Closing the Business Case on New Broadband Mobility Initiatives · 1 Closing the Business Case on New Broadband Mobility Initiatives Connectivity 2015 Air, Sea, Surface & Rail: Evolving

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Closing the Business Case

on New Broadband Mobility Initiatives

Connectivity 2015

Air, Sea, Surface & Rail: Evolving the “New” New Verticals

London

20 February 2015

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Where next with OTM bandwidth?

Data

Rate

Year

1995 1999 2005 2014 2016

2.4kbps

64kbps

492kbps

100Mbps

240Mbps

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Agenda

• Why the focus on Air, Sea, Surface & Rail?

• Segmenting the market

• Where do you need your network?

• With how much capacity?

• Design decisions

• Sharing the vision and teaming with the Eco-System

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Why the Mobility focus?

28% CAGR

Mobile VSAT: 32% CAGR

66% CAGR

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Segmenting the market

Government

Rail

Aviation

Maritime

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What’s your Geographic Baseline today?

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Commercial Aviation Traffic is not evenly distributed

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…nor is Maritime Traffic

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Intelsat EpicNG focuses on dense areas of operation

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Intelsat Fleet Evolution

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Upload Throughput ComparisonFor Global HTS Networks in a 2,000km Zone

EpicNG is designed to handle a

variety of remote terminals across

the vertical market spectrums –

operating concurrently to various

customer CIRs and Mbps service

plansOther Upcoming

Global HTS Networks

Total = 270MbpsTotal = 5Mbps

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What is a High Throughput Satellite?

A high throughput satellite (HTS) is a satellite that has many times the throughput of a

traditional FSS satellite for the same amount of allocated frequency on orbit.

These satellites take advantage of frequency reuse and multiple spot beams to increase

throughput and reduce the cost per bit delivered, regardless of spectrum choice.

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Components of HTS Design Decisions

All of these components impact the business model for satellite

design and are driven by go-to-market business criteria

HTS

Throughput

Architecture

Spectrum

Efficiency

Coverage

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Technical Element #1: Throughput

• Throughput is the speed of information delivery (bits/sec), driven by:

– Bandwidth (MHz) = The “size of the pipe”, increased by frequency reuse

– Efficiency (Bits/sec per MHz) = Amount of error-free content in the pipe

• Maximizing aggregate satellite bandwidth or maximizing individual user

throughput are often conflicting technical goals.

– There is a trade-off, and the right answer depends on the business applications

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Technical Element #2: Efficiency

• Efficiency is the amount of error-free information to the user (bits/Hz)

• Spot beams drive efficiency up (more power), but close proximity of same frequency spot beams

increases interference and brings efficiency down.

• Greater distance between same frequency spot beams will increase efficiency but reduce

frequency reuse and total satellite throughput. So what is best?

• This is a trade-off: Serving more users with consumer-grade quality (lower efficiency) or fewer users

with carrier-grade quality (CIR, higher efficiency). This is a decision that will depend on the

operator’s business plan.

Four-color reuse Eight-color reuse

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Technical Element #3: Coverage

200 miles 600 miles 1,000 miles

Ka-band

Ku-band

C-band

• The size of beams formed by a

standard satellite antenna size

depends on frequency

and

• The number of beams is

constrained by satellite

resources (power, mass, space)

• The size of the targeted

coverage is a major driver of

frequency selection

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Technical Element #3: Coverage

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Technical Element #4: ArchitectureHTS designs may allow for closed or open network architectures.

Open architectures are compatible with many network topologies:

User beam

User beam

Gateway

User or gateway

beam

User or gateway

beam User or gateway

beam

Star Mesh Loopback

…and with a variety of network technologies:

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Technical Element #5: Spectrum

• HTS can be developed in any

frequency band

• The frequency selection is driven

by many considerations:

• Coverage and beam size

• Atmospheric conditions in the region that

is being served

• Availability of a robust ecosystem of

ground technologiesC

Ku Ka

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Business Applications Drive HTS Design Decisions

Business Applications

Throughput

Architecture

Spectrum

Efficiency

Coverage

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The Pillars of Security

Confidentiality Availability Integrity

Deflecting persistent threats in order to keep our customers’ transmissions safe,

maintain availability of services and preserve the integrity of our networks

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Intelsat vs. the Industry

Security Policy & Organization

Asset Management

HR Security

Comm. & Operations Management

Access Control

Systems Acquisition, Dev. & Maintenance

Incident Management

Business Continuity Management

Compliance

Industry Intelsat

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Intelsat EpicNG EcosystemOpen Architecture, Unrivaled Choice, Greater Flexibility

and lower risk

Choice of

Service

ProvidersChoice of Platform

Choice of H/WTo meet specific

aero/maritime

comms needs

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Thank You

Questions?