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HTS Market OverviewSatellite business is a very fast growing market but still very niche.Many big players, with very ambitious projects, are now clamoring to get involved:
Branson and Wyler
pushing ahead with One Web
Musk wants
4,000 microsats
Gates funding
Kymeta
Zuckerberg wants
To ‘fill the sky’
Entering the GOLDEN AGE OF THE SATELLITE BUSINESS?
O3B, Inmarsat, Telesat, Viasat, Intelsat, Hughes and others have large-scale goals.
All of these grand schemes require antenna design expertise.All require reliable & high precision antennas – Can they be cost effective?
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You Have Choices!
• Demand for custom solutions is driving current hardware market (Modification of frequency requirements – custom feeds)
• L-BAND vs. Ka-BANDXPOL vs. COPOLMOTORIZED vs. NON MOTORIZEDAUTO-ACQUIRE vs. MANUAL
• Cost / Quality Relationship. What is Total Cost of Ownership? What do you NEED? What do you WANT?
L-band vs. Ka-band
B/W Speed Cost HardwareL-Band (BGAN/Inmarsat) 1 GB 650 Kbps $5,827 $2,000
Ka-band (Newspotter) 1 GB 5000 Kbps $70 $15,000
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It Costs to Shrink & Flatten...Does Anyone Want to Pay?
• Satellite Antenna Hardware (Reflective wave technology) seems stuck in the CRT TV / Large Mainframe Computer / Rotary Phone Era.
• It’s taken a LONG time to get just a little bit smaller
• Creating physics to get away from reflective wavesTraditional Satellite On-the-Move Antenna Six element distributed aperture array
(Two elements not in view on driver’s side)
QUALITY/PRICE/PERFORMANCE What is customer’s
pain threshold?
Balance:
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The Path from COTP to COTM to PHASED ARRAY
iNetVu® FLY-75ViNetVu® Ka-75V
COTP COTM Phased Array
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iNetVu® COTP Platforms (75cm – 240cm)
The iNetVu 7000 Series Controller• Simple stand-alone one touch operation to find satellite and stow antenna
• Typical satellite acquisition time in less than 2 minutes• Ideal for applications that require a quick, simple setup and reliable connection
• Supports DVB-S1 and DVB-S2/ACM (modem independent)• High-precision antenna pointing, supports inclined orbit satellites
• Remote access and operation via Network, Web and other Interfaces• Built-in motion and movement protection for safety
• Integrated with 20+ modems (Hughes, Gilat, Viasat, iDirect, Comtech,iPStar, etc.)
DriveAways
FlyAways ManPack
FMA’s (Fixed Motorized Antenna)
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1m ManpackiNetVu® MP-100
• 100 cm 7-piece carbon fibre reflector
• Operates in Ku, Ka or X band
• Lightweight, very easy and quick to assemble
• DOES NOT need to be leveled in any way, the Sat Assist corrects for
any miss alignment
• Azimuth & Elevation angle adjustment with fast and fine tuning
operations using the handheld iNetVu® SatAssist 1000 pointing tool
• Single Backpack Soft Case Solution (Rugged Hard Case Optional)
• Motorized two-axis Azimuth/Elevation Optional
• System can now be secured in any terrain
• Captive hardware / fasteners, No tools required for assembly /
disassembly
• Set-up time less than 10 minutes, one person job
SatAssist1000
Soft Case Solution (Standard)
NEW
GEN
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Ka-band SOTM (Satcom-On-The-Move)
• Automatic satellite acquisition and tracking
• Provides affordable broadband connectivity via Satellite to land
mobile platforms
• Low Profile Antenna < 33 cm in height with Look angles 10°-90°
• Affordable, Rugged and Highly Reliable
• Operational wind speed of 180 km/h or better
• Ka-band antenna: Fully Compliant
Market size estimated at $1.6 billion over next 3-5 years.Sales to commence Mid 2018.Several launch customers identified.Product margins similar to COTP. Selling price 3X greater.
iNetVu® iNmotion
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The Future is Electronically Steerable
• BLUE SKY POTENTIAL – UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO PROJECT
• C-COM’s project described by leading Industry Researcher as “THE HOLY GRAIL OF THE ANTENNA INDUSTRY”.
• On May 4, 2016, C-COM announced that it has successfully tested its first Ka-band phased array modules.
• On November 8, 2016, C-COM files 2nd patent for phased array technology.
• The technology will make it possible to deploy low cost, low weight, modular, conforming, low profile Ku, Ka or hybrid Ku/Ka-band antenna system combinations for fixed and mobile satellite broadband communication applications.
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C-COM / UW Flat Panel Technology. Coming Later…. Intelligent integrated 4x4 active sub-array module using low-cost active/passive technology, as a building block for various planar or quasi-planar configurations
• Multi-layer feed system
• Reconfigurable mechanical structure
• Distributed beam-control system
• Integrated calibration system
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Scalable Architecture: 4x4 to 16x16 to 80x80Antenna Sub-Arrays
16x16 Sub-arrayModule
80x80 Array Panelmade of 25 of 16x16 sub-arrays
4x4 Sub-arrayModule
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Advantages of Proposed TechnologyDRAMATIC COST REDUCTION
Can conform to various shapes1
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• One antenna consists of several thousands
chips, a few hundred antennas could reach a
volume of millions of chips.
• It will be easy to reach “economies of scale”,
leading to significant cost savings.
• Applicable to many vertical markets