Challenges & Opportunitiesin HTS Ground SegmentJanuary 21-24, 2018 | PTC – Honolulu - Hawaii

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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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Ka-band SOTM (Satcom-On-The-Move)

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

3

• 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

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Simulation of Aircraft with multiple Phased Array Antennas

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The iNetVu® in Motion

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