• Name
• Email
• Role in organization

• Name
• Country
• Reference person
• E-mail Reference person

• Manufacturing Industry (IND)
• Network Operation and Service Provision (SNO)
• Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)
• Research & consultancy (RES)
• Association (ASSOC)
• Government/Institutional (GOV)

• Ground equipment/technology manufacturing
• Space equipment/technology manufacturing
• Solution vendor
• System prime
• Satellite operator
• Service provider
• Consultancy
• Research institute
• Governmental

• European
• European member states
• Non European based

• Global
• Regional
• National
• Local
• Other

• Networking for projects
• Networking for business
• Contributing to the European space policy
• Contribution to the definition of the EC FP8 Work Programmes
• Contribution to the definition of the ESA ARTES Work Programmes
• Monitoring of the SatCom industry sector’s research priorities

• Satellite Communications
• Satellite Earth Observation
• Satellite Navigation systems
• Wireless and cellular communications
• Other

• HW development
• SW development
• Physical layer
• MAC layer and resource management
• Network layer
• Upper layers
• Antennas and RF
• Systems & Architectures
• Ground Segment
• Space Segment
• User Segment
• Services and Apps
• Other

• Theoretical tools
• Simulation tools
• Real time test beds
• Environmental testing facilities
• Other

• ETSI
• CEN-CENELEC
• DVB
• IEEE
• 3GPP
• Other

• National Spectrum Management Group
• Other

• Scientific conference
• Events organised at European level
• Events organised at national level
• Events organised at local level

ISI Membership comes from different organization sectors, mainly from Research and Consultancy (42 %) and Government/Institutional (24%).

ISI Membership comes from organizations characterized from eight different profiles, in particular from Research institutes (53 %). This result shows the need to increase the SatCom industrial participation and involvement in the ISI Platform work through, for example, the promotion of ISI vision, strategic research agenda and roadmap in additional relevant events.

The following figure shows in which Countries ISI members carry out their activities. Most of them (79%) have a European footprint. This means that their activities are carried out at level of Europe in the geographical sense and not only in the European Union states.

Such result is very important for the purpose of the Platform because it shows the great potential of the ISI initiative which aims at promoting satellite communications and their applications as well their integration with other technologies over a large area and beyond Europe. For this reason, it is essential to be able to involve the whole Membership actively in the ISI activities.

The data presented in the following confirm the previous ones. Most of ISI members (78%) carry out their business and research activities at international level, having partnerships in different European Countries. Their market extends beyond national borders, mainly at European level.

Interest of ISI member in participating the ISI Platform ranges over a wide variety of topics. In particular, ISI members have expressed their opinion related to their motivation to participate in ISI, classifying the topics by priority.

The collected data show that they turn to be interested in being active in ISI mainly to have the opportunity to create new consortia for international projects (priority 4.59), to contribute to the definition of EC programmes (priority 4.08) and to monitor the SatCom industry in order to identify research priorities (priority 4.04). This result is in line with the previous one regarding the ISI membership profile which has highlighted the involvement in ISI mainly of Research Institutes. ISI Platform allows all members to be informed and updated on the last issues related to SatCom and to better understand which are the new areasto be investigated in the future in this field.

The following figure reports the aggregated results regarding the field where ISI members currently carry out their research and industrial activity. In particular, ISI Membership is mainly involved in satellite and wireless communications areas. It is worth noting that the percentage of ISI member involved in Emergency and Disaster recovery in very low against an increasing demand of satellite communications in this field. This shows the need to involve entities and representative active in this area to enlarge the range of key activitiescarried out by ISI Membership in cooperation with the Platform.

ISI Membership competencies range over a wide variety of topics: MAC layer and resource management, Network layer, Service and Applications, System & Architectures, etc.

Such result confirms the great potential and the heterogeneous and large expertise present within ISI and it shows how ISI has become the aggregator of the SatCom community.

ISI members are available to share their facilities, such as simulation tools, test beds, with other members. This shows the integration and the cooperation among members which is strongly fostered within the ISI Platform.

ISI Membership is very active in standardization bodies, in particular ETSI, DVB and IEEE where standardization activities related to satellite communications and satellite integration with terrestrial networks are carried out.

ISI Membership is also active in regulatory bodies, in particular the National Spectrum Management Group which deals with spectrum management related also to satellite communications.

Around 50% of ISI Membership is available to represent ISI at events organized at local, national and European level and at scientific conferences. This is a good result because it shows the actual and active participation of the membership to the Platform activities. However, this score should be improved by reinforce the involvement of the membership through the promotion of the ISI activities and the organizationof events, such as the ISI SatCom event, which allow the members to meet each other and to take part to the ISI work and discussions.