Orchestrated Software Solution Will Eliminate the Need for On-site Hub Hardware and Enhance Flexibility for Customers
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a technology company in Defense, National Security and Global Markets, and hiSky, a leading provider of industrial satellite communications solutions, announced a partnership that will enable the delivery of hiSky satellite network services, including Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) as a fully orchestrated capability using Kratos’ OpenSpace dynamic, software-defined ground system. The partnership will allow satellite and other communications network operators to offer IoT connectivity services to their commercial and government customers, taking advantage of the scale, economics and operational benefits of a modern, cloud-enabled network architecture.
According to ABI Research, the global IoT market for supply-side software and service revenue will grow in value from US$277 billion in 2024 to US$606 billion by 2030, and that IoT will play an increasing role in all industries. Satellite connectivity can contribute mightily to this growth with its ability to reach remote, mobile, disaster-affected and other unconnected environments. The partnership between Kratos and hiSky will advance this capability by enabling IoT services employing virtual and cloud-native network architectures, thereby reducing costs and greatly increasing scalability and service flexibility.
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hiSky’s solution provides customers around the globe an exceptionally agile answer for satellite IoT applications with easy-to-deploy Smartellite™ terminals today connecting to a conventional hardware-based hub. “Kratos is working closely with hiSky to fully virtualize the hiSky hub within the OpenSpace platform, enabling it to run in the mainstream public cloud,” said Greg Quiggle, SVP of Product Management at Kratos. “Doing so will enable hiSky and Kratos customers to offer a new breed of on-demand and dynamically scalable IoT services at a much lower cost than conventional hardware-based systems.”
According to Shahar Kravitz, co-founder and CEO at hiSky, “With the results of this partnership, satellite operators will be able to spin-up new carriers upon demand at any enabled teleport with a touch of a button, without the need for new hardware at the teleport and the associated plumbing. It’s a new era of flexibility, scalability, speed of service enablement and redundancy.”
Kratos’ OpenSpace family of solutions enables the digital transformation of satellite ground systems to become a more dynamic and powerful part of the space network. Today’s ground systems are still based upon legacy hardware architectures that are inflexible, difficult and expensive to manage, and slow to adapt to evolving customer needs. As the first and only commercially available, fully orchestrated, software-defined ground system, the OpenSpace Platform enhances satellite network operations, reducing costs and mainstreaming satellite connectivity to work seamlessly with the rest of the world’s global communications infrastructure, which long ago adopted modern software-defined networking principles.
Founded in 2015, hiSky is a leading provider of satellite communication solutions, offering innovative and reliable connectivity for government and industrial IoT applications.
hiSky is the only commercially available, satellite-agnostic end-to-end system focused on mid-range bitrates. Its technology ensures secure and reliable connectivity through private networks, addressing critical connectivity challenges across multiple sectors.
hiSky’s competitive edge is driven by its proprietary, in-house-developed firmware and a unified software solution, enabled across GEO, MEO, and LEO satellite networks over high-speed Ka/Ku frequencies. The company’s technology stack provides a cost-effective, small, lightweight, ruggedized and adaptable solution
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