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in the response of the global satellite communications industry to demands for frequency spectrum to support the requirement for greatly increased Internet bandwidth from a wide range of end-user communities, O3B Networks has announced that it has taken the leadership position in the line-up of sponsors for the GVF Ka Roundtable Assembly 2012: Satellite Service Provision Game-Changer in Action, which will take place in London on 5th & 6th December 2012.

In making the announcement O3B Networks Vice President of Product Development, David Burr, commented “The GVF Ka Roundtable Assembly is a perfect forum to debate the role of Ka-band today. Consumer bandwidth demands in every region are skyrocketing. It just isn’t possible to add enough capacity using C- and Ku-band since the orbital slots are largely full. Ka-band provides enough capacity to satisfy the tremendous growth in bandwidth that can be seen from IP trunking, mobile backhaul and enterprise, both today and in the future.”

According to predictive analysis by Northern Sky Research (NSR), global on-orbit high throughput satellite (HTS) supply will conservatively reach 1.6 Tbps in 2021 – up from 162 Mbps in 2011 – and over the same 100-year period, global HTS capacity demand will increase 17x. Global HTS capacity leasing revenues will exceed US$2 billion in 2021, up from US$163 million as of the end of 2011.

Against this market backdrop, representatives of O3B will join a line-up of speakers from a wide-range of organizations including other Roundtable sponsors Inmarsat, Avanti Communications, iDirect, and Hughes which, as of the date of this release, will feature the following:

Access Partnership (Nina Beebe, Director for Emerging Markets), Advantech Wireless (Jack Buechler, Regional Vice President, Sales), ArabSat (Speaker Name & Job Title tbc), ASC Signal (Speaker Name & Job Title tbc), Avanti Communications (Matthew O’Connor, Chief Operating Officer; Kumar Singarajah, Director, Regulatory Affairs, Avanti Communications; Simon Barrett, Head of Channel and Proposition Development), AvL Technologies (Ken Westall, Director of Programmes), C-COM Satellite Systems (Drew Klein, Director, Business Development), Comtech Xicom (Speaker Name & Job Title tbc), Definitive Direction (Elisabeth Tweedie, Founder & Chief Executive), European Space Agency (Michèle Le Saux, Head of Ground Segment Technology Section), Gilat Satellite Networks (Doron Eli nav, Vice President, Strategic Accounts), GVF (Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme Development), Harris CapRock (Diana Goody, Vice President, International Development), Hughes (Dave Rehbehn, Senior Director, International Marketing), iDirect (David Bettinger, Chief Technology Officer; Jonathan Barter, Director, Product Management), Inmarsat (Mark Steel, Director, Product Development & Services), Intelsat (Jean-Philippe Gillet, Vice President, Sales, Europe & Middle East) Northern Sky Research (Christopher Baugh, President), O3B Networks (David Burr, Vice President, Product Development), SatProf (Pete Zilliox, Co-Owner), Sematron (Dave Nicoll, Business Development Manager), Squire, Sanders (Carlos Nalda, Telecommunications Attorney), Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (Jan Hetland, Director, Datacomms Services, Technology Division), ViaSat (Chris Leber, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Commercial Networks; Bob Wilson, Executive Director).

To learn more about the speakers go here.

Commenting on Inmarsat’s support for the London Roundtable Assembly, Mark Steel, Director, Product Development & Services, Global Xpress...

Day One of the Roundtable Assembly will be chaired by Elisabeth Tweedie, Founder & Chief Executive of Definitive Direction...

An Avanti Communications spokesperson, commenting on the company’s support for the Assembly

From iDirect, Chief Technology Officer David Bettinger added his support

In giving its support for the event, Hughes’ Senior Director for International Marketing, Dave Rehbehn...

With higher throughput having become of the utmost strategic importance to the satellite industry, and to a multitude of satellite service users, a range of key subject areas have so far been identified for inclusion in the Roundtable programme coverage, including:

• Ka: The Technology & Market Context: The Satellite Market – Past, Present, Future; Ka, High Throughput, High Capacity – What Does It All Mean? Why Now? Defining ‘HTS’ (High Throughput Satellites; including analysis from Northern Sky Research.
• Satellite Operator & Provider Forum: Global Operators & Encompassing the Global Ka Space; The Ka Global Constellation; Regional Operator Ka Initiatives; Ka: New Opportunities from Revolution (or Evolution?) The Hybridized L and GX Package; C band, Ku band... What & Where Now? HTS: Operator & Service Providers Development of Multi-band Service Strategies; HTS: Beyond the Consumer Play; High Capacity: Why Not All Ka & High Throughput is Alike! This session will include the perspectives of O3B, Inmarsat, Avanti Communications, iDirect, Hughes, ViaSat, Intelsat, Arabsat, and Telenor.
• User Verticals Focus: Enterprise Services; Government Services; Maritime Sector; Oil & Gas Sector; NGOs in Disaster Recovery & Development; Internet Service Providers; Satellite News Gathering; Airline Operators/Rail Operators; featuring contributions from Avanti Communications, and Harris CapRock, amongst others.
• OEM Forum: Equipment Design & Technical Innovation; Equipment Manufacture & Economies of Scale; HTS-enabled Terminals & New User Expectations; with analysis provided by iDirect, Hughes, Gilat Satellite Networks, and others.
• Ka Engineering Forum: Planning, Designing, Deploying & Managing Ka band Ground Terminals/Earth Stations; Engineering the future of the Ka Satellite Payload (and Beyond!); Rain Fade: Understanding the Issues; with perspectives from O3B, Inmarsat, SatProf, ASC Signal, and Comtech Xicom.
• Ground Infrastructure Focus: Antenna Technologies; Application/Market Specific Antenna Design; Antenna Installation Training; Device Portability; Ground Infrastructure Evolution for High Performance Satellites; including contributions from Inmarsat, iDirect, AvL Technologies, and C-COM Satellite Systems.
• Networking Applications Forum: National & Multi-National Networks; New Mobile Terrestrial BWA Backhaul: beyond GSM & 3G to LTE & 4G; Rural Telecommunications; PSTN infrastructure Extension/Telco; Trunking; Broadband Internet Access; Utilities & M2M; Advanced Format TV Broadcast/IPTV/Edgecasting; featuring, amongst others organizations, Hughes, and ViaSat.
• Regulatory & Licensing Focus: Regulating for Ka band; Regulation for the Small Terminal/Mobile Terminal; The Ka band Licensing Environment; with analysis by Access Partnership, Squire Sanders, and Avanti Communications.

“As of November 2011, new satellites with ‘High Throughput’ capability already numbered around 30 in geosynchronous (GEO) orbit alone, and satellite operators have announced plans for additional ‘High Throughput’ systems that will see around 40 more satellites in GEO, together with constellations of other systems in medium earth orbit (MEO) and low Earth orbit (LEO),” said Martin Jarrold, GVF’s Chief of International Programme Development, and chair of Day Two of the Ka Roundtable Assembly. He added, “We are particularly pleased that the European Space Agency will be joining the event dialogue. A representative of ESA’s Ground Segment Technology Section will set-out the Agency ‘Roadmap’ on the future of developments in Ka band.”

Paul Stahl, Managing Partner of Event Management Partners (EMP), also commented that “The title Roundtable has been chosen for this event to reflect the organizers’ intention to hold ‘an assembly where parties meet on equal terms for discussion’, a format designed to facilitate a multi-faceted dialogue with as many perspectives represented as possible.

“We intend to bring together a diversity of specialists, including end-users from key vertical markets (oil & gas, maritime, disaster management (NGOs) and broadcast), satellite operators, services and equipment providers, OEMs and hardware manufacturers, researchers and legal/regulatory specialists, together with re-sellers and value added re-sellers (VARs).” Mr Stahl added, “In order to facilitate access to the event programme to as wide an audience as possible, we are pleased to be working with t he Broadcasting & Satellite Network, the United Kingdom affiliate of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), in providing a reduced registration rate for the Ka Roundtable Assembly for all accredited SSPI members. The discount to SSPI members will be 25 percent.”