RIYADH, 3 October 2004 — Once more the telecom service and solution provider Detecon Al Saudia Co. Ltd. (Detasad) demonstrated impressively its claim as a leading player in the telecommunications sector in the Kingdom. This claim is boosted further by the fact that Detecon Al Saudia has been operating and maintaining for more than a decade the national long distance network on behalf of the Saudi Telecom Company (STC).
However, Detecon Al Saudia has advanced further in its positioning in Saudi Arabia’s competitive IT/telecom market. As one of five license holders, Detecon Al Saudia is enriching the telecom service market with a very sophisticated VSAT (very small aperture terminal) service
portfolio that was showcased just recently in an exhibition held in Jeddah.
In general, VSAT-Services provide enterprises and governmental authorities a perfectly customized satellite-based, domestic network/communication platform. Internet access, voice over IP, data transmission and video teleconferencing are just a selection of the most versatile applications supported by VSAT services.
Detecon Al Saudia’s customers are mainly corporations with branches all over the Kingdom — banks, retail organizations or oil and gas companies.
However, medium- and small-sized companies with very dedicated IT/communication requirements appreciate the features and the economy a customized VSAT service can offer them with services as inter-office connectivity, back-office operations management, point of sale transactions, virtual private networks, LAN/WAN internetworking, management of bulk or real time data transmission.
Additionally, the Mobile VSAT solution of Detecon Al Saudia allows connectivity to the Internet and transfer of data virtually at any place and at any time. As such, it is the most compelling solution for provision of connectivity for border surveillance applications or field exploration teams alike.
Besides fast deployment (less than one week), the reliability of the data transmission is secured by Detecon Al Saudia’s user help-desk and technical service team with repair time less than four hours (depending on relevant service level agreements). Consequently, VSAT service customers benefit from an anytime-anywhere availability of a high speed, highly reliable satellite-based data, voice or video applications.
“In rural areas, for example, VSAT can be the commercially suitable solution or a blessing even when there is no fixed telecom infrastructure,” said Dr. Harald Stange, Detecon Al Saudia’s VSAT business unit director. But also in areas where the terrestrial infrastructure is well in place, VSAT
can be used as a secondary or back-up solution. Companies like banks, for example, require operating networks that never fail. The combination of a standard Terrestrial Network Operation backed up by VSAT-Network Links
satisfies this challenging requirement at its best. In any case, the team of VSAT experts refines tailor-made solutions including a technical design and sizing and recommendations about the most suitable hardware. The state of the art technology employed by Detecon Al Saudia provides customers additionally the advantage of minimizing the antenna size at the customers’ premises.
Detecon Al Saudia, licensed last year by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), has also partnered with a number of Information Service Providers (ISPs) in the Kingdom to cooperate in further enhancing existing corporate network solutions through the application of VSAT service features.