PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The French Joint Directorate for Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems (DIRISI) selected Orange Business Services and Telespazio France to provide several satellite communication capabilities and the associated managed services to all military and state entities involved in this framework agreement. These services will facilitate communications when armed forces are involved in field missions, where end-to-end security is vital.
A strategic partnership to target the government satellite
communications market
Orange Business Services and Telespazio
France, a subsidiary of Telespazio ( a joint venture between Leonardo,
67%, and Thales, 33%), have pooled their teams, skills and
infrastructures to develop an offer dedicated to state requirements,
known as MONaLiSat (National Meta-Operator for Satellite Connections).
This offer relies on a comprehensive range of satellite
telecommunications services and associated equipment which both partners
have used to meet the specific requirements of the Ministry. The
solutions provided by Orange Business Services and Telespazio France
will help supply land and maritime communications in several bands and
meet the mobility needs of forces when deployed in the field.
Orange Business Services is contributing its land and satellite infrastructures in France and overseas, as well as its ability to offer secure communications. Telespazio France is contributing its excellent understanding of the Defence sector and its ability to integrate, deploy and maintain satellite telecommunications systems.
The MONaLiSat offer is appealing due to the expertise offered by Orange Business Services and Telespazio France in terms of government telecommunications. Furthermore, both teams have been able to create an offer that fits the requirements of the beneficiaries of the framework agreement, by giving them priority access to the expertise or innovations of several French SMEs.
About Telespazio France
Based in Toulouse with offices in
Paris, Kourou and Bordeaux, Telespazio France is the French subsidiary
of Telespazio, a company owned by the Leonardo and Thales groups
(67%/33%). A pioneer in satellite services, Telespazio has been at the
forefront of significant progress and breakthroughs for more than 50
years.
Telespazio France is recognised as a leading figure in this
field, operating complex satellite systems and maintaining many
infrastructures for CNES, Arianespace and the French Ministry of Defence.
Telespazio
France draws on its culture of innovation and expertise in new digital
technologies to develop new high added-value services, notably in
telecommunications, geo-information and navigation.
About Telespazio
Telespazio, a company jointly owned
by Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), is one of the world leaders in
satellite services: from the design and development of space systems to
the management of launch campaigns, from satellite control to Earth
observation services, from communication services integrated into
navigation services and satellite location to scientific programmes.
Telespazio plays a major role in these markets thanks to its existing
technology and its involvement in leading European space programmes such
as Galileo, EGNOS, Copernicus, GMES and COSMO-SkyMed. In 2017,
Telespazio had sales of €564 million, with around 2,500 staff across
eight countries.
About Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services, the
B2B branch of the Orange Group, and its 25,000 employees, is focused on
supporting the digital transformation of multinational enterprises and
French SMEs across five continents. Orange Business Services is not only
an infrastructure operator, but also a technology integrator and a
value-added service provider. It offers companies digital solutions that
help foster collaboration within their teams (collaborative workspaces
and mobile workspaces), better serve their customers (enriched customer
relations and business innovation), and support their projects (enriched
connectivity, flexible IT and cyberdefense). The integrated technologies
that Orange Business Services offer range from Software Defined Networks
(SDN/NFV), Big Data and IoT, to cloud computing, unified communications
and collaboration, as well as cybersecurity. Orange Business Services
customers include over 3,000 renowned multinational corporations at an
international level and over two million professionals, companies and
local communities in France.
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