ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ม.ค. 2025
- November 2 l 9:00 AM SST (UTC+8)
High Throughput Satellites have now gone through multiple technical evolutions. The original promise of HTS was to lower the marginal cost of serving a user, which was achieved by boosting the satellite capacity through the use of multiple spot beams and frequency reuse. This initially led to larger and larger satellites, lowering the deployed capex per bit with each generation. However, recently we have seen a divergence in HTS design trends, with some new HTS satellite products placing a priority on offering flexibility in coverage and bandwidth, some being designed to maximize capacity density, while some smaller options are optimized for national coverage and a lower, more incremental capex investment. The message is clearly that "one size does NOT fit all”, and in fact different solutions fit different markets and different verticals. At the same time, satellite operators are beginning to appreciate the importance of a system-level solution - the advanced capabilities of the modern HTS satellites cannot be fully realized without innovation in the ground segment, and in any case, satellite networks now have to interface seamlessly with terrestrial networks, which themselves have been evolving rapidly as we transition toward 5G. To that end, significant developments have emerged in the modern ground segment, including software defined networks (SDNs), virtualized network functions (VNFs), a migration to the cloud, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions.
In this session, we explore these various technical developments within the HTS realm. Our panelists will discuss which of these technologies are being implemented in their next generation of products (and why) and will opine on the applicability to the Asian markets.
