The O3b satellite constellation changes the reliance upon terrestrial infrastructure with an ultra low latency system that meets the strict tolerances of mobile networks and 3GPP standard implementations. With less than 65ms one way latency, the O3b system creates new opportunities in Mobile trunking and backhaul.
As mobile operators continue to increase capacity whilst converging an ever-increasing mix of traffic types, the O3b satellite constellation will enable Mobile Data, Video and Voice services with capacities that far outstrip microwave & leased line whilst removing the need for Fiber or terrestrial back-haul infrastructure.
Network Simplification – Centralized Core
Multi-Country mobile operators are able to collapse to a single core network architecture with the O3b Satellite system and mange base stations across multiple country specific borders.
The switching and routing intelligence of mobile infrastructure is moving steadily to the edge of the network.
When combined with O3b's unique ability to backhaul aggregation nodes to switching centers (with ultra low latency) the economic advantages of a centralized, single core network architecture in multi-country mobile operations yields a significant OpEx advantage. The O3b satellite system heralds a previously unavailable opportunity to consolidate your assets into a single core network.
Next Generation Backhaul for 3G systems
As Mobile Operators continue to enrich the users experience with higher data rates in WCDMA, CDMA, & Wi-MAX the requirements of Aggregation Nodes are becoming increasingly diverse with multiple client interfaces, traffic types and increasing bandwidth.
With link capacities scaling from 1Mb to 10Gb, the O3b satellite system enables mobile operators to 'upgrade' the backhaul to match the high bandwidth access network.
This unique advantage will allow Mobile operators to avoid the severe bandwidth limitations of microwave, aggregate more traffic and reduce the number of aggregation nodes in the network.
O3b continues to work with Mobile Operators all over the world who are planning to offer higher access speeds or extend the geographic reach of the network.
Special Events
Mobile Operators that need to provide additional coverage and capacity for special events often have to conduct timely and expensive line of sight surveys, lengthy planning, testing & integration to offer services in a relatively small commercial window. In many cases, the pressure to provide the additional capacity is to reduce churn, increase brand awareness and with minimum overall commercial benefit.
As O3b's satellite system has ‘steerable’ spot beams, Mobile Operators are able to position beams at short notice prior to an event and backhaul special event traffic.
This reduces the operational burden of setting up for special events but also allows the operator to deploy the system at short notice where services have been interrupted or in the event of a major outage such as natural disasters etc.

Did you know...

Africa mobile penetration rate is at 35% in 2008 Q2 (Wireless Intelligence)?

There are over 3.3 billion people using GSM and 3G worldwide (GSM Association)?

The transmission network can be up to 40% of the network cost?

O3b Networks can reach all your towers and link them back to a core network- virtually anywhere in the world?

At the end of 2007 – just one year after the launch of HSPA in Indonesia , more people were accessing the Internet via this high-speed mobile technology than through fixed-broadband connections (Wireless Intelligence)?