Satellite operator Arabsat has signed a deal with satellite services and technology provider neXat to be able to manage various hubs in a single application for its new multicontinental managed services offering.
The offering will deliver managed services to various verticals, including governmental, enterprise and consumer, in every geographical market where Arabsat has coverage.
The neXat platform is empowering this offering by extending the capabilities of Arabsat’s hubs and functioning as the primary orchestration tool for running Arabsat’s operations.
The company says its platform will be used by Arabsat to manage its hubs with minimal human intervention, reducing operational costs and unlocking the delivery of new services.
The virtualised platform as a service (PaaS) and operations support system-business support system (OSS-BSS) will automate tasks such as customer VSAT terminal lifecycles, network monitoring and management, and billing.
In addition to offering a low capex option, the neXat platform offers secure white-label access for its teams and customers at different levels of the value chain based on hierarchical roles.
The partners say that neXat will deliver a customised version of its OSS-BSS suite to be tailored to Arabsat’s needs. They add that the partnership will continuously adapt to the satellite industry’s changing environment to provide Arabsat with future integration with new virtualised hub solutions arriving on the market with (industry associations) MEF or TM Forum open standards API.
