Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) brought their team to IBC2019, and Andrey Kirillovich, Director of Integration and Products was available to share RSCC’s latest information. Andrey’s tenure in the industry totals almost 20 years.
His job capacity involves working with satellite operators and service providers on the ground and space segments. His responsibilities as head of integration services and turnkey projects is business development in new geographical regions (Sub Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, APAC); and in international vertical markets (cellular backhaul, enterprise, government, mobility and consumer broadband.
RSCC brings an impressive amount of expertise to customers — the company is more than 50 years old, and they have a good team of professionals; i.e. RSCC has highly specialized technical engineers that can explain to the customers the benefits of the satellite technology and how to implement the technology for the client’s different applications.
With RSCC’s 11 satellites positioned on the GEO arc from 14 degrees W to 145 degrees E, it makes RSCC a good option for both primary and backup network solutions in the remote areas all around the world. They provide various types of communications and broadcasting applications in different frequency bands such as L-, C-, Ku- and Ka-band.
Andrey attends IBC as the show is a worthwhile exercise and is one of the main industry events for RSCC because, as Andrey said, it is a great place to meet with all of their customers from EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), which results in generating a lot of qualified leads, and it’s a good opportunity to present new services, pricing, and more. IBC is a good place to exchange ideas, and it’s a great way to convert challenges into opportunities. While RSCC may not necessarily garner new customers at IBC, Andrey speculates that this event usually generates massive expansions of existing contracts.
RSCC also continues to develop its key products, such as proprietary managed maritime VSAT service, which now serves more than 300 ships in the seas and oceans around Europe, Russia, Middle East, Asia and Latin America. They are currently expanding their service offering to smaller vessels, as current development of maritime RF allows to install satellite solutions even on small fishing boats (which actually now is a majority of customers.) Andrey also said they are enhancing their regional reach of their mobility network. Customers require broader coverage than just the Russian area. They acknowledge that a certain gaps exist, so partnership options with other satellite operators are being considered for worldwide coverage.
Another “hot” area for them now is TV/Video distribution. Traditionally, they do linear TV distribution, but they are also looking into non-linear distribution options. They are working together with content owners and different distribution platforms in order to increase penetration within the region by offering a hybrid solution.
Andrey sees RSCC five years from now enhancing the share of vertically integrated services, providing the company with the opportunity for their satellites to be an integral part of the next generation of networks, including 5G ecosystem. He said the company will replicate their success with their domestic TV distribution platform to other regions as well as expand their proprietary VSAT network.
The firm will also provide end-to-end services for mobility customers on land, in the air and sea, globally. The company is also planning a non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation with launch of 4 satellites into a highly elliptical orbital (HEO) in order to enhance connectivity to maritime, aero and terrestrial domains.
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