Hughes - High Throughput Satellites in ka-band

1. HUGHES PROPRIETARY1 H44283 12/15/2010
High Throughput Satellites in ka-band
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 30, 2010
Marcelo Rezende

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Agenda
1. About HUGHES
2. Status & Trends – Satellite Broadband Access
3. High Throughput Satellites in ka band
4. Satellite in National Broadband Plans

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About Hughes

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Hughes Heritage of Innovation
HUGHES
AIRCRAFT
COMPANY SYNCOM
World’s first
geosynchronous satellite
1932 1963 1965 1972 1983 1983 1990 1994
World’s first commercial
satellite
Early Bird Anik A
World’s first nationally
owned
satellite
Galaxy 1
First Hughes
operated satellite
DIRECTV®
Hughes launches
DTH service
DirecPC®
Hughes launches first
satellite broadband
service
Gemini
Invention of first
VSAT
1994 1995 1999 2000 2001 2003 2003 2006 2006 2008 2009 2010 2010
First mesh VSAT
TES
HUGHES STB
Hughes begins
production of DirecTV
set-top boxes
DirecDUO®
Hughes introduces
first “double play”
11 Million Sold
Hughes becomes
one of world’s largest
STB manufacturers
DirecWAY®
Hughes launches
two-way satellite
broadband service
DVB-S2/ACM
Hughes produces
world’s first DVB-
S2/ACM ASIC
SPACEWAY® 3
Hughes operates
worlds first Ka-band
satellite router
Over 500,000
HughesNet ® is world’s largest
satellite broadband network
THURAYA™
Hughes produces
worlds first geo-
synchronous GSM
mobile system
R-BGAN
Hughes produces
first Inmarsat
R-BGAN terminal
S-BSSGBBF
Hughes develops ground
based beam forming
system for TerreStar
GBBF
GlobalStar
Hughes develops
GlobalStar next
generation core
architecture
Hughes introduces
world’s first high
throughput satellite router
HN9400

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■ Government
■ Consumer/SMB ■ Enterprise
■ Mobile Satellite
Leadership in Key Markets

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Status & Trends
Satellite Internet Access

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Evolution of Satellite Broadband
1990 2000 2010
1990 2000 2010
1-5 Mbps
9.6 kbps
$$$$
$
Significant increase
in throughput and
performance
Significant decrease
in cost of service
and hardware

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Demand For Broadband Is Surging
By the beginning of 2010 there were 479 million fixed broadband
subscriptions worldwide (a penetration rate of 22.6%) – up from 216
million four years earlier.

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Broadband Satellite Market
Sites & Subs by Region, 2009–2019: 12.5% CAGR
Source:
NSR 2010

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 Enterprise service offering since
late 80’s
 Consumer service offering since
1996
 Two-Way broadband introduced
in 2001
 Continuous enhancement of
service offering
 Continuous growth of subscribers
and revenue
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09
Ka-Band
Ku-Band
1-Way
Over 530,000 Internet subscribers as of Q1
2010
Hughes Experience
HughesNet Subscriber Growth

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Current Hughes’ Offer in the US

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Hughes offers affordable plans to meet
usage needs of consumers/SME’s…
…but cost and capacity limits of
conventional satellites constrain
growth /competitiveness
High-
throughput
satellites
required
Competitive Offers Today

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SPACEWAY® 3
The World’s First Switch-in-the-Sky
 10 Gbps gross throughput
 Multiple spot beams with
flexible capacity allocation and
on-board routing
 Single hop, full-mesh,
small-dish connectivity
 Enterprise, consumer, SMB, and
government applications
 Ka-band technology
 April 2008: commercial service;
>320K subs active (Q210)

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Hughes Next-Generation Satellite
 100+ Gbps capacity
– ~100 times the capacity of a typical
Ku-band satellite
 In service 2012
– Supplied by Space Systems Loral
 Optimized for broadband access
 Multiple Ka-band spot beams
 Advanced high order modulation rates
 More speed:
– 5–25 Mbps downloads
New High Throughput
Satellite
 New spacecraft technology
 New system technology
 High-speed forward and
return channels
 Key QoS and acceleration
features
 Enhanced user experience
Jupiter

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High Throughput Satellites in Ka Band

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Why Ka-Band?
Service Business Drivers
• Increasing subscribers
• Increasing performance
Ka-Band is an enabler to achieve
• More satellite capacity
• Capacity optimized for broadband
• Lower cost per bit
Ka-band benefits:
• More Orbital slots available
• High power, assignable beams
• High Capacity: over 100Gbps
Ka-band issues:
• Small Beams
• Rain Fade

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Ka-Band: Key Characteristics
V-band 50–to–75 GHz
Ka-band 26.5–to–40 GHz
K-band 18–to–26.5 GHz
Ku-band 12–to–18 GHz
X-band 8–to–12 GHz
C-band 4–to–8 GHz
Focus of
Antenna
Size of
Antenna
Impact of
Rain
Higher
Pointing
Accuracy
Smaller
Antennas Rain Fade

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Ka-Band Enable More Capacity
The “payload” of the satellite
Ka-band transponders are lower
mass than Ku-band for given
amount of capacity

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Rain Fade Mitigation
Technologies Have Been Developed To Compensate For Rain Fade
Forward Channel
Return Channel
Adaptive Coding
Adaptive Modulation
Uplink Power Control
RFT Diversity
Adaptive Coding
Adaptive Inroute Selection
Uplink Power Control
For High Fade Regions We Can Improve Availability Using Larger Antenna
By the way… 10 years ago: “ku band will never work in Brazil…”

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What Else?
Ka-Band is a necessary condition
But it is not sufficient!

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New Satellite Designs
Most Satellites Are Optimized For
Broadcast
Satellites Can Be Optimized For Data
Frequency Reuse
More bits per Hz
More bits per user

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Extensive Frequency Reuse
Hughes SPACEWAY® 3
Beam Pattern
Conventional satellites
use large beams

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Evolution of Internet Via Satellite
1 Gbps
Today’s conventional satellites
Continental coverage
Single gateway
Ku Band
Bent Pipe
Ka Band
On Board Processing
10 Gbps
Hub-less system
Multiple beams
Multiple gateways
Single hop between terminals
Ka Band
Bent Pipe
100 Gbps
Multiple beams
Multiple gateways
Spaceway 3
Jupiter

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The Cost Impact
Satellite Capacity
1 Gbps
Today’s conventional sat
10 Gbps
Today’s spaceway
100 Gbps
Jupiter
Cost Per Satellite
FIXED !
Cost Per Mbps
100 to 1 reduction in cost per Mbps
100 to 1
Reduction

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Major System Components
Satellite
Air Interface
User Terminals
Gateways
Ground System
Return
Channel
The Same “Building Blocks” As For Conventional Satellites
Ka-Band Technology Is Evolutionary – Not Revolutionary

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 The coverage & capacity per beam is
fixed for the life of the satellite (if non
steerable)
 Trade-offs between the high demand
coverage area vs low-demand areas
 Coverage area and spectrum availability
across the coverage area
 Beam sizes, beam shapes, number of
beams
 Interference
 Gateway performance and locations
with respect to user beams and with
respect to fiber access
 Service plans and associated spectrum
asymmetry between forward and return
links
Ka-Band System Design Issues

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Components of the Service
Sales and Marketing
Installation, Operations & Maintenance
Internet
Backbone
Gateways Satellite
Subscriber
Terminal
Different biz models are possible
Depending on the level of vertical
integration

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New Ka-Band Systems Drive
Growth of Satellite Broadband
SPACEWAY 3Wildblue SES Astra 1L Superbird 2
Anik
F2AMC 16
Hughes Jupiter Viasat 1 YahSat
ACTIVE
KaSat RSCC NBN
FUTURE
O3b Inmarsat I5
Hylas

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Satellite in National Broadband Plans

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National Broadband Strategies
Global Status Of e-Strategies
Social Equality
Agricultural
Education
Health
Governance
SELECTED
DRIVERS

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Observations About Broadband
Satellite Addresses The
“Unserved and Underserved” Markets;
Not Just Rural
Our Subscribers Live in ex-Urban Areas
Throughout North America
Cost of Satellite Connection Across Continent-Wide Coverage Is
Uniformly the Same: ~$300.
Cost of Terrestrial Connection Depends on Subscriber Density and
Distance from Nearest Aggregation Point : from $100’s to $1000’s.
Source: Hughes estimates, Lightreading.Com

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Cost
Per House
Served
Pop Density (lower)
Cost Satellite x Terrestrial
ku-band, Traditional Satellites
HTS in ka-band
Terrestrial, Wireless

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Demonstration to FCC
 Industry standard
VoIP service
 14 Mbps download of
Web traffic
 IPTV download from
Netflix (~3 Mbps)
 HD Videoconferencing
@ ~2 Mbps
Experience the “Next Generation” Satellite Home

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Objective: Increase broadband penetration in the unserved and underserved
communities of the US.
 National award
– HUGHES 106,000 households $58.7 M (Satellite Total=$100M)
 Regional awards
– Dish Networks 4, 5, and 6 $14.1 M
– WildBlue 1, 2, and 3 $19.5 M
– Spacenet 7 and 8 $7.5 M
Region 1
Region 3
Region 2
Region 4
Region 5
Region 6
Region 7
Region 8
US Commerce Dept Satellite Broadband Grants 2010
Satellite in the US Broaband Plan

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Australia National Broadband Plan
Australian Government is investing over US$27 billion to provide universal broadband
NBN plans to
purchase two
Ka-band satellites
for delivery of rural
services

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To Sum Up, Our View
1. Brazil will not achieve universal broadband
coverage without satellite
2. Ka-Band HTS are a very important tool in the
toolbox
Fiber
ADSL
Terrestrial Wireless
Satellite
Cellular