Telesat and NSSLGlobal test low latency LEO satellite

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...