Group of companies Altegrosky («Альтегроскай»)
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded 📆 | 2003 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | Russian Federation,Moscow |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Sergey Pekhterev (founder of AltegroSky)[1] |
| Products 📟 | Communications satellites services |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 150 |
| 🌐 Website | altegrosky |
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AltegroSky is a communications satellite Russian operator providing communication services and solutions for the government, large and small business, communication operators and the consumer market.
AltegroSky serves about 22% of all VSAT terminals installed in Russia. As of January 2019, about 900 certified partner companies operate under AltegroSky brand, serving over 23100 subscriber’s satellite terminals.
Members of the group: Race Telecom CJSC, Set Telecom CJSC and MT CJSC. All the telecommunication operators are fully licensed to provide data transmission, telematics, satellite channel lease and local telephone exchange services.
Business and Services
AltegroSky provides a wide range of broadband communication services: high-speed satellite Internet access, VoIP, multicasting, backup communication links, organization of distribution television and broadcasting networks, construction of networks with complex architecture, dedicated channels on SCPC/CnC technology, Trunking (Mesh, ACM, MCPC), service SubVNO, Up-Linking, Backhauling, satellite communications on the move.
For foreign satellite operators AltegroSky provide infrastructure platform for building a satellite network and organizing the provision of telecommunication services on its basis.
Corporate management
- Vitaly Kramar[2] – CEO
- Oleg Ozhogin[3] – Chief Development Officer
- Sergey Stepanenko[4] – Chief Technology Officer
History
- 2003 - Foundation of the company CJSC SetTelecom.
- 2004 - Holding a tender and choosing a satellite platform. The tender was held with the participation of manufacturers of satellite communication systems: Hughes Network Systems, ViaSat Inc., Gilat Satellite Networks. The winner was the company Hughes Network Systems.
- 2004 - The installation of the first DirecWay (Hughes) Network Control Center.
- 2004 - Start of commercial activity as a satellite operator on the "Yamal-200" at 90°E.
- 2006 - Rental of frequency resources on the satellite "Express AM1" at 40°E.
- 2006 - A signing of the cooperation agreement with the Canadian company C-COM Satellite Systems Inc.
- 2007 - Participation in the national project "Education": satellite Internet for schools and educational institutions.
- 2007 - Installation of the satellite platform НХ (Hughes Network Systems) for the organization of large corporate networks and networks of GSM-operators with large volumes of traffic.
- 2008 - Construction of teleport in Khabarovsk. Rental of frequency resources on the satellite "Ekspress-AM3".
- 2011 - Providing services for the mass market.
- 2012 - Provision of mass market services in the Ka-band via the European satellite Ka-Sat (Eutelsat).
- 2015 - Provision of services via the new satellite "Yamal-401" at 90°E.
- 2015 - Providing broadband Internet access in the Ka-band via the "Express-AM5" at 140°E.
- 2016 - Providing broadband Internet access in the Ka-band via the "Express-AM6" at 53°E.
- 2018 - Provision of services for maritime market in the Ku-band via the "Express-AM8" at 14°W.
Mergers and acquisitions
2008. CJSC SATTEL - Acquisition of business
2009. CJSC HABTEL - Acquisition of business
2010. CJSC RACE TELECOM - Acquisition of 100% of the shares of CJSC Race Telecom
2014. CJSC MOSCOW TELEPORT - Acquisition of 80.25% of the shares of CJSC Moscow Teleport
2016. IPNET LLC - Transition of the main part of the subscriber base by the VNO model
2017. ROILCOM LLC - Acquisition of the subscriber base and its inclusion in the GC AltegroSky
Satellite segment
Satellite networks operating in DVB-S2 standard, working through 7 Russian and 4 European satellites: Yamal-402 at 55°E, Yamal-401 at 90°E, Yamal-300K at 183°E, Express-AM6 at 53°E, Express-AM5 at 140°E, Express-AM33 at 96,5°E, Ekspress AM8 at 14°W, KA-SAT at 9°E, NSS 12 at 95°E, JCSAT-3A at 128°E, Eutelsat-172B at 172°E.
Teleports
Teleport «Bear Lakes»
Area of hardware rooms: 163 m2
Total cooling capacity of redundant climate control: 216 kw
Uplinks
9.3m/750W Ku @ Yamal-402, 55E
9.3m/750W Ku @ Yamal-401, 90E
9.1m/750W Ku @ Express-AM6, 53E
9.0m/750W Ku @ NSS-12, 57E
3,7m/200W C @ Yamal-401, 90E
Location
. Teleport is located at the specialized site away from industrial zones and construction zones, which ensures the absence of noise and a guaranteed passage of licensing procedures in terms of EMC.
Satellite network control center:
connecting central satellite communication stations, placing equipment of customers, providing VoIP services (SIP, H.323) with access to the public telephone network.
Access node at MMTS-9, MMTS-10 - transport network nodes: connecting to Internet resources, to terrestrial communication channels of backbone operators, connecting customers.
Teleport Khabarovsk
Area of hardware rooms: 58 m2
Total cooling capacity of redundant climate control: 90 kw
Uplinks
6,3m / 200W Ku @ Express-AM5, 140E
6,2m / 200W Ku @ Yamal-300K, 183E
3,7m / 100W C @ Yamal-300K, 183E
9,3m / 200W Ku @ Eutelsat-172B, 172E
9m / 750W C @ Express-AM3, 103E
11m / 750W C @ JCSAT-3A, 128E
Teleport network core radio equipment has 1: 1 redundancy (Etherchannel и STP), providing antenna posts with anti-icing and auto tracking systems, electric power organized by category I.
Round-the-clock support and maintenance of teleport equipment is performed by qualified personnel.
Key agreements
2017.
The project on arranging communication channels for the companies in the oil and gas sector was started in November 2017.
Telespazio, Gazprom Space Systems and AltegroSky Group of Companies acted as the partners of this project. The parties signed a number of agreements. Telespazio and Gazprom Space Systems entered into the contract for using Yamal-202 satellite capacity. The contract for the provision of satellite services was signed with AltegroSky Group of Companies. It includes the provision of teleport services to organize the dedicated channel, as well as broadband access services and telephony.
2018.
Inflight connectivity (IFC) services over the Eurasia region.
Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) and the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) have partnered to provide inflight connectivity (IFC) services over the Eurasia region. The services will be provided via RSCC’s state-of-the-art Express-AM5 and Express-AM6 Ku-band satellites. As part of the partnership, Panasonic has entered into an agreement with AltegroSky Group for the provision of infrastructure that enables Panasonic to provide inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) services via the Russian satellites. The network will be managed via AltegroSky’s Network Management teleports (NMCs) in Moscow and Khabarovsk. Landing transit traffic at these NMCs will be delivered to the link up station with the MMTS9 operator via terrestrial communication channels.
References
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