The Exchange's traders also provide advice on the purchase or sale of satellite capacity. Traders are able to undertake the whole process of obtaining requirements, preparing technical surveys, opening the bidding, preparing the link budgets, pre-negotiating the contract terms and finally bringing the two parties together in a well defined framework.

In addition to space capacity, the company's consultants also provide advice on procurement of ground segment hardware, teleport services, and end-to-end solutions.

Traditionally, satellite capacity has been bought and sold on a bilateral model. The London Satellite Exchange is the first-ever marketplace for satellite bandwidth. The London Satellite Exchange is applying models taken from the financial markets, to satellite bandwidth procurement.

For example, The London Satellite Exchange publishes the first-ever Index of satellite transponder prices, which tracks per-MHz prices in the Ku and C bands.

Typical buyers include Internet Service Providers (ISPs), broadcasters, corporate networks, and military. Typical sellers include satellite operators and large telecommunications companies. Typical transactions range from 2 million bits per second (2Mbps) to 45 Mbps.

At present, the company is seeing good demand from all regions. Emerging markets including South East Asia, South America and Africa are showing strong demand, especially for bi-directional solutions for corporate networks. For the developed markets, broadcasting has been the strongest sector it has seen recently.

The London Satellite Exchange's traders are uniquely placed within the satellite telecommunications industry to provide an impartial view. Traders continually track industry players, their performance and strategy. Without stepping outside the bounds of their highly valued supplier agreements, traders are able to provide meaningful information to assist with financial due diligence on business productivity.

The London Satellite Exchange's currently holds bid and ask offers on over 2% of global commercial satellite capacity. By using a range of proprietary Asset Management and Capacity Search software tools, The London Satellite Exchange analyzes the satellite capacity of over 80% of the world's operators. Under strict license agreements, the Exchange has begun to offer restricted modules of these tools to industry suppliers in order to facilitate and enhance their sales operations processes.

The London Satellite Exchange's works with all players in the industry from multinational corporations to SOHO (Small Office Home Office) enterprises. The Exchange has been commissioned to design bespoke satellite telecom systems such as end-to-end Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and very small aperture terminal (VSAT) Networks. It also has access to hardware manufacturers, integrators and installers worldwide.

The London Satellite Exchange has provided request for quotation (RFQ) and bid management services to several multinational clients in the past. It has managed the bid process from finding the candidate suppliers to short list criteria design and Best and Final bids based on quality, price and strategic fit. Services for e-auctions are also available.

At the commencement of 2001, the London Satellite Exchange is celebrating its first birthday. It has been a busy year. The Exchange was incorporated on 5th January 2000, started trading on 15th May, opened online services on 1st September, and opened its Trading Floor in the City of London on 15th November.

Now, more than 80% of satellite operators are cooperating with the exchange. Daily, 2 % of world satellite capacity is offered for sale through the exchange. It has further enhanced its ability to provide End-to-End solutions to ISPs, corporate networks and others.

As a validation of the London Satellite Exchange's market success, the Global Satellite Exchange based was formed in the United States in 2001. As the saying goes, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

The Global Satellite Exchange has satellite capacity for sale on the seller-listing page at. Like E-Sax, GSatX "offers businesses a central point for buying and selling satellite communications bandwidth, capacity and services. GSatX serves as a directory and service selection tool for the buyer; and a sales channel for the seller."

The company plans to "offer a growing portfolio of value-added services to assist users with insurance for restoration and loss of revenue, price hedges and stabilization, engineering and other issues."

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