8:00 am

8:15 am

Dave Bukovinsky
Vice President, Program Management
WildBlue, Inc.

Given the highly publicized problems major DSL providers are having, coupled with decreased capital spending by cable providers - it seems to indicate that the residential broadband market is drying up. However, the real situation is that demand is as strong as ever. Current market conditions are requiring a more solid business case for offering residential broadband - WildBlue provides just this business case. As a first-to-market Ka-band solution, WildBlue is one of many companies now working on Ka-band spot beam satellite architectures. Due to launch in 1Q2002, WildBlue will be the first Ka-band, spot-beam service provider in operation.

How can broadband satellite be competitive where others have faltered? This session will review current market research for 2-way satellite broadband, and examine emerging technologies that can be applied to broadband satellite platforms to address not only the economics of subscriber equipment, but also the entire ground and space network.

9:00 am

Sam Attisha
National Sales Director of the Americas
Irdeto Access

"Who is going to pay for what and why?"
                                                    - Leslie Taylor

Rob de Poorter
Director of Market Development
Deuromedia

David Finkelstein
Senior Vice President
SkyBridge Satellite

Burt Liebowitz
Consultant

Andrea Maleter
Consultant
Futron Corporation

Leslie Taylor
President
Leslie Taylor Associates

Satellites are uniquely suited for multicast transmission, with revenues from satellite-based multicasting estimated at over $14 billion in 2005, according to Pioneer Consulting. This capability and their general broadcast properties, give satellites a role in the distribution and delivery of Internet content and access to the ‘net for less-developed geographical areas. What are the opportunities in this space? How will service providers get paid? What pricing models will emerge? Will distribution of content to the network edge be the “killer app” or will delivery to endpoints be the bigger opportunity?

David Helfgott
Senior Vice President
GE Americom

The global demand for Internet access and related services continues to grow rapidly despite recent signs of economic slowdown in the US market. Geostationary communications satellites play an increasingly important role in Internet traffic transport, due to two fundamental advantages: ubiquitous coverage, and broadcast architecture.

Satellite operators have three potential ways to approach the dynamic Internet transport services market:

• As a carrier's carrier, providing bandwidth as needed
• As a custom solutions provider, designing new networks for specialized applications
• As a provider of provisioned-services, offering pre-designed, end-to-end solutions that combine scalability and flexibility with rapid deployment.

Understanding market trends and customer needs is critical to developing successful products and services, and to developing the right partnerships and alliances to meet customer needs on a global basis.

David Beering
Principal
Infinite Global Infrastructures, LLC

This session will describe the state-of-the-practice communications system being developed for the International Space Station, supporting voice, low-rate and high-rate telemetry, video, audio, and telephony for NASA’s Human-Rated Space Vehicles (the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle). The project utilizes commodity commercial networking components. This work is being performed in partnership with Lockheed Martin Space Operations, the NASA Johnson Space Center, and a host of commercial partners.

"The U.S. content distribution market will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 150%, from $10 million in 1999 to nearly $1 billion in 2004."
                                                      - IDC

Aaron Falk
Director, Advanced Product Development
Net-36, a PanAmSat Company

Ramin Farassat
Director of Product Marketing
SkyStream Networks

Karthik Ranjan
Manager for IP Products
Irdeto Access

Micki Segal
Manager, Marketing Group
Content Delivery and Security
NDS Technologies

Ashok Thareja
Chairman & Founder
Orblynx

The size and complexity of the Internet has created a need for methods to speed Internet traffic around inherent bottlenecks in the ‘net’s architecture. CDN’s and content delivery service providers have emerged to address these challenges. Satellites have played an important role in some of these developed solutions. However, will satellite remain as significant, as optic fiber capacities continue to increase and new fiber technologies are developed and migrated to the metro networks and eventually to the last mile? Where does satellite fit in these emerging landscapes? What are satellite’s advantages over terrestrial technologies?