Read more on Telesat, Liquid partnership that will see the duo bring Light Speed Low Earth Orbit Satellites to Africa.
Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, and Liquid Intelligent Technologies, have announced a strategic cooperation agreement to explore reciprocal go-to-market strategies to bring Telesat Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services to Africa.
What is Low-Earth-Orbit ?
According to Castor Networks, the latest development in satellite connectivity is Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO). Low-Earth-Orbit brings fiber quality broadband experience and speed anywhere in the world, including the most remote places such as the African wilderness or even the North Pole. Check out the video about low latency comparison between LEO, Fiber, MEO (Medium Orbit satellite such as O3B) and GEO (Traditional geo stationary satellite)
One of the general key satellite issues is latency. With Low-Earth-Orbit, this problem is fixed: low latency means faster loading websites, faster processed data between locations, uninterrupted cloud applications and ERP systems, and the ability to control devices and machines remotely.
The New Telesat, Liquid Partnership
As part of the agreement, the companies will closely collaborate on the commercial and technical aspects of integrating the Telesat Lightspeed enterprise-grade, high-throughput, low-latency satellite network with Liquid’s global value-added services network.
This integration can enable the expansion of Liquid’s enterprise portfolio offerings, including next-generation cloud services, managed security services, business Wi-Fi and data center connectivity.
At the same time, Telesat will explore combining Liquid’s landing stations, Points of Presences (PoPs), site hosting, management services, and fibre network as part of its global terrestrial infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with the Telesat Lightspeed satellite network.
“Liquid’s terrestrial infrastructure in Africa is second to none, from the largest fibre network spanning over 100,000 kilometers to state-of-the-art teleports and access to diverse points-of-presence within the continent,” said Glenn Katz, Telesat’s Chief Commercial Officer. “We’re eager to explore the synergies between both of our company’s offerings, with confidence that we will establish a ‘win-win’ for our organizations and the future of connectivity for Africa.”
“Telesat Lightspeed will be the world’s most advanced LEO network, delivering the enterprise-grade, fibre-like connectivity that Africa’s massively underserved market needs,” said Scott Mumford, Liquid Satellite Services CEO. “Integrating ubiquitous, multi-gigabit per second links with guaranteed SLA’s from Telesat Lightspeed will enable Liquid to expand their award-winning services via an untethered network in the sky, and deliver expanded service offerings to our customers not possible through the current satellite-based offerings.”
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The agreement opens the door for a collaborative approach to LEO terrestrial development. Moving forward, Telesat and Liquid Intelligent Technologies will work together to determine how each company’s industry-leading technologies can integrate with the other to better serve the African continent.
Telesat now joins the likes og Terridon and Unicef who have forged partnerships with Liquid Intelligent Technologies. In February, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a strategic partnership with Teridion, a superior cloud-based global connectivity platform.
Following the partnership, Teridion’s multi-cloud-based solution was added to Liquid’s backbone services as part of their efforts to offer internet service that matches the changing Enterprise needs. This will allow Liquid to provide reliable and fast internet connectivity to its global customers.
On the other hand, UNICEF partnerd with Liquid Intelligent Technologies, in December 2021 in support of Giga’s work to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice.
In the new partnership Liquid Intelligent was tasked with sharing anonymized data to support Giga’s work to map the location and connectivity status of schools in Africa.
Liquid was also tasked with sharing information with Giga about schools’ proximity to telecoms infrastructure and will help develop a connectivity monitoring platform. The resulting information will provide a basis for better-targeted investment to connect schools, including in hard-to-reach areas.
