COMMUNICATIONS • TELEMETRY
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umerous providers compete to support the oil & gas industry with satellite-based communications services. It is difficult for a player in this field to qualify itself other than
by rock bottom pricing, as long as it offers only mainstream concepts: hosting a hub at the service provider’s facility, placing remote terminals at the customers’ sites and routing all traffic forward and backward through the hub. Te exploration, drilling, production and distribution processes of an oil company involve teams of multiple partners that have to closely collaborate and therefore communicate. Te “digital oil field”, both off-shore and on-shore, relies on collaborative work processes involving data storage and processing capacity at multiple sites needing trusted and efficient telecommunications.
HOW CAN A SERVICE PROVIDER CREATE A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE? Wouldn’t it be attractive for you as service provider if you could offer customers individual private communications infrastructures? Teir company- internal traffic would use satcom terminals all on the customer’s premises and under his protection. No risks for communications outages due to line cuts or external routing failures. Te service provider’s ground station would only be used as gateway to and from public networks and for network management access.
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CONNECTIVITY
Volker Jarsch on enabling communications providers for new connectivity services in the oil & gas industry
Te oil company’s satcom terminals at each of its sites would be connected to its local IT network just like another IT router. In fact, all satcom terminals at his sites would appear like one IP router being ‘internally’ connected via satellite.
THE SOLUTION? A VIRTUAL ROUTER IN THE SKY Tis ‘satellite-based router’ gives the service provider’s customers the unique advantage that communications between their sites are effected in ‘single hop’ via the satellite. In practical terms this
Above: The SKYWAN 5G terminal provides an integrated router and transmits all data or voice directly to the destination
Individual or shared private networks can be created using the SKYWAN 5G technology, providing satcom service providers with greater flexibility
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