35th AIAA ICSSC Colloquium:High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Broadband Opportunities: Orbits, Architectures, Interference and Markets

Trieste, October 16, 2017

What are the tendencies for the terminals?

Thierry ABRAHAM

Outline

• SatixFy – who we are ?

• How do we address all future trends in the terminal market ?

• Low-cost terminal - How ?

• Inter-operable terminal with HTS Software Defined Radio modem ASIC

• Beam-Hopping capable terminal available now

• Active Flat Panel Array terminal for Mobility market

• Summary

SatixFy: Who we are ?

• SatixFy- Satellite Technology company • Chips and Products company

• Operating since 2011; 2 main R&D centers

• SatixFy Israel - Modem Design Center• 70 People, 45 VLSI engineers, 10 product engineers

• Chips, Products, Systems

• SatixFy UK - Steerable Antenna Design Center• 40 people from August 2016

• Significant recruitment from ex-Qualcomm team

• Chips, Antennas and Terminals

• Systems, VLSI, RF, Hardware, Software & Test

• UK Government support through ESA

• Element, Array, Control, RF, System, Test

• First Ku band Aviation Terminal (1m X 0.5m)

Technology Company with VLSI and full Product Capability

SatixFy Strategy

• Silicon – stuff legends are made off• Big investments, but…

• You build your own world (Fantasyland)

• Completely different Price/Performance

• Full Vertical Integration

Systems

Terminals

Antennae

Products

Chips

Bring to market next generation satellite communication technology and products

SatixFy is addressing all future trends in the terminal market

• Lower cost - ASIC based solutions such as the SatixFy Out-Door-Unit, or In-Door-Terminal “SIDU”. ASIC high integration allowing affordable VSAT terminal solutions

• Higher Throughput– single carrier 500MHz (no Backoff). In the future (2019), 1GHz carrier Rx and Tx to support UHTS satellite

• Beam-Hopping - Higher Satellite and terminal capability towards users

• Interoperability - flexibility with SDR ASICOperators want to escape from proprietary solution - VSAT terminal should be interoperable and future-proof

• Mobility -> addressed with our Active Flat Panel Array Antenna terminals in Ku and Ka band. Customers want to receive content anytime, anywhere (Land, Sea, Aero)

SX-3000

Lower cost terminal trend

Indoor Unit (S-IDU)

• Miniature L-band IDU

• Ready for Ku/Ka

• SX-3000 based board

• FWD: S2X - RTN: RCS2, S2X

• HTS modem unit

• 7.5cm x7.5cm

• Low Cost

• Units in volume now

Outdoor Unit (S-ODU)

• 2-way terminal, Fully Outdoor

• S2X FWD, S-M2M, or RCS2 RTN

• Wideband, high-performance

• Single PoE Cat5 cable

• Embedded modem SX-3000 ASIC

• Lowest cost approach

FLEXIBILITY & INTER-OPERABILITYwith S-IDU remote Terminal

• High Performance 125 MHz Operation

• DVB-S2X fully compliant

• DVB- RCS2 or SDR return channel

• Dual Gigabit Ethernet port

• Low power and affordable

• Small size

• Annex M – time slice support

• Annex E – beam hopping support

Flexible platform welcoming any third-party waveform componentFuture proof with Software Defined Radio ASIC

“Beam-hopping ready” terminals

• SatixFy's SX-3000 ASIC is the first to market with beam hopping support

• VSAT terminals based on the SX-3000 are available

• Full backwards compatibility to DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X without Beam Hopping

• The SX-3000 enables VSAT vendors to support DVB-S2X with beam hopping TODAY - future proof your network!

Satellite payload in BH mode

Ground network: hubs transmit DVB-S2X Super Frames and VSATs receive BH carriers

Beam-hopping benefits

• Beam Hopping provides best flexibility in allocating capacity to the beams with high traffic demand

• Reduction of the unmet and excess capacity by 40%

• Save on DC power by 50%

• Lower DC power terminal (20-40% savings)

• Best fit for mobility networks (air and maritime) with changing bandwidth demands

• Reduce risk uncertainty by increasing the coverage with reduced initial CAPEX

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Transatlantic Beams

Demand Conventional Satellite

Beam-Hopping emulator

• Beam Illumination according to time and spatial plan• Re-use channels in a TDMA-like scheme

• Use-case demonstration with SatixFy Beam-hopping emulator

• Variance in demand

• Channel sharing on a geographical basis

• Mobility networks

• Events and projects (Eurocup, elections)

• Supported by DVB-S2X Annex E

Beam-hopping emulator

Mobility with Active Flat Panel Array (AFPA) electronically steered antenna terminal• Modular design scalable to build small, medium and

large antennas and any number of beams

• Support different RF frequencies KU or KA using dedicated RFIC chips

• True Time Digital Delay enables:• wide band (500MHz)

• Multi-beam

• large scanning angle

• Embedded SX-3000 modem for power management (No data, no Power), calibration, and Time Duplex Division access scheme

• Multi-beam capable for LEO/MEO constellation - support make before break operation

• Applications: IoT, Aero, maritime, Land mobile IoT terminal

AERO terminal

Summary“the Change is Now”

• Software Defined Radio Baseband ASIC supports more traffic -500MHz now, and 1Ghz DVB S2X coming soon

• The SX-3000 SDR ASIC based on DSPs plus few fast and generic HW blocks enables platform flexibility and inter-operability

• The SX-3000 ASIC supports DVB-S2X with beam hopping TODAY => operators can future proof their network

• ASIC integration allows low power and affordable user-terminal

• Electronically Steered Phased Array Antenna based on True-Time-Digital Delay is the right technology for User Terminal mobility, especially when we speak about multi-beam, wide bandwidth, large scanning angle, and large antenna