{"id":67213,"date":"2017-09-19T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/low-cost-bandwidth-opens-new-opportunities-for-globecomm\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T10:11:55","slug":"low-cost-bandwidth-opens-new-opportunities-for-globecomm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/low-cost-bandwidth-opens-new-opportunities-for-globecomm\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Cost Bandwidth Opens New Opportunities for Globecomm"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The influx of High Throughput Satellites (HTS) and new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations is changing the economics of capacity in the satellite industry, drastically cutting the cost of bandwidth and driving newfound demand for broadband IP networks. To take advantage of the better pricing and new applications now made feasible by satellite, Globecomm <\/strong>will continue to emphasize services that target bandwidth management, Paul Scardino, senior vice president of sales operations\/engineering and marketing, told Via Satellite<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is more innovation happening on the space segment side of the satellite industry today than at any time during my 25 plus years in the industry,\u201d Scardino said. \u201cCommunication systems have taken the largest leaps in trying to keep up with the demands new use cases are placing on the network at large \u2026 The challenge is to support new connectivity requirements and uses of spectrum, while at the same time not diminishing the capacities or services that are currently in place \u2014 for example, video, voice, and IP data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Globecomm operates across a gamut of verticals including government, broadcast, energy, and maritime \u2014 all of which will provide opportunity for growth, Scardino said. On the broadcast side, Globecomm is focusing its efforts on Over-the-Top (OTT) content services as that pocket of the market explodes in regions across the globe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Paul Scardino, Globecomm senior vice president of sales operations\/engineering and marketing. Photo: Globecomm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cTraditionally, OTT has been broken down as Video-on-Demand (VOD) and live, but live is now diverging into two separate categories: live-event \u2014 also known as pay-per-event or pay-per-view \u2014 and live-linear distribution, offering traditional broadcast channels via OTT delivery,\u201d Scardino said.<\/p>\n

Exemplifying Globecomm\u2019s interest in live-event services, the company recently took part in streaming the highly anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor alongside its customer NeuLion<\/strong>. The event was the highest grossing pay-per-view boxing match ever broadcast and was watched by millions of viewers in 180 countries, according to Scardino. Globecomm received and aggregated the broadcast feeds from the event, then provided those signals directly to NeuLion, which owns the rights to stream the fight globally.<\/p>\n

Delivering media content and other critical data to troops around the world is a growth driver for the government vertical as well, and Globecomm looks to provide solutions both for small team deployments and enterprise-level divisions \u201cnumbering into the thousands,\u201d Scardino said. He described the amount of data that needs to be processed to ensure military operations maintain efficiency as \u201cstaggering.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDeveloping how a battle element \u2014 whether that be a soldier or battalion, or a sailor or battle group \u2014 ingests, processes, and analyzes all the data that is being made available into an actionable offense or defense is the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s<\/strong> (DOD) greatest task. Furthermore, this actionable data needs to be disseminated across organizations, agencies and units in a timely, non-political manner to maximize its usefulness. This requires the elimination of stovepipes and parochial organizational boundaries,\u201d Scardino explained.<\/p>\n

Within the context of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Globecomm is focused on facilitating data collection, transport, aggregation, storage and application development to assist the DOD, Scardino said.<\/p>\n

As for the energy sector, Scardino believes it has entered a growth phase that will last for several years into the future. Globecomm\u2019s role will be to help oil and gas companies increase operational effectiveness by improving their Internet of Things (IOT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) capabilities. \u201cOnshore well field equipment monitoring and in-land pipeline monitoring will be the top two applications for wireless IOT [and] M2M in the oil and gas industry, with opportunities to provide end-to-end solutions,\u201d he said. \u201cThere will also be strong focus on environmental safety in the coming years with new regulations and requirements that can be more effectively complied with using wireless IOT\/M2M technology. Remote automation, control and monitoring are also key ingredients in order to make it cost-effective to extract, transport and distribute emerging oil and gas products including Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and unconventional resources such as shale gas.<\/p>\n

With all of these value opportunities ripe for the taking, Globecomm will continue to pursue a collaborative approach for some verticals, such as the partnership it formed with AT&T <\/strong>last year to combine satellite and cellular connectivity for IOT. While Scardino did not specify any deals currently in the works, he noted that for Industrial IOT (IIOT) especially, which requires continuous connectivity, communications networks will need to interoperate across a span of devices and technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe networks that support the delivery of services to mobile vehicles, vessels, crafts and, of course, fixed assets will be a partnership between cellular carriers, satellite service providers and device manufactures that will be able to manage the integration of these devices, networks and applications into viable solutions,\u201d Scardino said. \u201cThe only way the promises of the explosive growth of IOT come true is through continuous connectivity delivered by a partnership that integrates many pieces into what looks and acts like a seamless whole.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The influx of High Throughput Satellites (HTS) and new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations is changing the economics of capacity in the satellite industry, drastically cutting the cost of bandwidth and driving newfound demand for broadband IP networks. To take advantage of the better pricing and new applications now made feasible by satellite, Globecomm will continue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}