This event will deliver the third program in the GVF-EMP Roundtable Series, offering a further timely and topical platform for industry and end-user dialogue just as the satellite operator community continues to bring more HTS capability to orbit and to the satellite broadband solutions market. As well as being presented in association with Intelsat, Kymeta, Gilat Satellite Networks, Inmarsat, Comtech EF Data, and C-COM Satellite Systems, the Roundtable is supported by Northern Sky Research (NSR). Additionally, as at the above date, the following organizations are also scheduled as contributors to the Roundtable program (in alphabetical order):
Access Partnership; Brightday Engineering; Cobham SATCOM; Definitive Direction; Ericsson; European Space Agency-ESTEC; Euroconsult; Everard Solutions; Hermes Datacomms; iDirect; MTN; Navarino UK; NetHope; Newtec; Norwegian Space Centre; O3b Networks; Sematron; SkyWare Technologies; Squire Sanders; Telenor.
Further organizations are presently identifying the positioning of their speakers in the program and are added to the line-up on a daily basis.
Conference topics will pertain to the massive growth opportunities for the market for satellite-based broadband solutions, including those arising from a host of new applications, and those increasingly delivered into new market sectors and into the communications on the move market, all of which are being enabled through the deployment of more-highly bandwidth efficient networks that use the advanced in-orbit technologies of HTS systems.
The London Roundtable program will be presented as a series of individual sessions, as follows: Satellite Operator Roundtable; Fixed & Mobile Networking Applications & VARs Roundtable; User Verticals Roundtable; OEM Roundtable; Engineering Roundtable; Ground Infrastructure Roundtable; and, Regulatory & Licensing Roundtable. These sessions will address a wide range of questions and issues
Martin Jarrold, Chief of International Programme Development with GVF, who will act as another of the co-chairs of the The London Roundtable, added, “Such discussion will be premised on a dialogue which will have already set-out the importance of understanding what exactly characterises HTS in terms of—throughput; efficiency; spectrum; coverage; and, architecture. The program will explore the new engineering challenges arising from the new HTS communications technologies and solutions, including new development opportunities in both space segment and a range of ground segment environments. From the orbital perspective, the programme will examine the current and future engineering of high throughput payloads in terms of maximising the potential of multiple spot-beam and frequency reuse architectures. From the ground segment perspective this session will look at infrastructure evolution, and the planning, design, deployment and managing of HTS terminals/earth stations, including antenna technology product quality and installation, HTS-enabled terminals and user expectations, understanding rain fade issues, and device portability.”