The station, which will be the first of its kind in the region, will facilitate one-hop connectivity to the cloud from remote sites. This will enable companies to optimise their global business operations smoothly and to accelerate their digitalisation plans, states an press release.
High-speed connectivity
The UAE’s first telecommunications company, e&--formerly known as Etisalat Group--will gain improved connectivity from the trio partnership. The collaboration is expected to result in simplifying the company’s network services’ connection via the SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit constellation--O3b mPOWER. The Luxembourg operator’s operation aims to deliver high-speed connectivity services from tens of megabits to multiple gigabits per second to one site. The Microsoft Azure Cloud and SES’s satellite network will contribute to minimising latency delays.
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“Regardless of their remote locations, customers worldwide will be able to access and experience cloud-based applications seamlessly. Our ground-breaking O3b mPOWER system will provide new levels of cloud-scale satellite connectivity, intelligent automation and managed services and support digitalisation across a wide range of sectors,” said John-Paul Hemingway, chief strategy & product officer at SES.
The O3b mPower will operate in the medium earth orbit around 8,000 km above the earth’s surface and is scheduled to become operational in the first quarter of 2023.