SES Takes ONAP Over the Moon

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 8 a.m.

Light Reading's Mitch Wagner talks with SES CEO JP Hemingway about his company's sky-high ambitions.\n\nSES's satellite network provides connectivity for mobile operators (who use the service for backhaul and enterprise VPN); maritime and aviation companies; and government customers (who use SES for drone surveillance, environmental controls). \n\nSES wants network operators to be able to connect to its satellite networks using existing management and orchestration tools, so it's implementing the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on Microsoft Azure, with the assistance of Amdocs. Listen up to find out why and what's at stake.