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MODESAT
COMMUNICATIONs OÜ
Innovator
2009
Modesat offers Internet for the
military aircrafts or express train
The title of the Innovator of the Year
goes to Modesat deservedly. As the
first in the world, the company solved
the technological challenge to forward
the broadband internet for the
plane moving 1200 km in an hour.
Modesat is one of the most ambitious
technology companies in Estonia
which patented the efficient modem
technology for radio and telecommunication
solutions and breaks through
to the foreign markets now with it.
Peep Põldsamm, the chairman of the
management board of the company
and the business manager Tarmo Pihl
call the company the typical development
company which has dealt with
the scientific and applied research
and as a result found the technological
solution which is to be marketed
now.
There is nothing typical in the radio communication
solution called PilotSync. This is both
simple and ingenious at the same time. Its authors
are the Byelorussian radio communication
researchers and engineers of Modesat who
developed the radar and rocket systems during
the Soviet times. The Estonians took the patents
necessary for the technology and entered the
world market with this.
PilotSync is the solution of synchronising the
revolutionary radio channel which makes the
communication channel much more effective
and resistant for use. It allows the higher data
speed and reliability and is also much cheaper.
Rain, snow and leaves’ fall could have an impact
on the mobile range in Estonia, as the signals
could disperse, reflect, be disturbed in some
other way. Though these are not influencing the
communication based on Modesat technology.
“During the period when the people become
more and more mobile and wish to be online
everywhere at any time, the data-handling capacity
of the communication channel and reliability
become increasingly important,“ Põldsamm
states.
The market required by Modesat can be divided
into three. The main market is telecommunication.
1.9 million radio links were sold in the
world in 2008 and this number can increase by
estimates in the pace of 20-30 percent a year.
The lion’s share of 3G and 4G mobile operators
should thoroughly update their networks within
2-3 years to be able to offer mobile broadband
internet. E.g. Estonian mobile operators set the
restrictions of mobile internet data volume for
the clients so that the overload would not incur
in the network.
The trend where mobile becomes the main
means of mulitmedium before the computer
and the domestic internet online connections
are exchanged for mobile internet can be estimated
everywhere. This though presumes the
increase in reliability and data-handling capacity
of networks.
The second segment is satellite communication,
more exactly broadband internet to the
fast-moving objects such as airplanes, ferries
etc.
The third market focus is the military sector including
the demand for the technologies func-
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