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Enea delivers software that helps LEO satellite operators optimize bandwidth, secure traffic, and improve service quality, enabling cost-efficient and differentiated connectivity.
Optimize Mobile Satellite Connectivity
Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are filling a critical coverage gap, providing a new Direct-to-Cell (D2C) option for smartphones and connected devices. This creates exciting opportunities, but also unique challenges: high latency, fluctuating link quality, and the need to make the most of limited spectrum resources. Meanwhile, end users expect secure, reliable, and seamless connectivity whether they are at sea, in the air, or in remote regions. To succeed, satellite telecom providers must optimize bandwidth, protect against fraud and abuse, and deliver differentiated services that meet diverse customer needs.
Enea’s software portfolio addresses these challenge of providing efficient, secure and cost-effective data access. From traffic classification and video optimization to advanced policy control, subscriber data management, and security services, our solutions give satellite operators the intelligence and flexibility they need. By combining deep visibility with real-time traffic management, Enea helps providers reduce costs, safeguard subscribers, and deliver tailored service experiences — ensuring growth and profitability in a rapidly expanding satellite market.
1. Maximizing Satellite Bandwidth Efficiency
Satellite operators work within strict physical and economic limits. LEO systems offer higher throughput and lower latency than geostationary satellites, but bandwidth remains costly, and latency is still higher than terrestrial 5G. Direct-to-Cell (D2C) is opening up new consumer markets for direct business or partnership with mobile network operators (MNOs).
In direct-to-cell communication, the core resource to manage is access bandwidth. Bandwidth is dependent on spectrum used with speeds of up to 14Mbps achieved today but expected to significantly improve, depending on the network. This is shaped by the physics of LEO satellites, which orbit at around 600 km, compared with geostationary satellites at 35,000 km.
The challenge is that end users expect the same experience as on terrestrial broadband – browsing, streaming HD video, downloading large apps, and using chatty background applications. Yet these activities consume valuable satellite capacity quickly: a single app update may require 15–30 MB, while an hour of HD video streaming consumes around 1.5 GB. Without intelligent management, expensive spectrum is wasted on low-value traffic, leading to congestion, poor quality of experience, and dissatisfied users.
To stay profitable, providers must stretch capacity, shape demand, and design differentiated service tiers. Data plans often include usage limits, uplink restrictions, or prioritization rules, and may also provide for emergency access when quotas are exceeded. Enea’s traffic management software is ideally suited for this scenario. Embedded directly in the data path, it enables operators to classify user and device flows, apply flexible policies, and guarantee reliable throughput. This allows satellite providers to enforce consumption tiers, optimize traffic mix, and ensure that precious bandwidth is used efficiently while still meeting customer expectations.
2. Working Seamlessly with Mobile Network Operators
One of the fastest-growing opportunities for satellite operators lies in partnerships with mobile network operators to extend coverage into rural and remote “not-spots.” The ambition is to make satellite access feel like a natural extension of terrestrial 4G/5G coverage.
Success depends on careful management of scarce and expensive satellite resources. Left unchecked, background applications, automatic software updates, or uncompressed video streams can quickly consume capacity and degrade the user experience. To stay profitable, satellite operators must carefully design data plans, prioritize traffic types, and balance accessibility with cost efficiency. This includes setting consumption tiers, defining service packages, and ensuring that bandwidth is reserved for high-value or critical use cases.
Beyond usage, there are integration challenges: authentication, billing, and mobility management. Subscribers expect continuity when moving between terrestrial and satellite coverage — for example, keeping a video call active while travelling through remote regions. To achieve this, satellite and mobile operators must coordinate on service quality, policy enforcement, and device compatibility.
Enea provides the intelligent mediation and policy control platforms needed to make this possible. By managing resources in real time, enforcing flexible data policies, and supporting seamless subscriber authentication, Enea helps satellite and mobile operators deliver a single, trusted subscriber experience — while also protecting margins.
3. Securing Satellite Connectivity & Protecting Users
Satellite services face unique security exposures. Links traverse multiple domains, from user devices to ground stations and into the global internet. This makes them an attractive target for spam campaigns, denial-of-service attempts, and signaling fraud. Malicious messaging wastes precious satellite capacity, while weaknesses in SS7, Diameter, or 5G signaling protocols can expose both users and infrastructure to fraud or interception.
Because trust is central to satellite adoption, providers must secure every layer of their service. That means blocking unwanted traffic before it consumes bandwidth, safeguarding control-plane protocols from manipulation, and preventing voice fraud. Without proactive defenses, providers risk degraded quality, higher costs, and loss of credibility with both consumers and operator partners.
4. Delivering a Trusted, Competitive User Experience
As new constellations launch, universal coverage will no longer be a differentiator — user experience will. Customers will choose providers that deliver affordable plans, smooth handovers between terrestrial and satellite, and strong safeguards against fraud or service degradation. For operators, this means moving beyond pure connectivity to value-added services such as optimized streaming, flexible data packages, and reliable protection of communications.
Competition will intensify as more satellite players and partnerships emerge. To remain ahead, providers must deliver not only coverage, but also a consistent and trusted service that balances performance, cost, and security. Those who can personalize data plans, manage bandwidth creatively, and maintain subscriber trust will win in this market.
5. Scaling IoT & Edge Sevices
Satellite networks are uniquely positioned to serve IoT applications in hard-to-reach areas: agriculture sensors, maritime tracking, oil and gas monitoring, or disaster recovery. These scenarios involve millions of devices generating small but frequent data bursts. Unmanaged, this chatter can overload signaling planes and consume scarce resources. In parallel, IoT devices are notoriously vulnerable to exploitation, and compromised devices could introduce large-scale security risks.
For satellite providers, IoT represents both opportunity and challenge. To succeed, they need efficient traffic handling, device-aware policy enforcement, and lightweight security mechanisms at the edge. Solutions must reduce signaling overhead while keeping data secure, ensuring that IoT deployments scale sustainably across global satellite coverage.
Trusted by 160+ Telecom Operators
Enea’s software is trusted by more than 160 Communications Service Providers across over 100 countries. These providers have chosen best‑of‑breed solutions to protect, monetize, and scale their networks.
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Enea’s technology allows us to effectively manage all our streaming data, including encrypted video, resulting in a very positive impact on subscriber QoE.
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Enea’s traffic management capabilities provide the technological foundation needed to fulfill our ‘subscribe once, source from many, pay for what you use’ model, which is radically transforming how consumers experience mobile services across our LATAM operations.
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We are an operator group that places our commitment to security at the core of our operation, adopting a zero-trust interconnection strategy. After a thorough evaluation of the best possible partners to help us deliver on this vision, we selected Enea AdaptiveMobile Security’s security platform and threat intelligence services to continue protecting our networks against today’s threats and those we’ll face tomorrow.
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TELUS is proud to partner with Enea and give our customers a better experience while watching videos
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Delivering a private APN with an enterprise VPN is normally a tedious process for both the service provider and their enterprise customers, which can take weeks to complete. With Enea IoT CCS, we can automate the delivery of VPNs for private APNs through a customer self-service portal.
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We evaluated a number of different solutions as our network has experienced a rise in encrypted traffic along with the growing demand for data, primarily video. The innovative solution from Enea has proven notable. They have demonstrated their expertise and backed it up with excellent levels of service.
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Enea creates a ‘sticky’ guest Wi-Fi that drives customer engagement. It is also an important source of additional revenue which benefits NOS and our enterprise customers.
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Secure Traffic Manager and RAN Congestion Manager effectively manage encrypted and non-encrypted traffic, reduce RAN congestion and improve subscribers’ quality of experience.
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The innovative solution from Enea has been impressive. They have demonstrated their expertise and backed it up with excellent levels of service.
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We were looking for a vendor agnostic solution that could match our high ambitions in scaling our Wi-Fi business both in terms of volume and functionality, and at the same time have a platform that will allow Batelco and its enterprise customers to engage with the Wi-Fi users.
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Managing Wi-Fi services with 400,000+ access points (including homespot) and 70 million users across 17,000 islands puts extreme demands on the Wi-Fi service management core platform.
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It’s clear from the feedback of Mobile Operators that Enea AdaptiveMobile Security is one of the few companies who are admired for really having the edge over their competitors based on their strong reputation for “Technical Expertise”, “Quality of Service” and “Reliability”. A big congratulations goes to the team at AdaptiveMobile Security for reaching Tier One in both SMS and Signalling Firewall researches in 2021.
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We evaluated a number of different solutions as our network has experienced a rise in encrypted traffic along with the growing demand for data, primarily video. The innovative solution from Enea has proven notable. They have demonstrated their expertise and backed it up with excellent levels of service.
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We are impressed with the Smart User Repository’s fast and flawless deployment as well as the immediate results it has delivered.
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The ability to offer attractive Wi-Fi services creates new revenue opportunities and expands NTTBP’s service options. We look forward to rolling out advanced, unified, feature-rich Wi-Fi services to our customers with the Enea platform. Enea’s proven expertise in enabling carrier Wi-Fi on this large scale made them the right choice.
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