Bridging the Broadband Gap via Satellite
This January and February, SSPI has been engaged in the Bridging the Broadband Gap campaign! Now more than ever, humans need connection to thrive. Satellite has the potential to massively shrink the digital divide in a generation. Will we succeed?
Satellite has been used to deliver the internet since the 1990s. Today, technology change, new orbits and new delivery models offer the potential for revolutionary progress in connecting the unconnected. The race is on to deliver more bandwidth to levels never seen before – levels that can meet the needs of millions living beyond the network’s edge while providing an adequate return on the significant investment required.
Over several consecutive weeks, we have examined this topic in a series of podcasts, panels, videos and articles. You’ll have a chance to re-experience all the content of the campaign throughout this issue of The Orbiter, as well new voices with their own stories to tell on the topic. Bridging the Broadband Gap was underwritten by Hughes.
The Post-COVID Enterprise
Broadband connectivity is only the foot of the bridge built by satellite networks. In a world shaken and stirred in ways unimaginable, connectivity has been revealed as THE primary economic enabler and the glue to a connected economy and the corporate enterprise. The “hybrid” workforce and the rise of video and massive uses of data among even the smallest companies has made enterprise broadband increasingly essential.
So where are the gaps and the opportunities within this sector? What changes have taken place within the company that pioneered and made consumable online access?
In this podcast, we take a look at the universe that Hughes created for the current and future enterprise. We speak to Randy Anders, Vice President of North American Sales at Hughes and Vaibhav Magow, Vice President of the International Division at Hughes, who discuss the global trends in satellite broadband, the strategy going forward and how broadband is shaping the world’s most dynamic economy: that of the United States.
This podcast is the first episode of the Bridging the Broadband Gap podcast series. The series is sponsored by Hellas Sat.
Wisconsin – Where Network Uptime Took a Step UP!
For three decades, Wisconsin-based Isotropic Networks has moved the satellite communications industry forward, pushing the speed limits of single and hybrid networks and showing the industry what network uptime should be. Today, it is deploying the most advanced network monitoring and throughput management platform around. In a complex world, they solve the complex satellite communications problems other companies cannot or will not.
In this podcast, we hear from Hank Zbierski, CEO and Chief Catalyst of Isotropic Networks, who co-founded the company in 1992. Hank tells us a bit about Isotropic’s vision of what the satellite industry can be and what the company is doing to create more robust hybrid networks to help provide broadband everywhere.
This podcast is the third episode of the Bridging the Broadband Gap podcast series. The series is sponsored by Hellas Sat.