By Chris Forrester
Nathan de Ruiter, Partner & MD, Novaspace, chaired the SVSW session Capturing Ground System Market Share at the Mountain View Satellite Innovation conference stream.
Ron Faith, President/CEO RBC Signals
Billie Sims, VP/Business Development, North America for Gilat Satellite Networks said that virtualisation was important. Having thousands of terminals deployed and upgrading them was frequently difficult. We need to solve customers problems especially those who want to move away from ‘black boxes’ to software-based solutions.
Don Claussen, CEO, ST Engineering iDirect, agreed and said clients were increasingly interested in getting away from hardware and wanted to move away from the initial CapEx model, and instead want an OpEx model, paying as they grow their business. But the new platform has to incorporate the old technology with very much a seamless migration from one to the other.
Aaron Hawkins, Director, Real-time Earth Ground Service, Viasat Inc.