Orange Business Services, the business to business arm of France Telecom-Orange, is targeting additional revenues from the Middle East and Africa region through its Satellite VPN services, with an emphasis on the Oil & Gas and Shipping sectors in the region, where satellite solutions play a pivotal role when communicating in remote areas. Orange will be exhibiting at CABSAT 2013: Dubai World Trade Centre Hall – 1 Stand B1-23.
Orange Business Services has already deployed more than 1,200 satellite-based solutions in the MEA region and will exhibit at CABSAT 2013 in Dubai.
Access to high-speed communications has become a prerequisite for any company doing business internationally. The satellite broadband market has proved to be resilient and Northern Sky Research suggests that broadband satellite market global revenues could more than double from $3.3 billion in 2008 to $7.6 billion by 2018.
For enterprises located in remote parts of the globe where conventional terrestrial-based infrastructure is not viable, satellite broadband services provide a vital link to the wider world through VSAT (very small aperture terminal), a two-way satellite dish antenna fixed on the ground or a stabilized maritime antenna at sea.
Orange delivers satellite services to support companies across a broad range of vertical sectors including Oil & Gas, Mining, Government, Shipping and Finance. Orange Business Services customers use satellite solutions depending on their specific needs:
—major credit card companies for terrestrial network backup; —multinationals to increase network availability for running mission-critical applications, and —humanitarian and aid organizations to connect their operations in harsh environments and remote areas.
Orange Business Services’ satellite solution allows access to the Orange IP VPN network. Orange Business Services has a fully integrated terrestrial and satellite network that not only provides a secure high level of availability, but also flexibility so that changes can be made quickly and easily whenever needed.
Michel Verbist, Director, Business Development, Satellite Solutions at Orange Business Services, said: “Network services represent a large proportion of the services we implement in the Middle East and VSAT plays a big role within the region relating to both primary and secondary connectivity. We are now aiming to increase our presence and activity in the Middle East region, and Orange is unique in that we have a large MPLS backbone with in-house satellite services on top. This means that we can provide the same end-to-end service level agreements on satellite services as we do for standard network services.”