Singtel has launched Paragon-S, a digital aggregation and orchestration platform that will empower satellite operators to digitally transform and leverage the newest digital technologies. Paragon-S is the satellite industry’s first all-in-one orchestration platform that can help operators to enhance resiliency and optimise cost.
Paragon-S was developed in-house and based on Singtel’s patented orchestration platform Paragon, which has been deployed in Asia in Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia. Paragon-S integrates multiple orbit satellites with terrestrial fixed and mobile network connectivity services and enables new streams of revenue through edge computing and AI. Satellite operators can offer edge computing to enterprise customers who adopt satellite connectivity to host mission-critical apps, at on-premise cloud at remote sites or multi-tenanted edge cloud at gateway locations the operators own.
The platform will also unlock new partnerships between satellite operators and terrestrial fixed and mobile network operators to offer a bundled solution to enterprises, allowing them to switch among terrestrial fixed and 5G or 4G mobile networks, and GEO, MEO and LEO satellites to optimise cost, resiliency and connectivity performance. Through the Paragon ecosystem, satellite operators can sell turnkey solutions bundling connectivity, compute and applications for use cases in various satellite verticals such as oil and gas, mining, maritime and aviation industries, and move up the value chain as digital service providers.
Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit, said, “Rapid advancements in technology are reshaping the future of satellite communications. Much like the telco industry, the satellite industry needs a multinetwork orchestration platform to make it faster and easier to digitally transform and deploy industry use cases at speed and at scale in a number of countries. Paragon-S has been shaped by what we learned from our Paragon platform to facilitate the transformation of telcos to digital techcos. The introduction of Paragon-S will empower satellite operators to become platform companies for enterprises. We will build on our existing ecosystem with partners to help operators develop and accelerate time to market for their use cases.”
Satellite operators will be able to leverage Paragon-S to enable multi-orbit switching for contiguous coverage in oceans and remote areas, enhanced connectivity resilience, backhaul optimisation between terrestrial and satellite networks, satellite data pool consumption with analytics, cost savings and more.
Singtel is currently in talks with several satellite operators globally to offer trials for Paragon-S in their respective markets. Additionally, Singtel satellite operations will deploy Paragon-S to help manage and orchestrate its multiple orbit satellites and terrestrial mobile network services.
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