Singtel launches Paragon-S
Singtel
launched Paragon-S, a digital aggregation and
orchestration platform that will empower
satellite operators to digitally transform and
leverage the newest digital technologies, at the
global Satellite 2024 Conference & Exhibition in
Washington, D.C. today.
Paragon-S is
the satellite industry’s first all-in-one
orchestration platform that can help operators
to enhance resiliency and optimise cost by
integrating multiple orbit satellites with
terrestrial fixed and mobile network
connectivity services and unlock new streams of
revenue through edge computing and AI.
Paragon-S
was developed in-house and based on Singtel’s
patented and award-winning orchestration
platform Paragon, which has been deployed in
five countries including Singapore, Thailand,
Spain, Taiwan and Indonesia to help telcos
accelerate the monetisation of their networks,
compute and applications.
Paragon-S
will enable satellite operators to offer edge
computing to enterprise customers who adopt
satellite connectivity to host mission-critical
apps, at on-premise cloud at remote sites or
multi-tenanted edge cloud at gateway locations
the operators own. Enterprises can seamlessly
switch applications between the satellite
operators’ edge cloud and public clouds based on
their business requirements.
The platform
will also unlock new partnerships between
satellite operators and terrestrial fixed and
mobile network operators to offer a bundled
solution to enterprises, allowing them to switch
among terrestrial fixed and 5G or 4G mobile
network, and GEO, MEO and LEO satellites to
optimise cost, resiliency and connectivity
performance.
Through the
Paragon ecosystem, satellite operators can sell
turnkey solutions bundling connectivity, compute
and applications for use cases in various
satellite verticals such as oil and gas, mining,
maritime and aviation industries, and move up
the value chain as digital service providers.
Mr Bill
Chang, CEO of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit,
said, “Rapid advancements in technology are
reshaping the future of satellite
communications. Much like the telco industry,
the satellite industry needs a multi-network
orchestration platform to make it faster and
easier to digitally transform and deploy
industry use cases at speed and at scale in a
number of countries. Paragon-S has been shaped
by what we learned from our Paragon platform to
facilitate the transformation of telcos to
digital techcos. The introduction of Paragon-S
will empower satellite operators to become
platform companies for enterprises. We will
build on our existing ecosystem with partners to
help operators develop and accelerate time to
market for their use cases.”
An
all-in-one orchestration platform for the
satellite industry Satellite operators will be
able to leverage Paragon-S to enable multi-orbit
switching for contiguous coverage in oceans and
remote areas, enhanced connectivity resilience,
backhaul optimisation between terrestrial and
satellite networks, satellite data pool
consumption with analytics, cost savings and
more.
Additionally,
Singtel satellite operations will deploy
Paragon-S to help manage and orchestrate its
multiple orbit satellites and terrestrial mobile
network services to achieve greater efficiencies
and lower costs while enabling new services to
help customers in their digitalisation journey.
Building a robust satellite eco-system Singtel
is currently in talks with several satellite
operators globally to offer trials for Paragon-S
in their respective markets.
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