
OTTAWA – Telesat announced this week that it and satellite communications and IT solutions provider NSSLGlobal have completed live testing with multiple government customers using Telesat’s Phase 1 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite.
The companies say in a release they demonstrated “superior broadband performance – in terms of speed, latency and jitter – for high demand applications including 4K video conferencing, live video streaming, encrypted services for government use and live calling over mobile devices.”
Satellite operators like Telesat and others are now introducing a new generation of space-based networks, some of which will be in geostationary (GEO) orbit and some far closer to earth in LEO. Telesat “is convinced that innovative LEO constellations can offer superior broadband services versus GEO systems,” reads the release.
“We’re looking towards the future and planning for what our clients will need in two, five, ten years and beyond and we believe the LEO constellation network will be a ‘game-changer’ in the industry,” said Sally-Anne Ray, Group CEO of NSSLGlobal, in the release. “That is why we’ve undertaken this early live testing at our U.K. headquarters… It was a great opportunity for some of our key government clients to witness the outstanding broadband performance across a range of high demand applications and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.”
Telesat says its LEO constellation will offer a combination of capacity, speed, security, resiliency and affordability with ultra-low latency that is equal to, or better than, the most advanced terrestrial networks, and able to serve the entire globe.