Advanced Mobility

Advanced Mobility for Evolving Satellite Networks

In today’s fast-changing satellite communications landscape, seamless, high-quality connectivity is essential to meet rising user demands and market shifts. With more devices per user, service providers must scale while maintaining top-tier service.

ST Engineering iDirect leads the way in advanced mobility, enabling seamless transitions across multi-orbit networks and bridging legacy and next-gen systems for uninterrupted performance.

Key Use Cases

• Multi-Orbit Networks: Integrate hybrid capacity for service differentiation
• Transparent Satellites & SDS: Seamlessly switch between transparent and regenerative, software-defined satellites
• Migration Support: Smooth network transitions during Intuition deployment
• Geographic Domains: Tailor satellite network domains to country, regional, or global scopes
• Compliance: Manage domains to meet regulatory policies without disrupting traffic
• Consolidation: Enable smooth transitions between disparate networks

Beam Switching Technologies: Automatic Beam Switching, Fast Beam Switching, Make-Before-Break, Break-Before-Make, Satellite Switching, Batched Beam Switch API, and Domain-Based Automatic Beam Selection

Terminal Technologies: Skew Mitigation, Blockage Mitigation, Antenna Diversity, OpenAMIP Standard, Spread Spectrum and VL-SNR, Network Acquisition Signaling Channel, NGSO Terminal Acquisition Algorithm

Bandwidth / QoS

• Advanced Mobility ensures top bandwidth and QoS with Global Bandwidth Management and seamless beam switching
• Features like scalable beam support and OpenAMIP enhance flexibility and efficiency

Domain-based Beam Switching

• Enables seamless terminal group switching across domains with reliable, redundant nodes
• Proprietary logic supports multi-orbit capacity for uninterrupted performance

NGSO Operations

• Industry-first multi-orbit tracking algorithm powers real-time tracking and dynamic beam mapping
• Enhanced beam switching ensures seamless, future-ready connectivity

Map Innovations

• Supports SDS and NGSO with faster load times and improved terminal-side beam selection
• Advanced features boost regulatory compliance and resource management

Satellite Resource Orchestration APIs

• Real-time API enables instant network adaptation and low-latency updates
• Optimized load balancing ensures peak performance and user experience

OpenAMIP

• Open-source protocol enables seamless communication between antennas and satellites, eliminating custom integration needs