Dialog gives Middle East higher speed, wider bandwidth
Telenor Satellite (TS) has made its THOR 10-02 Ku-band service available to clients in the Middle East. The satellite service subsidiary of Norwegian telco Telenor, TS runs the service on a Newtec Dialog system from ST Engineering iDirect.
The company is a major supplier of satellite connections to the broadcast, maritime and land-based vertical markets in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EMEA), reports Ship Management International. The introduction of the Dialog service means the company can offer its clients in the Middle East the much faster speeds and bandwidths that were previously only available on its THOR 7 Ka-band services for its maritime and offshore energy customers.
This is particularly important for the company’s land-based oil and gas clients whose high-tech sophisticated operations need the higher performance offered by the Dialog platform, said Ship Management International. The benefits to clients include an efficient, scalable and flexible service which comes with DVB-S2X performance, advanced waveforms, Mx-DMA shared bandwidth return channel technology and more sophisticated quality of service (QoS) and of experience (QoE) features.
“The Dialog system’s coverage into the Middle East at the faster speed, bandwidth and flexibility ensures that our clients will receive the best possible performance from their satellite communications,” said Jan Hetland, Director of Data Services at Telenor Satellite.
The majority of Telenor Satellite’s Middle Eastern clients require a fixed service, but the company also supplies connectivity to offshore facilities and their support vessels, who will need full mobility. TS is offering Middle Eastern businesses a service using a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) for data transmission that fits with many types of data management and high-frequency trading.
The TS VSAT platform can address multiple markets by optimising the usage of infrastructure and satellite capacity, said Chris Insall, Head of Maritime Market Development at ST Engineering iDirect. “With the Dialog platform, Telenor Satellite can select the best transmission technology for its needs, harnessing the industry’s most efficient, dynamic return technology to share satellite capacity more efficiently over a group of satellite terminals,” said Insall.