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InSAT

SatADSL Launches Flagship
Platform-as-a-Service In Asia
New Point of Presence (PoP) will allow operators in the region
to connect to local teleports, removing additional latency...

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atADSL, a provider of professional
VSAT services via satellite, has
announced it has successfully launched
a new Point of Presence (PoP) in
Singapore as it continues to expand its
global footprint.
The additional PoP will replicate
SatADSL's European and African
model, giving operators access to
SatADSL's
Cloud-based
Service
Delivery Platform (C-SDP) - which
enables operators to offer satellite
SatADSL's PoP will enable
communication service providers in Asia
to access its cloud-based PaaS solution

Thierry Eltges,
CEO, SatADSL

services via the cloud - without adding
extra latency on top of the inherent
latency of geostationary satellite
communications.
"Based on our deep experience of the
African market and taking into account

that the Asian market faces similar
challenges like vast geographical
areas, various users requirements
and diverse populations, we are
now making our service available
to operators based in Asia," said

Thierry Eltges, Co-Founder and CEO
at SatADSL. "This will unleash a
number of new possibilities including
the ability to offer pre-paid voucherbased services and operate as a Virtual
Network Operator."
The Singapore PoP follows SatADSL's
first appearance at CommunicAsia,
where it showcased its innovative
cloud-based satellite communication
solution, the C-SDP.
SatADSL's C-SDP is a complete OSS/
BSS, carrier-grade, fully redundant
platform in the cloud which allows
operators to easily outsource satellite
services with no upfront investment.
"CommunicAsia provided us with an
invaluable chance to showcase our
first-of-its-kind solution to both the
communications industry and the
Asian market," said Eltges. "As we
begin to expand our operations in the
Asian market, it has been invaluable to
receive such an enthusiastic reception
as we show local operators what
SatADSL can do for them and how we
can help improve the profitability of
their businesses. Operators can greatly
accelerate go-to-market thanks to the
complete suite of ready-to-use tools
available on our C-SDP at all levels of
the value chain."

SES Selects Amdocs NFV Solution

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mdocs, a leading provider
of software and services to
communications and media companies,
will provide leading global satellite
operator SES with its Amdocs Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) solution
to modernise and automate its network
platforms in the cloud, in an open,
software-centric way.
This will enable SES to more rapidly
build network solutions that are
powered by its fleet of MEO and GEO
satellites, and extensive ground
infrastructure to provide seamless
scalable connectivity services to
underserved markets, including rural
areas, out at sea or in the skies, as well
as to areas affected by disasters.
"SES's vision is to make satellitebased networks a seamless and wholly
integrated part of a global, cloud-scale
network ecosystem, and implementing
standards-based orchestration is
key to our network modernisation
strategy," said JP Hemingway, CEO
of SES Networks, SES's data-centric
business unit. "To help ensure we
succeed in this journey, we are
evolving to an open, virtualised and
cloud-optimised network architecture,

with Microsoft and Amdocs as key
partners in this journey with their
portfolio
of
network
solutions
aligned with ONAP (Open Networking
Automation Platform), MEF (Metro
Ethernet Forum) and a broad
ecosystem of enabling technologies."
Amdocs has announced an expanded
strategic agreement with Microsoft
to help CSPs modernise, automate
and digitise as they grow beyond
connectivity to industry accelerators
such as IoT, artificial intelligence and
media and entertainment.
This builds on Amdocs and Microsoft's

existing collaborative agreement to
enable ONAP on Microsoft Azure. SES
is the first customer to use Amdocs
NFV for SD-WAN on Azure.
SES will use the Amdocs NFV
orchestration solution to drive an
automated, virtualised service creation
and delivery environment.
This will enable SES to readily serve
its broadcast, telecom, corporate
and government customers with
applications and technologies such
as SD-WAN, WAN optimisation, high
security, Unified Threat Management
(UTM) and other flexible and scalable

cloud-based network services, all
of which can be easily configured,
customised and verified over the
highly scalable Microsoft Azure public
cloud infrastructure. Furthermore,
this solution will seamlessly manage
MEO, GEO and other terrestrial WAN
connections to provide customers with
a single managed service.
"SES is taking steps to leverage
its leadership position in satellite
communications to drive significant
business growth through simplification
of the network, deeper customer
engagement,
increasing
overall
network availability through intentbased traffic management, and rapid
deployment of new capabilities and
services to support growing bandwidth
and security requirements," said
Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President
of Media, Network and Technology,
Amdocs.
"Together with the Amdocs NFV
experience and the Microsoft Azure
multi-vendor ecosystem, SES can
quickly introduce a rich set of
innovative new services that can be
discovered, deployed, and scaled on
demand."
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