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Information edited by SES for The Australasia Satellite Forum 2015

Information presented by SES for The Australasia Satellite Forum 2015 1

VANUATU - DISASTER RECOVERY CASE STUDY

CYCLONE PAM

March 2015

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SEVERE TROPICAL CYCLONE PAM OF 2015

… is regarded as one of the worstdisasters in the history ofVanuatu. A total of about 20people lost their lives as a resultof Pam with many othersinjured.

… had the highest 10-minutesustained wind speed of any SouthPacific tropical cyclone and causedmajor devastation.

Photo: Reuters

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DEVASTATION LEFT BY CYCLONE PAM

• Beside the death toll, according to UNICEF, at least 132,000 people have beenimpacted in Vanuatu by Tropical Cyclone Pam, of whom 54,000 are children.

• Communication across the country was crippled, with only one cellular towerin Port Vila remaining operational. The power grid was devastated

• Four days after the storm, nearly 60 of the nation's inhabited islands remainedcut-off from the outside world.

• UNICEF has estimated that up to 90 percent of the buildings in Vanuatu havebeen affected by Tropical Cyclone Pam. Hospitals, schools and water supply areeither compromised or destroyed.

Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale said “After all the development we havedone for the last couple of years and this big cyclone came and just destroyed... allthe infrastructure the government has... built. Completely destroyed.”

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SATELLITE BASED COMMUNICATION SOLLUTIONSTO SUPPORT THE DISASTER RECOVERY EFFORTS

To ensure the disaster relief efforts and humanitarian missions could begin theirwork without delay, powerful and reliable communications networks must berestored. To provision this need across Vanuatu

FSS Satellite capacity on Intelsat-18,equipment and manpower was donated byBT Group, Intelsat and ITC Global tosupport the efforts of NetHope.

SES and Digicel Pacific donated satellitecapacity on NSS-9 together with VSATequipment.

Several satellite terminals of the mobilecrisis communication network solutionemergency.lu had been send immediatelytogether with emergency workers

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APPROACH OF EMERGENCY.LU

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Air TransportSatellite

Infrastructure

Ground Segment Terminal

Services

National, European and International processes and tools

emergency.lu is an integral and complementary part of the worldwide humanitarian tool box for setting up telecommunications and information-sharing systems

emergency.lu covers

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RATIONALE

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developed as a public-private partnership

in close cooperation with WFP, as Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) lead agency

open to other partners to join and enrich the system through their comparative advantages

offered by Luxembourg as a free global public good to the global humanitarian community

www.emergency.lu

emergency.lu

PRIVATE PARTNERS TO THE PPP

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NoSaCo® Rapid & NoSaCo® RegularDistributed Information ManagementUser interfaces

Satellite Hubs, Modems & CapacityAd-hoc coverage & capacity extensionVoice over IP platform

Secure storage and disaster logisticsRapid deployment on site24/7 operations center

Public-private partnership between the government and three Luxembourg-based companies:

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emergency.luOPERATIONAL AND DEPLOYMENT

PARTNERS TO THE PPP

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DEPLOYED COMPONENTS

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Rapid deployment Regular deployment

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Three satellite HUBs with pre-booked capacity (four beams) and possible ad-hoc capacity

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SATELLITE INFRASTRUCTURE

emergency.lu

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TANNA DEPLOYMENT - VANUATU 2015

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• Few helicopters to carry the

equipment from Bauerfield airport to

the deployed islands. The equipment

finally be transported by boat.

• As the power was not constantly

available, we deployed a hard Ranger

antennas rather than the inflatable

Gatrs have been kept installed

• Logistic & power has been seen by the engineers on site as the biggest issues.

www.emergency.lu

emergency.luLOCAL & REMOTE SERVICES:

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Tracking & Tracing

Data sharing

Instant messaging

Maps Internet connectivity

Situation analysis

Voice

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MULTIPLE END-USERS BENEFITING

FROM THE SATELLITE CONNECTIVITY

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• Communication services to humanitarian aid, government & affected population

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LATEST UPDATE ON TANNA DEPLOYMENT

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• So far, since the beginning of Vanuatu mission, more than 1.6 Terra Bytes of

data has been exchanged through the satellite link deployed in Tanna.

• The installation supports the on-site work of the NGOs who rely on Databases /

Data exchange with headquarters in Dubai (WFP) and Europe and addressing

the VPN put in place for the Vanuatu government to re-establish their

communications between the island and the rest of the country

• The Terminal is still active in Vanuatu

• In the meantime the Ericsson

Response team took over the onsite

operation of terminal and network

• Actually service provisioning has

been extended until 20. June 2015

emergency.lu

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DEPLOYMENT IN PHILIPPINES 2013

TYPHOON HAIYAN RESPONSEEstanc

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ETC / emergency.lu deployed

(in total 3) Rapid Deployment kits

• to the city of Tacloban, Ormoc,

Guiuan, and Estancia

• for services to be provided to more

than 5000 registered users

emergency.lu

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SUPPORTING THE EMERGENCY

TELECOMMUNICATIONS CLUSTERS IN NEPALEstanc

ia• As of 06 May 2015 in addition to the

initially deployed equipment, 3 more

emergency.lu kits are now in-country.

• SES also provides additional Ku-band capacity to

NetHope servicing several different humanitarian

organizations in coordination with the GVF.

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T0 T0 + 2 hours

Deployment team ready to go

T0 + 12-20 hours

emergency.luinstalled & operational

T0 + 72 hours

Time needed for advanced communications andservices for improved mobilization and coordination

Previous services

emergency.lu