Organizations will need to invest in hybrid solutions — pulling from multiple sources and working collaboratively — to build sustainable business solutions, said speakers at SATELLITE 2020’s “Case Studies: Enabling Interoperable, Hybrid Infrastructure” session.
Tom Freeman, SVP of Land Mobile for Kymeta Corporation, said: “We don’t think of ourselves as a satellite company. We think of ourselves as a communications company. We don’t care where the bits come from as long as the bits get to the consumer.” Kymeta takes a technology-neutral approach, with flat-panel holographic antennas for trucks, trains, buses, automobiles, and vessels.
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Shayn Hawthorne, AWS Ground Station Program Lead, said AWS is focused on building services to support “air-gapped regions” for government customers: “We’ve got a strategic goal that we want to do what is best for our customers. Working backwards is being customer obsessed and figuring out what workloads they want to do and how to help them do that.”
Freeman discussed how Kymeta’s technologies blend together to intelligently manage data: “We talk about cellular deserts and cellular shadows. We want to blend into the fabric so we are another communication channel. Some data needs to come out of the car in seconds, other data can be delayed.”
On future interoperability, Hawthorne said: “The hope is to get to a future where the different frequencies don’t become an impediment.” VS
