Northern Sky Research Announces Broadband Satellite and VSAT Market Gains

The report of NSR’s Broadband Satellite Markets 11th Edition projected the worldwide VSAT, Broadband Satellite, Trunking and Backhaul markets to acquire a total of $9.1 billion come 2021, as subscribers of satellite broadband Internet access will surpass 5.2 million worldwide in ten years, and the enterprise VSAT installed base will reach almost 2.9 million sites.

In his report, NSR Senior Analyst Patrick M. French said, “The launch of new high throughput satellites in North America finally began to impact the growth curve for satellite broadband Internet access services in 2012. NSR expects that these services will prove their mettle in the coming 12 to 18 months in North America, and this should give the needed nudge to other regions like Western Europe and Latin America." With regards to enterprise VSAT, the report also predicts that within a few years, the developing Asian and Latin American markets will have bigger installed VSAT bases compared to mature markets like North America.

Northern Sky Research also expects that as services change to provisioning with HTS and O3b capacity, IP trunking and backhaul services will make compelling strides. This migration serves as a way to offer more capacity at an affordable price than the traditional Ku-band and Traditional C- services.