The demands of modern business and the highly competitive nature of the corporate environment dictate that any business wishing to succeed in their respective market needs to be available on an international level at all times. These demands mean that superior business communication should be a primary concern of corporations in modern day business. Technology is advancing at a rapid pace and has created an opportunity for businesses, or branches, worldwide to work together as if they were located in the same office building. Satellite communications have thus become a necessary feature in most offices as they allow communication between locations around the globe without compromising on call quality or speed.

Why satellite communications?
Satellite telecoms communication and global roaming is possible by voice and data services. An ISP is set up with a satellite communications space segment, carrier class telecoms network and internet backbone which is sent to a satellite telecoms network. Because of the use of satellites and hosted services, communication is possible from any location in the world, no matter how remote. Satellite communication technology is the key to successful business communication and the ability of a company to provide efficient service to their clients.

Satellite telecoms solutions provide a robust service that is reliable and secure. It is imperative for a successful business to avoid bad communication technology and inefficient telecoms services at all costs. When a business is attempting to run a thriving and successful corporate venture, bad communication, slow connections, lost emails, bad sound quality on calls and lost connections are problems which will propel a business into loss instead of success. Satellite communications allow a business peace of mind regarding their communication abilities as satellite technology is dependable and robust without being expensive.

Features of satellite communications for business
Global roaming solutions and satellite communication allow employees access to corporate resources, to send emails and to browse the internet whilst being able to communicate via high quality, voice compression technology, no matter where they are situated on the globe.

Call costs are lowered through calls being charged at local rates as the large broadband network makes connecting people simple and effective. Quality is not compromised because the connection is low cost – the reliable and high speed alternative to fibre networks provides seamless and reliable data carrying.

Due to the use of broadband through a satellite communications network, businesses save money in their communication costs. Fixed line technology is costly to run and even more expensive to maintain. Service fees can be staggering whilst line rental and call costs only add to the mountain of expenses. Using a broadband connection for communication allows companies to save huge amounts of money due to the simple services which accompany satellite communications.

Most satellite telecoms operators and service providers will include a free 24-hour help desk service for any problems a client may experience. Because the communication systems are so easy to set up and maintain, they rarely require a technician to be called in to fix any problems. The system is easily scalable, allowing clients to add and subtract lines as they wish without needing to pay a callout fee for a technician to add or subtract the required lines.

For any business competing in a worldwide market, location need not be a problem any longer. Thanks to the internet and satellite technology, satellite telecoms allows businesses access to high quality communication whilst cutting costs and providing a range of features to make communication even simpler. User-friendly interfaces, connection anywhere in the world, dependable and robust gateways and dedicated technical support systems are all features illustrating why satellite communications and global roaming is the future of business communications.

To telecom operators in annual revenue amounted to measure, China Mobile was pushed to the throne of the world’s first. This is China’s largest operators have been driving on the fast lane, while the third-quarter results released yesterday, China Mobile’s mobile phone users up to 508 million, of which 3G subscribers increased to 1.655 million.

Earnings
Shows that the first three quarters this year, China Mobile net profit of 83.935 billion yuan, an increase of 1.8%. The third quarter net profit rose 2.8% increase over the previous quarter, but still lower than the previous industry expectations. China Mobile said that the first three quarters of the average monthly net increase in the number of users up to 5.68 million, far ahead of the competition. Among them, closely watched 3G subscribers increased to 1.655 million, an increase in August compared with 32.8 million. Although this figure is already a rare, but according to this rhythm, then, China Mobile to complete the development of three million full-year TD there is some pressure on the user’s goal.

Yesterday, China Telecom also announced three quarterly net profit of 11.392 billion yuan in the first three quarters, down 33.9% year on year. But mobile phone users to maintain a high growth, which added 7.5 million in the third quarter, the total number of mobile phone users reached 46.78 million. A drag on the performance of China Telecom’s fixed-line telephone business “bleeding”, in particular, are about to retire PHS network. According to the Ministry of Public letter to statistics, in September this year, China’s reduction of 2.348 million PHS users, setting a monthly amount of the highest churn. In addition an operator China Unicom will be announced by the end of this three quarterly.

Taken together, a dominant China Mobile has not changed the situation. Yesterday, the news from abroad, said the British market research firm Portio Research recently released the world’s largest mobile operator in the top 20 list. With the standard amount of annual revenue, to 57.5 billion U.S. dollars, China Mobile ranked first.

NGN involves three main architectural innovations that are interesting to look at individually:

1. In the core network, NGN implies a consolidation of several transport networks each historically built for a different service into one core transport network. It implies amongst others the migration of voice from a circuit-switched architecture (PSTN) to VoIP, and also migration of legacy services such as X.25, Frame Relay

2. In the wired access network, NGN implies the migration from the “dual” legacy voice next to xDSL setup in the local exchanges to a converged setup in which the DSLAMs integrate voice ports or VoIP, allowing to remove the voice switching infrastructure from the exchange.

3. In cable access network, NGN convergence implies migration of constant bit rate voice to CableLabs PacketCable standards that provide VoIP and SIP services. Both services ride over DOCSIS as the cable data layer standard.

The difference of NGN with previous technologies used in the telecommunication engineering is that there is a more defined separation between the transport portion of the network and the services that run on top of that transport. What this means is that whenever a provider wants to enable a new service, they can do so by defining it directly at the service layer without considering the transport layer.  Or to put it another way, services are more and more independent of transport details. This goes without saying that increasingly, applications, including voice, will tend to be independent of the access network and will reside more on end-user devices.

NGN’s have been implemented in many different countries, some examples are:

1. In the UK,  BT (British Telecom) introduced another popular acronym for NGN – the 21CN (21st Century Networks, sometimes mistakenly quoted as C21N).  This is another loose term for NGN and denotes BT’s initiative to deploy and operate NGN switches and networks in the period 2006-2008 (the aim being by 2008 BT to have only all-IP switches in their network).

2. In Holland, KPN is developing an all-IP, a NGN network in a network transformation program. Next Generation Networks also extends into the messaging domain and in Ireland, Openmind Networks has designed, built and deployed Traffic Control to handle the demands and requirements of all IP networks.

3. In Bulgaria, BTC (Bulgarian Telecommunications Company) NGN has been implemented as part of the underlying network of its telco services, in a large scale project undertaken in 2004. The inherent flexibility and scalability of the new core network approach resulted in an unprecedented rise of classical services deployment as POTS/ISDN, Centrex, ADSL, VPN, as well as implementation of higher bandwidths for the Metro and Long-distance Ethernet / VPN services, cross-national transits and WebTV/IPTV application.