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The plug-in-and-play SafetyCase emergency connectivity solution is designed to be deployed rapidly when terrestrial connectivity is unavailable
This week, Orange Business has announced it is incorporating Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellite services into its SafetyCase solution.
SafetyCase is a rapidly deployable emergency connectivity solution that creates a temporary bubble of Wi-Fi through the ‘intelligent hybridisation’ of available networks – i.e., combining available mobile and satellite network capacity – for emergency situations where terrestrial networks are unavailable. The solution has its own power source, allowing for deployment anywhere.
The solution comes in two formats: a ‘Mobile Unit’ that can be operational in seconds and the, presumably more powerful, ‘Crisis Center’ model, which takes 30 minutes to deploy, but provides up to 20 hours of connectivity to crisis cells or command centers.
It is unclear exactly when Orange Business launched SafetyCase, but the company says the solution saw usage during the severe flooding in Valencia, Spain, and during Cyclone Chido in Mayotte at the end of last year.
OneWeb’s low Earth orbit satellite constellation already provides coverage across France, adding additional network capacity to the SafetyCase wherever it is required.
Orange also stressed the sovereignty element of the partnership, highlighting that it’s choice of a European satellite operator allowed for greater trust for users, particularly emergency service and security service personel.
“With Eutelsat’s OneWeb, we reinforce the promise of SafetyCase: restore communications when everything stops. This European, sovereign advance gives firefighters, security forces, and local authorities a decisive capability: rapidly recreating a reliable network to coordinate, treat, alert, and decide. It’s a key building block of national resilience, powered by Orange’s network excellence and our new Defense & Security Division, at the service of safety and emergency,” explained Nassima Auvray, Defense and Security Director at Orange Business.
Orange has a long history of working with OneWeb, having initially signed an initial deal with the company back in 2023 to provide satellite fronthaul and backhaul services across the Group’s international footprint. The operator expanded this partnership earlier this year.
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