{"id":8487,"date":"2020-09-07T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:35:58","slug":"kebni-special-advisor-to-spearhead-move-into-5us-billion-leo-satellite-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=8487","title":{"rendered":"KebNi Special Advisor to Spearhead Move Into $5US Billion Leo Satellite Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Established and high-quality\nantenna manufacturer KebNi increases its focus on solutions for Low Earth Orbit\n(LEO) satellite constellations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KebNi AB, a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq First North Growth\nMarket stock exchange in Sweden, focused on becoming a leading supplier of\nantenna solutions, servicing international government and commercial markets\nhas announced the appointment of Ronald van der Breggen as special advisor to\nthe CEO. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this role Ronald will help develop KebNi\u2019s winning strategy for the\nlarge opportunity that the future LEO satellite services represent. Ronald\nbrings over 25 years of telecommunication and satellite experience, which\nincludes working for several of the most prominent satellite operators, the\nlast five years of which has been exclusively for LEO operators, most notably\nLeoSat, in the areas of strategic and commercial planning and sales management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent reports on the LEO market include Absolute Reports predicting a\nglobal market size of 5.2 billion USD by 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KebNi\u2019s CEO, Carsten Drachmann, said: \u201cKebNi is well positioned to\nuse its technology and stabilization platforms to capture significant market\nshare in the upcoming low earth orbit (LEO) satellite market.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLEO is offering new ways of communicating via satellite, utilizing a\nconstellation of satellites much closer to earth than the traditional\ngeostationary satellites (GEO). Key features of LEO include higher data rates\nand lower latency which, through KebNi\u2019s technology, will offer the advantage\nof enhanced security, seamless integration and operational flexibility to\nend-users globally,\u201d he added. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe see a great future in IOT, 5G backhaul and various other mission\ncritical applications for enterprise and government. With companies like\nAmazon, OneWeb, Starlink, Iridium and Telesat currently in the process of\nlaunching thousands of low orbit satellites, it is KebNi\u2019s strategic goal to\nexpand its product offering and leverage its current unique technology to\ndeliver ground equipment and terminals for the these new LEO satellite\nnetworks. To help us in setting and executing the best strategy to achieve this\nlong term goal, I\u2019m looking forward to working with Ronald, who pioneered the\nLEO industry in the past five years and brings a wealth of expertise and\nindustry knowledge to the company<\/em>,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KebNi is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and has a long history and\nexperience in maritime satellite antenna solutions and solutions for inertial\nmovement sensing. It markets its products through three business areas – KebNi\nMaritime for Maritime Satellite Antennas, KebNi Inertial Sensing for Inertial\nMeasurement Units and KebNi Land Mobile for Communication on the Move (COTM) as\nwell as Communication on the Pause (COTP) antennas. KebNi\u2019s products and\nsolutions address government & military customers, as well as commercial\ncustomers in industries for robotics and self-driving vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Van Der Breggen said: \u201cI\u2019m very much looking forward to be\ninvolved in KebNi\u2019s process of defining its winning strategy for the LEO\nopportunity. The LEO market is characterized by its grand announcement and its\nvery diverse, yet big opportunities. In that context I am already impressed\nwith KebNi\u2019s focus on where it sees opportunities in leveraging its robust and\nhigh-quality products and engineering capabilities. I am confident it will\nbring the company many opportunities worldwide and I am excited to help the\ncompany develop that success.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A native of the Netherlands, Ronald van der Breggen,\nhas more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and satellite sectors. He\nbegan his telecom career at Dutch Telecom incumbent KPN and KPNQwest, rising to\nthe position of VP IP Services. He then joined SES, one of the world\u2019s leading\nsatellite operators as Vice President Customer Account Management. From 2015 to\n2019 he served as Chief Commercial Officer of LeoSat, where under his\nleadership the company secured $2 Billion USD in pre-launch commitments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Established and high-quality antenna manufacturer KebNi increases its focus on solutions for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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