Ground Station Digital Transformation Articles

The space industry, like many others, is going through a transformation to the cloud. This includes digitization of the L-Band RF infrastructure, virtualization of the gateway physical and network functions, and moving the hardware baseband systems to the cloud.

Virtual Channelizer and Combiner for Digital Transformation of Satellite Ground Stations

Virtual Channelizer and Combiner for Digital Transformation of Satellite Ground Stations

By Marke Clinger|2022-12-11T10:25:29+00:00December 6th, 2022|Ground Station Digital Transformation, Satellite Ground Station|

Support for IP addressable antennas has been available for years with SpectralNet. Now, with OpenSpace Channelizer and Combiner's production release, frequencies are IP addressable and routable. This functionality splits high bandwidth [...]

Satellite and the Cloud 2020 Conference

Satellite and the Cloud 2020 Conference

By Marke Clinger|2021-12-19T21:22:53+00:00March 6th, 2020|Ground Station Digital Transformation, Satellite Ground Station|

About a month ago, before the Corona Virus set in globally, 87 satellite communications companies participated in the "Satellite... & the Cloud 2020" conference in London, UK. Sponsored by the GVF, [...]

Link Aggregation for Wireless Networks

Link Aggregation for Wireless Networks

By Marke Clinger|2021-12-24T16:00:27+00:00September 26th, 2015|Broadband Satellite Topics, Ground Station Digital Transformation|

Virtualize your redundant communications links into a single large bandwidth pool using Link-Balancing & Bonding. Optionally, setup your redundant links to automatically balance traffic on up to 4 links. Link Balancing [...]

Highlights from “High-Speed VSATs Not Delivering the Throughput You Expect?”

By Marke Clinger|2021-12-24T16:00:35+00:00September 26th, 2015|Broadband Satellite Topics, Ground Station Digital Transformation|

Chris Hill, CTO ITC Global, presents an excellent analysis of high-speed VSAT modem performance and packets per second (PPS) in the Via Satellite Article “High Speed VSATs Not Delivering the Throughput You [...]

Packets per Second Stressing Your Satellite Modem?

Packets per Second Stressing Your Satellite Modem?

By Marke Clinger|2021-12-24T16:00:45+00:00September 26th, 2015|Broadband Satellite Topics, Ground Station Digital Transformation|

Adding packet coalescing to your network can reduce the packets per second (PPS) that your satellite modem must handle by up to 90%. That is 10 packets are combined into a [...]