Case Study: Iridium Satellite Communications drives revenue and new use cases with Openet Policy Manager

atellite: Driving Revenue & New Use Cases Through Real-Time Controls

Iridium Satellite Communications operates a global LEO satellite network that delivers voice and data connectivity worldwide, including remote oceans, airways, and polar regions. As demand grew for enterprise and IoT satellite services, Iridium needed a way to manage policy more intelligently, differentiate users and traffic types, and support new revenue opportunities while staying competitive with terrestrial and cellular networks. Openet provided its Policy Manager to address this challenge.

Openet’s Policy Manager enabled Iridium to classify users by prepaid and post-paid tiers, distinguish real-time streaming from non-real-time data, and control data consumption and time usage more effectively. The solution also aligned with Iridium’s network roadmap for future controls such as time-of-day and geography-based policies. As a result, Iridium can drive revenue, remain continuously operational, and better tailor data use cases as needed, helping future-proof the network with Openet as a dependable technology partner.

Iridium Satellite Communications

Hermon Pon

Vice President of Technology Development and Network Engineering