Eutelsat and OneAccess Win
'Business Service Innovation' Award
for Provision of Advanced Enterprise
Services
5 June,
2013
Eutelsat
Communications and OneAccess
Networks have won the Business
Service Innovation Award at the 2013
Global Telecoms Business (GTB)
Innovation Awards for radically
transforming the landscape for
satellite-based enterprise
communications across Europe, North
Africa and the Middle East.
The Eutelsat/OneAccess platform
offers a real benefit to businesses
and organisations which have remote
sites, but which rely on consistent
and secure network connectivity,
such as local government, banking
and retail outlets, petrol stations
and hotels. Under this new model,
businesses need only a single
contract with a single partner to
cover sites across Europe, the
Middle East, North Africa, and
Western parts of Russia. For
operators, the KA-SAT service
enables them to extend their network
offer where they currently have weak
DSL coverage.
Jean-François Fenech, CEO of
Eutelsat Broadband, comments: "Over
the last two years, the KA-SAT High
Throughput Satellite has changed the
paradigm for satellite broadband by
driving down the per megabit cost of
connectivity. Through this new
solution, developed with OneAccess,
Eutelsat continues to unlock the
potential of this powerful all
Ka-band platform with enhanced
products for professional markets.
The most advanced usages of
high-speed broadband private
networks are now possible, enabling
new opportunities, in particular
fast implementation of integrated
backup as well as terrestrial and
satellite link combinations to
increase the available bandwidth, in
highly secure environments. We are
honoured to see this new milestone
recognised by the GTB Awards."
Bertrand Meis, CEO at OneAccess,
adds: "It is a great achievement to
be recognised among our telecoms
industry peers for enabling radical
changes to business service
provision through our partnership
with Eutelsat. The satellite
solution provides a reliable back-up
to the terrestrial connections of
businesses and organisations, since
the OneAccess router can
auto-failover between the two.
Alternatively, businesses can
dedicate, for example, business
traffic on terrestrial connection
and Internet traffic via satellite
to enhance the business application
performance against Internet
traffic. It also delivers secure
Internet access to remote areas with
slow or no Internet access.The
combination of the KA-SAT
bandwidth-based service and the
OneAccess router dramatically
reduces the total cost of ownership
and operations for business
customers, making it affordable for
SMEs as well. The service, which
targets business applications and
provides a new reference for quality
of experience, completely changes
the ROI for satellite-based
communications for businesses."
