Road to the Metaverse: Telecoms’ Next Journey Begins
This E-Book presents a captivating and compelling narrative! Central to the metaverse lies data connectivity, powered by unparalleled speeds, minimal latency, boundless bandwidth, lightning-fast cloud computing capabilities, and real-time rich communications, which serve as the major facilitators of this virtual world. The E-Book proves to be an engaging read, and we take pride in the Satellite Trends for 2023 featured on page 134. These key thoughts exemplify why Twoobii stands out as a winning solution in the market.

Change is the only constant. In this ever-changing environment, it helps business and strategic planners to review generally expected technology trends in their industries. While the future remains unpredictable, in this article we’ll provide support for your development of future business and technology strategies by mapping current developments to likely future outcomes. Dr. Dawie de Wet unpacks 20203 Trends and Outlook with the Fast Mode in this insightful article.

Be Blessed – Stay Safe
December is time for looking back, for reflecting on achievements and goals not reached and each of us experience this differently. We reached the end of the year from different perspectives and we look forward with different views.

Is Low-Latency a Ticket to Profitability: How LEO Services Can Compete in Africa
Industry analysts expect 17,000 satellites to be launched over the next decade, of which 58% will be for five new mega low earth orbit (LEO) constellations. It is anticipated that the space industry will add an estimated 200Tbps of capacity to the global network. Adding broadband anywhere, anytime capacity to the global grid will transform satellite connectivity and related industries. Expected service launch dates are set for 2023 and 2024.

Smart Satellite Services tested for CCTV surveillance by market leader
In South Africa, security surveillance and CCTV solutions are critical to protecting business activities and premises. These CCTV solutions include on-site camera systems linked to central control room facilities for monitoring and incident response. Scheduled and unscheduled power outages (loadshedding) represent a serious challenge to the reliability of these 3G and LTE data links and are necessitating the search for an alternative, trusted option. Net-1/Lesaka is a leading provider of CCTV surveillance solutions for the financial sector. Net-1 had a challenge in that they urgently required a trusted data communication link for CCTV systems deployed at ATMs and other critical financial assets or locations.

Unpacking the African Landscape for Satellite Services. ViaSatellite recently published an article on the Business Model Challenges of the Africa Landscape as applicable to large-scale satellite services. The article provides some insight into the challenges to deliver broadband satellite services to the Africa market as well as outlining the difference between Africa market and the global market.

Innovations in HTS LEOs, MEOs & GEOs software-defined satellites, new antenna technologies and more are all opening up new and promising options to connect unconnected locations in Africa and globally. These technology innovations are critical and a precondition to any further discussions around delivering large-scale satellite services in Africa.

The global satellite industry is in a significant growth phase as it evolves to meet changing global landscape and demands. Included in this growth is the global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite market which is expected to grow from $3.5 billion in 2021 to $4.13 billion in 2022 and some $9 billion by 2026, representing a CAGR of 21.5%.

Mining operations are often at remote locations far beyond the reach of conventional technologies such as fibre, LTE or 4G/5G. Then a special Twoobii solution is the only option for operations that demand 100% communication uptime, cost within budget plus no on-site 3rd level technical support. For these requirements, Q-KON developed a Twoobii system that incorporates 100% redundancy with a primary and secondary service including load-balancing and proactive network monitoring. This unique design is based on the standard Twoobii equipment and provides a very cleaver cost-effective high-availability solution.

While the characteristics of launch vehicles vary widely, the ultimate goal is always to move payload into space. Satellite launch costs are therefore a fundamental input block in terms of driving the satellite business case and determining service price points.