA has branches in Qatar, UAE, KSA, Sudan hackers, spies, theft, and data loss. Avast also removes and Morocco. Our portfolio is diversified in 10,000+ built or obsolete files from phones, creating more space for data managed sites and is experiencing steady growth. With sales that matters. The Avast Virtual Mobile Platform (VMP) revenues reaching over $50 million in 2015, HOI-MEA group addresses enterprise mobile security risks, helping is committed to creating and maintaining excellent customer businesses eliminate confidential data leaks from relationships. corporate apps on employee devices. Avast’s mobile apps are certified and top-ranked by leading testing institutions, Email: [email protected] including AV-Comparatives and AV-Test. Website: http://www.hoi-mea.com/

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Business Support Systems (BSS), Consulting and Hansen Technologies Engineering Services, Managed Network Services, DENMARK Operational Support Systems (OSS), Systems Integration. Giza Systems, a leading systems integrator in the MEA Business Support Systems (BSS). Hansen Technologies region, designs and deploys industry-specific technology supports with the convergent naviBilling software solution solutions for asset-intensive industries such as the Telecoms, the day-to-day operations of small to medium sized Utilities, Oil & Gas, Transportation and other market sectors. telecom operators working in any combination of markets We help our clients streamline their operations and – mobile telephony, wire line, mobile broadband, TV, businesses through our portfolio of solutions, managed IP/broadband and interconnection – within one single services, and consultancy practice. Our team of 800 platform. Our signature product naviBilling is a scalable, professionals are spread throughout the region with anchor flexible, role-tailored and future-proof BSS solution based offices in Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam and on Microsoft technology ready to suit the telecoms Abuja, allowing us to service an ever-increasing client base in industry specific needs. naviBilling provides a multi- over 40 countries.

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Created in development costs while maintaining short product 2002 and based in Europe and the United States, Pole Star is development cycles and quality. the pioneer and world leader in indoor location. The mission is to deliver scalable and long lasting quality of service to venue Email: [email protected] owners and mobile solution providers. With over 10M sq.m Website: http://www.convergentia.com/ covered by NAO Campus, We already have an impressive customer portfolio and trusted partner network. Pole Star Varaani Works Oy delivers SDK to its partners enabling an easy integration into FINLAND mobile app and APIs offering several level of services from the

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“Blue dot” and Indoor Positioning to Real time Indoor Website:http://www.avinotec.de/ Location Analytics through precise geofencing and proximity detection. GP TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED Email: [email protected] HONG KONG Website: http://www.polestar.eu/ Batteries, Devices, Intellectual Property, Mobile Security Systems. Batteries, Devices, Intellectual Property, Mobile Linxens Security Systems FRANCE Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, SIM Cards and Email: [email protected] Smart Cards. Linxens is a pioneer and world leader in the Website: http://www.lockphone.com/ design and manufacturing of smartcard connectors, with revenues of € 320 million (fiscal year 2015). Present in the Payment, Telecommunications, eID and Transport & Wipro Lmited Access markets, it offers innovative connectivity solutions INDIA to card manufacturers, chip makers and integrators. Business Support Systems (BSS), Consulting and Building on its customer intimacy, unique technology Engineering Services, Operational Support Systems (OSS), portfolio and large scale industrial capabilities, Linxens has Outsourcing, Systems Integration. Wipro Ltd (NYSE:WIT) is broadened its solution-based product offering to include a global information technology, consulting and outsourcing antennas and specialty IC substrates. Linxens employs company with 170,000+ workforce serving clients in 175+ over 1000 employees worldwide, with manufacturing and cities across 6 continents. The company posted revenues of R&D sites in Europe and Asia. $7.6 billion for the financial year ended Mar 31, 2015.Wipro helps customers do business better by leveraging our Email: [email protected] industry-wide experience, deep technology expertise, Website: www.linxens.com comprehensive portfolio of services and vertically aligned business model. Our 55+ dedicated emerging technologies Coriant ‘Centers of Excellence’ enable us to harness the latest GERMANY technology for delivering business capability to our clients. Backhaul Solutions, Data Products and Services, Network Management, Network Planning and Design, Operational Email: [email protected] Support Systems (OSS). Coriant is a proven supplier of Website: http://www.wipro.com/ innovative networking solutions to leading network operators in over 100 countries. Coriant customers include Intex Technologies (India) Ltd. 9 of the top 10 global Tier 1 Communications Service INDIA Providers (CSPs), as well as cloud providers, enterprises, Consumer Electronics (CEM), Device Management, Mobile and government agencies. With hundreds of thousands of Advertising and Marketing, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and networking systems deployed, Coriant solutions serve as Services, Tablet Devices. Intex Technologies (India) the resilient foundation for billions of dollars in end-user ltd.,incepted in the year 1996 is a major player in India in service revenue. The company delivers best-in-class mobile handset, consumer durables and IT accessories. The packet optical transport and mobile backhaul solutions built company has a PAN-India presence through its wide upon a distinguished heritage of over 35 years of network comprising 30 stock and sales offices and over technology innovation. Learn more at www.coriant.com. 1100+ service touch points. With years of innovation and invaluable asset of more than 6000+ employees, Intex Email: [email protected] Technologies has established itself as a trusted name in the Webite: industry today. The Brand exhibits an exhaustive portfolio of more than 15 product categories ranging from mobile SAP SE handsets, multimedia speakers, LED TVs, washing GERMANY machines to name a few. Enabling Digital Transformation with SAP SAP is at the center of today’s Digital Transformation: 296,000 Email: [email protected] customers worldwide work together more efficiently and Website: http://www.intex.in/ use business insights more effectively. SAP helps organizations of all sizes and industries overcome Indus Net Technologies complexity. With Run Simple as our operating principle, INDIA SAP’s nearly 75,600 employees focus on a singular Application Development – Gaming, Application purpose that inspires us every day: To help the world run Development – General, Application Development – better and improve people’s lives. Shopping, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Outsourcing. Indus Net Technologies is an innovative, Email: [email protected] enterprise and consumer mobility solution provider, offering Website: http://www.sap.com/ custom application development, testing & digital marketing services to enable clients to make their businesses future avinotec GmbH ready. GERMANY Application Development – General, Consumer Email: [email protected] Electronics (CEM), Mobile Entertainment, Mobile TV, Website: http://www.indusnet.co.uk/ Systems Integration. avinotec, Solution Provider for Mobile-Live-Video Streaming. Alpha Wireless IRELAND Email: [email protected] Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, LTE Network 94 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Infrastructure, Small Cells. Alpha Wireless designs and the user hears the audio coming from his device. • Quieter manufactures high performance base station antennas surrounding – Others are not disturbed when a user listens to for 4G applications. A full range of tri-sector (canister) his media. The solution fits multiple markets: Smartphones, antennas are now available, along with a extensive Laptops, TVs, and more… Same technology engine can fit portfolio of small cell antennas to help improve coverage multiple B2B biz models: Implementing Standalone/Embedded on macro networks. All antenna designs have optimized (OEM) devices while targeting both consumer electronics and radiation patterns which helps to improve overall network premium professional verticals performance, and real trials have shown significant throughput and sector capacity improvements when Email: [email protected] Alpha Wireless antennas are used. Alpha prides itself on Website: http://www.noveto.biz/ its expertise and its response times to customer needs, and that’s why the world’s major equipment vendors and operators have chosen to work with us. AppDome Email: [email protected] ISRAEL Website: http://alphaantennas.com/ Application Development General, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Mobile Financial Services. AppDome’s dynamic wrapping SaaS technology provides an essential shield that Vistatec secures enterprise and consumer-facing mobile apps from IRELAND advanced cyber threats, mobile fraud, and data theft. Within Content Provider, Outsourcing. Vistatec works with many minutes, AppDome’s dynamic wrapping technology defends of the world’s most iconic brands to create compelling iOS and Android apps from a range of attack vectors. The content journeys and product experiences for their dynamic wrapper operates on the final application package, customers. By providing powerful, accurate and culturally and does not require any source code modifications or SDK relevant language versions of products and commercial integration during the development life cycle. The solution is content, Vistatec clients can engage and scale their used by the world’s leading financial, healthcare and global customer base in a consistent, timely and cost Ecommerce companies to ensure productivity, compliance, and effective manner. What sets Vistatec apart is our ability to security for consumers and employees. For more information, take content, in any form, and align the intended impact visit www.appdome.com. with the most effective localization methodology. Our Intelligent Automated Translation solutions allow us to Email: [email protected] scale localization and translation solutions to satisfy each globalization opportunity in the most optimized way. ECI ISRAEL Email: [email protected] Backhaul Solutions, Core Network Equipment, Encryption and Website: http://www.vistatec.com/ Security Equipment, Network Management, Utilities (Smart Grid). ABOUT ECI® ECI is a global provider of ELASTIC imobmedia Network™ solutions to CSPs, utilities as well as data center IRELAND operators. Along with its long-standing, industry-proven packet- Location Technologies and Services, Mobile Advertising optical transport, ECI offers a variety of SDN/NFV applications, and Marketing. iMobMedia is a white label, permission end-to-end network management, a comprehensive cyber based marketing platform that enables mobile operators security solution, and a range of professional services. ECI’s to target consumers with offers in real-time based on ELASTIC solutions ensure open, future-proof, and secure preference, profile and and/or proximity. communications. With ECI, customers have the luxury of Email: [email protected] choosing a network that can be tailor-made to their needs today Website: http://www.imobmedia.net/ as well as be seamlessly and cost effectively upgraded to future requirements. For more information, visit us at Google www.ecitele.com. IRELAND Application Development, Gaming, Application Email:[email protected] Development – General, Cloud Services, Mobile Advertising and Marketing, Mobile Gaming. Google’s Allot Communications suite of cross platform products for app developers helps ISRAEL them develop great apps, grow their users and earn Allot Communications (NASDAQ, TASE: ALLT) is a leading revenue. Our best-in-class solutions, including Google provider of security and monetization solutions that enable Cloud Platform, AdWords and AdMob, have supported service providers to protect and personalize the digital the growth of millions of app businesses globally. Learn experience. Allot’s flexible and highly scalable service delivery more at developers.google.com. framework leverages the intelligence in data networks, enabling service providers to get closer to their customers, safeguard Website: https://developers.google.com/ network assets and users, and accelerate time-to-revenue for value-added services. We employ innovative technology, proven Noveto Systems Ltd know-how and collaborative approach to provide the right solution ISRAEL for every network environment. Allot solutions are currently Augmented Reality, Consumer Electronics (CEM), In- deployed at 5 of the top 10 global mobile operators and in Building Systems. Noveto presents “Privet Sound”, a thousands of CSP and enterprise networks worldwide. disruptive technology capable of transmitting focused sound beams from devices to user’s ears only, without Email: [email protected] any use of intermediate/external hardware. “Private Website: http://www.allot.com/ Sound” dynamically tracks and focuses the acoustical energy into the user’s ear, enabling: • Full privacy – Only 95 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

SIAE MICROELETTRONICA around the world. By providing a combination of products ITALY and solutions that leverage the company’s experience and Backhaul Solutions, IP Networking Equipment, Network global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the Management, Network Planning and Design, Systems complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC Integration. SIAE MICROELETTRONICA is an Italian brings more than 116 years of expertise in technological company recognised as one of the most established market innovation to empower people, businesses and society. leaders in delivering innovative wireless transport solutions. Collaborating closely with customers and business partners, Our product lines include microwave and millimetrewave NEC is committed to achieving our goal of making the world radio systems from 6Ghz to 80GHz designed for mobile a brighter place. For more information, visit NEC at backhauling, including the first 4096QAM full outdoor dual- http://www.nec.com. carrier system offering 2Gbps capacity in one box, the ALFOplus2. Carrier Ethernet aggregators, Network Email: [email protected] Management Systems and Network Analytics Performance Website: http://www.nec.com/ tools complement our portfolio. SM Optics, a daughter company, is an excellence centre for Packet Transport Fujitsu Network solutions. With our Network Services organisation JAPAN we deliver all that is required from professional services to Cloud Services, Data Products and Services, Devices, network roll-out worldwide Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Systems Email: [email protected] Integration. Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and Website: http://www.siaemic.com/ communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Microtel Innovation srl Approximately 159,000 Fujitsu people support customers in ITALY more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the IP Networking Equipment, Monitoring Systems and power of ICT to shape the future of society with our Equipment, Network Management. Microtel Innovation is customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported leading provider of network products, solutions and services consolidated revenues of 4.8 trillion yen (US$40 billion) for to Telecom Operators, Service Providers and Corporate the fiscal year ended March 31,2015. For more information, Users throughout the world. Our core business is supplying please see http://www.fujitsu.com. high technology products and services for Data Capture, Filtering and Protocol Conversion to Telecom Operators, Email: [email protected] Service Providers and Corporate Users. Our strengths are Website: http://www.fujitsu.com/ competence and flexibility, to provide solutions for any type of telephone or network interface, feeding any monitoring Japan Radio Co., Ltd. device with the relevant data. Microtel is constantly JAPAN innovating its products, that nowadays are up and running in BTS Fronthaul Solutions, ISP, LTE Network Infrastructure. many countries all over the world: Far East, Europe, Africa, Japan Radio Co., Ltd.(JRC) is the leading company of North and South America. communications and information technology fields. Known for “JRC Technology”, we have , been garnering our Email: [email protected] abundant knowledge, technology and extensive experience Website: http://www.microtelinnovation.com/ throughout our over 100 years history since 1915. Based on our core technologies, we are operating three business Azcom Technology units, Marine Electronics, Communications, and Solutions – ITALY creating new worlds of communications from people to Cloud RAN, LTE Network Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry people and to environments by providing products, service, Systems, Small Cells, Test and Measurement Equipment. and solutions with the value expected from JRC. For more Azcom Technology, a leader in advanced wireless i n f o r m a t i o n , p l e a s e v i s i t o u r w e b s i t e communication with two decades of experience, provides a http://www.jrc.co.jp/eng/index.html In MWC2016, we will complete suite of software and hardware products to build demonstrate LTE solution for WISP and public safety. commercial and special purpose LTE/HSPA+ wireless networks for defense, public safety and rural applications. Email: [email protected] Employing this product suite, Azcom provides reference Website: http://www.jrc.co.jp/eng/index.html platforms & solutions for 4G/3G base-stations, small cells, relay-nodes, Network-In-a-Box, C-RAN, EPC and handset Nihon Dengyo Kosaku, Co., Ltd. testers. The software suite comprises of carrier-grade JAPAN standards compliant LTE FDD/TDD and HSPA+ L1, L2/L3 Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, In-Building Systems, stacks for both base-station and UE along with a scalable Small Cells. Nihon Dengyo Kosaku Co., LTD., known as EPC. Built around this rich product line, Azcom offers DENGYO, is a manufacturer of RF devices, specializing in comprehensive customization services facilitating rapid antennas and filters; catering for the mobile communication solution deployments. and broadcasting industries. Established in 1947, we have been supplying customers with our products for nearly 70 Email: [email protected] years. Our catalogue of antennas includes mobile base Website: http://www.azcom.it/ station antennas and indoor antennas. Our filter products include, band pass filters, multiplexers, antenna combiners NEC and directional couplers. DENGYO is a major supplier of JAPAN high quality RF products for mobile operators and Backhaul Solutions, Cloud Services, LTE Network broadcasters in Japan. “DENGYO – Enriching the Future Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Systems through Better Use of Radio Waves”. Integration. NEC is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people Email: [email protected] 96 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Website: http://www.den-gyo.com/english/index.html functionality has been improved to the effect that you want to see and entrepreneurship in creating a product that can give full Artiza Networks security features of the business objectives. 1. Call feature (using JAPAN a vibrator expressive negative compared to conventional Cloud RAN, LTE Network Infrastructure, Monitoring bluetooth earphone rich because they transmit sound.) 2. Systems and Equipment, Test and Measurement Security features (secure, because a strong currency with a solid Equipment. Artiza Networks is the leader in 3G/3.5G/4G delivery system) 3. Waterproof function (adoption of wireless RAN and core network node testing. We have charging waterproof manner possible) 4. Versatility (NFC, may collaborated with major operators and vendors in the most be combined with the technique of the beacon to perform various advanced markets for over 20 years. Our high-density functions in the wearable device.) 5. Bluetooth communication load testers have dominated the Japanese market since method adopted they were selected for the first ever LTE trial in Japan. With powerful engineering resources we meet the full range of Email: [email protected] customer needs through fully in-house development of Website: http://www.drivingpay.com/ innovative products and solutions combined with award- winning customer service and support. We are proud of The Alpha Labs Co., Inc. our world-class line of testing solutions, and we’re ready to KOREA, REPUBLIC OF build the future with 5G. Application Development – General, Augmented Reality, Devices. The Alpha Labs Co., Inc is technology startup company Email: [email protected] developing AR Smart Glasses ‘Alpha Glass’ and AR Platform Website: http://www.artizanetworks.com/ ‘Alpha Glass Platform’. ‘Alpha Glass’ is smart glasses with new optical system and eyeglasses-like design, which solves design Globitel weakness of traditional smart glasses. We are shaping the future JORDAN of smart glasses and AR to show new world to people from Messaging, Network Operating Software, Roaming everywhere, at anytime. Solutions, Voice Products and Services. Globitel, a 20 Email: [email protected] years old company, one of the few who offers a wide range Website: http://www.thealphalabs.com/ of telecom solutions serving MNO’s and contact centers in more than 45 countries.Globitel has a global footprint with 3D World local presence in Jordan, UAE, KSA, Tunisia, Pakistan & KOREA, REPUBLIC OF USA. Globitel offerings include Roaming Solutions, VAS, Business Support Systems (BSS), Data Products and Services, Provisioning Gateways , Customer Interactive Devices. ‘3D World’ was founded in early 2015 to provide Management and Workforce Optimization Solutions solutions and future-oriented technologies like 3D Scan data (Quality Monitoring, WorkForce Managment, editing and Laser Engraving. It has developed personally Performance Management Platforms & Speech customized figure businesses and programs teaching how to Analytics) . Globitel’s products are innovative and reliable, operate 3D Printers and Scanners since then. providing seamless integration with existing customer infrastructure. Globitel is dedicated to providing high- Email: [email protected] quality products that fully comply with GSM and other Website: http://null/ Telco industry standards. Email: [email protected] X Engineering Website: http://www.globitel.com/ KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Device Accessories, Devices, Fraud Management and Solutions, Mobile Financial Services. X Engineering is a fintech Hannam University, ICT Marketing Center startup inaugurated in February 2015 to disrupt the offline KOREA, REPUBLIC OF payment system with its self-developed magnetic flux emulation Business Support Systems (BSS), Consumer Electronics technology as well as two patent pending security technologies. (CEM), Government and Regulatory, Managed Network X Engineering’s product, SpendWallet, solves the problem of Services, Systems Integration. We are overseas traditional wallet that lacks storage and security by consolidating marketing center for ICT SME in Hannam University, Dae all types of cards and paying with just a tap. The company, which Jeon, Korea. On this time MWC Mobile World Congress, consists of five engineers, one designer and one operator, we’d like to introduce 2 reputable company as Han Kyung received two rounds of funding from Neowiz. SpendWallet is I-Net Co., Ltd. & Max Wave Co., Ltd. First of all, Han expected to be launched on the crowdfunding platform, Kyung I-Net Co., Ltd. is manufacturing for M-Prime. M- Kickstarter, in the first half of 2016. Prime is as 19? server & network cabinet installed with 7? monitoring LCD touch screen which makes it possible to Email: [email protected] efficiently manage the Rack enviroment such as Website: http://spendwallet.com/ Temperature, Humidity, Security, Etc. Secondly, Max Wave Co., Ltd. is manufacturing Mobile phone charger wihich has Wrap cable & NFC Tag inside. Daegu Technopark(Mobile Technology Convergence Center) Email: [email protected] KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Website: http://sh.hannam.ac.kr/ Government and Regulatory. To lead the technology innovation of ICT and new industries, ‘Mobile Technology Covergence Union Golden Rich Center’ established the Total Solution Support System through KOREA, REPUBLIC OF internationally recognized test certification business that directly Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Application tests and certifies if mobile terminals comply with the Development – Film, Application Development – international standards, R&D business, technology support Music. In adopting the oscillator technologies, currency business, marketing business etc. and has been providing the quality service to relevant companies. In addition, it has provided 97 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 differentiated ONE-STOP, ONE-SITE company support Email: [email protected] services to secure the global business competitiveness Website: http://www.sktelecom.com/en and discover new business model and supported our companies in firmly positioning themselves as strong National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) leaders in the world market. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Email: [email protected] Content Management, Government and Regulatory. NIPA Website: http://www.mtcc.or.kr/ devotes itself to reinforcing the competitiveness of the IT industry and contributes to the economic growth through the efficient Samsung Electronics Networks support and laying the groundwork for the industrial technology KOREA, REPUBLIC OF promotion. Major Business: Policy research and development Core Network Equipment, In-Building Systems, LTE support for the IT industry Help establish the foundation of the IT Network Infrastructure, Network Planning and Design, industry and cultivate its human resources Vitalize the distribution Small Cells. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. inspires the market for the development of the IT industry and support world and shapes the future with transformative ideas marketing Promote businesses related to the convergence and and technologies that redefine the worlds of TVs, utilization of IT technology Support international exchange, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, cameras, cooperation, and overseas expansion related to the IT industry. digital appliances, printers, medical equipment, Email: [email protected] network systems, and semiconductor and LED Website: http://www.nipa.kr/ solutions. We are also leading in the Internet of Things space with the open platform SmartThings, our broad RF Window Co., Ltd. range of smart devices, and through proactive cross- KOREA, REPUBLIC OF industry collaboration. We employ 319,000 people Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Batteries, Device across 84 countries with annual sales of US $196 Accessories, In-Building Systems, Network Planning and billion. To discover more, and for the latest news, Design. Since our establishment in 2004, RF Window had feature articles and press material, please visit the developed and commercialized ICS Digital Repeater solution for Samsung Newsroom at news.samsung.com. the first in the World. We have been providing many global wireless operators with dramatic CAPEX & OPEX reduction as Email: [email protected] well as cost effective wireless solution for coverage expansion W e b s i t e : and enhancement. Besides, we have also extended our business http://www.samsung.com/global/business/networks/ sector to supply total wireless solution such as Antenna; Outdoor sector & Indoor Omni, Passive solution; Hybrid Combiner & KT POI(Point of Interface) etc. and Optical products; Optical MUX. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF RF Window will make seamless effort to become global leading Backhaul Solutions, Consulting, LTE Network wireless equipments solution vendor in 2016 continuously. Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Network Operator. KT represents the biggest telecom company Email: [email protected] in Korea which leads world ICT industry. Through 2016 Website: http://www.rfwindow.com/ MWC, KT is willing to show the capacity of a Global 5G Leader. You can meet a various range of services YAP Company including smart cars, fintechs, drons, O2O’s and etc. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF These are services which will later lead the world into a fourth industrial revolution. Also, KT is becoming a Content Management, CRM Systems, Location Technologies global company by helping countries which are in need and Services, Mobile Advertising and Marketing, Mobile of cooperation in the development of ICT. KT will Payments and Remittances. YAP is a leading Integrated O2O continue developing all abilities as a Global No.1 ICT Commerce platform covering all services related to mobile company. commerce, including searching, mobile stamp saving, coupons, membership and payment. Powered by its unique Hybrid beacon Email: [email protected] technology that combines only the benefits of ultrasonic wave Website: http://www.kt.com/eng/main.jsp and Bluetooth, YAP enbles a highly intricate identification of user location and advanced targeting for marketers. The unique technology of YAP beacon also covers virtually all types of K Telecom smartphone devices through the hybird system. To learn more KOREA, REPUBLIC OF about YAP and the wide range of services offered by us, visit Application Development – General, Cloud Services, www.yap.net. LTE Network Infrastructure, Network Management, Network Operator. Established in 1984, SK Telecom is Email: [email protected] Korea’s largest mobile operator with nearly 50% of Website: http://www.yap.net/ market share. As the world’s first company to commercialize CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA and LTE- Contela, Inc. Advanced service, SK Telecom has been leading the KOREA, REPUBLIC OF global mobile industry through cutting-edge network technologies. Now, based on its strength in Femtocells, Network Management, Small Cells. Over 15 years, telecommunications, SK Telecom is now transforming Contela has acculmulated commercial experience of itself into a platform company, pushing for innovations in telecommunication industry with CDMA/WCDMA/LTE Products areas of customer lifestyle, media, and IoT. At MWC in Korea and Japan. With a wide range of Small Cell End-to- 2016, SK Telecom will share its vision of 5G and its End Solution including Small Cell(Home, Public/Enterprise, enabling technologies, and showcase platforms and Outdoor), Gateway, and Management System, Contela has services that deliver new value to users. been providing the reliable wireless network service with our

98 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 advanced LTE Small Cell Solution that enables wireless TELEFIELD Inc. carriers to enhance the capacity to high traffic areas, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF offering low CAPEX & OPEX for LTE. Email: [email protected] M2M / Telemetry Systems, Mobile Health Services and Website: http://www.contela.com/ Solutions. Telefield is a unique telecommunication solution company in that we provide optical transmission systems as Quram well as IoT solutions based on our own development KOREA, REPUBLIC OF capability since our establishment in 2000. Hyper-connected internet environment of IoT era that everything such as Cloud Services, Content Provider, Data Compression, things, space and data have been connected through Devices, Utilities (Smart Grid). Quram is a creative and internet. Also, creating, gathering, sharing and using professional company which takes care of data, image, information in there. Telefield provides the relative solutions video compression and image processing to produce the and systems necessary for U-Care and U-Health in odrer for best solution of all. Since the start, Quram has been caregivers or related government body to look after the helping the customers. 1. Maximize performance of their elderly and disabled more easily. It also allows for shorter imaging solutions in order to serve optimal end-user response times to those in need. experience. 2. Builde more efficient media delivery systems for mobile devices and servers, which use less bandwidth while keeping visual quality. Quram alerady Email:[email protected] licenses its innovative solutions to the world’s leading Website: http://www.telefield.com/ mobile phone manufactures, the most leading E- commerce providers, innovative cloud service providers Kisan Telecom Co., Ltd. and global top heavy industry companies. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Email: [email protected] Backhaul Solutions, In-Building Systems, LTE Network Website: http://www.quramsoft.com/ Infrastructure, Small Cells. Kisan Telecom is an innovative solution provider in the field of DAS, RF Repeater, and Wi-Fi over 20+ years. We deliver compact RF repeaters with no Dasannetworks delay for the best 3G/LTE performance and multiband DAS KOREA, REPUBLIC OF with flexible connectivity (UTP, Coaxial, Optic) for easy and cost effective installation as well as neutral DAS. Kisan also Manufacturers of network equipment for fixed and mobile delivers the premium Wi-Fi AP with large coverage and broadband services. From core-edge to access and capacity, high throughput for wireless backhaul, public-zone terminals, DASAN established end-to-end capabilities and enterprise, and has first commercialized 4×4 Wi-Fi AP across the Carrier and Enterprise markets. The main with 802.11ac MU-MIMO for public zone in the the world. solutions include FTTx, Mobile backhaul/fronthaul, G.fast, Ethernet Switch and Wi-Fi solutions. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.kisantel.co.kr/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.dasannetworks.com/ SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED Contact: Tan Tian Seng Tiberlab Job Title: Director, Capacity Management and Business Via del Politecnico,1 00133 Roma Development, Satellite T (+39) 06 72597781 Address: 31 Exeter Road #26-00, Singapore 239732. www.tiberlab.com [email protected] Tel: +65 6838 3732 Fax: +65 6334 6110 Tiberlab Srl is a spin-off of University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Email: [email protected] Our mission is to develop innovative software solutions Internet: www.singtel.com/satellite aimed to the design and simulation of electronic and optoelectronic devices, focusing in particular on Singtel Satellite is a global provider of one stop satellite nanostructured devices. communications and ICT solutions. Leveraging on our Modern nanostructure devices pose new challenges due to telecommunications infrastructure, we are particularly strong in the wide range of length and time scale involved. We provide harnessing infocomm technology for innovative solutions for tools for multiscale simulation able to perform analysis and enterprises in industries such as broadcasting, banking, energy, optimization at all the relevant length scales, through state of maritime, government agencies and more. With more than 35 the art physical models ranging from continuous to atomistic years of experience in fixed satellite services, we have level. established a satellite footprint that covers Asia, Middle East and Africa. We own three teleports that point to more than 30 Tiberlab offers consulting services and end-user software. satellites and are supported by an extensive terrestrial network Our core product is TiberCAD, a software for modeling and of more than 200 Point of Presence (PoPs) in over 160 global design of innovative nanostructured devices. tiberCAD cities. software has been and is presently used as a main simulation tool in several FP7 EU projects, for the design Electronics and Telecommunications Research and the study of optoelectronic properties of quantum well Institute(ETRI) and nanowire based LEDs and of advanced solar cells. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, NFC Services and Solutions, Small Cells. Since its establishment in 1976, ETRI, a global ICT research institute, has been putting forth

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NexStreaming is a global mobile software company with innovation and has successfully diversified and transformed its Headquarters in Seoul (Korea) and branches in Spain, business model to a global FinTech company. Today, the US, Taiwan, Japan and China. NexStreaming is known company is rapidly growing its online presence with for its excellent customer support and highly competitive transactional website and mobile apps in more than 35 time to market. countries, as well as B2B and retail money-transfer capabilities across more than 500,000 worldwide agent locations, over Email: [email protected] 100,000 ATMs and kiosks and via connections to hundreds of Website: http://www.nexstreaming.com/ millions of bank accounts and mobile wallets. For more, visit wu.com.

IPT PowerTech Group Email: [email protected] LEBANON Website: http://www.westernunion.com/

Batteries, Managed Network Services, Power Systems, Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn Bhd Systems Integration. IPT PowerTech Group delivers MALAYSIA specialized solutions to the power, industrial and telecom sectors in Africa, Middle East and Asia. Combining power Application Development – General, Cloud Services, expertise with telecom infrastructure specialization, we Content Management, Government and Regulatory, Mobile are market leaders in providing power products and Enterprise Solutions and Services. The Multimedia solutions, telecom services, and managed maintenance Development Corporation (MDeC) was incorporated in 1996 to services. Our self-manufactured enclosures allow us to strategically advise the Malaysian Government on legislation, successfully implement new concepts in space and policies and standards for ICT and multimedia operations to energy efficiency and site renovation, and to create spearhead the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (now customized energy efficient/hybrid and renewable energy MSC Malaysia). solutions. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: Website: http://www.iptpowertech.com/ Infinet Malta Ltd Spectronite MALTA LEBANON Backhaul Solutions, LTE Network Infrastructure, Mobile Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Backhaul Enterprise Solutions and Services, Mobile Health Services and Solutions Solutions Spectronite is shaking the microwave radio landscape Established in 1993, InfiNet Wireless is one of the largest bringing unreached uptime & resilience to your wireless privately owned Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (FBWA) backhaul. development and manufacturing companies in the world. With more than 20 years of intense customer based research and Email: [email protected] product development, InfiNet’s range of wireless solutions is Website: http://www.spectronite.com/ the preferred choice of service providers of all types who require uncompromising connectivity. LigoWave LITHUANIA Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.infinetwireless.com/ Backhaul Solutions, Femtocells, IP Networking Equipment, Small Cells, Wi-Fi Services & Management. Digitata LigoWave develops high performance wireless products MAURITIUS with emphasis on innovation, versatility, and affordability. The LigoWave team strives to revolutionize the way Managed Network Services, Mobile Advertising and Marketing, people see wireless, with the ultimate goal to better Mobile Gaming, Network Management, Tariff Modelling and connect the world; we have succeeded in doing so by Revenue Analysis. Digitata’s trusted flagship product Dynamic putting our products into the hands of customers in over Tariffing™, used by over 80M subscribers, lets mobile 150 countries. Our products have connected people who operators intelligently change Call, SMS and Data pricing live in areas with no access to data, enhanced security of according to operator strategy and network and subscriber industrial applications, and empowered many others in elasticity, offering subscribers better value while protecting the ways previously thought impossible. network and maintaining or improving revenue. Accompanying app, SnapTariff allows tighter control of data spend. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ligowave.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.digitata.com/ Western Union Digital LITHUANIA InteQsoft/ Queretaro Mexico Information Technology Clearing House Services, Financial Clearing and Cluster Settlement, Mobile Financial Services, Mobile Payments MEXICO and Remittances. The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), is a Fortune 500-ranked, global leader in cross- Application Development – Shopping, Augmented Reality, border money-movement services. Western Union has a Cloud Services, CRM Systems, Government and Regulatory. rich history encompassing more than 165 years of Our organization is composed of private companies, academic institutions and Secretariats of the Federal and State 100 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Government, to promote and link the products and services our associates offer in Information Tecnhology matters aimed at improving their capacities through certifications that enable offering world class services in HERE Europe BV the benefit of society. NETHERLANDS

Email: [email protected] Cloud Services, Content Provider, Data Products and Services, Website: http://www.inteqsoft.com.mx/ Location Technologies and Services, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services. HERE is a leader in mapping and Dial Technologies location technology. We enable rich, real-time location MOROCCO applications and experiences for consumers, vehicles, enterprises and cities. HERE is backed by a consortium of Application Development – General, Content Provider, leading automotive companies. To learn more about us, Messaging, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, including our work in the areas of Outsourcing. Dial Technologies is the leader in mobile connected and automated driving, visit http://360.here.com. solutions and services for Enterprises and Telecom operators In north and West Africa. We provide a wide Email: [email protected] portfolio of services covering: Mobile applications Website:http://360.here.com/ Developement, SMS Routing, micro-payment and voice solutions. We have deployed powerful solutions for more than 8 telecom carriers, 600 companies and 30 millions mobile customers in 6 countries. We received several KPMG International innovation awards at national and international levels NETHERLANDS (World Summit Award 2015, African Content Award 2014, Mobile Peers Award Africa 2009, Moroccan Business Support Systems (BSS), Consulting, Data Analysis, innovation award 2013). Dial Technologies is part of Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services. KPMG is a global Medtech Group a national and regional leader in IT network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and services. Advisory services. We operate in 155 countries and have 174,000 people working in member firms around the world. Email: [email protected] Websiste: http://www.dialy.net/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.kpmg.com/telecommunications INGECYS TELECOM MOROCCO Timeline Global Telecom Solutions Consulting and Engineering Services, Education and NETHERLANDS Training, Managed Network Services, Network Planning and Design, Test and Measurement Equipment. Environment / Recycling Services, Managed Network Services, INGECYS TELECOM is a Moroccan RF Engineering & Network Management. TIMELINE GLOBAL TELECOM Consulting company that offers services and products to SOLUTIONS provides complete Asset Lifecycle Management telecom operators, vendors, regulators and ministries. and Recovery Services which enables to Telecom Operators, Our services consist in particular of 2G/3G/4G Service Providers and OEMs to maximise the financial return, engineering and consultancy, Networks auditing, while reducing the Environmental impact and electronic waste. performance measurements, project management, TIMELINE is specialised in delivering telecom solutions Telecom Application development and technical training. including Asset Recovery, Environmental Recycling, Multi- Our product family covers QoE Measurements and Vendor Hardware Support, Spare Parts Management, Test and Analysis, OSS Performance Monitoring, Project Refurbishment, Warehousing and Logistics. TIMELINE Management and Tracking Time and Spectrum understands the necessity for maximising existing assets value, Management. Our business is principally based in use of alternative sources for telecommunication equipment Morocco, but also in North, West and Central Africa and and providing professional services which are required to Europe and it’s delivered locally or remotely depending reduce capital and operating budgets. TIMELINE is Your on customer needs. Partner for surplus, de-installed and multi-vendor telecom network equipment. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ingecys.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.timelinegts.com/ Digital Virgo MOROCCO Highside Content Provider, Mobile Advertising and Marketing, NETHERLANDS Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Payments and Remittances, Voice Products and Services. Publisher M2M / Telemetry Systems, Messaging, Systems Integration, and monetizer of digital content and Audience, Digital Voice Products and Services, VoIP Systems. Our Voice API Virgo directly provides a wide range of digital platform makes it easy to setup voice triggers for your entertainment offers to the users. Digital Virgo also offers applications and programs within a glimpse of time. a wide scope of tools and solutions to the media, Email: [email protected] publishers and wireless carriers in order to monetize Website: http://highside-telecom.net/ their audience.

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CM Telecom Norwegian Computing Center NETHERLANDS NORWAY

Messaging, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Application Development – General, Consulting and Mobile Financial Services, Mobile Payments and Engineering Services, Mobile Health Services and Solutions, Remittances, Voice Products and Services. CM Mobile Payments and Remittances. Norsk Regnesentral Telecom specializes in SMS, Push, Security, Payments (Norwegian Computing Center, NR) is a private,independent, and Voice offering one platform. We power your mobile non-profit foundation established in 1952. NR carries out interaction needs and put you in the heart of the mobile contract research and development projects in the areas of ecosystem. information and communication technology and applied statistical modeling. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.cmtelecom.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.nr.no/

VimpelCom Ltd NETHERLANDS Moota Telecom AS NORWAY Government and Regulatory, Mobile Financial Services, Network Operator, Telecoms Authorities / Content Management, Data Analysis, Device Management, Associations, Voice Products and Services. Middleware, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services. VimpelCom, an international telecoms company Moota Telecom and hSenid Mobile in strategic partnership operating in 14 countries and headquartered in will showcase how Telcos can transform their future in digital Amsterdam, is one of the world’s largest integrated services and gain more control over subscribers. Offering a telecommunications services operators providing voice device configuration solution, Moota Telecom ensures Telcos and data services through a range of traditional and get control over subscriber mobile devices. Whereas, hSenid broadband mobile and fixed technologies in Russia, Mobile enables Telcos to open up their network assets via Italy, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, APIs for collaborative innovation, whilst continuing to control Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Algeria, those assets. While opening up avenues for Service Bangladesh, Pakistan and Zimbabwe. VimpelCom’s Providers to use both handset and network capabilities to operations around the globe cover territory with a total turn out new services, the joint offering will empower Telcos population of approximately 740 million people. with complete end to end control of service innovation VimpelCom provides services under the “Beeline”, delivered to subscriber handsets. “Kyivstar”, “WIND”, “Mobilink”, “banglalink”, “Telecel”, and “Djezzy” brands. As of September 30, 2015 Email: [email protected] VimpelCom had 217 million mobile customers on a Website: http://moota.com/ combined basis.

Email: [email protected] Website: http://vimpelcom.com/ Elliptic Laboratories AS NORWAY

Devices, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Telenor Group Semiconductors. Elliptic Labs’ ultrasonic technology NORWAY provides 3D touchless gesturing for consumer and IoT devices, creating more intuitive ways for users to navigate Network Operator. Telenor Group is one of the world’s content and control devices, while making them more major mobile operators with more than 200 million beautiful. The technology can be integrated in all-in-ones, mobile subscriptions. The company has mobile tablets, smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices. operations in 13 markets in the Nordic region, Central Ultrasound offers the best combination of high resolution, and Eastern Europe and in Asia, as well as an 180-degree interaction space and low power consumption economic stake of 33 per cent in VimpelCom Ltd., compared to cameras or other sensing technologies. Elliptic operating in 14 markets. Headquartered in Norway, Labs uses ultra-low-power processors for ultrasound Telenor Group reported revenues of NOK 107 billion in processing from companies such as Cirrus Logic, 2014, and has a global workforce of about 33,000. For Qualcomm, and MediaTek . Elliptic Labs is a private more information about Telenor Group, please visit company with offices in San Francisco, California; Shanghai, www.telenor.com China; and Oslo, Norway.

Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ellipticlabs.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.telenor.com/

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Innovation Norway Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia NORWAY POLAND

Government and Regulatory, Network Management. Consulting, Location Technologies and Services, LTE Innovation Norway is the Norwegian government’s most Network Infrastructure, Mobile Advertising and Marketing, important instrument for the innovation and Outsourcing The Pomeranian Science and Technology development of Norwegian enterprises and industry. Park in Gdynia (PPNT Gdynia) successfully supports the Innovation Norway provides competence, advisory development of innovative projects in a knowledge-based services, promotional services, financing and network environment of partnership cooperation. Combining services. We are represented in more than 30 countries science and business on an international scale, the PPNT worldwide and in all Norwegian counties. Head office is Gdynia presents hi-tech, cutting-edge projects: TeleMobile in Oslo – RF & Microwave Products & Services; JIT Solutions – helps in creating remote teams; Amplituda – makes Email: [email protected] interfaces; Smart Media – smart solutions for your Website: http://www.innovationnorway.no/ business; QB-mobile – many cities, many stories, one app.

Verscom Technologies & Services (Pvt) Ltd Email: [email protected] PAKISTAN Website: http://www.ppnt.pl/

Application Development – General, Augmented Ooredoo Reality, Business Support Systems (BSS), Managed QATAR Network Services, VoIP Systems. VERSCOM TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES Pvt. Ltd.Established Network Operator. About Ooredoo Ooredoo is a leading in 2012, Verscom Technologies and Services are international communications company delivering mobile, focusing on different segments of the software and fixed, broadband internet and corporate managed services solutions arena. The core competency of our company tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses across relies in providing turn-key solutions by developing markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast software’s which are mission critical for organizations in Asia. As a community-focused company, Ooredoo is the telecom sector. Which are tailored according to the guided by its vision of enriching people’s lives and its belief need of customer, the company emphasizes upon user that it can stimulate human growth by leveraging friendly, robust, solutions, service and excellent communications to help people achieve their full potential. customer support to differentiate itself from competitors. Ooredoo has a presence in markets such as Qatar, Kuwait, The company develops custom software solutions Oman, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, the Maldives, based on a range of platforms and technologies, Myanmar and Indonesia. including Android, iOS, .Net, Java, PHP, SQL, and other mobile embedded systems. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ooredoo.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: :http://www.verscomsolutions.com/ PROTEI RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) Core Network Equipment, Messaging, Roaming Solutions, PAKISTAN Voice Products and Services, VoIP Systems. PROTEI is an international telecommunication systems vendor operating Government and Regulatory. Pakistan Software Export in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Board (PSEB) is a body under Ministry of IT which Middle East & North Africa. Under PROTEI brand we connects foreign IT customers and investors with IT present reliable, cost-effective, carrier-class solutions. industry of Pakistan. Pakistan is in Upwork’s top 5 Using the latest convergent technologies implemented in countries for freelancing and is home to over 2,000 our products the most innovative services can be delivered software houses & call centers with expertise in with maximum efficiency. PROTEI product line covers all software development, mobile applications, and BPO needs of mobile operators: core network (like HLR/HSS services. and GMSC), roaming, charging, IN&VAS, messaging and MVNO solutions. Our products are highly customizable and NAES Group can be altered according to any requirements. PROTEI PANAMA, REPUBLIC OF serves more than 300 customers in 30 countries, to cater 120 million subscribers worldwide. Batteries, Consumer Electronics (CEM), Device. NAES is focusing on improves people’s quality of life by Micran, Research and Production company integrating technologies and developing innovations. RUSSIAN FEDERATION We studying human behaviors from today’s needs to the unmet needs; bring identified technologies from Backhaul Solutions, IP Networking Equipment, LTE R&D Labs to the real markets; taking selected products Network Infrastructure, Semiconductors, Test and from the concept stage to consumer’s life. Accessories, Measurement Equipment. Micran – delivering your network Power Systems, Wi-Fi Services & Management to high technologies with cost saving

Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.naesgroup.com/ Website: http://www.micran.com/

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STC best alternative to major providers – enabling the most SAUDI ARABIA favourable way to network modernisation with integrated and proven solutions, using our own and our partners’ products. ISP, LTE Network Infrastructure, Mobile Enterprise We aim to become a competent and credible global integrator Solutions and Services, Network Operator, Voice of infocommunications solutions. Products and Services. STC is the largest teleco in ME and Africa catering to 100 million globally with a fiber Email: [email protected] network spanning 137,000 kilometers across Asia, Website: http://www.iskratel.com/ Europe and ME. STC covers more than 99% of Saudi Arabia’s populated areas; its 4G more than 85%. STC owns 100% of Viva Bahrain, 26% of Viva Kuwait MIMOtech and CSG Science & Technology (Hefei) alongside a management contract, 35% of Oger SOUTH AFRICA Telecom Limited UAE which controls Turk Telecom, Avea in Turkey and Cell-C in South Africa, and 25% of Backhaul Solutions, BTS Fronthaul Solutions. MIMOtech Binariang GSM Holding Malaysia which controls Maxis specialises in high efficiency wireless telecommunications in Malaysia and Aircel in India. STC invests in IT, transport equipment for backhaul, front-haul and fiber Content, Distribution, Contact Centers, and Real Estate. extension markets using microwave and millimeterwave technologies. In 2015, MIMOtech released the Janus Email: [email protected] AirDuplex(TM) product which doubles spectral efficiency and Website: http://www.stc.com.sa/ throughput capacity of backhaul transport networks for capacities up to 10Gbps. Wireless Broadband Alliance SINGAPORE Email:[email protected] Website: http://www.mimotechnology.com/ Telecoms Authorities / Associations, Wi-Fi Services & Management The mission of the Wireless Broadband INFACOM Alliance (WBA) is to champion the development of the SPAIN converged wireless broadband ecosystem through seamless, secure and interoperable unlicensed wireless In-Building Systems, LTE Network Infrastructure, Monitoring broadband services. WBA continues to drive and support Systems and Equipment. Infacom, manufacturer of passive the adoption of Next Gen Wi-Fi and other unlicensed and active components, communication systems for civil and wireless services across the entire public Wi-Fi military applications, turnkey system up to 40 GHz. Products ecosystem, including IoT, Big Data, Converged Services, with low PIM figure for applications in communication bands Smart Cities, 5G, etc. Today, membership includes major as Tetra, UHF, VHF, and all bands of telephony up to LTE. fixed and mobile operators such as AT&T, Boingo Radio coverage for use in buildings, tunnels, rail, rural areas, Wireless, China Telecom, Comcast, KT Corporation, etc. Repeaters, amplifiers, and all components used in Liberty Global, NTT DOCOMO, Orange and leading antenna distribution systems. Custom software to integrate technology companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Huawei our products to customers requirements in public safety, Technologies, Google, Intel cellular and satellite communications.

Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.wballiance.com/ Website: http://www.infacom.es/

REVE Systems India Pvt Ltd Government of Catalonia SINGAPORE SPAIN

Roaming Solutions, Voice Products and Services, VoIP Government and Regulatory. Catalan companies stand out for Systems. REVE Systems is a 12 year old company being active, innovative, export oriented and competitive. The focusing on the IP based communication Industry. We Government of Catalonia, through the Ministry of Business are a leading provider of software solutions and hold a and Knowledge, is committed to creating the best leadership position in Mobile VoIP, Softswitch & Billing environment for businesses, to fostering talent and innovation Solutions. At present our company serves 2600+ VoIP & / breakthrough, and to strengthening sectors such as ICT and Telecommunication service providers across 78 mobile technologies that are able to boost regional countries. The Company is also Red Herring Top 100 competitiveness. The Government of Catalonia supports the Global winner. presence of Catalan companies at the Mobile World Congress for growing internationally and expanding business. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.revesoft.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://catalonia.com/ Iskratel SLOVENIA

Core Network Equipment, IP Networking Equipment, Managed Network Services, Systems Integration, Voice Products and Services. Iskratel builds the foundations of tomorrow’s success today by creating value, helping people, ensuring safety and increasing efficiency in numerous areas. We leverage our ICT expertise in delivering integrated solutions across telco, transport, public safety and energy industries. We represent the 104 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

advanced QoS/QoE Systems and Solutions. Since its DATATRONICS, S.A. foundation in 1989, it has been developing Testing and SPAIN Monitoring Equipment to assess the end2end quality of service on several technologies like Core Network Equipment, LTE Network Infrastructure, GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA and LTE. As well as xDSL, Messaging, Systems Integration, VoIP Systems. FTTH, PSTN and WIMAX. Ibys keeps on walking on the DATATRONICS is a leading System Integrator focused road of excellence by developing new monitoring features on Telecom Operators and CSPs. The company offers and tools related to VoLTE, VoWiFi, HDVoice-2G/3G, VoD, high value-added and innovative solutions in areas of IPTV, RCS and OTT in general. Thus allowing us to be at Signaling (STP, DSR), Network Evolution (VoLTE, IMS, the forefront of the technological evolution, and offer the VAS), VoIP Systems (MGW, SBCs), Roaming, best-in-class tools in the market. Troubleshooting and QoS Monitoring, Time&Frequency, Network Intelligence and Policy Solutions (PCRF). Active Email: [email protected] on the new technologies, Datatronics is helping its Website: http://www.ibys.com/ customers with the evolution to Software Telco with NFV solutions. Present in the market since 1996, the company VALID partners with leading technological companies, employs SPAIN a team of engineers with proven and international expertise in Telco environments and deploys projects in M2M / Telemetry Systems, Mobile Financial Services, Mobile EMEA and LATAM. Payments and Remittances, NFC Services and Solutions, SIM Cards and Smart Cards. Since its first day of work in Email: [email protected] 1957, Valid was already completely dominating the Website: http://www.datatronics.es/ technologies for high-security paper printing. Valid continued to be a player on the market, and grew mainly thanks to its P-OSS SOLUTIONS ability to keep up with the transformations in the world. Valid SPAIN has a global presence and a complete portfolio of solutions in Payment Solutions and Mobile Solutions, Identity Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Network Solutions, Digital Marketing and Digital Certification. VALID Management, Network Planning and Design, Operational is one of the world’s main providers of secure solutions, and Support Systems (OSS). P-OSS is a privately owned we never waver from our focus: the client. Today, our brand company established by experienced Performance is synonymous with trustworthiness and quality. More info: Management engineering experts. We have developed www.valid.com iPe-Bot, the cutting-edge world-class future-proof Performance Management system. We look for long-term Email: [email protected] partnerships, growing confidence and improved trust in Website: http://www.valid.com/ the relationship over time. P-OSS has grown steadily since its inception, enhancing technical capabilities and ALBEDO Telecom delivering first-in-class solutions: the partner you can SPAIN trust. LTE Network Infrastructure, Monitoring Systems and Email: [email protected] Equipment, Test and Measurement Equipment, Utilities Website: http://www.p-oss.com/ (Smart Grid), VoIP Systems. ALBEDO’s core expertise ranges from PTP, SyncE, Synchronization, PPS, Wander, Vodafone España S.A.U Ethernet, 10G, E1/T1 Transmission, WAN emulation, VoIP, SPAIN SIP trunking, Voice Quality, VoWLAN, C37.94, TR-069 Packet Capture, Lawful interception, Datacom, Test and Network Operator. Vodafone Spain is part of Vodafone Measurement. Our typical customers are Manufacturers, Group, one of the world’s largest mobile communications R&D labs, Universities, Military, Power Utilities, Railways, companies by revenue, providing voice, messaging, data Mobile and Telecom Operators that are running critical and fixed communication services. Vodafone offers applications that need tools to install, testing, emulate or mobile services in 26 countries and fixed broadband maintain telecom infrastructures. services in 17, with 57 partner networks worldwide. As of 30th September 2015, Vodafone has over 449 mobile Email: [email protected] customers and over 12 million fixed broadband Website: http://www.albedotelecom.com/ customers. 14,186,000 mobile and 2,879,000 fixed broadband Vodafone Spain customers benefit from the STARLAB expertise and global leadership of this company, which SPAIN helps individuals, businesses and communities to be better connected. Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Consulting and Engineering Services, Data Analysis, Data Products and Email: [email protected] Services, Environment / Recycling Services. Starlab’s Website: http://www.vodafone.es/ mission is to transform science into technologies with a profound and positive impact on society. Our main areas of work lie in the Space and Neuroscience sectors, two key Ibys Technologies areas for the 21st century with a common element: the SPAIN increasing availability of streams of information. We provide technical solutions, products and services for governments, Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Test and industry and downstream markets. We are market-aware Measurement Equipment. Ibys Technologies, a Spanish and market-driven: in Space (Star2Earth: SmartIrrigation) company specializing in manufacturing and delivering and Neuroscience (Neurokai and Neuroelectrics) have great 105 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 impact in and through several key markets, including Systems, Location Technologies and Services, M2M / environment, energy and health. Telemetry Systems, Small Cells. GRUPO CYS is an international company founded in 1985 and stablished in Email: [email protected] Spain, Peru and Mexico. Website: http://www.starlab.es/ Email: [email protected] CTTC Website: http://www.grupocys.com/ SPAIN

Backhaul Solutions, Intellectual Property, Location Sensing & Control Systems S.L. Technologies and Services, Network Management, SPAIN Network Operating Software. CTTC is a Research Institute oriented towards innovative and high quality R&D project Application Development – General, Business Support execution with IPR generation. A portfolio of Products & Systems (BSS), Cloud Services, Data Analysis, Middleware. Solutions (P&S) in the fields of: Communication networks, We offer IoT solutions to organizations in different sectors technologies, systems, position, navigation, and remote including telecom, energy providers, healthcare, buildings sensing, in different technology readiness levels (TRL), is construction and management, hardware and appliance available through the company CTTC-HK Ltd. DLR GfR is manufacturers, retailers, insurance companies and Smart a company that provides reliable, safe and secure Cities. Our platform is a complete IoT end-to-end solution that aerospace services, DLR GfR operates and manages the easily integrates with existing communication network, constellation of Galileo satellites, provides project monitoring tool or control systems. It connects to any device management, ground infrastructure build-up, and high- including sensors, actuators, appliances, meters, wearables, level security applications. DLR GfR holds an Air smartphones, smart home and building devices (thermostats, Navigation Service Provider Certificate for communication lights, energy plugs, air conditioning, heaters, etc.), cameras, and navigation services at airports. locks, etc.

Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.cttc.es/ Website: http://www.sensingcontrol.com/

ACUNTIA NEXIONA SPAIN SPAIN Core Network Equipment, IP Networking Equipment, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Monitoring Systems and Managed Network Services, Systems Integration, VoIP Equipment, Systems Integration. We are a passionate Systems. A future where our Customers and their needs find team born in Barcelona dedicated in create IoT (Internet of that we are the perfect travel companion: collaborating, Things) Technology, offering a Software Composer to involved, close, smart, self-demanding and strong. developers and customized solutions to manufacturers. Information Technologies walk towards the future as they never have before, having to balance the profound Email: [email protected] transformation of competitiveness within organisations and Website: http://www.nexiona.com/ cost optimisation. An expedition where our Customers face new challenges for which ACUNTIA can provide new tailor- made solutions in critical environments. A trip with a strong TELNET Redes Inteligentes, S. A. leader who will open the door to extensive and high-level SPAIN resources, numerous professionals with the highest qualification and experience, and the greatest alliances and Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, BTS Fronthaul market agreements. Solutions, LTE Network Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Small Cells. Headquartered in Spain, Telnet Email: [email protected] Redes Inteligentes is a leading global supplier that Website: http://www.acuntia.es/\ designs and manufactures high performance antennas for next-generation networks (NGN). Quality is our most Landatel Comunicaciones, S.L. important feature. RAN complexity demands top SPAIN performance antennas to ensure data traffic growth and IP Networking Equipment, ISP, Mobile TV, Network Planning QoS. 4G, 5G, MIMO, LTE-A, Small-Metro Cells, extra-low and Design, Wi-Fi Services & Management. Founded in 2001 PIM antennas, sharing infrastructure, low visual impact, as a pioneering distributor of Wi-Fi equipment for Wireless concealed solutions, custom antennas. We design Internet Service Providers (WISP). Today Landatel is a Global innovative products, excellent manufacturing and Telecommunications company with presence in Europe and seamless customer service. With offices in Europe, LATAM who compete in the EU horizon 2020 with new LATAM, Russia, factories in Spain, TELNET´s antennas connectivity products and services. Its Engineering team, in are deployed by the top MNOs and vendors worlwide. close collaboration with the University, develops R&D projects TELNET will help your RAN to reach the next level. that sells under its own brand AirGiga. As a result, and with the CDTI’s help, borns SIUSAS; a technology platform for Email: [email protected] urban buses that provides ubiquitous Internet access, energy Website: http://www.telnet-ri.es/ efficiency, geo-positioning ,video surveillance and digital contents, in an example of IoT for Smart Cities. GRUPO CYS SPAIN Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.landatel.com/ Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, In-Building 106 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

POLYSTAR Sivers IMA SWEDEN SWEDEN Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Network Management, Backhaul Solutions, LTE Network Infrastructure, Operational Support Systems (OSS), Roaming Solutions, Semiconductors, Small Cells, Test and Measurement Test and Measurement Equipment Polystar enables Equipment. Sivers IMA is a leading developer and Communications Service Providers to achieve excellence in manufacturer of advanced millimeter wave products. The CEM, Big Data Analytics, Service Assurance, Network company was founded in 1951 and is publicly traded. Our Monitoring, Service Enablement and High Performance headquarters and manufacturing is located in Stockholm, Testing. We help CSPs to simplify their CEM strategies and Sweden, with an additional sales office and R&D drive operational efficiency through real-time network department in Gothenburg. We also work with several analytics. Polystar’s real-time Network and Customer manufacturing partners for high volume production. The Insights uncover a goldmine of data, which yields key to our continued success is a team of innovative minds indispensible analytics to CSPs. Polystar is recognised as and over 60 years of experience in developing microwave one of the fastest-growing companies in Sweden. Since and millimeter wave technology. Hundreds of companies Polystar’s foundation in Stockholm in 1983, we have have purchased our products for research, test- and experienced continuous and sustainable growth, and measurement or built into their end-customer products for evolved to a global presence, serving our customers in over large volume deployment. 50 countries. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.polystar.com/ Website: http://siversima.com/ Deltanode Solutions AB Aptilo Networks SWEDEEN SWEDEN

Voice Products and Services, Wi-Fi Services & In-Building Systems, LTE Network Infrastructure, Management. Aptilo Networks is a leading provider of Operational Support Systems (OSS), Test and carrier-class systems to manage data services with Measurement Equipment. Deltanode™, a Bird advanced functions for authentication, policy control and Technologies® Company, is a total solution provider of high charging. performance, quality RF Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) equipment and services. Designed to meet the Email: [email protected] requirements of US and global wireless voice and data Website: http://www.aptilo.com/ providers, DeltaNode products have been proven to provide the communications industry with reliable DAS headend and remote solutions for both indoor and outdoor Cybercom Group applications. DeltaNode has designed and installed DAS SWEDEN solutions from VHF to 2600 MHz with a flexible core that allows seamless upgrading to new frequencies and Augmented Reality, Consulting and Engineering Services, modulations as carriers service requirements expand. M2M / Telemetry Systems, Network Planning and Design, Testing and Certification. Cybercom is an innovative ICT Email: [email protected] consulting company with 20 years of experience in IT and Website: http://deltanode.com/ communications technology. Our consultants enable businesses and organisations to benefit from the Netonomics AB opportunities of the connected world, to enhance their SWEDEN competitiveness or to achieve efficiency gains. Cybercom’s expertise spans the entire ecosystem of this Backhaul Solutions, BTS Fronthaul Solutions, Cloud RAN, communication – Connectivity – and our delivery is both Consulting and Engineering Services, LTE Network local and global. Cybercom’s principal market is the Nordic Infrastructure. Netonomics designs optimal network region, with established operations in Sweden, Finland and architectures for CRAN. Optimal pooling of Access Nodes Denmark. Poland, India, Dubai and Singapore are into BBH ensures highest radio capacity at required latency international centres of expertise. The group has and lowest cost, important in 4G and 5G with high traffic approximately 1,300 employees. volumes and crucial latency.

Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.cybercom.com/ Website: http://netonomics.se/

COMLAB SWITZERLAND

In-Building Systems. COMLAB offers efficient modular and expandable repeater systems to provide mobile communication within entire range of operation for TETRA, GSM-R, UMTS, GSM900, GSM1800, and LTE with excellent quality for railways, onboard and buildings. Due to modern carriage design, it compensates high signal penetration loss. The repeater system suits the requirements for all multi-operator applications.

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Email: [email protected] MitraStar Technology Website: http://www.comlab.ch/ TAIWAN

Backhaul Solutions, Femtocells, LTE Network Infrastructure, G-Lab GmbH / Geneva Lab Small Cells. MitraStar – Smarter • Connected MitraStar is a SWITZERLAND world-class Design, Manufacturing and Service (DMS) company. We work closely with our customers, suppliers, Cloud Services, Consumer Electronics (CEM), Devices, and partners to innovative design and manufacturing. We Encryption and Security Equipment, In-Building Systems. provide reliable networking products and services that meet G-Lab is a Swiss company that has built a reputation for evolving digital demands. We derive our advantage from the its innovative and high quality audio products sold around abilities to foresee the trend and concentrate on the world under the “GENEVA” brand. G-Lab is now development of mobile broadband, fixed broadband, smarter launching a new home security system, that includes a digital home and Internet applications. These enable complete wireless and battery powered security system MitraStar to offer competitive, cost-effective broadband with cameras and a mobile app. The system is easy to products along with services designed exclusively for our use and for self-installation and communicates through customers and business partners. fixed line, broadband and GSM. G-Lab is also launching a cost efficient subscription service with remote monitoring Email: [email protected] and alarm receive centre. Partner with G-Lab and offer a Website: http://www.mitrastar.com/ complete home security solution to your customers! Wistron NeWeb Corp. New Voice International AG TAIWAN SWITZERLAND IP Networking Equipment, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Small Cells, Wi-Fi Consulting, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Services & Management. Wistron NeWeb Corporation Systems Integration, VoIP Systems. Since 1991, New (WNC) is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing Voice is a software developer and systems integrator of advanced communication products. With strong R&D and company in the areas of Security. Our “Unified Event high-volume production capabilities, WNC consistently Communication” platform “MobiCall” is worldwide known introduces innovative technologies covering a range of and is used to unify the communication systems and products including: DBS outdoor units, satellite/digital radio, devices, mobilize people and automate processes. We networking devices (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac), 4G mobile have numerous solutions like emergency calls, staff and devices, small cells, set-top boxes, digital home devices, lone worker protection, localization and tracking, automotive electronics, IoT products, RFID and NFC evacuation, fire alarms, intrusion detection, technical and solutions, and various types of mobile-device/cellular- IT alarms, crisis and disaster management and other phone/LDS antennas. WNC’s mission is to provide its security-related functions. MobiCall is used in various worldwide customers and partners with superior products environments such as hospitals, retirement houses, through premium ODM/JDM design, manufacturing, logistics, industrial plants, hotels, banks, public services and many and after-sales services. For more information, please visit: others. www.wnc.com.tw.

Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.mobilisierung.com/ Website: http://www.wnc.com.tw/ Alpha Networks Inc. TAIWAN TECHSEMA Via Castello Tesino 46 00124 Roma Data Products and Services, Femtocells, IP Networking T (+39) 338 7547405 Equipment, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, T (+39) 335 8318900 Small Cells. Alpha Networks is a global leader in the www.techsema.it [email protected] networking ODM/OEM industry. We possess highly [email protected] capable design, manufacturing, and service resources to TECHSEMA srl began to operate at end 2002 analyzing the offer a complete portfolio of off-the-shelf and custom Italian Space market with particular attention to the SME' role solutions that deploy a variety of cutting edge and expectations . It is an Italian SME owned by private technologies. With more than 1000 R&D and verification managers previously acting at high level in the major Italian professionals, Alpha is capable of developing a wide Space and Military Industries. variety of products with complex architectures, covering The main TECHSEMA mission is to analyze and exploit the Mega Data Center Switches, Large-sized Blade Switches, development of available satellite technologies for social and Wireless 802.11ac Enterprise Access Points (Wave2 4×4 commercial applications also supporting other SME not having AC2500), LTE Routers (CAT3/4/6), UMTS/LTE and Wi-Fi a similar background of marketing experience. Joining its Dual-mode Small Cells, FTTx with GPON, xDSL with shareholders technical & marketing experience with external Vectoring and G.fast, Digital Multimedia Devices, and professionals TECHSEMA is a in position to offer: Intelligent Sensors. www.alphanetworks.com. • Competence and assistance in the field of satellite TLC applications for social and commercial services with Email: [email protected] institutional entities and private customers. Website: http://www.alphanetworks.com/ • Technical assistance in the field of analysis and management of synthetic scenarios, virtual reality models, E.O. images treatment and photo interpretation.

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market and tends to upgrade in the field of virtual reality.

Sercomm Corporation Email: [email protected] TAIWAN Website: http://firstak.com/

IP Networking Equipment, Small Cells. Sercomm Esprit Corporation is a worldwide leading manufacturer of TUNISIA broadband and wireless networking equipments. Founded in 1992, Sercomm has been focusing on developing Application Development – Gaming, Application embedded solutions to make networking simple, reliable Development – General, Augmented Reality, Cloud and affordable. With 24 years industrial experience, Services, Mobile Health Services and Solutions. Sercomm has more than 6,000 employees globally. RoamSmart TUNISIA Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.sercomm.com/ Cloud Services, Consulting, Fraud Management and Solutions, Roaming Solutions. RoamSmart is one of the world pioneers in providing Roaming and Big Data Solutions Advantech for Mobile Operators, helping them proactively optimize TAIWAN workflows and monetize the existing roaming data. We aim to optimize the way to manage the daily roaming operational Advantech NCG provides the industry’s broadest range of and financial business. Our mission is to support Mobile communications infrastructure platforms, scaling from one Operators worldwide in times of low growth and profits with to hundreds of Intel® cores, consolidating workloads onto a intelligent value added services needed to optimize margins single platform architecture and code base. Our technology within their existing business and increase revenues. Today, leadership stems from our x86 design expertise combined we are glad to server 26 mobile operators in 22 countries on with high performance switching, hardware acceleration 4 continents. and innovative FlowNIC offload techniques. Advantech’s Email: [email protected] NFV Elasticity framework extends NFV to access points, Website: http://www.roam-smart.com/ small cells and base-stations by supporting consistent, scalable carrier–grade platforms that can run VNFs ESPRIT, Private Higher Institute of Engineering and anywhere in the network. Operators, integrators and Technology, is a major actor in engineering education in software-vendors can rapidly validate their preferred NFVI Tunisia. Its success is due to new educative approaches and evaluate VNFs on a broad range of networking (active learning) and its interest in several areas, such as platforms using Advantech’s Remote-Evaluation-Service. R&D and Innovation, through Esprit-tech Research units. Esprit-mobile, one of Esprit-tech Research units is Email: [email protected] composed of instructors and students who are primarily Website: http://www.advantech.com/nc committed to working on the latest trends of mobile development and technologies. It has already produced IEI Integration Corp. plenty of applications on mobile stores. Esprit-mobile closely TAIWAN collaborates with numerous international partners such as:BlackBerry, Samsung and Microsoft.They have jointly Data Products and Services, NFC Services and Solutions, organized high-quality events on a global scale. Retail. IEI Integration Corp., a leading industrial computing service provider, integrates computing platforms and Email: [email protected] customization services. IEI supplies hundreds of industrial Website: http://www.esprit.ens.tn/ computer boards, systems and peripherals for various customer applications, in addition to supporting OEM/ODM Elgazala Technopark services. IEI has an innovative R&D team, effective TUNISIA management system, quality assurance and over 400 products passing through more than 100 distributors in Application Development – Gaming, Application order to provide customers with the fastest time-to-market Development – General, Augmented Reality, Consulting, services all over the world. M2M / Telemetry Systems. Elgazala is the pioneer technopark, in Tunisia and in the Maghreb Region, focusing Email: [email protected] on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It Website: http://www.ieiworld.com/ was created in 1997 as a cornerstone of the Tunisian national strategy to develop this sector. The ecosystem of FIRSTAK Elgazala Technopark is highly diversified and incorporates a TUNISIA variety of components, which makes it a prolific environment where innovation and entrepreneurship can flourish. It Application Development – Gaming, Application includes a business incubator; a research centre dedicated Development – General, Augmented Reality, Business to the ICT industry (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche en Support Systems (BSS), Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Télécommuniations, or CERT); an engineering school (with a Services. Firstak is an enterprise of IT development postgraduate program) and an institute of technology; situated in tunisia. It is mainly specialized with the conception and the development of web/mobile Email: [email protected] applications as well as gaming on smartphone, tablet, Pc Website: http://www.elgazala.tn/ and Smart Tv. Thanks to its own research unit which allows it to follow the news, Firstak is about to evolve technology; it masters also 3D vision solutions such as hologram and oculus Firstak aims its integration into the international 109 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

LANDOLSI TELECOM TECHNOLOGY – L2T Innovile Communications TUNISIA TURKEY

Cloud Services, Content Management, Content Provider, Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Network Management, Messaging, Mobile Advertising and Marketing. As a Global Network Operating Software, Operational Support Systems Mobile Services Cloud in Africa, L2T provides Messaging, (OSS). Innovile Communications is a network management Payment Solutions and a wide portfolio of innovative high solutions company working to improve customer experience VAS to some of the world’s best known brands, MNO, and network quality for mobile network operators. We’re a Aggregators… Our Services & Solutions: L2T Messaging : group comprised of experts with 20+ years of experience in SMS Notifications, SMS API, SMS Marketing, SMS 2 Telecommunications industry, as well as RF engineers and WAYS, White Label SMS Reseller L2T Solutions : L2T software engineers. Our primary solutions are Self- Cloud Messaging, Yasmine Market White Label Appstore, Organizing Networks, Performance Management, and Didon Interactive CMS, SMS2TV L2T VAS: Mega Configuration Management. All our solutions are developed Promotions, Entertainment Content, Apps & Games using real-time network intelligence, and they work to content providing and managment, SMS JOB notifications improve customer experience, reduce operational costs, L2T Payment : Trickpay Micropayment Solution L2T and deliver a higher level of efficiency. Gateway : Direct connection to Tunisian, Congolese and Senegalese MNO. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.innovile.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.l-2t.com/ TELENITY TURKEY

National Digital Certification Agency Core Network Equipment, Location Technologies and TUNISIA Services, LTE Network Infrastructure, Managed Network Services, Messaging.Telenity is a leading provider of cutting Government and Regulatory. The National Digital edge solutions for Mobile Network Operators. With Telenity Certification Agency was established by law 2000-83 of 9 VAS Consolidation Platform, operators significantly improve august 2000 on electronic exchanges and e-commerce, it the operational efficiency on their existing value added operates as the root certification authority in Tunisia and services and enable the migration to all-IP core networks. issues licenses for certification services provider. Telenity’s API Management Solution creates new revenue sources for operators through third party developers that Email: [email protected] utilize their network capabilities. Telenity enables rapid Website: http://www.certification.tn/ creation, execution and management of a large number of composite services with its Service Enablement Suite. Telenity Location Based Services include family tracking Argela solutions for subscribers, asset and employee tracking TURKEY solutions for businesses, and location enablement for third party applications. Cloud RAN, Government and Regulatory, LTE Network Infrastructure, Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Small Email: [email protected] Cells. At Argela, we push the boundaries of research and Website: http://www.telenity.com/ innovation to formulate and implement the communication technologies of the future. While we develop products for Laboremus Uganda the current market, we continuously search for the next big UGANDA thing. We are a driving force for 5G initiatives and 5G enabling technologies and are generating IPR for these Application Development – General, Cloud Services, technologies. Our product and solutions are enabling the Government and Regulatory, Mobile Payments and telecommunications industry and other sectors such as Remittances. Laboremus Uganda is a software Government and Military. Argela’s solutions portfolio development and consultancy firm. Laboremus provides includes Software Defined Networks, Programmable RAN, solutions mainly for the European market in the finance Network Performance Monitoring and Subscriber Analytics, sector as well as the East African region. The solutions we Small Cell Solutions (3G & LTE), Cloud-based Video develop include business process automation for banking Surveillance and Signaling Applications. and government sector, mobile applications, and large corporate websites. We have competence in both .NET and Email: [email protected] open source technology. Our solutions are built to be Website: http://www.argela.com/ deployed on premise and in the cloud. Some of the solutions we have provided for clients include internet banking, trading systems for project finance companies, workflow, digital archive, monitoring and evaluation systems among others.

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Email: [email protected] MYCOM OSI Website: http://www.laboremus.no/ UNITED KINGDOM

ClinicMaster INTERNATIONAL MYCOM OSI is a leading independent provider of best-in- UGANDA class Service Assurance, Automation/Orchestration & Application Development – General, Business Support Analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Systems (BSS), Mobile Health Services and Solutions, Service Providers (CSPs) that empower them to: create Mobile Payments and Remittances. ClinicMaster intelligence out of billions of disparate data across vendors, INTERNATIONAL is a systems integration and software technologies and domains; align network, service and development company responsible for the development customer teams; empower users with flexibility and autonomy and support of ClinicMaster. ClinicMaster is an integrated from vendors; deliver efficiency through automation health information management and medical billing capabilities. MYCOM OSI is headquartered in London UK, has software that automates patient’s transactions in the 250+ staff worldwide and has been 100% focused on telecom hospital or clinic on a visit basis and daily procedures. networks for 25+ years. The system allows patients make online appointment bookings, receive notifications on ready results or other Email: [email protected] via their mobile devices, view their bills and/or make Website: http://www.mycom-osi.com/ payments using mobile money etc. ClinicMaster is used by over 80 Hospitals and Clinics in Uganda, Kenya and Assurant Solutions S.Sudan and was awarded best health application by the UNITED KINGDOM MTN Innovation Awards 2015 Content Management, Messaging, Mobile Enterprise Email: [email protected] Solutions and Services, Mobile Entertainment, Voice Products Website: http://www.clinicmaster.net/ and Services. Internet-based communications has demonstrated the value of membership-based models. As a Etisalat service exclusively available through Mobile Operators, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ONEm creates a similar global experience for mobile users Network Operator. Etisalat Group is one of the world’s over ordinary Voice and SMS networks. ONEm has global leading telecom groups in emerging markets. Etisalat services that cater to individuals, groups, Enterprises, Group’s market cap is over 132 billion AED, equivalent to Governments, NGOs and Industries. The ONEm global more than 36 billion USD, Etisalat ranks amongst the Platform manages user memberships and delivers most profitable telecom groups in the world. Its high messaging, voice, PABX, M2M and Third Party Application credit ratings at AA-/A+/Aa3 reflect the company’s strong Content to end users over a Global Private Network. Mobile balance sheet and proven long-term performance. Operators enjoy additional revenues from their existing assets Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Etisalat was established while providing a new and exciting range of mobile services four decades ago in the UAE as the country’s first for their subscribers. telecommunications service provider. An international blue-chip organisation, Etisalat provides innovative Email: [email protected] solutions and services to 170 million subscribers in 18 Website: http://www.onem.com/ countries across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Equal Experts Email: [email protected] UNITED KINGDOM Website: http://www.etisalat.com/ Application Development – General, Bluetooth Accessories, It4i, Technology for Propulsion and Consulting and Engineering Services, Location Technologies Innovatio and Services, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services. Via della Croce Rossa, 112 35131 Padova Equal Experts is an international, award-winning software T (+39) 049 927 1547 www.t4innovation.com delivery company. We work with organisations such as Klarna, [email protected] Tesco, the UK Government and Telefónica to create simple [email protected] solutions to complex business challenges. At MWC we’re IT4i, Technology for Propulsion and Innovation, is a spin-off showcasing our new Innovation Platform, which allows of the University of Padova and classified in the Italian developers to put prototype apps on real users’ handsets in enterprises' register as an innovative start-up (i.e. a firm that hours, rather than days or weeks – vastly reducing the time develops, produces and sells innovative high added value and cost of validating ideas. We’re also unveiling world-first products and services). It was founded in 2014 by an technology with a next-generation Bluetooth beacon for retail. entrepreneur, a team of professional managers, researchers This lets customers simply tap their iOS or Android phones to and engineers with international experience and several trigger events and complete actions, extending the years of expertise in developing innovative systems. T4i's possibilities for in-store interaction. professionals come mainly from aerospace systems sector where research and development demands an effective nnJoo Technology L.L.C integration of engineering, physics and computer science know-how to develop complex systems. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES T4i operates in the aerospace and industrial sectors with Device Accessories, Devices, Tablet Devices. InnJoo is a the objective to provide an integrated service that supports technical startup born with Internet DNA. Its Internet journey the customer from the feasibility study of a new product up to the pre-industrialization. was started by joining hands with the largest e-commerce sites in the region. Based in Dubai, InnJoo became the In the aerospace sector T4i focuses its activity on the fastest-growing company by providing smart devices as well development of propulsion systems to be used in the field of autonomous aircraft, of small satellites and in the field of as software services in the MEA area. plasma sources. Email: [email protected]

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Email: [email protected] Viavi Solutions Website: http://www.equalexperts.com/ UNITED KINGDOM

Backhaul Solutions, Operational Support Systems (OSS), Small GSMA Managed Services Cells, Test and Measurement Equipment. Viavi offers a fully UNITED KINGDOM integrated and interoperable portfolio of cloud-enabled instruments and systems, software automation, and services for Device Management, Messaging, Mobile Privacy / Spam network testing, performance optimization, and service Prevention, Mobile Security Systems, Network assurance. Designed to support the most complex IT and Management. GSMA Device Database, the authoritative communications networks of today and tomorrow, our solutions global IMEI TAC database, containing device make, help you get the best possible performance from your network model and further capability information. investments. We deliver the precision intelligence and flexibility you need to cost-efficiently scale operations, transition to next- Email: [email protected] gen technologies, and diversify revenue opportunities for Website: http://www.gsma.com/managedservices/ greater profitability.

Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.viavisolutions.com/

Smartpipe Solutions Limited EMERSON NETWORK POWER UNITED KINGDOM UNITED KINGDOM

Data Analysis, Data Products and Services, Mobile Core Network Equipment, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Advertising and Marketing. Smartpipe offers global Services, Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Power Systems. network operators a data-broker platform for monetising A trusted industry leader in smart infrastructure technologies, customer data safely and securely. Smartpipe’s patent Emerson Network Power is the world’s leading provider of protected solution creates a global ecosystem that critical infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for enables network operators, data providers, advertising information and communications technology systems. With an agencies and brands to mutually benefit from high quality, extensive portfolio of intelligent, rapidly deployable hardware privacy -compliant data assets, driving ROI for the entire and software solutions for power, thermal and infrastructure advertising value chain. Made possible by a single management, Emerson Network Power enables efficient, technical integration into multiple ecosystems such as highly-available networks across the globe, regardless of advertising, e-commerce and financial services, network demands. Learn more about our comprehensive Smartpipe’s approach offers contextual, consented and solutions at www.EmersonNetworkPower.eu anonymised customer data to data partners in real-time. This enables the delivery of service specific, targeted data Email: [email protected] to enhance consumer services and communications.” Website: http://www.emersonnetworkpower.eu/

Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.smartpipesolutions.com/ SpacEarth Technology Via di Vigna Murata, 605 00143 Roma T (+39) 06 5186 0396 www.spacearth.netinfo@ spacearth.net

SpacEarth Technology started its activities in 2014 as spin-off of INGV (Istituto di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) to realise innovative D-Link products and services through technological transfer from the UNITED KINGDOM INGV research results. The company is composed by a team of engineers, physicists and Cloud Services, IP Networking Equipment, LTE Network geologists with a long involvement in research fields such as: Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Managed Upper Atmosphere Physics, Space Weather, Satellite Navigation Network Services. D-Link is one of the world’s leading and Positioning, Remote Sensing, Data management and networking and telecom product providers with award- Elaboration, Radio propagation, Marine Monitoring and winning innovative designs, unique cloud technology, Environmental Geophysics. As spin-off of INGV we inherit a long Enterprise Networking, Smart Home products, Unified standing experience in the use of GNSS receivers and algorithms Wireless, Video Surveillance and Hybrid WAN development for the monitoring, forecasting and analysis of technologies. At the forefront of LTE development for ionospheric disturbances and their effect on positioning. ‘Internet of Things’, D-Link is developing for a wide range SpacEarth Technology is the owner of the Italian patent "Method of applications such as mobile entertainment, industrial for forecasting ionosphere total electron content and/or automation, Smart Cities, etc. for access, monitoring and scintillation parameters" (2015) which is now being extended to control purposes. D-Link has been developing 4G LTE International patent. The invention relates to a method of TEC technology for some time, using its vast technical and (Total Electron Content) and scintillation empirical short-term Cloud knowledge to lead the way in outdoor APs, small- forecasting (seconds to minutes), able to provide the basic cell LTE coverage extension, in-vehicle LTE hotspots and quantities describing the ionospheric and signal propagation direct-machine connection. conditions, even under severe scintillation environment. The Email: [email protected] output of the proposed method is the necessary input to feed the Website: http://www.dlink.com/ mitigation algorithms aiming at improving the accuracy on real- time GNSS precise positioning techniques (RTK, NRTK, and PPP) under harsh ionospheric conditions. This can contribute to improve the scenario for the use of GNSS and SBAS (EGNOS) in several field of applications.

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Oracle Corporation Cambridge Broadband Networks Ltd (CBNL) UNITED KINGDOM UNITED KINGDOM

Cloud Services, LTE Network Infrastructure, Network Backhaul Solutions, IP Networking Equipment, LTE Network Management, Operational Support Systems (OSS), Voice Infrastructure, Network Planning and Design, Small Cells. Products and Services. Oracle Communications helps Pioneering next generation microwave transmission equipment Network Operators, Enterprises and Digital Lifestyle since 2000, Cambridge Broadband Networks Ltd (CBNL) is the Providers accelerate their journey to the NOW Economy – market-leader in carrier-class, licensed point-to-multipoint. a virtualized, orchestrated, software-led and cloud- enabled future where business, industry and the customer Email: [email protected] experience are infused with connectivity, analytic insight Website: http://www.cbnl.com/ and increased agility and competitive advantage. For more information, visit Cobham Wireless http://www.oracle.com/communications UNITED KINGDOM

Email: [email protected] In-Building Systems, IP Networking Equipment, Test and Website: http://www.oracle.com/ Measurement Equipment. Delivering state-of-the-art wireless and connectivity solutions that give our customers a OpenCloud competitive edge. UNITED KINGDOM Email:[email protected] Website: http://www.cobham.com/wireless Core Network Equipment, LTE Network Infrastructure, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Network Panorama Antennas Ltd Operating Software, Voice Products and Services. Used UNITED KINGDOM by 60+ operators globally, OpenCloud’s open, virtualizable products transform the real-time Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Device Accessories, In- communications service layer to enable competitive and Building Systems, M2M / Telemetry Systems. A market leader economically-sustainable evolution of IN, IMS and VoLTE in the design and manufacture of high performance antennas, services. OpenCloud’s customers include multi-national Panorama has developed a huge range of 4G LTE antennas groups, large operators, smaller operators, MVNOs, for consumer wireless, M2M, in-building and vehicle mobile, wireline and converged operators. Rhino, applications. With its headquarters in London, UK and with OpenCloud’s family of next-generation service layer sales offices throughout Europe, USA and Australia, Panorama products, is deployed within SS7 and All-IP networks to supplies numerous cellular operators, equipment accelerate transitional and convergent network manufacturers and system integrators with its antennas as well transformation and enable competitive differentiation. as having an extensive distribution network worldwide. OpenCloud is privately held and VC-backed. Headquartered in Cambridge UK, OpenCloud also has Email: [email protected] offices in New Zealand, Spain, Singapore, Indonesia and Website: http://www.panorama-antennas.com/ Brazil. KLEOS Email: [email protected] UNITED KINGDOM Website: http://www.opencloud.com/ Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Cloud RAN, Core Network Equipment, LTE Network Infrastructure. KLEOS, a ADAX leading innovator of advanced wireless systems, is introducing UNITED KINGDOM the world’s most powerful LTE/4G+ base station, PEGASUS. With Spatial Diversity and Massive MIMO technologies at its Core Network Equipment, LTE Network Infrastructure, core, PEGASUS is the solution for solving Spectrum Scarcity Test and Measurement Equipment. Discover the most problems, maximizing Coverage, fortifying Wireless Security advanced levels of EPC reliability, security and signaling and providing unrivaled Deployment Flexibility. This leads to a performance with flexible and scalable Adax solutions for significant increase in Operators’ Profitability and allows the traditional Legacy TDM networks to LTE and beyond. delivery of Unprecedented Capacity. KLEOS Wireless Superiority coupled with its smart Virtual EPC and unique Email [email protected] Distributed Storage System, position KLEOS solution as the Website: http://www.adax.com/ ultimate path for both, Commercial and Public Safety operators, in their evolution towards the new era of 5G. GSMA UNITED KINGDOM Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.kleos.net/ Network Operator. The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators Computaris International Ltd with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile UNITED KINGDOM ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet Business Support Systems (BSS), Network Management, companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry Operational Support Systems (OSS), Outsourcing, Systems sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events Integration. Computaris International, the telecom arm of the R such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Systems Group, is a UK-based company specialized in system Shanghai and the Mobile 360 Series conferences. integration, software development and technical consultancy services for telecommunication providers and independent

113 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 software vendors worldwide. We have been turning bytes Website:http://ipaccess.com/ into business since 1992. Since then we have opened new offices in Poland, Romania, Moldova, Malaysia, India Broadband 4 Africa Ltd and the US and have successfully delivered 1000+ UNITED KINGDOM projects to 80+ operators worldwide. We are proud of our long term partnerships with top industry enterprises and Backhaul Solutions, Data Products and Services, ISP, work closely with business partners that demand and Network Operator. BB4Africa is a newly created subsidiary of recognize service excellence from line of code to Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, customer experience. dedicated to the provision of broadband services over Sub- Saharan Africa. BB4Africa will operate satellites of the most Email: [email protected] advanced technology in order to deliver quality and Website: http://www.computaris.com/ affordable internet connectivity.

Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd. Email: [email protected] UNITED KINGDOM Website: http://www.bb4africa.com/

Cloud Services, Network Planning and Design Ranplan is OPENGEAR a company with a unique heritage and skillset that has UNITED KINGDOM developed iBuildNet the world’s only all-in-one tool able to simultaneously handle outdoor/indoor coverage and Core Network Equipment, Device Management, LTE loading issues. iBuildNet also copes with the challenges Network Infrastructure, Monitoring Systems and Equipment, of dynamic radio engineering demanded by Small Cells, Network Management. ONLY Opengear delivers full Network DAS and HetNets, where traditional static models no Resilience to deliver always on resilient connectivity. longer function Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.opengear.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ranplan.co.uk/ Tyrone Fabrication UNITED KINGDOM

Stream Technologies Ltd Power Systems, Systems Integration Tyrone Fabrication UNITED KINGDOM produce a wide range of advanced steel equipment enclosures for the transportation, telecommunications & Data Products and Services, ISP, M2M / Telemetry power supply industries. All of our enclosures are Systems, Managed Network Services, Utilities (Smart manufactured using only superior materials and components Grid). Stream Technologies is the company behind IoT-X, from approved suppliers. We’re able to work on everything a Connectivity Enablement, Management & Billing from single, bespoke designs to multinational network platform (CMP). Designed for all operators of Cellular, systems Located on a purpose-built, eight-acre facility in Satellite & Low Power Wide Area networks, IoT-X is Northern Ireland, we combine leading-edge CAD/CAM offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and is fast technology and a highly skilled workforce with over 30 years’ being adopted by established network operators and new manufacturing experience and sector expertise. Our strategy entrants into the M2M/IOT sector. IoT-X offers low cost, is one of constant development, of both product and skills – low risk, high functionality of connectivity management, guaranteeing consistent quality in our engineering and resulting in fast to market, with support from one of the project management expertise. most experienced technical and operational teams in IoT. Stream Technologies Simplifies the Complex and gets Email: [email protected] devices connected. Website: http://www.tyronefabrication.co.uk/

Email: [email protected] Genesys Telecommunications Website: http://www.stream-technologies.com/ UNITED KINGDOM ip.access Ltd Middleware, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Voice UNITED KINGDOM Products and Services Genesys is the market leader in multi-channel customer experience (CX) and contact centre Data Products and Services, Femtocells, Small Cells. solutions in the cloud and on-premises. We help brands of all Ip.access is the world’s premier independent specialist sizes make great CX great business. Our Customer small cell product and systems company. Operating since Engagement Centre empowers businesses to create 2000, it ships its GSM, W-CDMA and LTE small cells, frictionless customer journeys across all channels and touch gateways and management solutions to over a hundred points, centred on the mobile device. Genesys is trusted by customers globally. Serving both the Mobile Network over 4,500 customers in 80 countries to orchestrate more Operator and Special Applications markets, its products than 100 million digital and voice interactions each day. They and technology power the ATT Microcell residential 3G include 19 of 24 world’s largest telecommunications & small cell, the market-dominant eXPhone in-flight cellular service providers (including the top ten). Visit us at service solution, the award-winning PEAK disaster relief www.genesys.com communications package, among countless other enterprise, residential, rural and remote applications. Email: [email protected] Superbly backed by Zouk Capital, ip.access has the Website: http://www.genesys.com/ technical capability and commercial weight for all your small cell infrastructure needs. Sky UNITED KINGDOM Email: [email protected] 114 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

UNITED STATES Application Development Film, Application Development General, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile TV. Sky is Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Consulting and Europe’s leading entertainment company and serves 21 Engineering Services, Modems, Semiconductors, Systems million customers across five countries: Italy, Germany, Integration. AAC Technologies Featuring WiSpry – Hall Austria, UK and Ireland. We believe in better and that 2/2B40MR – AAC Technologies is a world leading micro- means offering a better choice of high-quality component total solutions supplier for acoustics, haptics, entertainment for the whole family and using technology optics, RF and mechanical integration. The recent acquisition to put them in control, whenever and wherever they of WiSpry has added integrated RF-MEMS antenna technology want. to AAC Technologies product range to optimally support next Email: [email protected] generation multi-band and multi-standard devices and the Website: http://www.sky.com/ newest RF architectures. At MWC, AAC and WiSpry will feature multiple product demonstrations exciting new products PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. showcasing the latest in micro-component technology for UNITED STATES mobile devices. For more information, visit www.aactechnologies.com and www.wispry.com Consulting. Technology connects us to new people, experiences, products and services every day, in all Email: [email protected] aspects of our lives. But how is your company using Website: http://www.wispry.com/ technology to achieve outcomes that matter for your stakeholders? Aviat Networks UNITED STATES Kumu Networks UNITED STATES Backhaul Solutions, IP Networking Equipment, LTE Network Infrastructure, Managed Network Services, Network Backhaul Solutions, Intellectual Property, LTE Network Management. Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) is a Infrastructure, Semiconductors, Small Cells. Kumu leading global provider of microwave networking solutions Networks (www.kumunetworks.com) was formed by transforming communications networks to handle the exploding Stanford University professors and PhD graduates, and growth of IP-centric, multi-Gigabit data services. With more funded by top-tier VCs. The team has succeeded to than one million systems sold in over 140 countries, Aviat challenge some of the basic assumptions in wireless Networks provides microwave networking solutions to mobile technology by building a full-duplex wireless system that operators, including some of the world’s largest and most can transmit and receive on the same frequency at the advanced 4G/LTE networks. Public safety, utility, government same time, doubling spectral efficiency! The solution is and defense organizations trust Aviat Networks’ solutions for based on software-controlled self-interference- their mission-critical applications where reliability is paramount. cancellation technology that eliminates the need for FDD A comprehensive suite of support services enables customers or TDD duplexing. In addition to its potential for 5G to seamlessly migrate to next-generation Carrier Ethernet/IP standards, the technology can be used to improve networks. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com\ spectrum reuse and remove limitations of hardware- based filters in existing systems. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.aviatnetworks.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.kumunetworks.com/ Microsemi Corporation UNITED STATES INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY UNITED STATES Backhaul Solutions, BTS Fronthaul Solutions, LTE Network Infrastructure, Semiconductors, Small Cells. Microsemi BTS Fronthaul Solutions, Consumer Electronics (CEM), Corporation, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, offers innovative Core Network Equipment, Power Systems, products and solutions for timing and synchronization, Power Semiconductors.Integrated Device Technology, Inc., over Ethernet (PoE), Carrier Ethernet and Hardware Security develops system-level solutions that optimize its At the MWC 2016, Microsemi will be exhibiting its newly customers’ applications. IDT uses its market leadership expanded Integrated GNSS Master (IGM) family of 1588 in timing, serial switching and interfaces, and adds Grandmasters. With small form factor and enhanced reception analog and system expertise to provide complete of integrated GPS receiver, IGM significantly reduces cost and application-optimized, mixed-signal solutions for the efforts of indoor deployment for small cells. Bringing defense communications, computing and consumer segments. level security to communications, Microsemi will display ways Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, to enhance Hardware Security of networking equipments., In manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners addition, portfolio of PoE midspan to power small cells, throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the microwave and WiFi AP will be displayed. NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol “IDTI.” Additional information about IDT is accessible at Email: [email protected] www.IDT.com. 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Backhaul Solutions, LTE Network Infrastructure. Cohere AAC Technologies featuring WiSpry Technologies has developed groundbreaking technology with broad applications for wireless communication. Called OTFS 115 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

(for Orthogonal Time Frequency & Space), Cohere’s new Website: http://www.brocade.com/ modulation scheme delivers 100% coverage, 10x spectral efficiency and a 50% cost savings over existing Azimuth Systems solutions by perfectly capturing the wireless channel. UNITED STATES The combination of OTFS with traditional modulation schemes extends the benefits of this 2D modulation to Test and Measurement Equipment. Azimuth Systems, Inc., is existing platforms as required for the future of 5G a leader in performance test solutions for the RF and wireless mobility. Meet with one of Forbes Magazine’s hottest top world, including cellular, Wi-Fi, and emerging applications like 50 startups – Santa Clara, California-based Cohere IoT. Azimuth’s solutions enable precise, repeatable Technologies – by contacting: mwc2016@cohere- measurements and analysis of wireless device performance, technologies.com. conformance, interoperability, and coexistence within established areas as cellular and new areas as M2M, C2C, Email: [email protected] and UAVs. Leveraging its renowned RF expertise and Website: http://www.cohere-technologies.com/ portfolio, Azimuth provides automated test solutions focused on the use cases and key performance metrics necessary for understanding real-world performance. The company is based Citrix in Acton, Massachusetts, USA, with sales offices around the UNITED STATES world.

Application Development – General, Cloud Services, Email: [email protected] IP Networking Equipment, Network Operating Software. Website: http://www.azimuthsystems.com/ Citrix is a leading cloud company focused on the transition to a software-defined workplace: uniting virtualization, enterprise mobility management and Broadcom Limited networking to enable businesses and people to work UNITED STATES more intelligently together. With the secure delivery of mobile apps and data as a catalyst, Citrix’s solutions Femtocells, Semiconductors, Small Cells, Wi-Fi Services & enable service-providers to deliver value through Management Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a mobility, virtualize and automate the network leading designer, developer and global supplier of a broad infrastructure and optimize subscriber and enterprise range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity applications delivered through telco clouds. Citrix solutions. Broadcom Limited’s extensive product portfolio XenMobile enables IT to manage a broad set of mobile serves four primary end markets: wired infrastructure, wireless devices while enhancing users’ BYO device experiences communications, enterprise storage and industrial & other. without compromising security. Over 150 million mobile Applications for our products in these end markets include: subscribers are powered by Citrix NetScaler. data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones and base Email: [email protected] stations, data center servers and storage, factory automation, Website: http://www.citrix.com/networking power generation and alternative energy systems, and displays. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com. Aricent UNITED STATES Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.broadcom.com/ Backhaul Solutions, Cloud RAN, Consulting and Engineering Services, Semiconductors, Small Cells. AAC Technologies featuring WiSpry Aricent is the world’s #1 pure-play product engineering UNITED STATES services firm. The company has 20-plus years’ experience co-creating ambitious products with the Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Consulting and leading networking, telecom, software, semiconductor, Engineering Services, Modems, Semiconductors, Systems Internet and industrial companies. The firm’s 11,000-plus Integration AAC Technologies Featuring WiSpry – Hall engineers focus exclusively on software-powered 2/2B40MR – AAC Technologies is a world leading micro- innovation for the connected world. component total solutions supplier for acoustics, haptics, optics, RF and mechanical integration. The recent acquisition Email: [email protected] of WiSpry has added integrated RF-MEMS antenna Website: http://www.aricent.com/ technology to AAC Technologies product range to optimally support next generation multi-band and multi-standard Brocade devices and the newest RF architectures. At MWC, AAC and UNITED STATES WiSpry will feature multiple product demonstrations exciting new products showcasing the latest in micro-component Core Network Equipment, IP Networking Equipment, technology for mobile devices. For more information, visit LTE Network Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry Systems, www.aactechnologies.com and www.wispry.com Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services. Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions empower the Email: [email protected] world’s leading organizations to transition smoothly to a Website: http://www.wispry.com/ world where applications and information reside anywhere. By delivering agility and innovation for cloud- Aviat Networks based environments, Brocade helps organizations UNITED STATES modernize their networks and accelerate their journey to the New IP. Backhaul Solutions, IP Networking Equipment, LTE Network Infrastructure, Managed Network Services, Network Email: [email protected] Management Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) is a 116 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 leading global provider of microwave networking highest-profile, highest-capacity and hardest-to-cover public, solutions transforming communications networks to private and government facilities. BTI prides itself on its handle the exploding growth of IP-centric, multi-Gigabit technology expertise, designing and manufacturing products data services. With more than one million systems sold that include high-performance power amplifiers, DAS, small in over 140 countries, Aviat Networks provides cells, and other RF subsystems. Founded in 1999, the privately microwave networking solutions to mobile operators, held company is headquartered in Cypress, California with including some of the world’s largest and most offices across the Americas and Asia-Pacific. advanced 4G/LTE networks. Public safety, utility, Email: [email protected] government and defense organizations trust Aviat Website: http://www.btiwireless.com/ Networks’ solutions for their mission-critical applications where reliability is paramount. A JMA Wireless comprehensive suite of support services enables UNITED STATES customers to seamlessly migrate to next-generation Carrier Ethernet/IP networks. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Cloud RAN, In-Building Systems, LTE Network Infrastructure, Small Cells JMA Email: [email protected] Wireless is the leading global innovator in mobile wireless Website: http://www.aviatnetworks.com/ connectivity solutions that assure infrastructure reliability, streamline service operations, and maximize wireless performance. Employing powerful, patented innovations their Microsemi Corporation solutions portfolio is proven to lower the cost of operations UNITED STATES while ensuring lifetime quality levels in equipment and unrivaled performance for coverage and high-speed mobile Backhaul Solutions, BTS Fronthaul Solutions, LTE data. JMA Wireless solutions cover macro infrastructure, Network Infrastructure, Semiconductors, Small Cells outdoor and indoor distributed antenna systems and small cell Microsemi Corporation, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, solutions. JMA Wireless corporate headquarters are located in offers innovative products and solutions for timing and Liverpool, NY, with manufacturing, R&D, and sales operations synchronization, Power over Ethernet (PoE), Carrier in over 20 locations worldwide. Ethernet and Hardware Security At the MWC 2016, Microsemi will be exhibiting its newly expanded Email: [email protected] Integrated GNSS Master (IGM) family of 1588 Website: http://www.jmawireless.com/ Grandmasters. With small form factor and enhanced reception of integrated GPS receiver, IGM significantly reduces cost and efforts of indoor deployment for small eVolution Networks cells. Bringing defense level security to UNITED STATES communications, Microsemi will display ways to enhance Hardware Security of networking Utilities (Smart Grid) eVolution Networks is a leading innovator equipments., In addition, portfolio of PoE midspan to in telecom energy efficiency, allowing Mobile Network power small cells, microwave and WiFi AP will be Operators to immediately reduce their electricity bills by as displayed. much as 35% by powering off redundant capacity during low traffic hours. 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ESS Technology UNITED STATES Intel Corporation UNITED STATES Semiconductors For more than three decades ESS Technology has been on the cutting edge of audio Application Development – General, Cloud Services, Mobile technology. A privately held fabless semiconductor Enterprise Solutions and Services, Network Management, company, ESS Technology designs and markets high- Semiconductors Intel makes the most amazing experiences of performance analog and HiFi audio devices for mobile, the future possible. Intel’s innovations expand the reach and consumer, automotive, and professional audiophile power of computing in personal devices and enterprise servers, systems. The company was founded in 1984 and today the Cloud, make the Internet of Things smart and connected, ESS Technology is best known for its SABRE series of and help ensure the security of our digital lives. The work of the high-performance audio products. For more company’s more than 100,000 employees transforms information visit www.esstech.com. businesses, propels new discoveries and improves human experiences. More information about Intel is at Email: [email protected] newsroom.intel.com or intel.com. Website: http://www.esstech.com/: Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.intel.com/ BTI Wireless UNITED STATES

In-Building Systems, Small Cells As global experts in wireless communication, BTI Wireless (BTI) continually delivers innovative solutions that allow mobile users worldwide to experience reliable coverage in the 117 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Aricent manufacturing, integration and final quality control and UNITED STATES metrology. The Optical Design and Manufacturing Unit is based in Occhiobello (Italy) whit the design/ manufacturing of optics up to 1 meter. Custom development and manufacturing of hi Backhaul Solutions, Cloud RAN, Consulting and resolution, wide spectral bandwidth optical systems satellite Engineering Services, Semiconductors, Small Cells Aricent payloads for earth imaging applications. Custom development is the world’s #1 pure-play product engineering services and manufacturing of Lasercom/ Optical Antennas optical firm. The company has 20-plus years’ experience co- systems. creating ambitious products with the leading networking, telecom, software, semiconductor, Internet and industrial companies. The firm’s 11,000-plus engineers focus Brocade exclusively on software-powered innovation for the UNITED STATES connected world. Core Network Equipment, IP Networking Equipment, LTE Email: [email protected] Network Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Mobile Website: http://www.aricent.com/ Enterprise Solutions and Services Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions empower the world’s leading organizations to transition smoothly to a world where Lattice/SiBEAM applications and information reside anywhere. By delivering UNITED STATES agility and innovation for cloud-based environments, Brocade helps organizations modernize their networks and accelerate Backhaul Solutions, Consumer Electronics (CEM), Mobile their journey to the New IP. Entertainment, Semiconductors, Small Cells SiBEAM, a Lattice technology, is a pioneer in developing intelligent Email: [email protected] millimeter wave technologies for wireless communications. Website: http://www.brocade.com/ The company was the first to build 60GHz chipsets using standard CMOS technology. SiBEAM, a Lattice technology is a global leader in driving next-generation architecture NetCracker Technology and semiconductor implementation of wireless connectivity UNITED STATES solutions in the consumer electronics, mobile, enterprise and infrastructure markets. The company is a wholly- Business Support Systems (BSS), Consulting, Network owned subsidiary of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. Management, Operational Support Systems (OSS), For more information, visit http://www.sibeam.com. Outsourcing NetCracker Technology is the proven partner for Email: [email protected] cable operators and CSPs in enabling product innovation and Website: http://www.sibeam.com/ deploying next-generation IT and networks. The end-to-end NetCracker 10 solutions and services portfolio brings together CNET comprehensive business and operations management UNITED STATES offerings, big data analytics, orchestration and virtualization onto a single cloud-enabled platform. NetCracker’s in-depth Content Provider CNET is the world’s #1 tech media brand technical and operational expertise, professional services and with tens of millions of visitors each month. Through bold unbroken delivery track record enables operators to deploy storytelling, expert reviews, photography and engaging hybrid virtualized environments, improve process visibility, video, CNET educates, inspires and tells the real story of introduce new revenue opportunities and deliver personalized the way technology impacts our daily lives. CNET covers customer experience. every aspect of consumer technology, from personal and automotive tech to home and smart appliances. CNET Email: [email protected] properties also include Roadshow by CNET, a brand new Website: http://www.netcracker.com/ automotive destination, CNET Magazine, a premium print magazine, and CNET en Español for Spanish speakers in GENBAND the U.S. and beyond. CNET and Roadshow are properties UNITED STATES of CBS Interactive. LTE Network Infrastructure, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Email: [email protected] Services, NFC Services and Solutions, Telecoms Authorities / Website: http://www.cnet.com/ Associations, VoIP Systems GENBAND, a 2015 CNBC Disruptor 50, is a global leader in real time communications Officina Stellare software solutions for service providers, enterprises, Via della Tecnica, 87/89 36030 Sarcedo (VI) independent software vendors,systems integrators and Tel. Inter. (+39) 0445 1922219 developers in over 80 countries. The company’s Network Tel. USA (001) 323 9271020 F (+39) 0445 1922009 Modernization, Unified Communications, Mobility and www.officinastellare.com Embedded Communications solutions enable its customers to Officina Stellare srl is an Italy based company specialized in quickly capitalize on growing market segments and introduce the design and manufacturing of optomechanical differentiating products, applications and services. instrumentation for professional applications. GENBAND’s market-leading solutions, which are deployable The wide range of products is including optical payloads for in the network, on premise or through the cloud, help its earth imaging satellites, Astronomical Research customers connect people and address the growing demands Observatories, Space Situational Awareness and Debris of today’s consumers and businesses for real time tracking solutions, Aerospace and Defence application, communications wherever they happen to be. Astroimaging and CCD imaging cameras. Headquarters are in Sarcedo (Italy) whit R&D, mechanical Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.genband.com/ 118

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Juniper Networks UNITED STATES Lemko Corporation UNITED STATES Backhaul Solutions, Cloud RAN, Cloud Services, Core Network Equipment, IP Networking Equipment Juniper In-Building Systems, ISP, LTE Network Infrastructure, M2M / Networks (NYSE:JNPR) delivers innovation across Telemetry Systems Lemko makes innovated 2G, 3G and 4G routing, switching and security. Juniper Networks’ cellular solutions for carriers, first-responders and industry IoT innovations in software, silicon and systems transform the users. At MWC, Lemko is featuring the LTE EZ Access Point, experience and economics of networking. Additional a Private LTE scalable network deployable out of the box. EZ information can be found at Juniper Networks LTE is Drop-n-Go solution that is as simple to install and (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter and provision as Wi-Fi. EZ delivers LTE benefits with Wi-Fi Facebook. At Juniper Networks, we believe the network is economics. EZ LTE connects to your existing IP network the single greatest vehicle for knowledge, understanding, securely behind an enterprises’ firewall. EZ LTE is available on and human advancement that the world has ever known. most LTE bands. EZ LTE is ideal for the Industrial Internet and Now more than ever, the world relies on high-performance broadband wireless use-cases that demand security and LTE networks. And now more than ever, the world needs Quality of Service. network innovation to unleash our full potential. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.lemkocorp.com/ Website: http://www.juniper.net/ Escape Communications TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. UNITED STATES UNITED STATES Backhaul Solutions, BTS Fronthaul Solutions, Modems In-Building Systems, Systems Integration, Wi-Fi Services Escape Communications is a modem supplier for Wireless & Management TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) Backhaul. We offer modems with 1Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, and 10 www.telecomsys.com Gbps.Our E band modems are fully integrated with the RF chipsets from our partners offering customers low cost, fast Email: [email protected] time to market solution with outstanding performance. Website: http://www.telecomsys.com/ Email: [email protected] Procera Networks, Inc. Website: http://www.escapecom.com/ UNITED STATES Vasona Networks Network Management Procera Networks Inc. structures UNITED STATES mobile and fixed broadband network data, transforming it into actionable intelligence to empower operators to make Backhaul Solutions, Cloud RAN, Core Network Equipment, informed business decisions and improve the quality of Data Analysis, Network Management Founded in 2010, Subscriber Experience. Vasona Networks, Inc.® works with global mobile network operators to deliver better user experiences. The company’s Email: [email protected] pioneering SmartAIR™ edge application controller and the Website: http://www.proceranetworks.com/ SmartVISION™ analysis suite elevate capabilities to overcome network congestion, and to understand network NuCurrent Inc. activities for better management and planning. The technology UNITED STATES leverages strategic network edge locations for comprehensive perspective on all data activity within every cell at any time. Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Batteries, The company has deployments in major networks around the Consumer Electronics (CEM), NFC Services and world and has received investments from Bessemer Venture Solutions, Power Systems NuCurrent is a leading Partners and New Venture Partner. Vasona Networks is developer of high-efficiency antennas and modules for headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices wireless power applications. Compliant across Wireless worldwide. Power Consortium (Qi) and AirFuel Alliance (formally PMA and A4WP standards), NuCurrent works closely with OEMs and integrators to custom-design, rapid-prototype MEC and integrate high Quality (Q) Factor antennas and Via San Nicolò di Villola, 1 40127 Bologna modules for many applications. NuCurrent’s patented T (+39) 051 6333403 www.mec-mmic.com structures, proprietary tools and design techniques [email protected] mitigate typical high frequency effects, offering higher efficiency, smaller sizes, thinner (0.18 mm), higher MEC was founded in 2004, as spin-off of Bologna's and Ferrara's durability and lower cost wireless power development. Universities, in order to offer to the Italian and European NuCurrent has been defining the cutting edge of wireless enterprises, the know-how coming from the university R&D power design since 2009 and has over 50 patents granted department in the field of microwave electronic components, with or pending. a main focus on MMIC and TR Modules. The Company's expertise and core business, are based on the executive design, Email: [email protected] lay-out generation, on wafer probe test, on jig electrical & thermal Website: http://www.nucurrent.com/ characterization of MMIC.s and discrete active components. The most known European satellite programmes, to name some : Iridium, Galileo, CosmoSkymed, SIASGE, Sentinel…etc, board MMIC.s and microwave ybrids in their most critical line-ups, developed by MEC. 119 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017

Email: [email protected] 3Z Telecom Website: http://vasonanetworks.com/ UNITED STATES

Polaris Networks Inc Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Monitoring Systems and UNITED STATES Equipment, Network Management, Network Operator, Test and Measurement Equipment 3Z Telecom offers In-Building Core Network Equipment, In-Building Systems, LTE DAS, RF Engineering, RF EME Compliance, Interference Network Infrastructure, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Hunting, Tower Services & Drive Testing. Along with these Services, Test and Measurement Equipment Silicon-valley services, 3Z also offers the World Leader Antenna Alignment headquartered Polaris Networks, is a leading provider of Tool: The 3Z RF Aligner for both Panel Antennas and point to LTE software for 1) Test & Measurement, 2) EPC for Point Microwave Systems and the Antenna WASP, the World’s deployment in commercial, private and tactical networks. 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You can technology company, designing and manufacturing microwave send the right message, to the right user, at the right time. passive components and subsystems, for the wireless network Top networks around the world have benefited from infrastructure market. Our technology includes ferrite isolator/ deploying the Front Porch in-browser floating overlay circulators, cavity filters, directional couplers, power dividers, notification solution. combiners, ceramic filters, waveguide components and solid state power amplifiers. With cutting edge design capabilities Email: [email protected] and world class manufacturing, JQL’s innovative design, rapid Website: http://www.frontporch.com/ prototyping, precise manufacturing and short lead-time delivers high quality product to the customer backed up with PeerApp excellent customer service. UNITED STATES Email: [email protected] Backhaul Solutions, Cloud RAN, IP Networking Website: http://www.jqlelectronics.cm/ Equipment, Mobile Entertainment, Network Management PeerApp’s Mobile-Edge as well as Core-based solutions InterDigital are used by more than 150 Mobile Network Operators UNITED STATES (MNOs) around the world to address Video & OTT Content strain on networks. PeerApp’s Open CDN & Backhaul Solutions, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Network Cache solution implements Mobile Edge Computing Management, Small Cells, Wi-Fi Services & Management (MEC) principles to accelerate Video Delivery & host InterDigital designs and develops advanced mobile Content at Mobile Network Edges. 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Our F (+39) 06 3216937 www.kell.it [email protected] award-winning solutions empower mobile operators and communications service providers to ensure a high-quality KELL is an ICT Italian company operating for over twenty subscriber experience across the entire life-cycle, all years in the Space and ICT sectors developing SW and ICT technologies and all domains of both the mobile and fixed smart solutions in the following fields of application: e-health, networks. Using InfoVista’s solutions, eighty percent of the telemedicine, e-government, Earth Observation, remote world’s largest communications service providers and mobile sensing, mobile applications. Our Vision "make everyday life operators deliver high-performing and differentiated services, easier with computing by making the technology easy, maximize network ROI, plan and optimize networks to match usable and available to everyone through continuous application and service demands, and streamline network innovation." 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Franklin Wireless EmaIL: [email protected] UNITED STATES Website: http://www- 935.ibm.com/industries/communications/events.html M2M / Telemetry Systems, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and Services, Modems Franklin Wireless is a global leader in innovative hardware and software products that Ruckus Wireless support machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and the UNITED STATES Internet of Things (IoT) as well as intelligent wireless solutions including mobile hotspots, routers and modems. Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Cloud Services, LTE Network Infrastructure, Small Cells, Wi-Fi Services & Email: [email protected] Management Ruckus Wireless delivers simply better wireless Website: http://www.franklinwireless.com/ for more than 61,000 enterprise, service provider, government and small business customers worldwide. The company is Skyworks Solutions focused on technology innovation, partner ecosystems and UNITED STATES customer service — yielding the best possible wireless experience for the most challenging indoor and outdoor LTE Network Infrastructure, Semiconductors, Small Cells environments. Its Smart Wi-Fi platform delivers scalable, high- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is empowering the wireless performance Wi-Fi with simplified control and management for networking revolution. Our highly innovative analog on-premise and cloud-based Wi-Fi deployments, along with semiconductors are connecting people, places, and new services for secure on-boarding, policy management, things, spanning a number of new and previously location services and analytics that enable new business unimagined applications within the automotive, opportunities. broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and Email: [email protected] wearable markets. Website:http://www.ruckuswireless.com/

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QLogic Corporation M2M / Telemetry Systems, Modems, Monitoring Systems and UNITED STATES Equipment, Network Management, Network Operating Software Asentria’s proven solutions provide mobile network Core Network Equipment, Data Products and Services, IP operators (MNO) with not just alarms on power, security, and Networking Equipment QLogic (NASDAQ: QLGC) is a environmental conditions at cell sites, but also overall “Cell global leader and technology innovator in high Site Optimization”. Optimization of individual cell sites results performance server and storage networking connectivity in improvements in Quality of Service (QoS), Mean-Time to products. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide Repair (MTTR), and CAPEX and OPEX reductions across the rely on QLogic for its server and storage networking entire network. Asentria solutions reduce over-provisioning of solutions. Members from QLogic’s senior executive team HVAC, rectifiers, batteries, or fuel, allow better management will be at Mobile World Congress 2016 to discuss its of HVAC set points, and reduction of overall truck rolls. family of connectivity products that deliver greater Asentria solutions support operator’s efforts to become more flexibility, scalability and economical value for the scale- green by reducing overall power usage, as well as providing out architectures of the fast moving telco, MSP, cloud and detailed reporting of the savings achieved. enterprise markets. For more information, please visit www.qlogic.com. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.asentria.com/ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.qlogic.com/ Procera Networks, Inc. UNITED STATES

IBM Network Management Procera Networks Inc. structures UNITED STATES mobile and fixed broadband network data, transforming it into actionable intelligence to empower operators to make Cloud Services, Consulting, Mobile Enterprise Solutions informed business decisions and improve the quality of and Services, Network Operating Software, Systems Subscriber Experience. Integration Join IBM at Booth 3.H30 in Hall 3 to gain insight on how Email: [email protected] communications service providers can succeed in the Website: http://www.proceranetworks.com/ cognitive era by developing deep capabilities to engage customers, creating new products and services, infusing Codal Inc agility into the infrastructure, and managing the forces of UNITED STATES change profitably and securely. Cognitive computing can help identify new possibilities; improving customer Application Development – General, Consulting, Mobile engagement, helping call centers with real-time access to Enterprise Solutions and Services Codal is an established data, and leveraging data to troubleshoot and fix network global consulting firm focusing on business intelligence,

121 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 design, development and compliance testing. Delivering company’s pioneering SmartAIR™ edge application controller solutions of any complexity to clients worldwide. With and the SmartVISION™ analysis suite elevate capabilities to more than 7 years of IT business expertise, Codal has a overcome network congestion, and to understand network strong team of skilled and experienced business and activities for better management and planning. The technical experts. Codal’s customer base includes technology leverages strategic network edge locations for companies of all sizes, ranging from startups to large comprehensive perspective on all data activity within every enterprises. Our clients have a common awareness that cell at any time. The company has deployments in major they need a professional and accessible solution to networks around the world and has received investments from maximize their business goals, revenue streams, establish Bessemer Venture Partners and New Venture Partner. communication channels or streamline business Vasona Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, operations. with offices worldwide.

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Lemko Corporation UNITED STATES ERATO Wireless Audio CO., LTD UNITED STATES In-Building Systems, ISP, LTE Network Infrastructure, M2M / Telemetry Systems Lemko makes innovated 2G, Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Bluetooth Accessories, 3G and 4G cellular solutions for carriers, first-responders Consumer Electronics (CEM), Intellectual Property Erato and industry IoT users. At MWC, Lemko is featuring the innovates wireless and audio technology to develop premium LTE EZ Access Point, a Private LTE scalable network Bluetooth audio products. Erato has created the world’s first deployable out of the box. EZ LTE is Drop-n-Go solution true wireless headset with unmatched sound quality. that is as simple to install and provision as Wi-Fi. EZ Established in 2015 with a simple aim of creating high fidelity delivers LTE benefits with Wi-Fi economics. EZ LTE audio devices without compromise, Erato is located in Brea, connects to your existing IP network securely behind an California where its team of audio experts continuously push enterprises’ firewall. EZ LTE is available on most LTE the technology limit. From incredible acoustic detail and clarity bands. EZ LTE is ideal for the Industrial Internet and to breathtaking immersive audio experience, Erato sets a new broadband wireless use-cases that demand security and standard for true wireless audio. LTE Quality of Service. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.erato-audio.com/ Website: http://www.lemkocorp.com/

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Network Planning and Design, Small Cells Radisys helps Backhaul Solutions, Devices, In-Building Systems, LTE communications and content providers, and their strategic Network Infrastructure, Small Cells JQL Electronics Inc, is a partners, create new revenue streams and drive cost out technology company, designing and manufacturing microwave of their services delivery infrastructure. Radisys’ wireless passive components and subsystems, for the wireless access technologies, service-aware traffic distribution network infrastructure market. Our technology includes ferrite platforms, and real-time media processing engines enable isolator/ circulators, cavity filters, directional couplers, power its customers to maximize, virtualize and monetize their dividers, combiners, ceramic filters, waveguide components networks. and solid state power amplifiers. With cutting edge design capabilities and world class manufacturing, JQL’s innovative Email: [email protected] design, rapid prototyping, precise manufacturing and short Website: http://www.radisys.com/ lead-time delivers high quality product to the customer backed up with excellent customer service. Escape Communications UNITED STATES Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.jqlelectronics.cm/ Backhaul Solutions, BTS Fronthaul Solutions, Modems Escape Communications is a modem supplier for Wireless Backhaul. We offer modems with 1Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, and Vector Data 10 Gbps.Our E band modems are fully integrated with the UNITED STATES RF chipsets from our partners offering customers low cost, fast time to market solution with outstanding performance. Core Network Equipment, Data Products and Services, IP Networking Equipment, Power Systems, Systems Integration Email: [email protected] Vector Data offers VectorPod, a complete carrier-grade NFV & Website: http://www.escapecom.com/ SDN infrastructure platform. Fully customizable, AC or DC powered, NEBS/ETSI/KCC/VCCI certified, and based on Vasona Networks proven technology, VectorPod is certified for OpenStack and UNITED STATES VMware, and pre-validated for repeatable, consistent deployment anywhere in the network including data center, Backhaul Solutions, Cloud RAN, Core Network central office and MTSO. The platform is available as modular Equipment, Data Analysis, Network Management Founded components including compute, storage, switching as well as in 2010, Vasona Networks, Inc.® works with global mobile OpenRouter, Vector Data’s 10GbE/40GbE edge router based network operators to deliver better user experiences. The

122 AFRICAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS YEAR BOOK 2017 on commodity hardware, offering price-performance performance orchestration solutions at the service of a better unachievable on legacy routers. connected and collaborative world. Our award-winning solutions empower mobile operators and communications Email: [email protected] service providers to ensure a high-quality subscriber Website: http://www.vectordata.com/ experience across the entire life-cycle, all technologies and all domains of both the mobile and fixed networks. Using 4G Americas InfoVista’s solutions, eighty percent of the world’s largest UNITED STATES communications service providers and mobile operators deliver high-performing and differentiated services, maximize network Government and Regulatory. 4G Americas is an industry ROI, plan and optimize networks to match application and trade organization composed of leading service demands, and streamline network operations while telecommunications service providers and keeping total cost of ownership as low as possible. manufacturers. The organization’s mission is to advocate for and foster the advancement and full capabilities of Email: [email protected] the LTE mobile broadband technology and its evolution Website: http://www.infovista.com/ beyond to 5G, throughout the ecosystem’s networks, services, applications and wirelessly connected devices AVG Technologies in the Americas. 4G Americas, the voice of 5G for the UNITED STATES Americas, is invested in leading 5G development for the Americas and maintaining the current global innovation Cloud Services, Devices, Mobile Privacy / Spam Prevention, lead in North America with LTE technology. 4G Americas Mobile Security Systems AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG) is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. More information is is the leading provider of software services to secure devices, available at www.4gamericas.org. data and people. AVG’s award-winning consumer portfolio Email: [email protected] includes internet security, performance optimization, location Website: http://www.4gamericas.org/en/ services, data controls and insights, and privacy and identity protection, for mobile devices and desktops. The AVG Business SevOne Inc portfolio, delivered through a global partner network, provides UNITED STATES cloud security and remote monitoring and management (RMM) solutions that protect small and medium businesses around the Backhaul Solutions, Cloud Services, LTE Network world. For more information, visit www.avg.com. Infrastructure, Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Network Management SevOne provides the only digital Website: http://www.avg.com/ infrastructure performance monitoring solution engineered for Speed at Scale for the world’s most CableLabs demanding service-delivery environments. The patented UNITED STATES SevOne ClusterTM architecture leverages distributed Testing and Certification. CableLabs is a non-profit research computing to monitor any device in the service-delivery and development consortium that is dedicated to creating path, integrating performance metrics, flows and logs at innovative ideas that significantly impact our cable operator scale, and providing answers in seconds to prevent members‘ business. CableLabs also serves to define performance-impacting outages. SevOne’s global interoperable solutions among our members and their customer base includes 5 of the 7 top global investment technology vendors in order to drive scale, reduce costs, and services companies, enterprises, CSPs, MSPs and create competition in the supply chain. CableLabs membership MSOs. SevOne is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and is comprised of the major cable operators worldwide. named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. Email: [email protected] Follow SevOne on Twitter @SevOneInc. Website: http://www.cablelabs.com/

Email: [email protected] GSMA Marketplace Website: http://www.sevone.com/ UNITED STATES Antennas, Aerials, Masts and Towers, Consulting, Core InterDigital Network Equipment, Devices, Mobile Enterprise Solutions and UNITED STATES Services GSMA Marketplace is a new online portal to connect buyers and sellers in the telecoms industry. With 2,400+ sellers Backhaul Solutions, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Network and 500+ buyers onboard now, this platform is becoming the Management, Small Cells, Wi-Fi Services & premiere destination for procurement and business Management InterDigital designs and develops development activity in the ecosystem. Over the last several advanced mobile technologies that enable and enhance months, RFX worth over $161,000,000 USD in value and communications. ongoing opportunity have been run on the site. Sellers can build virtual storefronts, post product/service catalogues and Email: [email protected] respond to RFXs. Buyers can search for products, connect with Website: http://www.interdigital.com/ new suppliers and initiate RFXs. Learn more at www.GSMAMarketplace.com InfoVista Email: [email protected] UNITED STATES Website: http://www.gsmamarketplace.com/

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123 NetComm Wireless comprehensive end-to-end view of service experience. EXFO AUSTRALIA transforms data generated by its solutions into knowledge about end-to-end service experience that is actionable and [email protected] meaningful to its customers. EXFO moves CSPs forward with http://www.netcommwireless.com/ solutions, analytical capabilities and knowledge to cover the entire chain from service turn-up out to the subscriber’s NetComm Wireless Limited (ASX: NTC) is a leading device and back. Backhaul Solutions, Data Analysis, developer of Fixed Wireless Regional Broadband and Monitoring Systems and Equipment, Test and Measurement wireless M2M devices that underpin an increasingly Equipment, Testing and Certification connected world. Leading telecommunications carriers, core network providers and system integrators utilise NetComm Wireless’ 3G, 4G LTE and new generation Fixed Wireless ReFleX Wireless Inc. solutions to optimise network performance and to support CANADA their connected products and services. For the past 34 years, [email protected] NetComm Wireless has developed a portfolio of world first http://www.reflexwireless.com/ data communication products, and is now a globally recognised wireless innovator. Headquartered in Sydney (Australia), NetComm Wireless has offices in the US, Europe/UK, New Zealand, Middle East and Japan. ReFleX Via Frangipane, 24 00184 Roma T (+39) 06 6791818 F (+39) 06 69787432 World Telecom Labs www.italconsul.net BELGIUM [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://www.wtl.be/ ReFleX Wireless offers analytic software and wireless sensors/devices for health and wellness applications. We are World Telecom Labs is a leader in the provision of VoIP & actively seeking local service partners to take advantage of SMS switches and Small-Cell solutions with a large installed our end-to-end m2m solutions. Some of our recent base in 30+ countries in Africa. Products include: • Rural collaboration includes our work with Weight Watchers Telephony– GSM coverage, voice & data for remote sites. International on the creation of “Weight Watchers Smart Food Includes cloud-based billing • VoIP to TDM E1 and STM-1 Scale” nutrition solution and with Sleep Specialists LLC on backbone switches • High density Multi-Service SBC with SleepAngles home monitoring service. For 2016, we will be integral Pre-Paid, IVR & Billing. • SMS Hub High releasing an array of 2G/3G based location and Performance, Cost Effective SMS Hub platform with SMPP & environmental sensors. Speak to us and learn how you can SS7 • Bandwidth cost saving Instant ROI, cuts IP bandwidth leverage our technologies to reach our corporate goals. for VoIP traffic by 70% – compatible with satellite or fibre Backhaul Solutions, Data Analysis, Data Products and networks ackhaul Solutions, Voice Products and Services, Services, M2M / Telemetry Systems, Mobile Health Services VoIP Systems and Solutions

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