Voice&Data

On the Fast Track

Banking and finance rocked the VSAT industry in FY12 with steadfast deployment­s

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VSAT deployment­s in FY12 showed prominent growth taking overall revenue for this industry to 500 crore. The industry registered close to 6% growth while showing prominent developmen­ts last year. These include, first use of Ka-band spectrum (18-28 Ghz), on-the-move mobility applicatio­ns for voice and video, large scale adoption for ATMs by white label and managed service providers, enhanced VSAT CPEs for security, routing, and multi-service integratio­n business continuity through dual Hubs.

Market Scan

First in the lead is Hughes Communicat­ions. The company registered a whop- ping 18.4% growth with total revenue clocking 167 crore for FY12. Hughes bagged an order to provide network connectivi­ty for police stations across 400 locations in Jharkhand. It also provided satellite based ‘receive only terminals’ (rots) network for Edusat project of the Government of Punjab.

State Bank of India gave Hughes an order for setting up 2,000 sites recently. Hughes also bagged the contract for Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam (Jaipur Discom) in Rajasthan under which Hughes will provide broadband satellite services connecting 825 locations.

The second contract was awarded for the 5 utility companies in Karnataka (BESCOM, CESCOM, MESCOM, GESCOM, and HESCOM) to deploy a network of 713 satellite terminals where Hughes is the secondary network bandwidth service provider.

The mandate for Hughes across both states is to expand the R-APDRP solutions platform to urban as well as rural areas. The Rajasthan and the Karnataka agreements have been signed on for 3 years and 5 years, respective­ly.

Also, Hughes has received approximat­ely 5,000 orders from January 2011 till now for setting up VSAT terminals of ‘Brown Label’ ATMs’ service providers across the country.

Second is Bharti airtel. Even though the company witnessed flat growth in VSAT with 107 crore in FY12 as compared to 95 crore in FY11, Bharti airtel has deployed VSATs (13,000+) for Gu-

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