Satellite Communications: Status and Trends

DURATION: ONE DAY
COURSE NO.: 3030

The satellite communications industry is experiencing major expansion. This seminar covers the entire business, which includes regulatory and financial issues, vendors, operators and service providers it includes but is not focused on engineering and technology. Established GEO systems are profitable and growing, and there are strong winds of privatization throughout the world. There are many GEO and LEO systems being launched for a variety of new services by satellite. The promise of Ka-band is a very exciting prospect for all segments of the industry worldwide.

COURSE MATERIALS:
Include extensive notes and reference materials.

Business and service developers who want to reach out to the world with products and services. Architects and planners for telecommunications needing to know of alternative systems and sources. Attorneys needing an understanding of satellite systems and risks. Financial analysts and telecom executives who need to know the global participants, the opportunities and the risks involved in regulatory procedures, construction and launches. Engineers and engineering managers wishing to learn of business trends in the satellite industry.

Definitions of new services and systems: What is new? What is proven? Traditional applications, and many innovative ones too! The trends are evident: smaller, faster, cheaper and more. A catalog of satellite systems worldwide: existing, planned, conceptual. Important technologies, equipment and software. Companies participating in the satellite industry: USA, other regions of the world. Equipment manufacturers, launchers, service providers, satellite operators. Risks in setting up a global or regional satellite system: frequency allocations and sharing are among the top.

1. Applications for Satellite Communications.
   

   Overview of established applications in communications, introduction of new applications and upcoming services.

2. Trends in Satellite Communications.
   

   Established GEO systems are growing there are many new systems, new launch vehicles, new purchase arrangements, privatization of PTTs, international alliances, partnerships, technological advances.

3. Satellite Systems: Existing and Planned.
   

   Fixed Satellite Service (FSS), Broadcast Satellite Service (BSS), Mobile Satellite Service (MSS), Frequency Bands international, regional, national systems in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe, North and South America, Middle East and the U.S.

4. Technologies and Equipment for Satellite Communications.
   

   Brief introductions of compression, encryption and privacy coding, channel coding, modems, antennas and earth stations propagation and modeling, multiple access, switching and routing, demand assignment.

5. Participants in the Satellite Communications Industry.
   

   Satellite manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, launchers, satellite system operators, service providers.

6. Risks in the Satellite Communications Industry.
   

   Funding problems, regulatory hurdles, spectrum allocations, coordinations, launch failures or problems, interference, out-of-specification, service and equipment standards, in-orbit failures.