broadband
satellite markets
10th edition
A Worldwide Analysis of Industry Trends and Market
Forecasts from 2010 to 2020
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S AT E L L i T E C O M M U N i C AT i O N S From spacecraft manufacturing
and launching to the applications that drive capacity supply and demand
B R O A D C A S T i N g & D i g i TA L M E D i A Video is the core and foundation of the industry, typically accounting for 60% or more of total revenues
h y B R i D & E M E R g i N g A P P L i C AT i O N S
NSR’s leading edge coverage has shown that satellite is more than ever intertwined with the fabric of terrestrial networks
C O M M E R C i A L S PA C E Beyond telecommunictions services, Commercial Space presents promising opportunities for the space industry
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VSAT networking and broadband access continue
gains; a turning point for IP trunking
The global economic crisis impacted the VSAT networking market in most regions of the world through a large part of 2010; however, the worst is now behind in nearly every region, and the industry is looking ahead to growth and new challenges in the years to come. Classic verticals like banking and lottery are almost in a “semi-renaissance” period, while government-backed rural inclusion, school network and USO initiatives continue to see strong growth in many developing markets. This NSR report describes these vertical markets in detail and presents their drivers and challenges.
New in this Edition
• O3b trunking & backhaul forecasts • Trunking & Backhaul forecasts separated • Narrowband VSAT projections includedThe satellite broadband access segment chalked up solid gains in 2010 with a net increase of some 141,000 subscribers worldwide for the year. Yet, a new era is imminent for these services with the successful launches of KA-SAT and Hylas-1 in 2010 and the expected launches of ViaSat-1, Jupiter and
YahSat-1B in the coming 18 months. And beyond this, concrete
endeavors are in the works for satellite broadband access services in Australia, Russia, Latin America and elsewhere.
NSR continues to be the leading analyst firm assessing and forecasting the satellite broadband access market in terms of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) services. This analysis continues to be extended into VSAT networking and backhaul segments for the overall broadband satellite markets, giving professionals a deep knowledge of the market, from the big picture to detailed information per region and per technology.
The IP trunking market had its turning point in 2010 and its last strongholds, notably in Africa, are now under siege from powerful market forces. Fiber and undersea cable deployments are eating away at the base of IP trunking demand, first swallowing the largest links and then progressively eyeing smaller and smaller satellite trunking plays. This NSR reports provides a detailed forecast for IP trunking, per region and per band, allowing every IP trunking player to have access to the necessary information to deal with this ongoing change.
The satellite backhaul situation is just the opposite. Backhaul is gradually adopting IP
technology, and TDMA deployments are expanding services to ever more rural and remote locations allowing a profitable business even on the smallest of traffic demand. Further, USO
obligations are also behind the expansion of backhaul in a number of countries such as Brazil
and Indonesia.
Forecasting O3b trunking and backhaul demand and ...
The finalization of funding for the O3b constellation through to its planned launch of commercial services in 2013 essentially seals the deal for this player and means the industry must come to terms with the future impact of O3b on market demand. Following on work done
in NSR’s Wireless Backhaul Via Satellite, 4th Edition study, NSR has developed a new forecast for
uptake of IP trunking services using O3b capacity and combined this with its O3b demand
forecast for the backhaul market in order to offer to the industry the most comprehensive
assessment of the impact of O3b on the market.
This latest edition of NSR’s Broadband Satellite Markets report assesses O3b uptake within the industry and provides a forecast of O3b capacity for provisioning of IP trunking and backhaul services. Further, O3b is fully integrated into NSR’s sites, service revenues, and customer premises equipment (CPE) sales for the trunking and backhaul projections. This is of course
in addition to highly detailed, region-specific sites/subscriber, service revenues, customer
premises revenues, and capacity demand projections for each traditional application studied
in this report.
... inclusion of narrowband VSAT networking for the most complete view of
the market available
NSR has long forecasted the narrowband VSAT networking market within the context of its
Global Assessment of Satellite Supply and Demand market studies. Starting in this edition of the Broadband Satellite Markets report, this assessment of narrowband-provisioned VSAT networks is now included here in order to provide an all-inclusive analysis and quantitative assessment of the entire global VSAT networking market. Key applications such as lottery as well as rapidly developing segments like SCADA typically make use of narrowband VSAT networks and are growing rapidly around the world. Inclusion of the narrowband segment in this study allows NSR to clearly illustrate the interrelated trends of the entire VSAT market.
r e g i o n s Co ve r e d
North America
Latin America
Western Europe
Central & EasternEurope
Middle East & North Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Asia
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Primary Questions addressed in this report include:
What are the trends driving or restraining growth in the installed base of sites or subscribers for each market? •
Which market segments and which regions are most likely to benefit from new demand or expansion of existing •
services?
Who are the main players in each industry segment, and what have been their key successes in the last year? •
What are the revenues to be generated from service provision and customer premises equipment sales in each region •
and market segment?
What is the satellite capacity demand for each service in each region and how is this being provisioned? •
Where is classic commercial FSS C- and Ku-band capacity being used for service provisioning, what is the impact of high •
Throughput Satellites (hTS) on market take-up and capacity demand, and where does O3b capacity leasing come into play?
Primary elements of the report include:
industry trend analysis including NSR’s qualitative assessment of each major market segment •
A bottom-up forecasting approach based on detailed site and subscriber data •
Results of the forecast in terms of bandwidth leased, bandwidth revenues, customer premises equipment units sold and •
revenues for every market segment studied More than 300 detailed tables and charts •
includes Excel sheets with all key data, tables and charts •
Step-by-step methodology •
Variance analysis for each market to highlight any changes between the current and prior forecasts in this market •
All clients of the Broadband Satellite Markets, 10th Edition report are also entitled to a Free half-day of consulting time with an nsr analyst. This time can be used to review report findings, interpret market forecasts and determine how the report information applies to your company’s business model.
key methodology updates and critical resource for nsr’s report library
The Broadband Satellite Markets 10th Edition continues to make use of a consistent method-ology for forecasting VSAT sites, broadband access subscribers, and trunking/backhaul sites. yet, the methodology is not rigid and has been revisited in key areas as necessary in order to most closely match actual trends in the real world.
For this most recent edition, NSR used a revised methodology specifically for forecasting capacity demand within the iP trunking market in order to fully include the impact of O3b on the market. The new capacity demand methodology results in the same historical demand estimates, but improves our forecasting accuracy and allows for a smooth integration of the O3B component into the iP trunking model.
Further, the Broadband Satellite Markets, 10th Edition study is a critical input into NSR’s Global Assessment of Satellite Supply and Demand series of market studies and makes use of key data from the Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 4th Edition study. This illustrates once again that all of NSR’s market research studies are fully integrated into a coherent library of detailed and highly granular research on the commercial satellite market.
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Market Overview and Key Findings
For VSAT networking services, some regions still felt impact of recession in 2010, while others are
emerging strong with 2011 set to be even better
All in all, broadband VSAT networking services did quite well in 2010 with a number of regional
markets like North America, Latin America, and parts of Asia and Central & Eastern Europe emerging
in good shape from the 2009 global economic recession. Yet, there do remain a few other regions
where service providers saw mixed results in 2010, such as Sub-Saharan Africa and a few countries in
Central Asia and Eastern Europe. NSR believes that 2011 should offer steady improvements in these
regions, and by 2012 there is a strong likelihood of a surge in demand for broadband VSAT networking
services as enterprise spending picks up and satellite capacity becomes more abundant.
In many ways, the VSAT industry is going through a “mini-renaissance” in classic VSAT applications like
lottery and banking, and NSR expects to see strong continued growth in narrowband VSAT services
in the coming years. More importantly, NSR is often seeing these narrowband services upgraded to
broadband over time, and this is a critical long-term trend in the greater VSAT networking market.
2011 to introduce a true paradigm shift in satellite broadband access services
The adoptions of High Throughput Satellite-provisioned satellite broadband access services will allow
the industry to finally begin the process of “remaking” the satellite broadband access market into an
offering that should compare favorably to aDSL services in many unserved or underserved markets.
This is not to say that smooth sailing is guaranteed for the satellite broadband access sector. It will
take a very substantial educational and marketing effort to remake the general public perception
of satellite Internet access services being a “last resort” application, and the industry will still need
to address the critical issue of the upfront cost of these services. Yet, NSR believes that the industry
is up to these challenges and projects a better than fourfold increase in satellite broadband access
subscribers in the coming ten years.
Last bastion of trunking begins to cede, while backhaul scores continued strong gains
Sub-Saharan Africa has long been the last major bastion of broadband satellite trunking services in
the world. The industry has been expecting that the arrival of major new undersea cables as well as
expansion of terrestrial fiber would negatively impact the trunking market in this region, and 2010
was the year that this was actually realized. Yet, there will remain niches for trunking demand
long-term in most regions of the world, and the launch of O3b could even lead to some new net growth
for trunking sites in the future.
Backhaul, conversely, continues its steady progress in many markets around the world, and NSR fully
expects strong gains here. Further, use of HTS capacity has made real inroads in the backhaul market
in Asia in the last year, and NSR would expect a similar trend in other regions to emerge in the coming
years. NSR also anticipates that backhaul will become a key market for O3b in the future, and this
will drive further gains in backhaul sites from about 2013 onwards. A final important trend of note is
the growing use of broadband satellite backhaul to expand cellular coverage in order to meet USO
obligations and rural connectivity goals set by governments in developing markets.
Global Broadband Satellite Market Forecasts
Putting together the combined global base of narrowband & broadband VSAT networking sites,
satellite broadband access subscribers, and broadband trunking & backhaul sites, NSR estimated
that the total installed base of sites and subscribers stood at 3.4 million in 2010. This is projected
to grow at a CAGR of 9.7% reaching 8.6 million in 2020. The largest share of this growth in sites and
subscribers will come from satellite broadband access services.
Service and customer premises equipment (CPE) revenues for the broadband satellite industry
are projected to increase by better than US$4.9 billion between 2010 and 2020. Service revenues,
especially from satellite broadband access subscribers, account for the largest share of this gain.
This clearly underpins the reasoning behind the move by a number of players into the satellite
broadband access market.
Satellite capacity demand trends vary substantially by region and application. However, for classic
FSS capacity it can be said that Ku-band dominates and will account for the majority of the forecasted
global gain of leased transponders. Yet the real story is the emergence of HTS-provisioning of
broadband services, notably satellite broadband access services.
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