Abstract
Lessons learned from natural or man-made disasters have highlighted the need
to include satellites as a requirement in the recovery equation. Major
disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the Asian Tsunami have also influenced
businesses to plan for continuity of operations through redundant solutions.
For many customers, these markets are akin to an insurance policy: customers
commit funding for a system or service they may not use. Yet, when inevitable
network failures and disasters do occur, quick action to implement alternative
solutions is of the utmost importance to help minimize losses, save lives and
avoid business disruption.
Players in this space see a natural fit for satellites to help businesses and
governments secure the links they need to recover quickly and offer redundant
communication lines. For both disaster recovery and business continuity, the
uptake depends heavily on how well ahead customers plan, if they plan at all.
Unfortunately for most businesses, the top priority is often an increase in IT
capabilities to sustain growth rather than a plan of action for a backup
satellite link in periods of outage. For governments, only sustained public
pressure brings the funding and regulatory will to place satellite products
and services in the hands of emergency response teams.
Nonetheless, more organizations are anticipating their needs for a variety of
emergency situations in order to keep communication alive with employees,
suppliers, clients, media and citizens. They are now estimating the potential
loss of business from network downtime and evaluating what redundant,
reliable, and ubiquitous continuity assistance plans they should implement.
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the emerging satellite-based
disaster recovery and business continuity market and analyzes the growth
potential for backup and redundant solutions delivered via satellite. Both
fixed and mobile satellite services are among the key means to enabling
disaster recovery and business continuity services, as they provide an
"always-on" network redundancy capability. This report assesses the drivers
behind this market, the projected satellite bandwidth and equipment sales,
vertical segments driving growth, types of available satellite solutions, and
applications and system requirements for satellite-based disaster recovery and
business continuity solutions.
Primary questions that will be addressed in this report include:
- What are the drivers in alternative telecommunications systems in times of
disasters or network outages?
- What level of satellite equipment and bandwidth uptake will emerge in
these markets?
- Which vertical segments are most likely to be leading markets for
satellite players?
- Which customer segments are time- or cost-sensitive to network downtime?
- What types of satellite solutions are offered for disaster recovery and
business continuity?
- What are the applications and systems requirements for redundant satellite
systems?
Primary elements of the report include:
- Market Definitions and Overview
- Review of Solutions/Players
- Narrowband and Broadband Mobile Services
- VSAT Services
- Transponder Leases for Fixed Satellite Services
- Requirements by Vertical Segments
- Enterprise
- Civilian/Government
- Military/Defense
- Market Assessment and Forecasts
- Service Revenues
- Transponder Demand
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