SES Networks Expands Partnership With Orange to Enhance Maritime Services
03 Agosto 2021 - 8:50AM
Business Wire
Satellite-based network services further enable
rapid digitalisation for Orange merchant shipping customers
Orange maritime customers will now be able to accelerate their
digital transformation with higher-capacity satellite connectivity
services provided jointly by SES Networks and Orange.
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With this innovative agreement, Orange will integrate its own
global infrastructure with the global network coverage powered by
SES Networks’ Skala Global Platform. Together it will enable Orange
maritime customers to cost-effectively scale up their bandwidth
with seamless, ubiquitous and global services. This will ensure
they can implement new technologies onboard that take advantage of
IoT and AI, as well as edge and cloud applications.
The combination of the Orange secured and digital network
infrastructure and SES Networks’ Skala Global Platform -- a
next-generation technology platform which provides worldwide
coverage via multiple geostationary satellites and gateways
interconnected by a global terrestrial network -- will deliver
reliable, high-performance broadband services everywhere, from
developed markets to the hardest-to-reach places on Earth. This
confirms the Orange ambition to become a key player offering
solutions for the maritime sector.
The maritime industry is on the threshold of rapid technological
change, challenging shipping companies to incorporate a wide range
of digital solutions to remain competitive. Shipping fleet
operators need to implement automation and digitalisation of
onboard processes to ensure optimum performance, efficiency and
reliability.
This latest agreement further strengthens the partnership that
the Orange Group and SES Networks have established in the last few
years. Orange has leveraged SES’ innovative O3b satellite
constellation operating in medium earth orbit (MEO) as well as SES’
geostationary satellites to deliver global fibre-like, low-latency
services to their mining customers. Orange has also been using
SES’s MEO and GEO services to provide international connectivity
where needed and to deploy cellular services across remote areas of
Africa. Orange is also the first announced network operator to
adopt O3b mPOWER, SES’s next-generation MEO system, which is
planned for commercial service availability in the second half of
2022.
“At Orange, we continue to believe that satellite is a
future-oriented technology and that the many recent innovations in
this industry will give it a growing place in the telco area,
whether in Africa, in more developed areas such Europe or North
America, or in specific industries such as maritime. This is why we
are glad to reinforce our partnership with SES, as it will add a
new component to our overall mission at Orange, that of building
intelligent, open and innovative networks in order to support the
digital transformation of our business customers and provide access
to digital usage to the largest number of people,” said Jean-Luc
Vuillemin, Executive Vice President, Orange International Networks
Infrastructures and Services. “With the commercial maritime sector
seeking global and high-quality connectivity as it enters the next
stage of digitalisation to implement more AI and other automated
technologies, expanding our partnership with SES is fitting as we
will be opening the door to more exciting innovations for our
maritime customers.”
“We have been working closely together with the Orange Group the
last couple of years to provide high-performance connectivity
services worldwide to their customers in many different industries.
As our partner, they were the first major telco player to embrace
our upcoming O3b mPOWER and now collaborating together on our Skala
Global Platform, SES will deliver new levels of connectivity,
creating seamless, reliable global coverage for those in the
maritime industry. Our flexible bandwidth solution removes any
barriers that might be holding shipowners back from realising the
full value when it comes to their digital investments,” said
John-Paul Hemingway, CEO of SES Networks.
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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 8,400 channels and has an unparalleled
reach of 361 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.
About Orange
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications
operators with sales of 42.3 billion euros in 2020 and 139,000
employees worldwide at 30 June 2021, including 80,000 employees in
France. The Group has a total customer base of 263 million
customers worldwide at 30 June 2021, including 218 million mobile
customers and 22 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is
present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of
global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies
under the brand Orange Business Services. In December 2019, the
Group presented its new "Engage 2025" strategic plan, which, guided
by social and environmental accountability, aims to reinvent its
operator model. While accelerating in growth areas and placing data
and AI at the heart of its innovation model, the Group will be an
attractive and responsible employer, adapted to emerging
professions.
Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New
York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).
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