The Satcom with an Edge Phase III catalyst team, including Alvatross and leading global partners, has been awarded the Tech for Good Award by TM Forum for the second consecutive year. The award was presented at DTW Ignite 2025, held in Copenhagen two weeks ago, recognizing the catalyst’s groundbreaking work in using technology to create meaningful, positive impact.
The project is focused on delivering seamless, reliable connectivity anywhere in the world. By bridging satellite and terrestrial networks, we can ensure people and businesses can stay connected, no matter where: whether in a busy city, out at sea, in remote farmland, or in areas hit by natural disasters where regular networks don’t work.
Building on the success of Phase II, Satcom with an Edge Phase III advanced the vision of end-to-end connectivity and satellite backhaul of 5G services, adding new capabilities. This includes smarter traffic routing to ensure data takes the best path based on speed and coverage needs, and systems that make it easy for customers to access services without worrying about the complexity of different network technologies.
By bringing together different types of satellite networks and ground networks, we’re helping providers work together more efficiently, so they can focus on offering reliable connections, better service, and fair billing, without customers having to worry about the technical details.
In other words, these advances are designed to help in critical situations, such as emergency response in disaster zones, as well as in industries that depend on reliable connectivity, including maritime operations, remote oil exploration, agricultural IoT, and live-streamed adventure sports.
The catalyst team includes telco and Satcom players such as: SES, Eutelsat, Bell Canada, MTN, Airbus, Oracle, DigitalRoute, Enghouse Networks, Radcom, Kratos Defence, Celfocus, Alvatross, and others. Together, they are addressing the long-standing challenge of fragmented services between satellite and terrestrial networks, offering a unified, digital-first experience that provides greater value for customers.
Watch the moment the team took the stage at DTW:
