Multi-year agreement with Microsoft includes
Azure Orbital integration, SES’s expanded use of Azure and joint
development of new video and data connectivity services
SES today announced plans to significantly advance its digital
transformation across its enterprise, operations and development of
new services for the cloud-scale era. As a cornerstone of the
strategy, SES signed a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to be an
Azure Orbital partner as well as to accelerate and expand the use
of Microsoft Azure across its operations and jointly develop
cloud-based video and data connectivity managed services.
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As an Azure Orbital partner, SES will be co-locating and
managing O3b mPOWER gateways with Microsoft Azure locations so its
customers are always only “one-hop” away from their Azure cloud
services anywhere in the world. In addition, SES customers will
enjoy improved network performance, speed-to-market, flexibility
and scalability to route over Microsoft’s global network and inject
value-added, cloud-based managed services such as enhanced
security, SD-WAN, and other network functions into the service
chain.
Additionally, to support customers migrating to the cloud, SES
has established a corporate cloud cross-functional team responsible
for driving cloud adoption within its own enterprise and
operations, and defining, developing and launching seamless cloud,
content and connectivity solutions across all of the company’s key
market segments. These cloud-based solutions will enable SES
customers to enjoy the agility, flexibility and cost-optimisation
they require in capitalising on new revenue opportunities. Under
the corporate cloud initiative, SES is also moving its IT systems
and operations to cloud-based automated services and
applications.
“With the breadth and scope of Azure’s global platform and
capabilities, Microsoft emerges as an ideal partner in our
accelerated transformation into a cloud-first enterprise delivering
cloud-based video and data managed services,” said JP Hemingway,
CEO of SES Networks who leads SES’s corporate cloud initiative. “We
believe our customers – from dense urban areas to remote and rural
locations around the world – will be best served by a ‘new space’
ecosystem that enables them to be more agile, scale flexibly and
seize new revenue opportunities.”
Key elements of the new agreement include:
Azure Orbital Partner
SES will be the medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite partner for
Microsoft Azure Orbital, a managed service that lets network
operators communicate and control their satellite capacity, process
data and scale their operations – all directly within Azure.
The two companies will make joint investments in Azure Orbital
ground stations for the MEO and Earth Observation segments that SES
will deploy and manage based on its industry expertise, with the
first Earth Observation gateway being located at Quincy, Western
Australia.
In anticipation of its upcoming next-generation MEO
communications system, SES has opted to co-locate multiple O3b
mPOWER telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) systems and data
ground stations with Microsoft Azure edge sites. SES has designed a
cloud-scale operational environment and will leverage Azure Orbital
as a core platform to provide leading data analytics, geospatial
tools, machine learning, and Azure AI services.
In the past few months, the two companies have also demonstrated
cloud connectivity failover scenarios using SES’s O3b MEO
satellites to back-up fiber connections to Azure.
Turnkey “Broadcast-grade” Cloud Video
After successfully demonstrating the technical performance and
business benefits of moving playout video services to Azure in
2019, SES is committed to delivering the entire range of video
services to cloud.
In addition to its cloud playout solution, SES is developing
other turnkey cloud-based solutions that includes cloud encoding,
packaging, streaming and content management all delivered from
Azure. The shift to a cloud-orchestration platform will provide
more flexibility, scalability and agility, therefore improving our
video customers’ experience with a simple end-to-end solution.
Digital Transformation and Cloud Center of Excellence
In addition to simplifying and standardizing its corporate
technology stack across its internal business units on Microsoft
365 and Dynamics 365, SES is working with Microsoft to migrate its
on-premise infrastructure to Azure and build an in-house Cloud
Center of Excellence to implement cloud-first strategies and open
ecosystems for customers. SES is also transforming the automation,
orchestration and agility for its video and network managed
services using platform-as-a-service and other Azure tools.
“Our launch of Azure Orbital and diverse collaboration with SES
underscores our belief that multi-orbit satellite connectivity will
be a key driver for the next phase of Azure’s growth as it opens
new markets and customer locations to cloud services,” said William
Chappell, Vice President, CTO Mission ENG at Microsoft. “In
addition, SES’s cloud-first strategy and focus on industry
standards and automation aligns with our vision for how the world
will connect for work, education, entertainment, healthcare and
more going forward.”
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About SES
SES has a bold vision to deliver amazing experiences everywhere
on earth by distributing the highest quality video content and
providing seamless connectivity around the world. As the leader in
global content connectivity solutions, SES operates the world’s
only multi-orbit constellation of satellites with the unique
combination of global coverage and high performance, including the
commercially-proven, low-latency Medium Earth Orbit O3b system. By
leveraging a vast and intelligent, cloud-enabled network, SES is
able to deliver high-quality connectivity solutions anywhere on
land, at sea or in the air, and is a trusted partner to the world’s
leading telecommunications companies, mobile network operators,
governments, connectivity and cloud service providers,
broadcasters, video platform operators and content owners. SES’s
video network carries over 8,300 channels and has an unparalleled
reach of 367 million households, delivering managed media services
for both linear and non-linear content. The company is listed on
Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges (Ticker: SESG). Further
information is available at: www.ses.com.
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