Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Enterprise and military sectors turning to Ka Band

As the C and Ku band spectrum faces saturation, the enterprise and military sectors are slowly turning to Ka band for their satellite capacity especially as demand continues to increase. The surge in the number of businesses and defence organizations relying on satellite technology has also been a result of increased data traffic. New devices such as smartphones and mobile tablets run on bandwidth-intensive applications which traditional terrestrial networks cannot handle all at the same time. Military organizations, on the other hand, are becoming more keen into using satellite for mission critical communications, especially in regions of conflict where ground networks are easily damaged by insurgent attacks, bombings, and the like.

Sample of a ka band satellite
With that, enterprise customers as well as military and government sectors are aware they need to upgrade their satellite communications capabilities, and they see Ka band as the logical step forward. With the spectrum now open to commercial endeavors, customers can take advantage of the increased capacity offered by Ka band. This means they can run more applications, provided increased amounts of bandwidth, and uplink to more reliable communications network necessary for various operations. In fact, the new generation of Ka band satellites being launched across the globe can support the increased volume of traffic, and therefore serves as a platform for services like internet from satellite, VoIP, wireless backhaul solutions, and data and telemetry.